Posted on 07/10/2008 10:45:21 AM PDT by Uncle Ralph
The movie industry no longer aspires to portray genuine heroism—even though that's precisely what audiences want to see.
A spate of movies about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terror came out last year, all of them hostile to U.S. involvement and all of them box-office flops. At the time there was a certain amount of soul-searching in the media as to why, when most Americans told pollsters they thought the Iraq war, at least, had been a mistake, they didn't seem to want to go and see movies that sought to show them just how great a mistake it had been. The New York Times critic A.O. Scott cited what he called "the economically convenient idea that people go to the movies to escape the problems of the world rather than to confront them," but acknowledged the possibility that America's opposition to the war "finds its truest expression in the wish that the whole thing would just go away, rather than in an appetite for critical films."
Without denying that insight, I would like to propose another explanation: American movies have forgotten how to portray heroism . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at american.com ...
The Hollywood movie industry is rife with radical liberalism, which, nowadays, by definition, strives to remove all signs of human and American greatness from our national environment. This includes any standard of human measurement, including non-cult religions such as Christianity, and any other similie of human standards of behavior, greatness or INDIVIDUAL measurement.
Such is the foundation of the death of heroism — INDIVIDUAL human greatness, excellence, and any standard of same set by individuals by their very performance as opposed to standards set by “THE GOVERNMENT”.
Welcome of Hollywoods’ liberalism, a warped variety of same, since it is all protected in general by a huge bubble of money which protects them from reality and its accountability of human behavior.
The author seems to have overlooked several films that had real hores, OPEN RANGE, SIVERADO and the PATRIOT. I believe some of you can add to this list. Those were good films.
Feminization of society benefits liberals. The more feminized the more govt. is looked at to solve everything. The counterpoint though is the more feminized and socialized a country the more the birth rate declines and then that birth deficit gets filled by tough immigrants who bring their culture. Europe is a case in point.
It really has been striking how Hollywood can't bring itself to make a positive movie about our soldiers in the WOT.
Manly men are not fashionable because we live in a bubble that protects limp-wristed whiners from the natural consequences of their flawed and impoverished character. But the heroes are here, and in Iraq and Afghanistan, and everywhere a man or woman steps forward to stand for a principle at their own personal peril. While Hollywood and other misguided institutions are not singing their praise or even saying thanks, those of us who are of substance and understand their sacrifice will always be here for them, and that’s all that matters.
Sounds like a hero to me.
Oh -- and unlike all the other recent movies about fighting in the Middle East, this one made money. Fancy that.
...my personal favorite Randolf Scott in Sam Peckinpaugh’s “Ride The High Country”....when he came riding to the rescue with guns blazing it was truly heroic....and he was 63 when he made the film!....next best; Gary Cooper in “High Noon”....again, he was a man past his prime at 52 and you could see he didn’t feel well....but by God, he came thru when the chips were down...that’s a real hero for you....final choice is John Wayne in “The Searchers” 50 years old and still tough as whet leather....here’s John Ford’s most famous shot:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3528956160/nm0000078
And that’s why the first serious female candidate for president is a Democrat, Hillary Clinton; more liberal feminization of our society.
I sincerely hope McCain does not bow to pressure and pick a woman as his VP candidate.
Seen the recent Hulk movie? Stark shows up at the end to recruit the Hulk for the Avengers.
Great quote from C.S. Lewis and a good post of yours. Exactly right about the feminization of our society, that’s exactly what it also breeds: liberalism. I’m in my 60s and my wife and I were observing that we haven’t seen such an increase in men mincing around acting like girly-men as we have in the last 15-20 yrs. Pathetic, also sickening.
But there is a hell of a core group of real men that have served and are serving right now in Iraq and Afghanistan. When we mix with soldiers/Marines it is so refreshing to hear OPINIONS based on EXPERIENCE and see LEADERSHIP instead of faggots mincing around.
Amen to that!
Hollywood owes me nothing, so when they provide nothing, I am not dissapointed.
I don’t look to others to provide me heros. I look to history, to leaders in my community, and to people around me.
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