Posted on 09/02/2012 2:24:15 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Clint Eastwood got one thing right during his senior moment at the Republican convention: Hollywood isn’t all liberal. The first time Clint gained serious press attention in national politics was 1972, when he was invited by President Richard Nixon to attend his nominating convention in Miami. Nixon was a movie buff who understood the power of Hollywood. In 72, he wanted to use specific celebrity endorsements to shape the way that the public understood him. He wanted Democrats like Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr to show that he was a centrist and he wanted Old Hollywood to evoke nostalgia for a happier, more traditional age. When Nixon held a meet-and-greet for actors at his West coast mansion, one guest called it “a cocktail party at the Hollywood wax museum.”
Commentators at the time were sniffy about Nixon’s Hollywood strategy precisely because its choice of symbols seemed so passé. The 1970s are remembered for experimental liberal film making – Apocalypse Now, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, All The President’s Men etc. The hot talent of the time was Left-leaning, even hippie – Jane Fonda, Julie Christie, Warren Beatty. But Nixon understood that movie politics is just as diverse as its many genres. Individual movies can be interpreted in multiple ways. The Godfather was meant as an attack on hyper-masculinity and even a parody of Nixon, but it became part of a revival of white ethnic nostalgia. It could be argued that the Corleone family’s patriarchy offers a seductive alternative to bureaucratic welfarism.
Moreover, different people watch different sorts of movies. The early 1970s might be best remembered by historians for the radical current in Hollywood, but audiences also flocked to see movies that protested 1960s liberalism.....
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Jane Fonda is a once proud Communist. Warren Beatty made Reds.
Can't speak of Julie Christie.
Communism sucks as much as Nazism. Liberal idiots need to wake up to reality.
Eastwood won’t “lose parts” - he’s been a producer and director of his own films for more than two decades - he gave himself parts.
Today we have Matt Damon with Green Zone and Syrianna. What you haven’t heard of them? That’s because quite a few of the left’s propaganda films are so bad not even Liberals will go to see them. Unfortunately Hollywood will give them an Academy award; Sean Penn in Milk.
I don’t know if it’s ironic or not but the Hollywood elite is everything they accuse conservatives of being—greedy, self-absorbed, stingy, ignorant, detached, biased, intolerant and delusional. Hollywood makes a big show of being compassionate to hide what they really are. Their biggest fear is of an L.A. riot that engulfs their posh enclaves.
Eastwood has long since achieved the status of legend. He needs the approval of no one. His career will not end because of his remarks last week; it will end if, when, and in the manner he chooses. Until then, he will go right on creating roles for himself, both in front of and behind the camera. No one can touch him. He is an American icon.
I’m concerned that Clint Eastwood might be getting senile. After all, he confused an empty suit for an empty chair!
The High Plains Drifter rode into town, mocked the hypocrisy, humiliated the liars, killed the bad guys and rode off like a mirage...
It was Jesse Jackass who ordered Obama's nuts to be cut off.
Thanks, I'll read this later. Certainly Obama was sold like a soda or automobile.
Came up with a hipster created pop art ad campaign that rips of Andy Warhol and Communist propaganda (courtesy of hipster douchebag Shepherd Fairey, who Barack Obama knew illegally posted his materials and included "Bushhitler" graphics throughout the Iraq war in the Bush era).
There is no "there" there. A naked emperor. The new clothes have worn thin.
I remember when he and sharpton were caught on tape saying that and more. Good times!
LLS
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