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Hollywood's Missing Movies: Why American Films Have Ignored Life Under Communism
Reason ^ | June, 2000 | Kenneth Billingsley

Posted on 09/26/2024 12:59:19 PM PDT by Fiji Hill

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Although this was written nearly a quarter century ago, it remains largely true today, although some independent filmmakers such as Dinesh D'Souza are starting to make films on subjects forbidden by the woke Hollywood establishment.
1 posted on 09/26/2024 12:59:19 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

Cuz they commies, thass why


2 posted on 09/26/2024 1:04:41 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Fiji Hill

Has D’Souza actually done feature films? I’m only aware of documentaries from him.


3 posted on 09/26/2024 1:05:01 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Fiji Hill

It is remotely possible we are all about to live it.


4 posted on 09/26/2024 1:05:59 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Fiji Hill

Joe McCarthy was right.

Here’s a couple movies to have your kids watch:

Closet Land
The Lives of Others
The Killing Fields
Enemies of the People (more of a documentary)


5 posted on 09/26/2024 1:06:07 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: Fiji Hill

“Dear Comrades!” is a great movie.


6 posted on 09/26/2024 1:07:36 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Fiji Hill

Why American Films Have Ignored Life Under Communism.

Hollywood had to bow down and kiss Chinas ass to sell movies there now here.


7 posted on 09/26/2024 1:08:01 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: fruser1

The Inner Circle


8 posted on 09/26/2024 1:08:02 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Fiji Hill

“by the woke Hollywood establishment.”

The communists founded Hollywood.


9 posted on 09/26/2024 1:09:45 PM PDT by TexasGator (l . . l / l / . l l . l).1 1 l l l l l)
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Hollywood also loved Hitler in the 1930s, because they didn’t want to lose access to the lucrative German market.


10 posted on 09/26/2024 1:10:32 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Closet Land

I watched that movie back when it came out. It was put out by Amnesty International, which is now just as much in support of totalitarianism as it claimed to be against it back in the day. Alan Rickman was excellent in it.

11 posted on 09/26/2024 1:11:39 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: fruser1

Goodbye, Lenin!


12 posted on 09/26/2024 1:11:45 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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“Lives Of Others” was extraordinarily powerful.

That scene where they were bugging the apartment, and the old lady was looking through the keyhole at them and the guy saw the light in the keyhole change and just marched over...

I think that is a pretty accurate portrayal of the mindset of omnipresent surveillance.


13 posted on 09/26/2024 1:14:53 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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The ending gets me everytime. So perfectly done. I can’t think of a character that I hated so much in the beginning, and then at the end felt so sorry for him.

Sadly the actor passed away not long after.


14 posted on 09/26/2024 1:17:32 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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“Hollywood had to bow down and kiss Chinas ass to sell movies there now here.”

Article is 25 years old! Communist influence in Hollywood goes back to the very beginning.


15 posted on 09/26/2024 1:20:07 PM PDT by TexasGator (l . . l / l / . l l . l).1 1 l l l l l)
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To: fruser1

If you really want to get depressed, watch “The Chekist”.


16 posted on 09/26/2024 1:20:25 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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A couple of documentaries on Youtube that I would recommend:

My Latvia (1954), a short documentary on the Soviet takeover of Latvia, is well worth watching.

Operation Abolition (1960) recounts a House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) hearing in San Francisco in the spring of 1960 and the efforts of leftists to disrupt it. It was widely distributed and presented by conservative and patriotic groups in the early 1960s and later picked up by liberal and leftist groups who saw it as an expose of anti-Communist "witch hunting."

17 posted on 09/26/2024 1:23:55 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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Are they still making movies in Hollywood?

Not aware of any. Been watching Brit Box for UK produced shows instead.

Hollywood is DEAD!


18 posted on 09/26/2024 1:25:06 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Fiji Hill

“Milada” about the Czech politician Milada Horakova, who was murdered by the Communists.


19 posted on 09/26/2024 1:25:53 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: TexasGator

Yes remember the communist trials of the 50’s China and Russia had many ties in Hollywood.


20 posted on 09/26/2024 1:26:13 PM PDT by Vaduz
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