Posted on 09/12/2018 10:08:10 PM PDT by Kaslin
When Burt Reynolds drove his celestial Trans-Am into the Great Beyond he took a significant chunk of America’s dwindling reserve of testosterone along with him. Unless you grew up in the ‘70s, its hard to understand his influence and impact, and how he reflected what Americans (particularly American men) wanted to be. Flicks like The Longest Yard, Smokey and the Bandit, and the criminally underrated Sharkey’s Machine, all offered us a tough but funny hero who took on the bullies in authority with a smirk, a joke, and when appropriate, a football to the “nether regions.”football to the “nether regions.”
Of course, you couldn’t make any of those movies in 2018. They are all too subversive, and Hollywood – a key component of the elite establishment – isn’t interested in subversion. It’s won. It’s taken power. Now it’s interested in submission.
Your submission.
Forget movies that challenge the status quo by violating our elite’s delicate sensibilities and myriad taboos. Count out Blazing Saddles. It’s perhaps the most powerful attack on the utter stupidity of racism ever put on film, but the snowflakes would melt and besides, as the New York Times demonstrated by hiring bigoted no-talent Sarah Jeong, today’s elite is actively pro-racism.
Forget Dirty Harry. He’s not understanding enough of the criminal’s point of view – which was the same liberal crook-coddling attitude the movie critiques. Also, guns are scary and we should solve our problems with words unless it’s politically useful to, say, conduct a weapons-drawn pre-dawn raid on a white-collar crime suspect associated with a conservative political opponent. Then guns are cool.
Of course, you couldn’t make any of those movies in 2018. They are all too subversive, and Hollywood – a key component of the elite establishment – isn’t interested in subversion. It’s won. It’s taken power. Now it’s interested in submission.
Your submission.
Forget movies that challenge the status quo by violating our elite’s delicate sensibilities and myriad taboos. Count out Blazing Saddles. It’s perhaps the most powerful attack on the utter stupidity of racism ever put on film, but the snowflakes would melt and besides, as the New York Times demonstrated by hiring bigoted no-talent Sarah Jeong, today’s elite is actively pro-racism.
Forget Dirty Harry. He’s not understanding enough of the criminal’s point of view – which was the same liberal crook-coddling attitude the movie critiques. Also, guns are scary and we should solve our problems with words unless it’s politically useful to, say, conduct a weapons-drawn pre-dawn raid on a white-collar crime suspect associated with a conservative political opponent. Then guns are cool.
Of course, you couldn’t make any of those movies in 2018. They are all too subversive, and Hollywood – a key component of the elite establishment – isn’t interested in subversion. It’s won. It’s taken power. Now it’s interested in submission.
Your submission.
Forget movies that challenge the status quo by violating our elite’s delicate sensibilities and myriad taboos. Count out Blazing Saddles. It’s perhaps the most powerful attack on the utter stupidity of racism ever put on film, but the snowflakes would melt and besides, as the New York Times demonstrated by hiring bigoted no-talent Sarah Jeong, today’s elite is actively pro-racism.
Forget Dirty Harry. He’s not understanding enough of the criminal’s point of view – which was the same liberal crook-coddling attitude the movie critiques. Also, guns are scary and we should solve our problems with words unless it’s politically useful to, say, conduct a weapons-drawn pre-dawn raid on a white-collar crime suspect associated with a conservative political opponent. Then guns are cool.
My upcoming book Militant Normals: How Regular Americans Are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy explains this phenomenon in greater and more profane detail (think of my book as my meanest and funniest Townhall column ever, except it’s 288 pages long and full of swears). The left fought a culture war back when we were led by the same spineless Fredocon sissies who are now mad that Trump is showing them up by actually fighting against the left. The left won, because our cruise-shilling betters in conservatism were too weak to throw a punch. Now that the left is in the society’s driver’s seat (excepting, to its limitless fury, the White House and Congress), rebellion is out. Assimilation is in.
What could be less rebellious than a tongue bath ode to the Deep State? There’s a reboot of The FBI coming out, because of course there is. Really. After all, since its leadership has gone all-in on #TheResistance and demonstrated its incompetence and corruption to the world, it has to be rehabilitated. So, you’ll probably not see much sexting, though that appears to be about 75% of what agents do these days. Another 20% is leaking. And what do you think the chances are of a story arc involving evil FBI brass trying to subvert an elected outsider conservative president?
About 0%. But if there was such a plot line, the plotters would be the heroes.
But there’s about a 100% chance that the main villains will be conservative Christian NRA members that the brave agents – played by a gorgeous cast that is carefully curated for maximum diversity – must stop from shooting up a school or a baseball diamond full of congressmen. Because that’s what conservative Christian NRA members do, right? Except conservative Christian NRA members never actually do such things and the FBI never actually stops such crimes, but who cares?
