CPAC 2011: ‘Getting Started in Hollywood’ Panel
by John NolteOne person who not only understands the importance of popular culture in our society but who is also doing something about it is Kevin McKeever, Chairman and CEO of Bank of Kev Productions, an industry veteran who sponsored a CPAC 2011 event titled “Getting Started in Hollywood.” Kevin was gracious enough ask me to join him, our own Larry O’Connor and Lisa Mei Norton of Big Dawg Music Mafia for a CPAC panel today, a two-hour question and answer session in a room packed with conservatives of all stripes ready and willing to enter the business of show and looking for advice and guidance.
I’m not sure how much I was able to help but I was sure impressed by the questions and the people asking them. No bitterness, no complaining, no excuse-making. They weren’t there to hear how bad it is for conservatives in the entertainment business or to make excuses for why they haven’t sold a script yet. They were there as conservative actors, writers, filmmakers and musicians for advice on how to succeed and move forward in a very tough business. Between O’Connor’s good humor and experience in theatre and McKeever’s production background, the main message was pretty clear: be an artist first, learn your craft, make contacts and keep your politics to yourself. Be a sleeper agent of sorts. After you’ve made a career for yourself, then go ahead and create that personal projects that reflect your worldview.
Out of all of us, though, Lisa Mei Norton of Big Dawg Music Mafia is probably the most important example for conservatives eager to enter the arts. Rather than wait around for Hollywood to have some kind of moral awakening to their ideological totalitarianism, she went ahead and started her own company to give conservative musicians an outlet to publicize their work. That’s what I like to see, a self-starting workaround that defines who and what conservatism is all about. Please visit her site and if you’re a musician looking for support, you might want to reach out.
A number of panel attendees already have completed projects they’re looking to publicize and promote, one included a completed documentary called “Fear of a Black Republican” that can’t get any festival love (I wonder why?). I invited one and all to use Big Hollywood, to come on board as contributors in order to promote and write about and introduce their projects to our community. Hopefully, you’ll be meeting these incredibly driven and impressive self-starters soon.
Again my thanks to Kevin and Bank of Kev for asking me aboard, but a special salute to that room full of inspiring artists who attended. It’s one thing to complain about how conservatives don’t “get” the importance of popular culture, it’s quite another to willingly step into that arena.
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This is good news indeed. It has been a long time coming. Thank you John for giving these people the light of day and a place to land. I look forward to hearing from them.
"Fear of a Black Republican"? I love it! Look forward to hearing from these guys soon.
"Fear of a black republican" sounds like a movie a lot of us will be interested in. I hope Mr. Breitbart and BigHollywood will keep us abreast on its release or video availability in the future.
John; if possible, maybe you could shoot a link to a video our way? It would be interesting to see.
What happened to all the kind of writers in Hollywood that used to produce scripts for Jimmy Stewart movies, and the John Huston and John Wayne movies? Where good and bad were clearly defined and good was better?
Nowadays there is nothing but anti-heroes and the good guys are the ones robbing casinos and even Batman is ambiguously conflicted.
This is the kind of news that this site needs more of.
Over the past 10-20 years, Hollyweird has become so radicalized and anti-Republican/conservative it seems there is no voice to represent us, save for a brave soul like John Voight. Though he hasn't been in any movies recently. I wonder why…
God bless all of these brave souls who will weather the storm against what seems to be a juggernaut of groupthink/collectivist liberalism. Best of luck to all those conservatives who aspire to achieve in the arts as they have to button their lips as they climb the ladder of success, and a shout out to all the right-wingers who lay silent for fear of persecution by intolerant, totalitarian leftists. Hang in there, and one day you will be vindicated as the right gains a foothold in due time.
Well, as we all know, you can make your own films. And I recommend doing it, however bad or good. Create a youtube channel… FREE, start making shorts or animations or whatever. If you get enough followers, there could be product. Spread the conservative word.
Working in the industry is a bad ideal… I'm one connection away from the Weinsteins, ILM, Dreamworks, Digital Domain and other production companies… but all of them will chew you up and, if you're not 'one of them', spit you out. I've seen my buddies go that way, in the end, they all want to do what I'm doing. I'm still struggling but enjoying it, and still got broad shoulders and a youthful crop of hair.
Podcasting is an area where someone could make inroads. Animated shorts that are funny with a conservative message.
Here's what I find interesting… between the story yesterday about the e-book self-publisher and then Big Dawg Music Mafia, or the church that created Fireproof (just among the recent examples), you cannot convince me any more that there is no way to get the message of conservative fans out.
You-tube, self-publication, Right-Network… yes, you've got a harder hill to climb, but you cannot tell me "it can't be done". Will you ever get as big as the "major movie houses"? Who knows.. but you're never going to know if you don't try.
Batman's bothered by the toll his war against crime takes on his personal life, but he's not conflicted about 'what is good' and 'what is evil'.
[quote]Be a sleeper agent of sorts. After you’ve made a career for yourself, then go ahead and create that personal projects that reflect your worldview.[quote]
This will sound like a harsh criticism, but I don't mean it that way. I mean it as an observation to highlight a thought-provoking way look at this:
When I read the quote, I thought, "And the best idea Stowe had in Uncle Tom'
s Cabin was to ship slaves back to Africa to start their own democracy that would – eventually – earn the respect of (racist/bigoted) Americans and bring us all together."
