Posted on 03/07/2006 9:22:24 PM PST by george76
The divide between conservative and liberal America was on full display at the Oscars, with both the winners and losers championing social and political topics heralded by the left.
Across the United States, in blogs and on call-in radio talk shows, conservatives seethed that their point of view was not represented in the choice films honored with nominations -- let alone among those given awards.
"This year's Oscar nominees include stories of homosexual sheep herders, a transvestite and Japanese prostitutes," ...
American conservatives are accustomed to frowning at liberal Hollywood, but they were more disaffected than ever by the left-of-center themes of this year's Oscar nominees.
the conservative Concerned Women for America (CWA)...complained that the few Hollywood films it approved of had loads of popular appeal and impressive box office, but "got the cold shoulder from Hollywood elitists."
Conservative America long has been at odds with liberal Tinseltown, championing films with religious overtones like the blockbuster "Passion of the Christ," which was snubbed at the 2004 Oscars.
This year another hit with Christian overtones was the film "The Chronicles of Narnia...which has raked in more than 637 million dollars in ticket receipts around the world...
Narnia's ticket sales nearly equaled those of the five best picture Oscar nominees combined.
"This year's anticipated Oscar-winning movies, reviewed in light of their box office appeal, reveal Hollywood's true motives.
They are far less concerned about entertaining people than they are with trying to shape the culture and advance a political agenda."
"If you want to be truly courageous and take actual risks then make a movie that gives conservatives a fair shake or, God forbid, make a movie where a Liberal is the bad guy."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
You're 100% correct. My life has not been altered even one iota with regard to whatever movies/actors/actresses got recognition a few nights ago. Their little group masturbation party hasn't changed the way I think or comport my life in the least.
Nobody polled me to see how I've managed to make it through the past few days with all the "blues" that I've apparently been suffering, unbeknowst to me.
~ Blue Jays ~
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -I predict they will continue to make their agenda driven movies all the way to the poor house.
Geisha are not prostitutes.
I patronage the products and people I care for, and ignore those I don't. Your sense of overblown self-importance is showing.
Your tag is good, as usual.
"Visit Free Republic to enjoy shameless Schadenfreude as the lies of liberals are exposed!"
What are Geisha ?
And what do they do ?
That was another poor year, IIRC. The Last Emporer was up against Empire of the Sun (a little confusion with the names back then for me); "Hope and Glory", a slice-of-life kind of film set in WWII; Kenneth Brannagh's "Henry V", which was comparitively low-budget; and a fifth movie, which I'm forgetting. Oddly enough, I recall that only film of the five that I didn't see was "Empire of the Sun". (Yes, I remember that I saw the fifth film even if I can't actually remember what it is now.) Granted, 2 of them I saw on VHS.
I knew that and to tell the truth , I was shocked by it. Still, Lonesome Dove is his best work. He also wrote "The Last Picture show".
I doubt conservatives 'get the blues' over the antics of the Hollywood left. We know they are nutjobs. If they behaved any differently, it would be a surprise.
And remember, TLP was about the Death of the West and the values it represented.
Here is an accurate statement.
"doubt conservatives 'get the blues' over the antics of the Hollywood left..."
I have had this tag line for several weeks. I made up during a week of endless Schadenfreude at the expense of the MSM.
I advise YOU to change your ways if you want to make it on FR.
If someone joins a group, then it can be assumed that they support the beliefs of that group. We wholeheartedly condemn leftist beliefs on this forum.
In other years I would see your point, but this year Narnia, and Harry Potter stood out as being at least watchable. Just go to boxofficemojo and look at the movies for 2005 just to get the picture on how lousy they were.
There was not a single movie on the list for best picture this year that I have the slightest interest in even renting, not being the type that will sit through Hollywood preaching liberal garbage at me.
Exactly. Hollywood is so left that who cares what they think or say? The Right and Red States should be putting out their world-views every day . Swamp the media; go on Talk Radio, TV, the Net as they do with blogs. That this event would surprise anyone when the Pimp song wins, is beyond me. They, the Lefties in Wood are simply out of touch elitists.
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