One movie with an *extremely* good conservative message came out last year: "Serenity." The director/writer is extremely left-wing, but by sheer accident he made one hell of a movie.
Did YOU see it?
Posted on 03/14/2006 12:37:04 PM PST by American Quilter
If Hollywood is so pitifully out of touch, how does the industry’s economic train keep chugging along? Why don’t market forces come crashing in on Hollywood executives, sort of like the way the Red Sea came crashing down on Pharaoh’s army in “The Ten Commandments”? The answer’s in the numbers.
Let’s take a sampling of 5 left-leaning, hot button’ films from last year, all of which were Oscar-nominated and four of which won Oscars: “Brokeback Mountain,” “Good Night, and Good Luck,” “Syriana,” “The Constant Gardener” and surprise Best Picture winner “Crash.” The average budget for these five films was about $20 million. Their average worldwide gross? Just over $80 million - and that doesn’t even include DVD revenues.
Perhaps you’re getting the picture: there’s decent money to be made being left-wing, so long as a film’s budget is low. Among left-leaning films that underperformed this year, the chief culprits were “Jarhead” and Steven Spielberg’s “Munich” - and really only because those films cost too much (both around $70 million).
So what’s going on here? Hollywood has recently perfected a formula whereby low-budget, indie-looking films generate good reviews, controversy, and oceans of free publicity (a lot of it coming from the conservative media) due to a film’s left-wing worldview. And all this free buzz gets translated into box office dollars.
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One movie with an *extremely* good conservative message came out last year: "Serenity." The director/writer is extremely left-wing, but by sheer accident he made one hell of a movie.
Did YOU see it?
I've lived in LA for 17 years-- that automatically qualifies me as "native."
Overall revenues are NOT down - that is the point. If patriotic Americans are no longer watching their crap, then they won't bother trying for 'em. They'll make movies for Mexicans, Arabs, and Euroweenies.
My 17-year-old nephew (fine young conservative--I'm so proud of him) asked me to watch the DVD with him at Christmas, and I really liked it.
> What would you suggest for a storyline?
"Footfall" by Larry Niven. Features, among other things, Manly American Rocket Scientists saving the world's ass, and one of my all time favorite scenes: an extreme tree hugger bashing a reporters brains out and burying him in the compost heap... because he realised that the reporter was going to bust open a story about a nuclear project. At this point in the story, the Green had come to understand that nuclear power was the only way to save the environment, not to mention his own keister.
"God was knocking, and he wanted in BAD."
Sounds good to me!
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How was Crash left leaning?
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White people = evil.
More cowbell!
No kidding. This place
was Brokeback Mountain's loudest
source of daily press!
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Oh I had plenty of problems with it but any film that shows minorities capable of racism as well can not be described as 'left-leaning'.
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Ah, but you missed the message -- whitey MAKES them that way. Not subtle at all. I say that, even though I like a lot about the film.
The director is a major league dickhead, though.
Hoax.
Too true.
Hollywood has recently perfected a formula whereby low-budget, indie-looking films generate good reviews, controversy, and oceans of free publicity (a lot of it coming from the conservative media) due to a film’s left-wing worldview.
Which is why I try to ignore films like "Syriana," "Good Night and Good Luck," etc, etc.
I didn't say its a good film. I said its ztep up from 'whitey is bad' and everyone else is a noble blameless victim.
That Hollywood can keep an industry going by selling violence and sex to 14 year olds is not a surprise. The surprise is that owners and shareholders put up with it...
For me, Hollywood has jumped the shark.
"Sure as I know anything, I know this - they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better. And I do not hold to that. So no more runnin'. I aim to misbehave."
"There's a lot of fine ways to die. I ain't waiting for the Alliance to choose mine."
Won't get that out of a Lib in real life. How that line was dreamed up by a Lib, I'll never know, unless there's some serious cognitive dissonance goin' on there.
But if they're good movies, and can be advertised in a way that lets prospective viewers know the movie is pro-America, and/or pro-military (same thing), and/or pro-traditional-values, I think conservative viewers would show up in droves. And word-of-mouth would make up for a small advertising budget.
They are, and are making money.
> Sounds good to me!
And it reads even better. Every time I read it, *especially* the first time, I literally could not put it down when I got within the last 70 pages or so. Missed a day of college to finish it. It's *that* good.
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