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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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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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“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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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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Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, not in September 1939. September 1939 is when Hitler invaded Poland. (Later in the month Stalin invaded Poland from the east.)


22 posted on 09/26/2024 1:35:28 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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They made a lousy version of Berlin Tunnel 21. Gene Hackman made Target, supposedly about East Germans, in 1985. But they didn’t have very many in it. Linda Blair made another one about East Germans around that time, but once the wall fell and the USSR crashed, there was nothing from Hollywood. They were in mourning, and made Philadelphia and The Crying Game instead.


26 posted on 09/26/2024 1:40:07 PM PDT by Luke21
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There is a movie called Yank Tanks about Cubans maintaining cars from the ‘50’s, left there when communism took over. Because it is communist, people can’t simply buy parts, so most of the parts are hand crafted. The people crafting the parts can’t simply buy the material to do so because, again, the government controls what they can do, and because they are not recognized as auto repair, they are not allowed to possess the material. People search the beaches for washed up pieces of metal which the fabricators do an amazing job turning in car parts. But again, they are violating the law by making and selling parts, so get around that, they make parts for free for government officials, who in return they look the other way.

The movie was about the cars, but the look into communism was amazing.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312048/


30 posted on 09/26/2024 1:48:34 PM PDT by Yogafist
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The Nazis were national socialists. Because hollywood and the universities were pro socialist—north america and europe have spent roughly 70 years demoting and hunting down nationalists and promoting and lauding socialists.


33 posted on 09/26/2024 1:56:21 PM PDT by ckilmer
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Something that bothered me a lot in the 60s was Hollywood making the KGB the good guys and the Americans the bad guys, that was a common theme even when the Russian intelligence forces were not involved the Americans were the bad guys in the biggest movies.


34 posted on 09/26/2024 1:57:31 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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Never heard of Total Eclipse? It hasn't been produced or even written. In all likelihood, such a film has never even been contemplated, at least in Hollywood.

Sounds like a gripping subject. Too bad the movie does not exist.

The 1994 Russian movie "Burnt by the Sun" is about about Stalin's oppression of the Kulaks. It is a very good movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssJbC2pNaCA

35 posted on 09/26/2024 1:58:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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In the 1960s, when communists finally got their fingers into the WH and federal agencies (other than the Department of State, which continued its 4th decade of being the U.S. headquarters for the communist movement), the need to begin the implementation of censorship of thought and speech required Hollywood to take one of the early steps...

In addition, the communists-controlled the teachers union began, openly, adopting basic Soviet-style indoctrination techniques for use in public schools at all levels...

The combination of controlling both the entertainment industry and the nation’s education system has paid off handsomely...
Americans have been transformed into a society of the most servile and uneducated peasants in history...


38 posted on 09/26/2024 2:02:50 PM PDT by SuperLuminal ( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
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: courageous Solidarity unionists against a Communist military junta;


Another good Polish movie “Death As A Slice Of Bread” (Smierć Jak Kromka Chleba) about the Wujek Coal Mine Massacre.


39 posted on 09/26/2024 2:04:57 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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And if there ever was a story that should be told in a movie, it’s that of Witold Pilecki.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki


40 posted on 09/26/2024 2:11:05 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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All one has to do is look at today’s movie, TV and advertising output, and one can clearly see that Hollywood remains firmly in enemy hands.


41 posted on 09/26/2024 2:23:09 PM PDT by SharpenedEdge (Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train. A Storm is coming.)
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Excellent film: Mr. Jones

Oscar™ nominated [directrix] Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa, Spoor, In Darkness) portrays extraordinary, hidden story of Gareth Jones', an ambitious young Welsh journalist who went to the Soviet Union in 1933 and discovered the terrifying truth behind the Stalinist Soviet utopia.The journalist investigation of young Jones quickly turned into a journey of life or death...The whole story was an inspiration for George Orwell to write "Animal Farm."

According to imdb's "Trivia":

On the April 1st, 2022 installment of "The Lawfare" podcast, screenwriter Andrea Chalupa reports how during the course of filming "Mr. Jones", they reached out to the New York Times for permission to quote directly from Walter Duranty's article that denied a famine had taken place in Ukraine, but the Times refused to grant permission.

But, this good movie was not made in Hollywood. Production companies were Polish, British, and Ukranian

Of course imdb.com puts their thumb on the scale. The arithmetical average rating is 7.2, but imdb.com adjusts it down to 6.9. Both are low, imho.

Palm Springs International Film Festival: 2020 Winner Best of the Fest Audience Vote

43 posted on 09/26/2024 2:42:54 PM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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I have noticed a difference in how Commies have been treated in movies about the Spanish civil War..
For Whom the Bell Tolls, commies good guys.
The Angel wore Red, commies bad guys.

Pan’s Labyrinth, commies again good guys.


46 posted on 09/26/2024 3:05:38 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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