A woman with dragon-green eyes.

I've been taking Big Trouble in Little China seriously lately, it's not easy, but you can see David Lo Pan as a king sitting on the secret insights of 24 Buddhas waiting for a suitable people to rule by them, that is waiting for a woman with dragon-green eyes.

The case that interests me in particular is when you identify that woman with those, who take part in the moulding of the Zeitgeist by ideational prayer, i.e. those who care about the venerability of principles (cf. Idelle Eindrücke), because their treatment has been changed in the last decades.

I've been analysing the change in popular culture that occurred during that time already several times, but not from this angle. I'll assume, because I'm convinced of it, that the bulk of ideational prayer comes from ordinary, decent people. So I'm going to ask now how ordinary, decent people have been addressed by Hollywood over the course of time.

Pursuing this line of investigation I soon discovered that Hollywood avoided to address them prior to 1970. So I'll begin my analysis at that point. Ordinary, decent people in the

• 70s carried the torch, e.c. The Bad News Bears,
• 80s enjoyed the (societal) body, e.c. Back to the Future,
• 90s received the (societal) body, e.c. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective,
• 2000s had to survive outside the (societal) body, e.c. The Hammer.

The third phase lasted more precisely from 1994 to 9/11, which, remarkably, coincides with my academic career. The first years of the 90s saw an attempt to lead cinema to more serious issues, which was culled by a change in production culture. The obvious direction over the last decades then is that of disenfranchisement, a theme that I had first picked up in 2011.

But what does this disenfranchisement do in terms of ideational prayer? Ideational prayer in the

• 70s and 80s was bound to the (societal) body,
• 90s explored counter-realities,
• 2000s supported counter-realities,

and so far that hasn't changed.

It would appear that John Carpenter noticed this already in 1994, at least In the Mouth of Madness can easily be understood in that way.