The simple truth is that Hollywood and the MSM is STILL infested with communists, neo-Marxists and other elite leftist totalitarians.
With the exception of very few actors, directors and writers (Andy Garcia and his film "The Lost City" comes to mind; so does op-ed columnist Burt Prelutsky) the Hollywood left to this day still likes to portray themselves as martyrs for the so called "blacklisting" that occured during the 1950s with the HUAC hearings in Congress.
To this day, Hollywood still cannot muster up the shame, remorse, reflection and apologies for an ideology that is directly responsible for the torture and murder and forced starvation of 100 million. Liberal Hollywood shares in the culpability for the rivers of blood created by Karl Marx and his disciples.
It’s not from Hollywood, but Andrzej Wajda has just finished directing a movie about the Katyn massacre.
The “Inner Circle” was another good anti-communist movie, depicting how brainwashed the Soviet Union was under Stalin.
Also “Goodbye Lenin!” was an excellent film.
The original Manchurian Candidate.
ie: Sinatra, Angela Landbury, et al.
“To this day, Hollywood still cannot muster up the shame, remorse, reflection and apologies for an ideology that is directly responsible for the torture and murder and forced starvation of 100 million. Liberal Hollywood shares in the culpability for the rivers of blood created by Karl Marx and his disciples.”
Thats like expecting a bear to be ‘ashamed’ it crapped in the woods, friend.
Witness what happened at the Academy Award a few years ago, when a man who provided names of communist sympathizers during the McCarthy ‘era’ was honored, and idiots like Gary Busey and Ed Harris ‘protested’.
Hollywood thinks Capitalism is/was a bigger ‘evil’ than Communism. Thats why today they hide behind the so called ‘enviromental movement’ which is the place old communists go to die these days. Its not by chance Earth Day is on the date its on.....
ie: Sinatra, Angela Landsbury, et al.
The McCarthy character didn’t kill anybody.
Hollywood is pro-communist, anti-American and intellectually bankrupt, with only a few notable exceptions. I won’t go into Hollywood’s moral code, except to say that it is written on a small square of toilet paper. Hollywood is disappointed that we won the Cold War, and hasn’t realized yet that if the Red Menace takes over, they would be among the first in line for the Gulags. Hollywood is convinced that if the communists took over, Hollywood would be part of the nomenclatura and exempt from the economic disasters experienced by the proles, (see Cuba). Power-mad and greedy. Hollywood is one of the most capitalistic sectors of our economy, but doesn’t believe in capitalism and prefers socialism. This is why I don’t go to many movies, and get my DVDs from the library.
Lost City is the last movie I actually paid to see.
Most Communist societies seem to have been run by gangs of corrupt, ruthless, egomaniacal elites who lived in relative splendor while force-feeding ideology to impoverished and powerless masses. Communist leaders live(d) a priveleged life removed from the realities faced by most people, and and were not accountable to the people they ruled. If this isn’t the dream of many in Hollywood, I don’t know what is.
May I suggest Red Dawn?
The opening sequence of “We were soldiers”
“The Killing Fields”
“Enemy at the gates” highlights some of the hypocrisy and conflicts, and brutality inherent within the Stalinesque house of cards.
The Weekly Standard recently had a review of a new German movie about a Stasi agent during the communist era who undergoes a change of heart. They raved about it-but I can’t remember what it was called.
Eleni. Rent it if you can. And keep the tissue handy.
A good subject for a movie might be the Polish people’s struggle for freedom from Communism, including the the brutal murder of the priest, Fr. Jerzy Popiewousko (spelling?). Sorry I have trouble with spelling many Polish names.
The Poles were a very determined gruop who resisted Communism for 45 years.