Because Hollywood is riddled with hard-core Stalinists.
As I type this and look up just above my computer display and about a foot behind it is my 2015 calendar with "the Duke" on every page.
When it comes to communism, you can never be to anti-communist!
Dalton Trumbo wasn’t a hero. He hated his country and wanted to see a totalitarian ideology imposed upon it. He worked for the enemy.
In today’s Hollywood, none of that matters. If you were a Communist, all is forgotten and apparently forgiven. This is the man Hollywood regards as some sort of freedom-crusading activist. In real life he was the exact opposite of one.
In making a movie whitewashing Trumbo’s life and his ardent belief in one of the most murderous ideologies of the 20th Century, that says far more about Hollywood and its values than it does about the Communist Trumbo it wants to clutch now to its bosom.
I’ve never quite understood Hollywood’s genuflection with communists, since if they take over, the arts and intellectual crowd will be the first to go to the prison camps or executed.....................
I was required to read ‘Johnny Got His Gun’ in Freshman English my first year in college. Trumbo was a hero to all the Leftist professors in the 60’s. I was completely unaware of politics at 18. I suspect most colleges have become exponentially worse in Leftist indoctrination since then.
Battling Hitler wasn’t cool with Hollywood, until Hitler attacked Saint Stalin.
Perhaps the Trumbo movie will describe how he published an anti-war novel, Johnny Got his Gun (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1939) right after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact only to yank it off the market after the Nazi invasion of the USSR--but I'm not holding my breath.
Johnny Got His Gun was probably his Magnum Opus.
A movie that is stupid as all get out to anyone who can see, but can be quite impressionistic to a youngster.
Of course PBS used to show it on TV so naive kids can get their supposed antiwar propaganda.
He and his comrades were wealthy Beverly Hills Communists.
Truly reprehensible people.
I don’t get why Liberals STILL call it a Witch Hunt.... when is was definitively proved that hard core Communists WERE in the administrations of at least TWO American Presidents.
I was forced to read “Johnny Got His Gun” in high school. It sucked.
The screenplay for SPARTACUS is more Trumbo than Howard Fast. There is NO Tony Curtis character, no “I AM SPARTACUS” in the book. Spartacus died in the battle, not by crucifixion.
I’ve read Fast’s novel and found I prefer Arthur Koestler’s THE GLADIATORS.
Trumbo did write some good screenplays like LONELY ARE THE BRAVE. One simply has to realize some of the scenes (such as shooting down a military helicopter) are silly.
No mention in the article of any of the movies that Trumbo actually wrote for Hollywood. One of the most famous, of course, was Exodus (based on the Leon Uris novel), which is one of the most pro-Israel movies of all time. He also wrote the screenplays for Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Spartacus, Papillion, and Roman Holiday, among other non-Stalinist flicks.
And don’t forget how he ratted on people who requested copies of his anti-interventionist book . . . after the party line had changed.
Bryan Cranston true feelings are coming out. I guess he will give away all those millions of dollars he has to the “masses”.
Communism in America is about more than freedom of speech...their intent is to change us from a Republic to a communist country.