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Hey Hollywood...why are these guys stealing your audience??? |
Posted on 11/06/2005 9:10:57 PM PST by Lorianne
Edited on 11/06/2005 9:25:45 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
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Hey Hollywood...why are these guys stealing your audience??? |
Batman saved Gotham.
BTTT!
Good article.
Interesting article. Thanks.
A documentary about the Gipper at a Conservative Film Festival. This was a slam-dunk win....
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Hollywood needs to see this:
Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp *
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
* Pictures taken from the new Vietnamese-American Motion Picture Production titled "The JOURNEY from the Fall." Meaning the Fall of Saigon after we abandoned the free people of South Vietnam to their fate at the hands of heavily Soviet-backed invading Communist bullies from the North,
...thanks to the likes of Jane Fonda, Walter Cronkite, Tom Hayden, Dan Rather, Diane 'Hillary' Rodham, William Jefferson Clinton, Ramsey Clarke & Jesse Jackson)
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I love long reads (like this article) if they have something good to say. Crappy articles can't end soon enough.
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Sacrifice begets Sacrifice, properly portrayed =
MEL's -PASSION- sparked by -WE WERE SOLDIERS-
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1085111/posts
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I love Blue Collar. Unfortunately, they are cancelled. It was put up against Desperate Sluts on Sunday and tanked...not because no one likes it, but rather because n o one knew it was on Sundays...after it moved to Fridays...after being on Tuesdays.
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This was posted a few days ago. Read here for some earlier comments:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1512631/posts
Blue Collar boys makin' movies now. Git ready!
RON WHITE IS THE BEST!!!
I wonder if it's really about boycotting movies with certain actors. For my part, I don't have a list of actors I refuse to go see in a movie (except Jane Fonda). On the other hand, I know if Tim Robbins or Sean Penn are in a movie I am going to be too pissed off or distracted to enjoy the movie, so I don't bother. I believe that is what may be going on with movie goers. When I am looking for a movie to go see I scan down the list, if I see an actor I really despise, I just keep scanning.
It's a good and informative article, and dropped in some names as future Hollywood conservatives to look out for. I am frustrated by Hollywood, but I get weary of some of the criticism as well. It's one thing to get onto Hollywood's case for a definite anti-American message, or for putting too much sex in PG and PG-13 movies, it's another thing to suggest that the only good movies are ones that have perfect noble heroes and a heavy handed moral message. Film is just another form of storytelling, and if you suggest that the only good stories are moralistic homilies, you've chopped off about 75% of World Literature. Goodbye Shakespeare, the Iliad, Anne Karenina, Kurosawa, and the very artform of the tragedy. There is plenty of room in storytelling to deal w/ "what if?" scenarios, philosophy, and difficult so called "gray area" conflicts. Heck, that is the *point* of storytelling.
I get the feeling that if some conservatives had their way, Citizen Kane and the Godfather would be deemed inappropriate for the average American citizen's viewing, because they don't have the right "message". It's one thing to criticize agenda driven films like the Cider House Rules or this Good Night Good Luck nonsense--I'm all for that--it's another to lambast any film that depicts the obvious flaws in human nature and/or it doesn't take an obvious moral stance. Although I'm glad films like "Because of Winn Dixie" exist for young families, I'd go crazy if those were the ONLY types of films out there. Too many conservatives jump the gun down any film's throat that presents a unresolved moral conflict. The big (recent) example of this is Million Dollar Baby, which most bashers didn't even watch, but it was made by one of the few Republicans in the system (Eastwood), and he himself denied any agenda. It wasn't pro-euthenasia, any more than Anne Karenina was pro-suicide or the Iliad was pro-anger. It becomes a "boy who cries wolf" scenario, when critics just decry *anything* that doesn't follow the methodical preaching of a "Left Behind" "novel", and the more serious criticism of blatant brainwashing ala Barback Mountain become muted shouts. Fiction is fiction, it's free to speculate and challenge, to play w/ the rules and act as catharsis. Ethics, philosophy and religion is there to guide us how to live--not stories.
If there are conservatives in hollywood they waited too long in my mind to step forward.
If there are conservatives in hollywood they waited too long in my mind to step forward.
Anna Karenina wasn't pro-suicide. It was anti-train.
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