Gillian Robespierre?
Adam Baldwin had an interesting comment about Hollywood the other day. He said that Hollywood will trend conservative because the big money behind it notices that conservatism sells.
He encourages to be engaged in the culture war and support conservative themed television and movies.
When Animal Mother speaks, people listen.
I recall after the war in Iraq started Hollywood put out a bunch of anti-military, anti-American war flicks (ie. Rendition) and they all bombed. I remember at the time saying that if someone would just make a classic, Chuck Norris type war flick set in the middle east they would make a ton of money. The movie "Sole Survivor" finally proved me right.
Good article. I had not thought about the not doing abortion story lines. Interesting.
Good one, Jonah.
100 year copyrights on ancient film and audio works insulates Hollyweird from being held financially accountable for the current product they are producing.
The bulk of DVDs and CDs on shelves (and movies and tv shows on cable) have long paid off their production costs yet they still bring in big dollars.
Tasteless.
I mean, I've heard the bar get set pretty low in the locker room bull sessions ... but not heard it go this low. Pretty bad when a flick crosses lines that 15 year old boys look at and say "ehhhhhh, man, that's not cool".
Surprised that the movie made 2 mil, so far. I suppose that there are koolaid drinkers out there for anything.
A big part of the problem is that the public face of conservatism is the GOP. Since Reagan, there has not been a conservative political figure on the national scene that has been capable of saying why he believes what he believes. It’s just a grab bag of policy positions: pro life, anti gay “marriage”, pro military, pro business, etc ... You can’t tell a story if you don’t know why you think what you think (and even that’s probably assuming way too much). The “vision thing” is sorely lacking.