Question 1

Is The Duke woke?

Accepted Answer

The Duke has a woke score of 20/100, which means it is not especially woke compared with higher-scoring titles. In 1961, 60-year-old Newcastle taxi driver Kempton Bunton steals Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery as a protest against the BBC TV license fee for pensioners and the poor. This true-story comedy-drama follows his eccentric campaign, family strains, and Old Bailey trial. Light class-based social justice themes appear through his activism for welfare and the elderly in a period-appropriate 1960s context.

Question 2

Is there DEI in The Duke?

Accepted Answer

The biggest factors in our score are Political / ideological dialogue, Identity-driven story themes, Institutional / cultural critique. In 1961, a 60-year-old taxi driver stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London.  It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history.  What happened next became the stuff of legend.

The Duke

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