Posted on 04/14/2009 11:38:28 AM PDT by happygrl
Hollywood has gone back to war. And this time, it’s appalling. All autumn long, the film industry released movies about America’s battle against global jihad. With one exception—the competent actioner The Kingdom—each of these movies distorted an urgent, ongoing historical enterprise through the lens of a filmmaker’s unthinking leftism. Redacted, Rendition, In the Valley of Elah, and Lions for Lambs characterize our soldiers and government agents as rapists, madmen, murderers, torturers of the innocent, or simply victims caught up in a venal and bloodthirsty American foreign policy. All this at the very moment when our real-life soldiers and agents are risking, and sometimes losing, their lives fighting the most hateful and cancerous worldview since Nazism.
But I guess that’s showbiz.
Needless to say, it wasn’t always thus. During World War II, Hollywood stars like James Stewart and directors like Frank Capra enlisted in the military to combat dictators as willingly as Sean Penn and Michael Moore now tootle down to Venezuela and Cuba to embrace them. More to the point, yesteryear’s studio heads—many of them conservative Republicans—worked in cooperation with a Democratic administration to produce top-notch entertainment supporting the war effort. The result was not only rousing combat tales like 1943’s Sahara, Bataan, and Action in the North Atlantic—all still watchable today—but also some of the finest motion pictures ever made: 1942’s Casablanca and Mrs. Miniver, for instance, and the terrific yet all-but-forgotten They Were Expendable (1945). It was one of the film industry’s finest hours.
Much has changed in Hollywood since then...
Beyond that, however, the movie business merely provides the most glamorous example of a greater change throughout our creative and intellectual communities: a decades-long drift toward an idiot radicalism.
(Excerpt) Read more at city-journal.org ...
http://tv.nationalreview.com/uncommonknowledge/post/?q=N2JkMTFmYjUxMzg1YTJkYzkxMmM0YmZiOTA2YTFhMjM=
Interview of Andrew Klavan on his most recent thriller “Empire of Lies”.
Keep in mind, that many in hollywood are the enemy within and many are more dangerous that those off-shore.
“characterize our soldiers and government agents as rapists, madmen, murderers, torturers of the innocent, or simply victims caught up in a venal and bloodthirsty American foreign policy”
That’s because the Repubs ruled the WH. Now RATS are holding court the movies will be warm fuzzies to the world.
Who is it ?
Richard “Demo Dick” Marcinko
Plank Owner of SEAL Team SIX, founder of Red Cell.
Looked him up on the web.
I’m guessing that his novels would make great screenplays >>>movies.
Oh yeah, absolutely
PJ TV is intriguing.
They will be covering the Tea Parties.
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