Posted on 04/26/2021 7:28:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Filmmaker Amanda Milius told Breitbart News on Monday that Hollywood undermined its own influence over America by abandoning conservatives.
Ambition within the entertainment industry blocks Hollywood insiders from publicly criticizing false orthodoxies espoused by their peers, Milius stated on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow, author of Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption. She noted Tinseltown’s decades of direct and indirect left-wing political advocacy.
“What Hollywood is — and what it’s always been — is a bunch of people who seek relevance and influence more than anything,” she remarked. “Nobody’s going to say the emperor has no clothes. Nobody is going to turn around and say, ‘This thing we’ve dedicated ourselves to — changing American culture and this sort of cultural Marxist point of view [has] snowballed out of control.'”
Milius pointed to the Oscars ceremony’s focus on COVID-19 as illustrative of Hollywood’s disconnection from most Americans.
She added, ‘They really are just culturally irrelevant, like this weird COVID ceremony performative thing that they did last night about. That was also part of it. It wasn’t just the usual wokeness. They also had to do this insane hypochondriac performance while they were awarding their wokeness, which was even weirder. … It was totally bizarre, totally out of touch.”
LISTEN:
The New York Times observed the emphasis of the Oscars ceremony on COVID-19, highlighting special procedures implemented by the event’s organizers that were said be done in the interest of health and safety. It wrote, “[The Oscars] had to do it in a Covid-19-safe manner (while continually pointing out that it was doing so).”
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Stand up girl.
In the 1960s and early 70s, my mother would gather with her friends to watch the Oscars - they were eager to see who won, what speeches they gave, and what dresses the women were wearing.
Hollywood held a monopoly over the entertainment media and culture of America - and they shat all over it, and vandalized it.
Daughter of John Milius I think. John being one of the few Hollywood conservatives. I believe years ago Milius even got Spielberg to buy some very expensive shotguns and take up the sport of box pigeon shooting. This was back when taking part in masculine activities wouldn’t get you blacklisted. Looks like the daughter is cut from the same cloth.
lets make it even more irrelevant.
they will not change unless it hits the bottom line.
“Daughter of John Milius “
Yup.
Wolverines!
Just as with the recording industry, video technology based on digital processing rather than expensive magnetic tape and chemical film processing has changed the economics of production. The financial gatekeepers that guarded access to the major production facilities in Hollywood are dinosaurs of a bygone era.
What’s left is the expensive infrastructure of the craft unions, and of course, the star power of a small cohort of celebrities that still wield enough power to secure large chunks of the distribution profits for themselves. Netflix is the model for future distribution with simultaneous theatrical and streaming releases. The pressure on the existing system will eventually break the major film industry like it did the recording industry.
NBC News had an excerpt.
I clicked the surge suppressor for my TV off after I heard the word “ancestors”.
Spielberg loves his Perazzi shotguns. Ironically he is also a big gun control advocate.
Even with digital technologies it takes money to make a decent theatrical film. Lots of money. People aren’t going to be making blockbuster hits out of their garage.
“abandonment”
The term ‘tongue lashing’ comes to mind.
No.
Not their peers.
Their masters.
Ronald Reagan:
“In a phase of this struggle not widely known, some of us came toe to toe with this enemy this evil force in our own community in Hollywood, and make no mistake about it, this is an evil force. Don’t be deceived because you are not hearing the sound of gunfire, because even so you are fighting for your lives. And you’re fighting against the best organized and the most capable enemy of freedom and of right and decency that has ever been abroad in the world. Some years ago, back in the thirties, a man who was apparently just a technician came to Hollywood to take a job in our industry, an industry whose commerce is in tinsel and colored lights and make-believe. He went to work in the studios, and there were few to know he came to our town on direct orders from the Kremlin. When he quietly left our town a few years later the cells had been formed and planted in virtually all of our organizations, our guilds and unions. The framework for the Communist front organizations had been established.
“It was some time later, under the guise of a jurisdictional strike involving a dispute between two unions, that we saw war come to Hollywood. Suddenly there were 5,000 tin-hatted, club-carrying pickets outside the studio gates. We saw some of our people caught by these hired henchmen; we saw them open car doors and put their arms across them and break them until they hung straight down the side of the car, and then these tin-hatted men would send our people on into the studio. We saw our so-called glamour girls, who certainly had to be conscious of what a scar on the face or a broken nose could mean career-wise going through those picket lines day after day without complaint. Nor did they falter when they found the bus which they used for transportation to and from work in flames from a bomb that had been thrown into it just before their arrival. Two blocks from the studio everyone would get down on hands and knees on the floor to avoid the bricks and stones coming through the windows. And the 5,000 pickets out there in their tin hats weren’t even motion picture workers. They were maritime workers from the waterfront—members of Mr. Harry Bridges’ union.
“We won our fight in Hollywood, cleared them out after seven long months in which even homes were broken, months in which many of us carried arms that were granted us by the police, and in which policemen lived in our homes, guarding our children at night.”
https://whatrocks.github.io/commencement-db/1957-ronald-reagan-eureka-college/
Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s – October 28, 1998
by Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley
Well worth a read.
The obscene profits of this industry come from millions of people who spend a relatively small amount of money to purchase the $hit Hollywood etc. churn out. (e.g. Chaplin, who happened to be a great entertainer and a careless person became rich from dime movies.) In most cases, the products studios offer are designed for the much more numerous lamebrained of this world--the left's playground as well.
The movie moguls damn sure know whom to please, and it sure as he[[ ain't discerning, patriotic conservatives.
And the same basically applies to that large, dishonest and derelict portion of the "news" media.
Not ironic at all, if you consider that he’s just another leftist hypocrite.
Ricky Gervais would tell them that they aren’t wearing clothes, and to get the fark out of here. That would just make them double down on absurd, and not get the message.
“They were maritime workers from the waterfront—members of Mr. Harry Bridges’ union.”
Bridges was a communist who even called a strike during WWII and shut off supplies to our troops in the Pacific. Why the bastard was not hung as a traitor, I don’t know.
I knew a marine captain who told me his men went into battle with just one round of ammunition each due to Bridges strike. The marine swore he would kill Bridges after the war, but eventually thought better of it.
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