More Leftist Propaganda from Hollywood (somewhat vanity)

I was watching TNT a few days ago and a commercial for a new movie called "Rendition" was shown. It starts by showing a man being approached by what looks like a female police officer, then getting grabbed by two men and having a black hood thrown over his head.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see this is another "America is becoming a fascist country" jab at the War on Terror.

Here's a wikipedia article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendition_%28film%29

Future historians are going to be faced with a mystery. Hundreds of films from our era will depict the U.S. as a fascist police state. But if we are one, how did those films get made by big American film companies? How did prominent American stars get paid big bucks for appearing in them? How did they win Oscars and other awards for appearing in them and then take verbal shots at the U.S. government during their acceptance speeches?

Gosh, it's a mystery, isn't it? Real police states don't permit dissent. They don't allow films critical of the state to be made or shown. We have so many anti-American films being made precisely because America isn't governed by the type of regime depicted in those films. Such irony!

In real dictatorships, such as Communist China or Communist Cuba, there are few or no movies critical of the government. One guy in Cuba made a documentary critical of Castro and his film was banned and he ended up given shock therapy in a mental institution. In China, where they have a thriving film industry with a lot of talented people, everyone has to steer clear of political topics to keep from getting in trouble. Fortunately, they're still able to make excellent films, such as Hero, In The Mood For Love, and Raise The Red Lantern. But they have to avoid modern political topics.

Even so, a few films that have touched on political issues have gotten people placed under house arrest and banned from filmmaking. Tian Zuangzuang is an outstanding director who made a film called The Blue Kite back in 1993. It revealed the brutality of Mao's Cultural Revolution. The government found out about the nature of the movie just as it was wrapping up principle photography. They shut the production down and the film had to be smuggled out of the country for post-production work. It was banned in China and Tian was placed under house arrest. He wasn't permitted to make another movie for six years, and to this day is only permitted to work under strict observation from the government.

Joan Chen's haunting film Xiu Xiu, The Sent Down Girl was also banned after the authorities found out what it was about. The young actress who played Xiu Xiu had to escape to Taiwan (where she became the youngest actress in history to win the Taiwan Academy Award for her performance).

Liberals are such hypocrites. And they're also cowards and liars.

Liberals are such hypocrites. And they're also cowards and liars.

And those are their endearing qualities!

Among my circle of conservative friends there is no talk of boycotts, just a complete disinterest in films that are leftist propaganda.

I greatly admire Michael Medved in his role as a film critic, but must disagree with him concerning movies that insult me. Medved says that we should overlook the agenda of the actor and enjoy the film but alas, I guess I'm just not as forgiving a man as he. When I look at cluney or penn I don't see the character - I see someone who despises me and mine. why should I pay money to be insulted?

Everthing you say here is so right on the money. I was listening to Redford dicuss his new movie (Lions For Lambs) and how America is losing so much of its prescious freedoms. This coming from an actor who is old enough to be familiar with HUAC and the governments overt actions taken against communist sympathizers in Hollywood.

Many of these people lost their jobs and livelihoods because of their beliefs, yet here sits Redford bemoaning his and others lost freedoms as they make overt movies that attack America. If what he says is so true, these people wouldn’t be getting away with making the movies they do...especially if their liberal Icon, FDR, where still in office. Ironically, the only Blacklists that exist in Hollywood today, are those of conservatives, who now have to hide their own ideology for fear of persecution. These people are dangerously demented.

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