There is a difference: the consisten theme in Blum’s films that the evil white conservatives (especially heterosexual Christian men) are always the villains. In case you did not go to the American Partisan link and read it, I’ll bring the relevant paragraphs here for you, minus all the photos and embedded links.
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Then a counter-narrative began to emerge. What if the liberal elites sipping champagne and nibbling caviar on their Gulfstream jet (along with their kidnapped victims drugged and unconscious in the back) were actually the villains, led by the evil character played by Hillary Swank? What if the deplorable conservatives, led by the character portrayed by Betty Gilpin, turned the tables and hunted their hunters? Would this legitimize the content of the film? After all, hasn’t Hollywood produced revenge-oriented action pictures for decades, such as the original Death Wish series, starring Charles Bronson?
To my way of thinking, no, not at all. In Death Wish, Bronson’s character Paul Kersey is an average city dweller whose wife and daughter are brutally attacked, raped and murdered (the daughter lives a while in a coma) by criminals in a home invasion. When the police can’t find the perps, Kersey eventually begins to roam the city streets in order to tempt criminal thugs into attacking him before shooting them in a vigilante form of self defense. Similarly, current hyper-violent films like the John Wick series target only confirmed gangsters and criminals. In no way do these films compare to The Hunt, which according to reports was initially titled Red State Vs. Blue State, with a clearly political basis accounting for the selection of the victims to be kidnapped, hunted and murdered.
But hasn’t the basic plot of The Hunt been used in movies many times, notably in various renditions of The Most Dangerous Game?
Again, the comparison falls short. In all versions of The Most Dangerous Game, victims such as hapless sailors were chosen at random by a wealthy psychopathic killer to be hunted and killed on his private island. In The Hunt, victims are chosen for their present-day political beliefs. In the highly charged political environment of 2019, turning the tables to make the hunted the hunters is merely a fig leaf to disguise and excuse the film’s dripping scorn and hatred for deplorable white conservatives.
But how can I make this claim, after watching only the trailer for The Hunt? Because the film’s producer, Jason Blum, has a long history of producing ultra-violent America-hating murder porn, most notably his “Purge” films, adapted both for the big screen and television.
The violent inclinations of his hard-left political beliefs are most clearly born out in his Purge series of films and television shows. In the Purge films, following an economic collapse “The New Founding Fathers of America” party (racist white conservatives) has come to power, and once a year they allow citizens to go on unchecked murder rampages where they mainly wipe out minorities. The films always struck me as uniformly moronic, so I didn’t pay much attention to the greater issues presented within them until now.
Basically, in the Purge films, conservative white Americans are portrayed as evil racist monsters who will murder minorities if given the opportunity to do so without suffering any consequences. These blood-soaked murder sprees are often musically accompanied by “America the Beautiful,” lest any of the dimmest viewers miss the point. And while there have been gory slasher and murder-porn films going back for decades, none have combined nihilistic hi-def graphic closeup murder sprees with pervasive anti-conservative, anti-white and anti-American themes like the films of Jason Blum. Scan this blog which blends a synopsis of The Purge: Election Year with images to take a stroll through the film.
Note the “Keep America Great” subtitle of The Purge: Election Year, a clear reference to President Trump. The three images on the left above were taken from a GIF embedded at the above “WTF: The Purge Election Year” link. (I added the text within the shotgun blast’s flash.) Many other still images and GIFs are there, and you might want to get a barf bag ready before you visit. But decrying the hyper violence within the Jason Blum Purge films is not the point of this essay, it’s his consistent anti-conservative, anti-white and anti-American themes that are deliberately and inextricably mingled with the racial hyper violence.
If there were ever films more deliberately designed to stoke racial animosity, it’s hard to imagine them. But being a murder pornographer has been very lucrative for Jason Blum, whose net worth is estimated at about 50 million dollars, including a 10 million dollar Brooklyn townhouse.
