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I think given this horrible disaster, one of the worst in human history, that her choice of metaphor is not the best.
Most great movies can't be reduced to 'liberal' or 'conservative' labels. 'The Incredibles' appeared on lots of 'Best of Year' lists of lots of liberal critics.
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Hollywood is more politics than art or business.
This may have been a mistake. The only people who are influenced by the Christian counterculture, are those who are already persuaded Christians. Also, being isolated from the larger competitive environment seems to have allowed a distinct *lack of quality* to persist in the Christian music industry for many years, though this has at last begun to change.
On the other hand, perhaps in the beginning, the Christians could not get their foot in the door no matter how good they were, and had no choice but to create a parallel system until they got big enough (and good enough) to start crossing over. Maybe an industry insider on this board can answer this question?
Hollywood is part of the larger picture of the undermining of the Constitutional Republic in their assistance to the National Socialist Democrats, The Homosexual Movement and Mainstream Media to massage us into the feminzation of the American Male and assist us down the path toward Socialism!
The election of 2000 and the Election of George W. Bush smashed their schedule, threw them all into a tizzy!! They were on a roll, remember?!! Then 9/11 happened and exposed their treachery! I've always believed that things happen for a reason. 9/11 happened for a reason also. Those people did not die in vain! They opened our eyes to what was really going on in this country and the unholy path we were being led down by the Socialist and their supporters.
We cannot turn our backs now, we have seen what is going on and we have reelected a President that, for the most part has done an EXCELLENT job. I'm sure that we all have our points of difference with his policies, but we did not elect a TRAITOR!!
It's time now to step up and take back our schools and reverse the Socialist, Homosexual and MSM movement. I sure it's already been suggested to boycott the companies that advertise on the MSM, but I think that it must be done and we must skip over the MSM channels and do them in. They will not report on the War in Iraq fairly and give us the whole picture. They have even committed FRAUD right in front of our eyes. They have no shame!
This is a great article.
I've been saying for years that Conservatives CANNOT let Hollywood go. If we didn't have the alternative media, Dubya would not have won this last election.
Think about how much traction conservatism will be once we have a dozen "Passions" and "Michael Moore Hates America." Our movement will be unstoppable.
Incorrect, the huge taboo remaining to be broken is political correctness.
How about a real adaptation of Starship Troopers? or a Historical military epic about the defense of Europe against the Islamic tide of the middle ages.
No, I think the die hard liberal will never change. It's like a religon to them. Some in Hollywood may change a little when it's the only way they can make money. By the way, strange name "pissant"? I'm an exterminator but I won't hold your name against you.
Movies that have a conservative or traditional bent ususally do so in a more secondary, or even unintended manner; whereas many movies have overt, intentional liberal messages. I don't expect that to change very much.
There is of course The Passion of the Christ, but it not a politically conservative movie. Movies like Braveheart, Forrest Gump, The Incredibles, and Lord of the Rings all can be considered to have very strong conservative/traditional themes and messages, but they don't preach and they are not in-your-face. And some of the filmmakers would probably be horrified to learn that conservatives celebrate them.
Movies like The Contender, The American President, etc and television shows like West Wing all have distinct political messages that they ram down the viewer's throat. Then you'll have shows like Law & Order do an episode where the writers obviously decided to take liberal plank, and contruct a story around it, as they recently did with gay marriage.
Then of course you have leftwing versions of movies like Braveheart or Lord of the Rings that have more subtle liberal messages.
Then there is a third manner in which Hollywood puts forth liberal messages: through out-of-the-blue asides uttered by characters that have nothing to do with the story. Law & Order does this quite often too. As does CSI; I remember an exchange on one episode where a gun was found in a family's yard. The homeowner was asked if they owned any guns. Instead of having the character simply say a politically neutral "no", the writers had to have them say the more politically tinged, "no, we don't believe in guns", as if they are a religion or something. The difference is obvious, and no doubt intentional. Now it is true that over the yrs Law & Order has had conservative characters who have gotten their share of soundbites, but generally speaking they are given weaker lines and less of them.
My point is that I expect the situation to follow: Conservatives messages will be secondary and even accidental in all but the rarest exceptions, while liberal messages will continue to be put forth in all manners -- as the main point, secondarily, and injected as pointless and cheap one-liners.
All that is ever lacking are the people willing to put their money where their mind is. There is right-wing talent out there, and good stories to tell, but not the type of financing to get the scripts into production, completion and then distribution.
If I had a buck for every complaint I hear about left-wing media bias, there would be 100 movies a year pushing our viewpoint.
Maggie makes a good point about the missing movies and books about the thousand of heroes in Iraq right now, and their loved ones here in the States, and the true drama they are living. God bless our troupes, they have taken the battle to Iraq instead of fighting on the streets of New York or your town.
Marry Christmas and Happy New Year.
From Hollywood's Golden Age up until the 1970's Hollywood was actually a fairly conservative place. It wasn't until they all decided to become artsy-fartsy types in the mid and late Seventies that Hollywood's heavywieghts became banal and boring. But I do believe that the conservatives' day is coming again as once-rebellious baby boomers enter their retirement years. This will be a huge potential audience with money to spend as they try to reconnect with their childhood values.
Money talks....when it really hits them there pocket books...the liberal hollyweirdo loons will have NO choice!!! Change is a comein' I can smell it in the air. ;o)
Atheism is a vacuum. It will be filled.
The choice is not Christianity or secularism. The choice is Christianity or Islam.
Maggie Gallagher is *clueless.* Hollywood has been cranking out conservative movies for years ... in the science fiction and horror genres. But to Gallagher, those wouldn't be "conservative" movies, because they're not "nice," not "family-oriented," and "not Christian."
The fact that she has the gall to use "tsunami" in her article, made me not want to read it. Trying to get readers based on "buzz words". Disgusting.
Disney — yes, Disney — is a co-sponsor at CPAC this year.