Posted on 01/30/2021 8:26:31 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
Veteran film producer Dallas Sonnier had an odd experience seeking a distributor for his newest film.
"Run Hide Fight," glibly called "Die Hard" in a school, follows a determined student (Isabel May) who fights back when gunmen invade the building.
The film debuted at the Venice Film Festival late last year, but several distributors declined to buy the feature.
The conversations didn't end there, though.
"I'd get a phone call, 'Dude, that movie is incredible. It's one of the best movies I've seen all year,'" Sonnier recalls. "'I so wish that we could distribute this movie, but I can't risk it. I can't risk my job. I can't even push this up the ladder with the folks upstairs.'"
The reactions didn't surprise Sonnier, whose films routinely traffic in challenging themes and R-rated mayhem. Think the grindhouse western "Bone Tomahawk" or the chilling character study "Brawl in Cell Block 99" with Vince Vaughn.
"Run Hide Fight" allows a student to fire back in a way mainstream Hollywood would never imagine. Previous school shooting movies, like "Elephant" and "Vox Lux," approached the subject with the utmost delicacy.
"Run Hide Fight" offers pulpy thrills along with sober takes on social media, school cliques and more....
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Encore!
I’ve been following some incredibly enlightening You Tubers who are otherwise leftists railing about the SJW infiltration of Hollywood elite media destroying all forms of sci-fi, fantasy, comics, comedy and the like. Its starting to bite them in the backside.
Waking up a lot of people in the industry. Especially when they are attacked by the groupthink crowd if they question it. They are eating their own now.
“Think the grindhouse western “Bone Tomahawk” or the chilling character study “Brawl in Cell Block 99” with Vince Vaughn.”
I know the producer here in L.A. He’s the best. Brawl’ scenes and conversations in the movie, that’s how he talks in real life, unfiltered..I also recommend VFW by Sonnier. I didn’t know he was involved until one of the Hollywood Republicans gave me a copy.
Can a conservative film festival be organized by anyone in the business?
Years ago yes and it ran for 2 years tops, but I have STATED this many times, you CANNOT add the word “conservative” because you add a bull-eye to the festival. I personally know who organized it many years ago. My opinion was, if you call it something vague like “Greyhound Film Fest” (then choose which specific films to show) , you can attract viewers and sponsors across the board.
In order for a conservative business to run, DONT ADVERTISE you are conservative. Let your enemies figure it out in the end.
My opinion of the industry has actually gone up a bit. A few random favorites since 2000: Downfall (2004); The Way Back (2010; the one about the escapees from the Gulag who walked to India, not the more recent flick of the same name); Leave No Trace (2016); Columbus (2017; Kogonada, director); The Death of Stalin (2017); Balloon (2018, Michael Herbig, director, about an escape by balloon from East Germany); The Professor and the Madman (2019); and Mr. Jones (2020; Agnieszka Holland, director, about the Holodomor).
The war is not lost when films of this caliber are still produced. The problem is distribution and marketing. The industry has become dominated by a handful of giant companies, all of them with highly woke senior management, all of them with global rather than a U.S. perspective, and most of them committed to streaming, which is swallowing the whole industry. Most of the name brand studios we all grew up with are subsidiaries of the biggies.
The streamers have an insatiable 24/7/365 appetite for new content, so they still pick up a wide range of product. The question is what they promote; none of the films I mentioned above were heavily promoted and I found them by happenstance. I pay a lot of attention to the "most overlooked, most underrated" lists. A lot of good stuff just disappears into the on-demand library and can be hard to find. A lot of the good stuff is also made on very low budgets; it would help if a couple of the majors would break out of the hive mentality and put some serious resources behind films targeted to currently underserved audience segments. And that puts a burden on us to support good films when they do appear.
Yes. You know much more about this than I do, but clearly conservatives in Hollywood don't need to be putting a bullseye on their own backs. Just tell honest, morally serious stories without the overt woke propagandizing that is epidemic in the industry today. There is an audience for this. The challenge for us is to get the word out. My sense is that the reviewers have gotten so politicized that good movies often go almost unnoticed. They're out there, but one has to go looking for them.
I’ve seen “Bone Tomahawk” and “Cell Block 99”. Both of them were pretty good. Perhaps a little too violent for some, but you can’t shoot a western or a prison movie without some violence. Seems like this director may be the modern day John Milius, except that the days are long past that Hollywood had room for a Milius to be welcomed into the fold, even as a curiousity.
Although I like the film “The Death of Stalin” I think they left a lot of comedic material untouched when it came to Stalin’s death.
Anyone who has read the book “Khrushchev Remembers” will likely remember the comically psychotic antics of Stalin’s chief of state security Beria when Stalin was found dead.
I thought the film could have made a great deal more of that material.
I’m adding the post above this thread to the banglist. Watch the movie, and you’ll see why.
Thanks for this list, noted for future viewing.
The Way Back (2010; the one about the escapees from the Gulag who walked to India, not the more recent flick of the same name)
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In the same vein: As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me, 2001.
My list originated in some conversations with high school teachers about appropriate films for students. It leans towards history and has a bit of a cold war flavor; that's a matter of personal interest as well as material that I thought teachers could use as they dealt with these topics. I was not looking for films that were overtly "conservative" in a partisan or ideological way; my thought rather was to find films that were conservative in moral outlook and intellectually and psychologically honest. Those considerations may tend to tilt the films in a politically conservative direction, but I am open to exceptions.
For all I know, most of the filmmakers involved with these productions are cookie cutter Hollywood liberals or worse (except, of course, for Mel Gibson in The Professor and the Madman), but I hold to the view that if the films are intellectually and morally honest, the conservative content will take care of itself.
None of these films are obsessed with nudity and sex. None of them are blood and gore splatterfests; The Death of Stalin is the most violent, and the violence there is comedic. The omnipresent threat of violence does lurk in several of them, as it must if communism is a theme. None of these films celebrate or valorize dysfunctional behavior; mental illness and drug addiction surface in three of the films but are dealt with forthrightly, as curses against which the characters struggle.
These are films about decent, morally responsible people behaving in responsible ways and meeting challenges with integrity and courage. As these films demonstrate, at least some people still know how to make such movies. I wish Hollywood made more of them.
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Any links or search words you can send my way. I’d love to watch these.
yep!
A guy by the name of “Nerdrotic” is good.
https://nerdrotic.com/ also has a You Tube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5T0tXJN5CrMZUEJuz4oovw
Juvenile at times but well worth the effort to wade through it.
Look for his video on the California exodus on You Tube.
There is another about a former SJW comedy writer who has been Red Pilled and totally rejects to cult now. She moved to Texas and is loving the lifestyle. Joined a gun club. LOL
“Friday Night Tights” is a podcast every week and it can get a bit out of control. LOL
Commentary on Dave Chappelle’s special:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-ICgvl45tw
awesome! Thanks!!
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