Hollywood Movies Are Toxic In More Ways Than One

The Stiletto ^ | November 15, 2006 | The Stiletto

[theothercheek]

Rich, pampered Hollywood celebs just love to lecture us workaday folk on how to be environmentally conscious. A two-year UCLA study finds that the film and television industry creates more greenhouse emissions than the aerospace, clothing, hotel and semiconductor industries.

When researchers at the school's Institute of the Environment took into account all direct and indirect sources of emissions - including special effects explosions, diesel generators used to power a movie set and a power plant that provides electricity to a studio lot - only petroleum manufacturing created more air pollution in the five-county Los Angeles region than movie-making.

The study did note the rare examples of Hollywood attempting to be environmentally responsible. For instance, production companies for the films "The Day After Tomorrow," "Syriana" and "An Inconvenient Truth" planted trees and took other steps to “offset” some of the emissions they produced. And nearly all of the concrete, steel and lumber used to construct the sets for "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Matrix Revolutions" was recycled.

The Stiletto thinks that, laudable as these efforts are, much more needs to be done to counteract the pollution generated by Hollywood. If the rest of us stopped watching the dreck that the studios spew, perhaps some of them would be shuttered and fewer films would be made – which means less air pollution in LA and fewer rich, pampered stars hectoring us on how to save the planet.

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[annelizly]

lets not forget that these "stars" own more than one home...which is probably 10 times larger than any of ours(just think of all the trees that had to be killed to build those houses!) How much energy is wasted to heat and cool these houses? all for what? a family of 2 or 4?

How many vehicles do they own and drive? just to go to the store they take an entire entourage.

how about all the shopping? do they really USE all those clothes and shoes??? isn't this wasteful?

how about their big houses right on the beaches? is this really where nature intended a huge ass, eye sore of a house to be ?

Then the assholes bitch cause they don't want "the little people" to be able to enjoy the beaches too.

[Intolerant in NJ]

...a touch of irony - wouldn't you say?...a film purporting to demonstrate what will come of global warming which in its production contributes big time to the conditions supposedly leading to global warming - I'd sure say so......

[Borges]

Most of the film industry is blue collar work. And writing and directing is very hard work.

[Jaysun]

I would disagree about sports stars. Those folks put a LOT of work into what they do that goes way above and beyond memorizing and repeating dialogue in front of a camera.

Okay. But they make a lot of money nonetheless (and I don't begrudge them that) but the point is that they don't feel it their responsibility to become "activist". The only qualification that most of Hollywood's "activist" can claim is that they make a lot of money.

[Jaysun]

Liberals should never be considered rational. These idiots see nothing wrong with their actions. Neither do I for that matter, except when they suddenly feel a "responsibility" to "speak out".

[bigdcaldavis]

Remember the TV show Martial Law? Chinese nationals (plus they work for the Shanghai PD and are obviously required to enforce the will of the Chinese dictator in homeland China) working for the LAPD?

Guess who, at the time, was openly making deals with China allowing China to use American sea ports as they see fit...Bill Clinton.

Guess how the Martial Law jackboots solved crime most of the time...by using police brutality, usually when unprovoked.

Plus, the show's title itself...Martial Law. The show was obviously created by Clintonites as a virtual championing/BJ'ing of the New World Order.

The NWO tries to condition us to be part of the NWO mindset (the Borg Collective) by using mainstream media to present the various aspects of the New World Order as "cool/hip/trendy/stylish/sexy". Hollywood "it" girls condition sheeple into the NWO mindset with false promises of "sexual power". This will be REALLY apparent when MSM uses a Hollywood "it" girl to be the official spokesperson for "wearable" Big Brother tracking technology such as the VeriChip, which will probably be tracked by using the cellphone towers.

[bigdcaldavis]

Then the Hollywood elitists will find another industry to monopolize...and this time, the taxpayers will be expected to fund their "salaries".

[AZLiberty]

Not to mention the cars that people drive to get to the movies, and the plastic that goes into DVDs, and the cars that people drive to Blockbuster to get the DVDs, and the energy used to make popcorn.

[Borges]

Would you prefer people abandon all entertainment and just do things that are absolutely needed for bare survival like in a Cyberpunk novel? :-)

[isom35]

could they mean this:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090190/

[nutmeg]

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[rotundusmaximus]

Yes!

[durasell]

Except there's about six "Hollywood elites" and everyone else in the movie business is either blue collar or middle management.

[rotundusmaximus]

"much more needs to be done to counteract the pollution generated by Hollywood.""
As Michelangelo Buonarroti wrote some 440-something years ago, "Clear them out of your life as the scandalous and evil-living lot they are". Most certainly he must have meant them, for the description fits them to a "t". Clear them out of your life and boycott them and everyone who even remotely looks like them."

Yes, I agree. For my part, stars that use their position to spout their liberal message are not gettin my money. That is my prerogative, my right. They have a right to spout their liberalism, I have the right not to purchase their product, in this case a theater or movie ticket. Simple as that.

Borges: Your wrote: "I don't think Michaeangelo would endorse cutting the Arts out of your life". And "Would you prefer people abandon all entertainment and just do things that are absolutely needed for bare survival like in a Cyberpunk novel? :-)"

Michaelangelo would probably not consider Hollywood movies "art" :0> There are other forms of art that are much more edifying.

[GSlob]

He was writing about evil-living and scandalous people, [say, our so-called "celebrities"]. What these people were purporting to do - art or no art - was not even secondary but immaterial. Their quality as humans [if they are human, indeed], came WAY BEFORE their nominal occupation. As one of Michelangelo's pupils, Vasari, wrote about the "modernizing" architects of his time, who were overstraining themselves in trying to appear original at any cost [sounds familiar, doesn't it?]: "All their things are monstrous and worse than German". You could take this phrase and apply it to what you charitably called "Art", for their "Art" is indeed degenerate, like themselves.

[Borges]

Michaelangelo would probably not consider Hollywood movies "art" :0> There are other forms of art that are much more edifying.

Sure they are. Cinema is the primary artform of the 20th century. Whether it comes from Hollywood (which has produced more great Art then any other national cinema) or elsewhere.

[Borges]

I don't know which films you're reffering to as at any given time there are just as many which look backwards then forwards. The fact remains that stuff like Vertigo and The Wild Bunch and The Godfather rank with the greatest American Art in any medium.

[GSlob]

There is art and then there is pop art. The art endures [as an art], while the pop art does not. Come back with your movie list in 300 years. Chances are that your list will be the stuff of obscure PhD dissertations.

[Borges]

Shakespeare and Dickens were pop art as well. The greatest early films are nearing a century in age. Buster Keaton films from the 1920s still look very modern.