How risk avoidance shapes our entertainment?

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La chose est passée quasi inaperçue. Mais le 20 avril dernier, Téléfilm Canada, l’organisme fédéral qui tient les cordons de la bourse en ce qui a trait à notre production cinématographique, a annoncé que son Groupe de travail – Diversité et inclusion venait de créer un sous-comité, qui aura comme mandat de réfléchir à la notion des « récits authentiques » qui sont racontés par nos créatrices et créateurs.

The idea of taking such a broad concept like « authentic inclusive representation » and turning it into a mathematical variable of sorts is slightly eyebrow-raising. To use a recent real-world example, some may have found the depiction of the scene-stealing limo driver Karun (Harish Patel) in « Eternals » to be cloying and stereotypical to the extreme, while the majority of viewers were wholly unbothered by such comedic relief and praised him (along with the casting of Kumail Nanjiani as Kingo) for the increased diversity in the superhero movie.