Posted on 01/07/2005 3:10:15 PM PST by swilhelm73
During World War II, Frank Capra made a series of films called "Why We Fight" to rally Americans behind the war effort. Imagine a filmmaker doing that today. Actually, it's impossible to imagine. Hollywood either prefers to stay away from the war on terrorism altogether (the film version of Tom Clancy's "The Sum of All Fears" changed the villains from Islamist extremists to neo-Nazis) or to use it, even in its pre-9/11 form, as a morality play to warn against lost civil liberties (see "The Siege," starring Denzel Washington).
The film community — whose exquisite sensibilities are routinely outraged by the treatment of snail darters or swamps (a.k.a. wetlands) — can't even work up much excitement about a Dutch filmmaker getting slaughtered, allegedly by a Muslim fanatic. Where were the rallies and memorials to protest Theo van Gogh's murder?
The lack of outrage should be no surprise because the most successful movie made about the war on terrorism might as well have been titled "Why We Shouldn't Fight." I refer, of course, to "Fahrenheit 9/11," which smarmily insinuated that the Bush administration posed a bigger threat to the world than Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein ever did.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
It's interesting that the only film on the theme of Islamic terrorism to emerge from Hollywood has been "Team America."
Mel Gibson could produce and star in such a film. He could include Tom Selleck, Sam Elliot, give Toby Kieth his acting debut, and have a helluva hit on his hands.(wishful thinking)
How did this make the pages of the LAT.
For those interested 29 mar 05 will be a great day for TAWP.
The editor thought this was to be published April 1st. Did not look at the publish date. Minor mistake on his part.
I have no idea how it possibly made it past the censors, oops, I mean Editors.
Thank you bugmenot.com for being able to read it without giving LAT any personal info !
Cheers,
knews hound
He left out another Denzel Washington flick (hmm pattern?) - the villains in "The Manchurian Candidate" were changed from anti-American communists to international corporate figures [at least that's what the review I read says - I didn't waste my money to go see it].
I never saw the movie, but that picture makes me laugh.
The Hollywood Leftists always tries to make the bad guys out to be well-off white men. Anything else just wouldn't be Left enough.
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