- Highly doubt this is true. Lots of popular films enact allegories of the veil of ignorance etc, it’s just that allegory hunting cultural critics aren’t so interested in decoding suchlike
- It's been Freud, Marx, postmodernism, feminism, critical theory. Erich Fromm wrote bestselling books. Baudrillard's ideas gave us The Matrix. (Even if he didn't care for the film.) John Rawls achieved neither.