Scary Movie: Hollywood Humanizes the Despot

Acton Institute ^ | October 13, 2004 | Bruce Edward Walker

[Weirdad]

The sanitizing of Hitler and Guevara continues just like the left wing has done with Margaret Sanger. It's just harder to sanitize these two, so it's taking them longer.

The "dorm room decoration" is particularly disgusting. It remains interesting that if a student expresses affection for the left wing fascist socialist communist totalitarian Hitler that they invite trouble (understandably), while it's perfectly fine, and almost mandatory at some sorry schools, to laud Guevara. In fact it's hate-speech at some schools to despise Guevara despite the fact that his ideology and methods lead to exactly the same thing that Hitler produced! Maybe the left is just torn about rehabilitating Hitler because it's so convenient for the left to try to redefine fascism as right wing so they can keep making innane comparisons of Republicans to Nazis.

[trashcanbred]

The left's incapability to reconcile with the sheer numbers of victims of the great socialist movements of the 20th century is why I never will support them or the nitwits they admire.

[Shqipo]

So many college kids are messed up in the head. Their idea of being a revolutionary is to dump the controlling influence of their parents, and then rally for a socialist (Dem) political ideology to "take care of them."
Republicans are today's only true revolutionaries.

[Weirdad]

Well said. There are lots of good kids still, however. They just don't get much of a voice when the older idiots (who should know better but never grew up) who are running the colleges give positive reinforcement to anything left-wing and turn up their noses or worse at anything 'conservative.'

[Shqipo]

Agreed. College Republicans are truly on the front line of the culture wars, and in enemy territory. It takes no courage to "be outrageous" on any PC campus; it does to stand up and against such an onslaught of liberal BS on a daily basis. By doing so, they are going against the system: therefore I label them true revolutionaries.

[Aetius]

Just wait till the Academy Awards....

[Californiajones]

I'm going to start praying now. Making Che cute and idealistic is a CRIME.

[Ptarmigan]

The left always loves evil despots like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Mullamar Omar, Juan Peron and terrorists like Osama bin Laden and Che Guevara. They have one thing in common, they are all leftists.

[wardaddy]

I deplore Hollywood's fascination with Che....he was a murderer not to mention a collectivist elitist....which is arguably worse.

But...lol....I doubt seriously Hollywood (Mel Brook excepted) will ever sanitize Adolph Hitler....or Germans for that matter.....not in this century.

[wardaddy]

Che can thank the beard, the hair and the beret for his success....that image really resonated with the unwashed in the 60s....and he got killed...that always helps.

[alex]

"The Motorcycle Diaries chronicles the South American trek of a young Guevara and his friend, Alberto Granado, in 1952. Both men are portrayed as handsome and idealistic."

I suppose it won't hurt to show these morons as handsome and idealistic, but I would like also to have the results of their idealism (poverty, hunger, death, injustice) to be shown too. I hope that it will cool off some handsome idealists of today.

[cyborg]

I saw Motorcycle Diaries. The movie was excellent. It's only too bad that I had to keep reminding people he went on to do exactly what he wanted to fight against in his life. Like going to Africa and fighting with the communists for instance. Look at the wonderful things communism has done for Africans. I'm glad he lost his head.

[cyborg]

The next movie is going to show that side. Unfortunately that one won't be as possible I suspect.

[Ciexyz]

btt

[wardaddy]

When I was a young rad, I thought of Che as some sort of romantic Latin American revo.....that looked like a hippie.

I even read his diaries from the Granma onwards during the Cuban war.

Then I grew up.


When I lived in MyAmUh, I socialized with some Cuban expats who had personal experiences with Che and Fidel....Che was worse than Fidel actually....a true believer.

I'm glad Fidel ratted him out to the Bolivians and our boys....good damned riddance.

Side bar: I almost had a fight last week at a restaurant here with a middle aged freakazoid who was wearing a Ho Chi Minh shirt when Michael Moore was here promoting his BS. I really loathe those who worship folks like murderous little Ho.

[cyborg]

They worship blood thirsty commies but where are these people living!

[ellawrence]

Along the same lines.. A truly great, if under-appreciated, film is "Chariots of Fire". It gets better and better with each successive viewing.

[alex]

But I really would like to see in the movies the reality of young dashing, educated, anti-capitalist, anti-established fellows making good on their idealistic views and bringing nothing but horrible sufferings to everybody.

[LibertarianInExile]

"....millions of Americans voted at the ticket booth and made THE PATRIOT one of the blockbusters of all time."

or

"Too bad, THE PATRIOT didn't become a great hit."

Pick one, please.