Nice Guy's promotes racial/gender equality?

The film The Nice Guys is a true story because of how it is designed to defy expectations through its portrayal of death, its positive message about environmentalism, and its characterisation designed to subvert stereotypes. Death is portrayed sudden violent, and almost in a comedic light. This reinforces a recurring theme of how people die for stupid mistakes and coincidences, the best examples of this is that when the character Amelia escapes an assassin meant to kill her then proceeds to walk up to a car to ask for a ride out of there only for it to be the assasin’s car. Another example is when the two main characters talk about Richard Nixon coming across someone who was dying in a car crash and telling him he’ll be okay only for him die immediately after that. In both instances the deaths are unexpected and abrupt as opposed to the usual deaths in films that are foreshadowed and give the characters memorable last words.

Another truth the film portrays is a positive message about the environment which is done subversively by not having the movie revolve around environmentalism, but instead having the story gradually move towards it becoming the focus. At the start the environmentalists are shown to be dumb hippies playing dead in the middle of a park to protest, they were mostly used as comic relief. However as the film progresses the main characters slowly realize that the hippies were right and their isn’t ridiculous having the third act revolve around them protecting a porno film containing an environment message exposing the big car companies.

The final truth that the film how it betrays the usual stereotypes of people. Almost every character that isn’t one of the two main characters subverts some stereotype. Holland March and Jackson Healy (the main characters) would be nowhere without Holland’s daughter. She helps get them to find clues and is shown to be competent and useful in the many dangerous situations she is put in despite everyone around her assuming that her character is a naive and helpless child . Another example of this subversion of stereotypes is the character Tally, a black woman who is one of the two biggest obstacles for Holland and Jackson, and is able to trick both of them twice, and whose race isn’t brought up despite the film taking place in the 70s. The final example of this subversion is the old lady who got Holland and Jackson into the case in the first place. At the beginning she is shown to be senile and delusional, but by the end she is able to help the two find the final clue that would help them solve the case.