Posted on 08/10/2005 6:09:21 AM PDT by Calusa
Slow to awaken after the 9/11 attacks, Hollywood has finally come around to contributing what it can in the War on Terror: namely, glossy, star-studded movies that sympathize with the enemy.
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- "V For Vendetta." From Warner Brothers and the creators of "The Matrix" comes this film about a futuristic Great Britain that's become a 'fascist state.' A masked 'freedom fighter' named V uses terror tactics (including bombing the London Underground) to undermine the government - leading to a climax in which the British Parliament is blown up. Natalie Portman stars as a skinhead who turns to 'the revolution' after doing time as a Guantanamo-style prisoner.
- "Munich." Steven Spielberg directs this film about the aftermath of the 1972 Olympic terror attacks that killed eleven Israeli athletes. "Munich"'s screenplay is written by playwrite Tony Kushner ("Angels in America"), who has been quoted as saying: "I think the founding of the state of Israel was for the Jewish people a historical, moral, political calamity ... I wish modern Israel hadn¹t been born." The film focuses on the crisis of conscience undergone by Israeli commandos tasked with killing PLO terrorists - rather than on the barbarity of the terrorists themselves
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Their industry is in the tank. People are already walking away from these lefties.
Yes they are.
Hollywood was always sleazy. Make no mistake about that. But they WERE patriotic.
That went away in the 60's when Sleazywood started using films to justify their sleazy lifestyle. It USED to be entertaining to me when I was young and stupid.
Their films aren't "art" -- they are simply fodder for the young and stupid, insulting with those of an I.Q. over 50 and any modicum of patriotism.
Hooyah for Mel Gibson and those film makers with a conscience.
My veteran friends and I said right after 9-11 and leading up to war that they should start working on patriotic movies as we have always done through our history of wars.
Where are the real Americans that should be making these movies?
Spielberg has got some balls, making a movie like "Munich." I guess he's claiming artistic immunity.
This writer obviously did very little research. V for Vendetta is based on an alternate history in which the nazis won WW2. I guess he thinks Red Dawn was about a group of terrorists who fight the legitimate Soviet government of America.
And a bad one at that from this commentary from the creator, scroll down right hand side.
I stopped going to the theatre about 15 years ago. Haven't rented a movie in a couple of years.
If memory serves me correct, didn't Bush administration officials actually meet with Hollywood movers and shakers just after 9/11??? I wonder what was exactly said at that meeting, and whether or not the Hollywood suits brushed off any ideas about helping support the GWOT by producing some positive films about fighting Islamic terrorists, similar to the media effort against the Germans and the Japs in World War II.
Just more evidence of how the entertainment industry is divorced from reality. Having Tony Kushner write this screenplay is like having Eichman run your relocation program.
It really is true if we were refighting WW2 Hollywierd and the media would be now churning out defeatist propaganda. 'Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo' would become a pacifist drama in which US air crews become acquainted with the Japanese people and realize the horror of bombing defenseless civilians, 'Action in the North Atlantic' would become more 'balanced' depicting the courage and determination of the U-boat crews as they try to intercept and sink war material before it can reach the UK. The merchant ship crew led by Humphrey Bogart would come to realize 'every body' loses in war and they vow never to sign on another ship carrying war material. The possibilities are endless and the problem is this is more truth than poetry. Whatever I think about our current Iraq adventure I detest the 20,000+ Arab cutthroats we are fighting there. Even the VC and the NVA had at least a vestigial sense of honor and were no doubt about it brave men. These people are just scum and their actions routinely combine the worst in what guerrilla/terrorist operations perpetrate.
"V for Vendetta is based on an alternate history in which the nazis won WW2."
Geez, wasn't that done in about 12 Star Trek episodes?
bad remakes and new garbage is 99% of what comes from Hollywood these days.
"Alan Moore, co-creator of the "V For Vendetta" comic, has publicly disassociated himself from the upcoming Warner Brothers movie project based on the comic book and written and produced by the Wachowski Brothers."
Wachowski Brothers... that says it all.
First of all, they aren't brothers anymore. The one freak turned himself into an approximation of a hideous woman.
Secondly, the Wachowskis made 1 good movie, The Matrix. That was when they were nobodies and the studio could rein them in. Once the Wachowskis had a success and got powerful, they had a free hand to do what they wanted. So they made 2 unintelligible horrible movies.
This is one I won't see, and won't miss.
Ditto!
Remember how liberals urged Democrats to be more forceful with their message? Which is an even more losing strategy. This is the Hollywood equivalent. Don't hold back. Say what you really think. The results will be catostrophic - for the movie industry.
Same here, more like 20+ for me, I've been reduced to G-rated kiddy flix, Nemo, The Ring, etc. But even that is no panacea. With the vocabulary and boring drawn out 'action' scene. I do have a weakness for Vampire movies.
Looks like one of the last good war films from a Hollywood lefty is Blackhawk Down. How long until the crew in that town get over the Iraq war? 10 more years?
See "The Grudge". Made in Japan, cool effects.
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