The story takes a bit of a blue-collar conservative swing this time out, what with greedy rich liberals (the bugbear of REALLY greedy and rich Right Wingers!) destroying a small town to turn it into an "influencer paradise", and in the process causing the death of Leatherface's foster mother, which results in the titular Poor White Trash giant going all homicidal again. Looked at in that way, the wealthy Black Hipsters make perfect sense as yet another MAGA bugbear—how dare they be successful when White folk are zoned out of their mind on Oxycotin and on welfare!
I can't decide if the whole school shooting subplot is a distraction, or perhaps a personal twist of director David Blue Garcia's politics. Republicans consistently complain that Hispanics should rightly be part of their base as they're largely socially conservative Christians—if it weren't for that pesky White Nationalism of their base which HATES "Mexicans" (that being the only Latin American country most MAGA Chuds are even aware of). I wouldn't be surprised if Gun-Toting White Southern Racists aren't a class Garcia despises just as much as he does Liberal Hipsters, because they're the ones who've turned the Republican Party into The American Nazi Party!
They're not, and White Nationalism has been a part of the Republican Party since its inception, but up to the Reagan Era there had been a strong pluralistic, socially-liberal side to counterbalance that as per David Corn's AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy (https://www.amazon.com/American-Psychosis-Investigation-Republican-Party/dp/1538723050 ). But if you're a Latinx filmmaker who grew up in Texas, you might very well think that way....
It's possible, but it's also possible he wasn't really thinking about it that hard. The original has a lot of animus towards liberal hippies as a kind of mirror to its animus towards poor whites, and it's possible Garcia was just sort of trying to reproduce that, without necessarily much reference to his personal politics.
LOL! You're probably right that Garcia didn't think much about it, or if he did figured, "Hey, Wes Craven did it and it worked! Why not?"
It's like the story "Gimmick" Filmmaker William Castle liked to tell about how when he once spoke at a University Film Department, during the Q&A one student asked him, "In HOMICIDAL, when the fog rises up to envelop Joan Crawford, were you implying that her coming back home was a metaphor for returning to the womb?"
Castle looked at him for a second, then laughed and said, "No, that happened because the effects guy put too much juice in the smoke machine! It was the last take before lunch, so I decided it was easier just to let it go than do a retake...."
The story takes a bit of a blue-collar conservative swing this time out, what with greedy rich liberals (the bugbear of REALLY greedy and rich Right Wingers!) destroying a small town to turn it into an "influencer paradise", and in the process causing the death of Leatherface's foster mother, which results in the titular Poor White Trash giant going all homicidal again. Looked at in that way, the wealthy Black Hipsters make perfect sense as yet another MAGA bugbear—how dare they be successful when White folk are zoned out of their mind on Oxycotin and on welfare!
I can't decide if the whole school shooting subplot is a distraction, or perhaps a personal twist of director David Blue Garcia's politics. Republicans consistently complain that Hispanics should rightly be part of their base as they're largely socially conservative Christians—if it weren't for that pesky White Nationalism of their base which HATES "Mexicans" (that being the only Latin American country most MAGA Chuds are even aware of). I wouldn't be surprised if Gun-Toting White Southern Racists aren't a class Garcia despises just as much as he does Liberal Hipsters, because they're the ones who've turned the Republican Party into The American Nazi Party!
They're not, and White Nationalism has been a part of the Republican Party since its inception, but up to the Reagan Era there had been a strong pluralistic, socially-liberal side to counterbalance that as per David Corn's AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy (https://www.amazon.com/American-Psychosis-Investigation-Republican-Party/dp/1538723050 ). But if you're a Latinx filmmaker who grew up in Texas, you might very well think that way....
It's possible, but it's also possible he wasn't really thinking about it that hard. The original has a lot of animus towards liberal hippies as a kind of mirror to its animus towards poor whites, and it's possible Garcia was just sort of trying to reproduce that, without necessarily much reference to his personal politics.
LOL! You're probably right that Garcia didn't think much about it, or if he did figured, "Hey, Wes Craven did it and it worked! Why not?"
It's like the story "Gimmick" Filmmaker William Castle liked to tell about how when he once spoke at a University Film Department, during the Q&A one student asked him, "In HOMICIDAL, when the fog rises up to envelop Joan Crawford, were you implying that her coming back home was a metaphor for returning to the womb?"
Castle looked at him for a second, then laughed and said, "No, that happened because the effects guy put too much juice in the smoke machine! It was the last take before lunch, so I decided it was easier just to let it go than do a retake...."
Hah.
I do think the politics you talk about are in there. Just hard to extrapolate from that directly to what the director thinks...