Posted on 02/02/2006 8:23:41 PM PST by MrBallroom
Hollywood Does It Again
by Jennifer King, Managing Editor
February 3, 2006
Liberals have become so predictable, it’s almost boring prognosticating what they’ll do next. Anything to poke a stick in the eye of the unlettered bourgeoisie. All efforts must be aimed at insulting plebian Red America.
Thus, at the “Golden Globe” awards, the alleged precursor to the Oscars, the winners included a plethora of tediously tendentious offerings. Brokeback Mountain, a movie about gay sheepherders whose illicit lust destroys both of their heterosexual marriages, won for best drama, best director, best original song (which some wag dubbed, “Homos on the Range”) and best screenplay. Actress Felicity Huffman won best actress for her portrayal of a transsexual man undergoing a sex change operation. Actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman won best actor for his portrayal of Truman Capote, a gay man who deeply involved himself with notorious drifters who had murdered an entire family in Kansas. Rachel Weisz won best supporting actress for her work in The Constant Gardener, a LeCarre take on the evils of Big Pharmaceutical. George Clooney’s film, Syriana, was a conspiratorial take on Iraq and Big Oil. Tiresome.
The film industry is in precipitous decline, even in “Old Europe” which should be anxious to depart with their Euros for the chance to see their version of America vindicated. In Germany, home of Mohammed Atta, movie going has seen a 20.6% decline. In Spain, it is 15%. In France, 10%. In the United States, only 9% of the population goes regularly to the movies. In the 1940s, that number was 60%.
The industry studiously avoids examples of good films which make serious money. C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, the Lord of the Rings series and The Passion of the Christ should have shown Hollywood that movies with a good moral message (and underlying Christian themes) would do well in theatres. Nevertheless, the industry continues to bleed away dollars trying to sell Americans on the triad of white liberal guilt, corporate corruption and the evils of religion.
The parallels with the news media are inescapable. As The New York Times, the Orlando Sentinel, and other papers continue to shrink in volume and ad copy, one would assume that they would examine their bottom line and perhaps adjust their journalists accordingly. Nay, they grow increasingly shrill, thrashing about like a dinosaur caught in the tar pits.
Their anger propels them to new heights of absurdity - available everyday on the web pages of fevered leftwingers, weekly in the editorial pages of the increasingly marginalized papers and monthly in the new releases from Hollywood.
Eventually, the bean counters should have their day. We can all anticipate it with joy. ***
© 2006 Jennifer King
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A newbie ready for the Viking Kittens?
Politics would be better off all around if people could manage to give people like "The Heretical Housewife" on both sides of the aisle nothing but the cold disdain they deserve. American politics deserves better than factionalizing into high-school cliques and trading petty insults (See the "Groundhog Day" post here for example, or the Democrat harassment of GOP Wikipedia sites).
As an aside, your tagline is incorrect. The Marines have been defending freedom since the 19th century - though Congress only recognized them officially in 1775. What's the first line of the Marine's hymn, after all:
"From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli..."
Both of which took place prior to 1775.
Me too
Haemo ... blood ... sharks ... kitties....
In this internet age, anyone can fashion themselves a pundit, I suppose.
What? Her very moniker says she's a housewife - unless liberalism has so saturated the American heartland that housewives no longer cook meals for their family, I'd say my little jab was quite justified.
Target
Rich
Environment
James Lileks had a great line in his latest on Hollywood: he said Hollywood receives stacks of comment cards nine miles high, asking for movies with NASCAR drivers joining the Marines, going to Iraq, and killing terrorists with martial arts kicks. And what do we get? Gay sheepherders.
Insert your graphic here!
Regards,
TS
Wake up the Viking Kitties!
So is Hollywood making movies that conforms with demand, or does it have an agenda that drives its product, reducing its revenue and profit for its stockholders? How do you explain its loss of revenue, then?
Oh, and cut the name calling, troll. We're actually talking about something here.
Come on, don't ping the mods yet. We are just starting to have fun....
Wow,,, can you stretch your logic a little further please, I still have some line on my reel.
Oh stop trying so hard. Zots are quick, but the pain lingers. :-)
Looking at your posts... My, you had a busy 45 minutes. Didn't cha?
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Hollywood makes movies that conform with its white-collar, liberal backer's sentiments - not the American people. However, landed New-England-monied hands are not about to stop funding something that flatters their idiotic preconceptions, so the original article totally missed the point. Hollywood operates in an intellectual and social vacuum - it isn't on the verge of "dying" any time soon, because it still flatters a particular wealthy segment of the population's viewpoint.
The same thing used to be true with the media in general, until people like Rupert Murdoch and Conrad Black decided to step and use their hard-earned cash to force some balance on the population. Until people like Mel Gibson - willing and able to challenge the Hollywood establishment on it own terms - become more numerous, Hollywood will plow forward with its gay cowboys.
Until then, I stand by my designation as "empty-headed, shrill whining".
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