But while being a pornographer has always been lucrative, at least Hugh Hefner and Larry Flynt did not create their pornography out of close-up imagery of gory murder committed by evil racist conservative white American men against women and minorities for their own depraved pleasure. That new low–politically-motivated racist murder porn–was left to be plumbed by Jason Blum, Hollywood’s most vile anti-American murder pornographer. But he’s rich and he’s famous, he even made the Time Magazine list of the 100 most influential Americans! So who cares if he’s priming the mental fuses of the next unhinged San Antonio or Dayton mass shooters? Come on, kids, let’s break a hundred on the next rampage! You can do it! And Blum will predictably blame it on America and evil white conservatives.
We’re constantly told by leftist politicians, media and “entertainment” (sic) figures that the solution to America’s mass shootings is the elimination of the hundreds of millions of firearms already in private hands. But semi-automatic magazine-fed rifles (and pistols, revolvers and shotguns) have been available for over a century, while mass shootings are a modern phenomenon. The guns didn’t change, society did. And we can thank greedy murder pornographers like Jason Blum for helping to feed the moral depravity and stoke the fires of political and racial hatred. So in that light, his currently delayed film The Hunt makes perfect sense. Who cares if you help to instigate a bloody second civil war, a dirty civil war that might lead to the deaths of millions of Americans, as long as you can make millions of dollars producing anti-American, anti-white and anti-conservative murder porn? Not murder pornographer Jason Blum. He’s laughing–at you– all the way to the bank.
>>>Who cares if you help to instigate a bloody second civil war, a dirty civil war that might lead to the deaths of millions of Americans, as long as you can make millions of dollars producing anti-American, anti-white and anti-conservative murder porn? Not murder pornographer Jason Blum. He’s laughing–at you– all the way to the bank<<<
Releasing this Movie will instigate a bloody civil war? Wow, we as a Society are dumber that I thought we were.
Perhaps if the Roles were reversed and the Hunters were Conservatives the writer of this piece would have come to a different conclusion.
When the Liberal Hunted turn the tables and kill the Conservative Hunters the Left would feel emboldened, right after they failed to get the Film suppressed in the first place.
Of course, they would have gotten it suppressed. They have a Free Speech for me but not for Thee problem. I thought we as Conservatives had no such belief.
Censorship is a two way street. That is what this whole argument is about.
These Movie Producers are like Carnival Barkers. They give the masses what they crave. If the masses don’t show up, they lose money.
This Movie isn’t shown for free on the only Government Run TV Channel allowed to be broadcast since this America and not North Korea.
People will either pay to see it or they won’t. If they choose to pay their hard earned money to be entertained by this crap, they are probably the same people that made the Purge, Saw and Hostel Movies profitable. Same old same old.
Banning this silly Movie is making it much more Popular than it would have been otherwise. People crave what they are forbidden to have. You know, like Freedom.
Brilliant analysis as usual.
Your supposition about 1/3 way through the piece may just be the gem, though. I think you might be on to something here, though you dismiss it out of hand:
Then a counter-narrative began to emerge. What if the liberal elites sipping champagne and nibbling caviar on their Gulfstream jet (along with their kidnapped victims drugged and unconscious in the back) were actually the villains, led by the evil character played by Hillary Swank? What if the deplorable conservatives, led by the character portrayed by Betty Gilpin, turned the tables and hunted their hunters? Would this legitimize the content of the film?
What if murder pornographer Blum's "artistic vision" was distorted by one of the writers, who secretly wanted to see the "deplorables" win, and wrote the ending that way?
Could this in fact be the REAL reason the film's advertising, then release, was pulled? Especially in the predictable calls by Demonrats for gun control, following the El Paso and Dayton murders?
Could it be that they wanted to stop the release of the film, because it portrays the "Deplorables" triumphing over the "Blues" and their elite sponsors, using FIREARMS? In the wake of the Lefty murder sprees, could the clear-thinking Lefty elites (rare, I know) have stepped into forestall what could have been a new "Red Dawn" to conservatives, an encouragement that we could win?
I don't know. Haven't seen the film. Nobody has. Maybe we will never know. But I do think you dismiss the possibility perhaps too quickly.
Still love your analysis, though. And I have all your books, of course.