Posted on 07/02/2003 12:25:28 PM PDT by Stultis
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| Posted by Chi-townChief On 03/22/2001 6:55 PM CST with 16 comments REASON ON-LINE ^ | June 2000 | Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley Why American films have ignored life under communism. Every so often someone in Hollywood uses his power to break the movie colony's rules. Consider this year's Total Eclipse. Odd as it may seem, this is the first serious American film set against the background of the 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact, the deal that allied Europe's two totalitarian powers against the West and helped plunge the world into war. With an ally on the eastern front, Hitler sent his Panzers west while Stalin helped himself to the Baltic states and invaded Finland. A film like this could easily have turned out as ... |
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| Hollywood's Missing Movies: Why American films have ignored life under communism ^ |
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| Posted by coydog On 06/08/2000 2:11 PM CDT with 8 comments Reason ^ | June 2000 | Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley REASON * June 2000 Hollywood's Missing Movies Why American films have ignored life under communism. By Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley Every so often someone in Hollywood uses his power to break the movie colony's rules. Consider this year's Total Eclipse. Odd as it may seem, this is the first serious American film set against the background of the 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact, the deal that allied Europe's two totalitarian powers against the West and helped plunge the world into war. With an ally on the eastern front, Hitler sent his Panzers west while Stalin helped himself to the Baltic states and invaded ... |
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| Posted by Senator Pardek On 06/08/2000 1:08 PM CDT with 12 comments Reasonmag.com ^ | June 2000 | Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley Hollywood's Missing Movies Why American films have ignored life under communism. By Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley Every so often someone in Hollywood uses his power to break the movie colony's rules. Consider this year's Total Eclipse. Odd as it may seem, this is the first serious American film set against the background of the 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact, the deal that allied Europe's two totalitarian powers against the West and helped plunge the world into war. With an ally on the eastern front, Hitler sent his Panzers west while Stalin helped himself to the Baltic states and invaded Finland. A film like ... |
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| Hollywood's Missing Movies -- Why American films have ignored life under communism. ^ |
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| Posted by harry palmer On 05/19/2000 9:30 PM CDT with 13 comments Reason Magazine ^ | June 2000 | Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley Every so often someone in Hollywood uses his power to break the movie colony's rules. Consider this year's Total Eclipse. Odd as it may seem, this is the first serious American film set against the background of the 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact, the deal that allied Europe's two totalitarian powers against the West and helped plunge the world into war. With an ally on the eastern front, Hitler sent his Panzers west while Stalin helped himself to the Baltic states and invaded Finland. A film like this could easily have turned out as big a didactic dud as the Rev. Sun ... |
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Unless they went to see The Killing Fields
All quibbling aside they make an excellent point. It took the Italian Fascists to produce the best anti-communist film ever (We the Living), not realizing that it was an equally powerful anti-fascist film.
Must have been vocal supporters of Zinoviev, Radek and Trotsky. Stalin's usual MO was to place them in the Secret Police of the occupied countries--both before 1941 and after 1945.
Unless they went to see The Killing Fields
Elsewhere in the article the points are made (correctly, if too much in passing) that The Killing Fields, #1 didn't show the actual attrocities committed by the communists, and #2 that the movie's spin was to pretty much blame it all on Nixon anyway. IOW the author takes the position (and I agree) that this didn't qualify as an anti-communist movie.
"There was never an organized, articulate, and effective liberal or left-wing opposition to the communists in Hollywood," concluded John CogleyThis begs the question, has there been in modern times an organized, articulate, and effective liberal or left-wing opposition to the communists in the Democrat party?
Katharine Hepburn stumped for the CSU, reading speeches written by Dalton Trumbo, while Ronald Reagan, then a liberal Democrat, headed the anti-communists in the talent guilds.
And she has been lauded quite highly right here on FR this past week.
Perhaps Ann Coulter's book will invigorate a good debate on the Hollywood issue over the next month. I hope so.
It never occurred to me there was anything un-American about forming a labor union. I still don't see that there is. Do you? Equity, SAG, and AGVA are surely sustaining me now, and they were never Communists. Ronald Reagan was president of SAG for years, and you know to him Russia was the Evil Empire, so he wasn't either a Communist...or a card holder...or anything...and we love him. . .
Just Lucky I Guess: A Memoir of Sorts
The following is a resource thread. Go here for many links and more info:
I've read "Hollywood Party" a while back. Everyone should read this as a guide on the tactics the communists used to gain control of the Screen Writers guild and other groups. They were quite ingenious, actually.
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