Question 1

Is Dead Man's Wire woke?

Accepted Answer

Dead Man's Wire has a woke score of 78/100, which means it is heavily driven by woke themes. The movie keeps pushing anti-capitalist lectures about evil mortgage bankers and the rigged system the whole way through. It race swaps the real white radio host into a Black DJ and throws in a fictional Black female reporter inspired by activist Angela Davis. The story frames the hostage taker's rage as legitimate frustration against corporate greed with modern activist parallels.

Question 2

Is there DEI in Dead Man's Wire?

Accepted Answer

The biggest factors in our score are Representation / casting choices, Legacy character or canon changes, Institutional / cultural critique. In 1977, former real estate developer Tony Kiritsis puts a dead man's switch on himself and the mortgage banker who did him wrong, demanding $5 million and a personal apology.

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