Remember, this is the same Hollywood that is pushing The Handmaid’s Tale, which is Harry Potter oppression fan fic for lonely cat ladies, as a powerful critique of Trump’s America. Have you noticed that literally the only people actually covering their bodies under folds of clothes are the Muslim activists that libs drool over and the idiotic live action role players who show up dressed in red robes to protest dressing in red robes? Like Burt Reynolds and his Normal fans would be down with sexual repression and shapeless clothing. The libs are the ones with the anti-hottie agenda, not us.
Burt’s passing leaves a void that none of the simpering femboys trying to pass as modern movie stars can hope to fill. There’s just no equivalent of that Florida good old boy today, not in terms of masculinity nor in his sense of fun. Who is the star who tells the haters and the snobs to buzz off with a wink and a smile? Today, they are all over social media issuing mea culpas for real and imagined transgressions and seeking pardons for their sins against political correctness. Do you think ‘70s Burt Reynolds would have ever tweeted that he’s learned so, so very much from the swarm of social justice jackals hounding him because he failed to point out that women can have penises too?
Nah.
He’d just put the pedal to the metal and do what he wanted, when he wanted, in the way he wanted. After all, that’s the Militant Normal way, and that’s why we’ll miss him.
Hollywood is crap now because everyone in it thinks the same and therefore everything that comes out of it is the same old crap recycled over and over and over again.
Japan is putting out so much better creative material that I felt it worth it to start learning Japanese in order to enjoy it more fully. The West is a dumpster fire creatively.
Same goes for the music part of the industry. Intro and ending songs to Japanese works are ridiculously superior and more pleasant to listen to than are anything popular these days in the US. I looked up what was popular today in the mainstream market and it’s like a sick joke.
#1 song in the US today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRS_PpOrUZ4
vs an opening soundtrack from a show I like, you don’t need to speak a lick of Japanese to appreciate how much better it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWjadUcPxaU
Japan has left us in the dust culturally. It’s the last bastion of civilization.
Ditch Hollywood and check out what Japan has to offer, even if you have to read subtitles to understand what you’re hearing, it’s worth it!
He also liked women instead of other men so he would have trouble breaking into Hollywood these days.
Hollywood will be back again—once the PC crowd is flushed out and the Liberals are tossed on their ear—and Hollywood gets back in the business of making money for Americans and not the 3rd world.
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Here’s a sample list of three pieces I find to be exceptional. Between the three of them there’s more musical range than in the last two decades of popular Western music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWjadUcPxaU&list=PLCLtex5np-td0ypYCIBmhmQBX3ToeB5UT
It’s SO much more pleasant listening to music like this that I can see it as a realistic outcome that I never listen to a piece of new Western music again. They kept moving the ball forward while we fell into a cultural gutter here.
I honestly was never a great fan of Reynolds - but I agree wholeheartedly with the premise of the article. And there is no denying his essential masculinity and stage presence.
Even back then, the only coup they would put on screen was an attempted coup of a leftist president (Seven Days in May). What is actually happening before our very eyes will never make it to the screen (not as is).
Clark Gable. John Wayne. Ward Bond. Charlton Heston. Robert Mitchum. Lee Marvin. All gone.
What do we get now? Ryan Gosling. Bradley Cooper. Matt Damon. Johnny Depp.
One of the few of his that I really liked. I had nothing against him; he just was not my favorite.
Sidebar:
My friend and I think that the two best opening monologues in SNL history are: William Shatner, and Burt Reynolds.
Shatner: “Get a life!”
Reynolds: “Enough about me. Let’s talk about my movies.”
Japan is not a copy-catter as told of old. It is a culture that appreciates the best: takes what is best and improves it. They value the best of Western Civilization.
It helps that it is one of the few nations that puts invasive and subversive Mohammedanism in its place - to wit, outside of Japan.
I noticed about fifteen years ago that Hollywood basically does not do genuine theme music anymore for television shows. They all have minimalistic motives that anyone could do with a smattering of equipment and knowledge.
The first show I recall lacking a real theme was Supernatural. Soon all followed suit. I assume much of it is to allow more time for sponsors, but I think it also stems from the lack of general artistry now extant.
Same goes for the writing! A few years ago I was visiting someone and ended up watching a popular TV show for the first time in about 20 years - dating back when I threw TV out of my life for good.
Predicted every single outcome with 100% accuracy. Zero surprise on any reveal. It’s like the idea of subversion was hunted down and exterminated with prejudice.
The arts sector, tending as far left as it does, is essentially a Stalinist thought gulag. There’s no room to create anything new and original without getting persecuted for it, so all they can do is more of the same over and over ad nauseam.
It was like a new dawn the day I discovered Japan did NOT go down the superhighway to craptasticness with us.
Burt Reynolds movies were never great movies and great men never aspired to be Burt Reynolds.
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I haven’t watched any movies recently, but I do enjoy the old Home Improvement TV show. The newer stuff, I like Life Below Zero, The Last Alaskans, and stuff about being off the grid. The rest of it I can’t get through the first 10 minutes.
Thanks for letting me know that I don't want to request your book from the library, Kurt. At least you didn't lose a sale.
Burt Reynolds movies were fun, entertaining movies and most women aspired to bed his fine ass.
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