Posted on 03/29/2002 6:14:27 AM PST by knighthawk
Steyn makes so many good points, it's difficult to zero in on one or two. But, if Hollyweird is as good at "imagineering" as most of us know they are, why the contradiction? Or is the message from Hollyweird directed at the baser instincts of the homeboys and girls, and the offshore reaction is just a byproduct? Confusing to me.
FGS FGS
Reminded me of Babs Streisand when she was recommending how Californias could survive the energy crisis. She suggested that Californias hang their laundry on the line to dry. When aksed if she did that, she said, "oh, this was a suggestion for other people. I didn't say I did this." What a scum.
It has always struck me as odd how people who make $20 million for 3 months work can speak for the little people. And all that outrage about CEOs executive pay - talk about hypocrisy. If they think CEOs should spread their pay, then why don't they take a cut in their pay and allow the screenwriters and cameramen to make more money. Oh yeah, I forgot, it's always about US, not THEM.
Off color comments are not normally my beat, but ya gotta admire a guy who can work breasts into his political commentary.
The script made that movie. Fellowes made the movie because his grasp of the English upper-classes circa 1930 was spot on.
How are people in the other countries to know that our people are wonderful, caring, loving hard workers when all that is depicted is sex, drugs, crime, and overall moral depravity.
Oh, for another man like Walt Disney, or Norman Rockwell to love and understand the heartland of America and depict it in the movies in an entertaining manner. Letting foreigners see what America really is, would help dispel the hate-America agenda.
A lot of Europeans think Americans are only superficial people with no morality. Strangly it is my people who seem to have got no sence of moral, legalizing drugs, prostitution and crime. Here crime pays.
On 9/11 I saw how America really is: a caring and wonderful nation. The people cheering the rescue workers, the flowers, flags and messages displayed everywhere. Instead of killing of all Afghans (like the left media made us believe here) we liberated them and gave them support to build a new nation.
I may never have been to the USA, but in my heart I am proud to be on your side.
I wouldn't blame Hollywood for that. Would you go
to a movie about wonderful, caring, loving hard
workers? Me neither.
Hollywood Twists “Sum of All Fears”
"Neo-Nazis" are now the villains in the film version of Tom Clancy's THE SUM OF ALL FEARS
On Sunday the only unashamedly patriotic sentiment was voiced by Julian Fellowes. Picking up the Best Screenplay Award for Gosford Park, he kept the lists of lawyers' and agents' names to a minimum, thanked the U.S. for being so welcoming to foreigners and ended with the words "God bless America." And so at the post-9/11 Oscars, the one participant who expressed any love of country was a Briton, a Tory and occasional Conservative Party speechwriter.
How did he get past security?:O)
Generally agree. The movies portray us as a bunch of raving lunatics, and the evening newsreaders(amongst others), fan the flames when they're not busy throwing gas on the fire. Strange business.
FGS
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