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 ...
Blue? Over these pompous fools? Hardly.
Maybe it gives George cLooney and the rest of his pals some jollies to thumb their noses at their potential audience.
I just keep thinking that the stars of the past would never have treated people this way. Clark Gable, Cary Grant, you name it, they were gentlemen.
Oh well, that was the past, and we don't live there anymore.
I wonder if he breaks toilets. Just heard a blurb on the radio about overweight Aussies breaking toilets.
"If hollyweird has a few more years like the last one, it will dry up and blow away."
I think they really hurt themselves this year and they know it. They went way too heavy on shoveling their sh*t on the public who wasn't basically buying any of it. Hollywood isn't going to change but the movies will head more to left of center.
The Academy is toast.
They approve of movies that are not being watched and they are loosing lots of money.
Napolean once said (similar to)... When you see your enemy making mistakes, do not be impolite and correct him.
Brokeback was very successful; a $14 million production cost with a worldwide box office gross well over $100 million. Not a blockbuster like Passion or Narnia, but certainly not an utter flop.
Moore's laughing all the way to the bank - or the buffet. His 9/11 movie cost less than $5 million and grossed over $100 million. But you're certainly right that it didn't get Francois in the Maison Blanche.
I totally agree. It turned my stomach to see classics debased that way. Makes me want to tie Chuck Workman spread-eagled over a wagon wheel.
The same actors who laughed at the montage prank would gasp to see some corporation editing clips of some movie they were in for use as a cola commercial 20-40 years after they died.
Perhaps something that could be hosted by IMDB or such.. where nominations for various awards could be gathered and put into place... then these could be given over to an American Idol sort of TV show that plays clips of the nominees and takes votes.. Then the next week there is an award show..
This is not like creating a conservative version of the Oscars.. just one that is more representative.. and drags good movies out into the open.. like "Passion of the Christ" and "The Chronicles of Narnia" and gives them a chance to Shine along side of the other favorites like Harry Potter and Spiderman and such. Let the Academy sink into irrelevance with their Art House flicks..
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No seething or kvetching here, either. Oscar who?
I didn't watch. I don't care.
I think most of us here have come to the conclusion that between the movies themselves and the geneally miserable moviegoing experience one gets these days, Hollywood movies have become an irrelevant form of entertainement. After all, I'm typing this at home. Don't tell me you're reading this in the movie theater on your web enabled phone! If you are, put the phone on silent, okay?
Only has happened once. In Ghostbusters, William Peck, a conceivably liberal EPA bureaucrat was cast in the "White male A-hole in a Suit" role.
Never again has any character conceivably liberal been cast as a villain in any Hollywood movie (can anyone think of one?)
I don't mean to sound too picky, but Narnia reached that number looong time ago. Perhaps in late January. The author needs to update his numbers before he quotes more than a month figure. The world-wide box office gross for the movie is around $677m as of 3/5.
Hope those guys had a lot of fun. :)
They also love this "red America" thing. They are the freaking reds, not us. Hence that electoral map will never alternate colors again. Talk about media influence.
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