Many of Q's story lines, including evil lizard aliens and a cabal of pedophiles, are pulled from films and television shows. Screenwriters are not happy.
A world that has long embraced love, light and acceptance is now making room for something else: QAnon.
As far-right factions have increasingly skewed American politics, Johnson has seen other concerning parallels from his work. In “V,” the invaders try to discredit scientists and media in a bid to protect themselves from scrutiny, similar to the push by some QAnon believers to reject facts and reality in favor of propaganda and lies, sometimes with tragic results.
That idea of using art to hide life is sometimes reinforced by actual events, she said. She uses the example of the 1999 Stanley Kubrick film “Eyes Wide Shut,” about a New York doctor, played by Tom Cruise, whoattended by society’s power players. Some QAnon adherents believe that there is a cabal of influential pedophiles who murder children during ritualistic events to harvest a hormone that provides eternal youth and that the film was a nod to that activity.
Like others whose work has been co-opted by conspiracy theorists, “Eyes Wide Shut” screenwriter Frederic Raphael said he was “not terribly shocked” to find his ideas had been swiped. But he finds the notion that the film was an unmasking of Hollywood misdeeds to be absurd. Nearly 100 candidates who ran for office in 2020 expressed QAnon ideas, she found. She expects to see at least a similar number of QAnon-affiliated candidates in the next election as school boards and other local offices are targeted by extremists angry about vaccine mandates, race-inclusive history curricula and other hot-button issues.
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