Posted on 01/10/2020 5:58:03 PM PST by Rummyfan
Does the world really need low-budget, right-leaning genre movies when high-budget right-leaning movies are already being made by people with exceptional talent?
The elevator pitch for “Run Hide Fight,” a film currently in production, is simple: “a 17-year-old female ‘Die Hard’ in the middle of a school shooting.” Swap out cop Bruce Willis for student Isabel May, exchange the Nakatomi Plaza in “Die Hard” for Vernon Central High School in Texas, and you have the plot.
It’s an offensive idea for a movie—and a dumb one. “Run Hide Fight,” written and directed by Kyle Rankin, is being produced by Rebeller, a new right-leaning film production company. Rebeller is the brainchild of Dallas Sonnier. Sonnier is also the founder and CEO of Cinestate, a film production, distribution, and publishing operation launched in Dallas in 2016.
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Where are these "right leaning" movies? Even Clint Eastwood's movies, like Jewell, are pretty much right down the middle. There was no "right wing twist" added.
I did not detect any objective reason.
Most of what he wrote seemed gibberish based on emotion, with a nod to values from social media.
Perhaps someone can translate it for me.
There aren’t many, but I’ll tell you, there was a movie a couple years ago called “Nocturnal Animals” with Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams... which had a shockingly anti-abortion plot. The flick produced howls of anger and distress from enraged pro-aborts who felt duped and disoriented.
“Did I just pay to support an anti-abortion film?”
https://feministacademiccollective.com/2016/11/30/did-i-just-pay-to-support-an-anti-abortion-film-nocturnal-animals-and-tom-fords-gender-politics/
‘Nocturnal Animals’: Hold Up, Did Tom Ford Make A Movie Shaming Abortion?!
https://bust.com/movies/18898-nocturnal-animals-abortion.html
“Like, you know, welcome to the party, pal!”
Most movies these days are derivative. The pitch for a movie usually contains a reference to a prior successful movie and promises some sort of variation on it. Of course, what really matters are the quality of the script, the cast, and the direction. Hokey ideas executed well are often the basis for Hollywood blockbusters.
I’ll be happy when they re-masculate men and get through a movie without homosexual mating scenes.
Oxymoron.
True statement
Apparently the pitch for Star Trek was “Wagon Train To The Stars.”
Another model for Star Trek was C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower series of sea stories about British frigate actions in the Napoleonic era. One original Star Trek episode even tipped to the inspiration for Hornblower by naming a character Zefram Cochrane, which was a reference to Captain (and later Admiral) Thomas Cochrane, one of Britain's greatest frigate captains.
The left is just way over sensitive to anything at all that brings up the pain and moral questions surrounding abortion. I’m not sure I would call a movie addressing the anger and sorrow of a man who’s unborn child was aborted as “right leaning”. Trying the shoe on the other foot, If there was a movie about a man wanting a baby aborted, but the woman had it anyway, would that be “left leaning”? Of course not. Again, the left would be outraged that we are even discussing the morality of the act. In leftist think, centrist is equal to “extreme right”.
It’s a tone deaf idea
The article makes claims which are nonsensical
I think making Die Hard remake with a GI Jane girl hero about a school shooting is tone deaf and silly
It’s not a topic suitable in my opinion for a flick
Well, I understand your point. To us on the right, the idea that there might be something wrong about having an abortion isn’t a left-right issue, but rather simple human decency. But to the left, if you even hint that someone having an abortion is a bad person doing a bad thing, you’re a right-wing, anti-choice zealot. So, as I say, I get your point. To us, a movie with an anti-abortion theme isn’t necessarily conservative or right-wing. But to the left it is.
I am not convinced.
Making a school shooting movie where someone fights back seems like a good idea to me.
Why does it need to be a girl? We'll see I guess, but I expect she will be an example of the trope called "Mary Sue." The most glaring and blatant example of the trope is now in theaters. It is the character Rey in Disney's "The Fall of Skywalker."
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