I had to check my memory of the novel before posting this and found a reminder to quote:
[quote]The emigration of George and Eliza is a strange ending to a novel that tries to rethink race relations within America. After all, George is educated, and he and Eliza have built a hard-working, principled family that seems just like any other good solid American family. Yet Stowe sends George to Liberia to succeed in a different country.[quote]
I remember when I read the novel way-back-when, I was surprised at such a "weak" ending. It seemed rather cowardly to me. Then, I reminded myself – I'm not even from the Civil Rights Era – I came of age in the 80s. A very different time than my parents….(We're from Georgia).
Meaning – I wasn't alive in Stowe's time. Her ending in the novel might have made a lot of sense if I were. It might have been the best idea I could have come up with for slavery and racial animosity too…
Meaning – I'm not in Hollywood. I'm not a starving artist who hopes – maybe – just to not be starving – let alone get famous…
But….just keeping your mouth shut and biding time —- might be good for career prospects and hopes —- but it will do nothing to create change. Nothing.
If 100% of the people had taken that advice during slavery or the Civil Rights Era, we'd never have had a Civil Rights Era and slavery might not have ended before the start of the 20th Century….
I'll do my part. Anyone reading this who's working on a script or a book or a story about computers and/or networking (I/T), I'm offering free advice on how it actually works.
When it comes to themes about computers, for those of us in the industry, it's important the author at least make an attempt to be realistic when ever possible.
Yah I think folks should just speak out… whenever… at parties, on blogs, just sacrifice oneself and speak out!
I'm not too sure I want conservatism to become a "trend" in hollywood. In the land of trends, the beautiful people are willing to call themselves anything to sweeten up their charactor in the tabloids. Pretty soon we'll have the "conservative" Paris Hilton doing near nude pictures with her sister in daddy's limosine, "conservative" Britney Spears getting out of car after a night of partying in a short skirt and no tonies, "conservative" Lidnsey Lohan in and out of recovery, and stealing necklesses, "conservative" Meg McCain going on liberal talk shows telling conservatives what they're doing wrong…
I really like the Idea suggested about the anonymity thing. Wait until the country is looking up to you as someone with their head screwed on straight- then start your projects and make our majority conservative country proud.
After you've made a career for yourself, then go ahead and create projects that reflect your world view.
http://www.strikeaccord.com/mission.html
Read bio, development/in production/non profit.
Another little bit of lost irony on this site: why are so many people who are, I assume (at my own risk, I'm aware), free market proponents upset that the market for motion pictures has demanded films that don't fit their points of view? In other words, if people wanted more movies that displayed "conservative values", then there'd be more movies that displayed "conservative values".
Hey that's some good stuff. That Keith Green story, wow. Wow.
I think we should just speak out. And as some noted leader said, punch back twice as hard? I think being quiet and sullen, working up the ladder… is just gonna kill one's soul. And the actual chance of self success is less than 1% of 1% in this biz.
When they say, don't speak politics… what they really mean, is for all opposing views to shut up, as they keep speaking their politics. And everyone gets groupthink… liberal commie atheist groupthink.
I say… speak out… more and more… take them to task at water coolers, at the catering tables, waiting around on set, between takes… at the wrap parties…take them to task. And if you get fired or out… find out why… cause a row… make'em think! And those who are reasoning thinking folks will realize. REALIZE. And won't just tow the liberal line.
Well the whole purpose of this site, is the claim that the fix is in. That Hollywood is picking and choosing films based on the liberal ideology and not the box office. Based on the amount of failed liberal films (anti-war, anti-republican, anti-capitalist, anti-christian) why do they keep pumping them out, while only a few gems of conservative films come out, that seem to do well?
And many within the industry are making the same claim. Like, you could walk around the set with a CNN or MSNBC t-shirt… but try wearing a Fox News t-shirt… Hmmmm???
What's an example of a "conservative film" or one that did well? What are some "liberal films" that have done poorly? And are you suggesting that it's possible for the fix to be in against a group of people who are, for whatever reason, disliked by the powers that be? That somehow, despite their best efforts, they can't get a break, that they're not lazy, shiftless, or "no good at" what they're trying to do, but a heartless system keeps them from succeeding?
Here's an interesting interview with a 16 year veteran of CPAC, a Muslim Republican named Suhail Khan on the board of the American Conservative Union, which organizes the conference.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHb2eMBLuNY&fe...
best sound byte:
"What you're seeing is a fringe who are making a lot of noise, disproportionate to their numbers who are trying to bring in a message of disunity and of hate," Khan said. "It's my firm belief that the majority of conservatives, and indeed the majority of Americans, will stand against that."
Well we have been discussing this a ton here on Bighollywood. The whole point of this site, methinks.
Conservative films: Passion of the Christ, Blindside, Batmans, Transformers…
Liberal fims: That Redford anti-war film lions for lambs, Matt Damon's Green Zone, that MTV boy goes to war flick, Kids are Alright, Sean Pean's Valerie Plame movie, most action films (having Western style, christianish villians)… redacted, in the valley of elah, home of the brave, the kingdom, 3 kings, etc…
Are there any proud Middle Eastern war films? Showing troops doing good work?
The Kingdom was pretty good, not perfect, but it showed the lowness of the jihadi and what they will do for their god.
A number of these liberal films did reasonably well. What makes "The Blind Side" a conservative film?
I say burn the whole thing down, bulldoze the ashes into the ocean and start over. But that's just me.
Well we think they did terrible. They lost money. Folks didn't want to see them.
The Blind Side is a Christian, white private christian school, football, hardwork, self responsibility, family, capitalism, very critical of the govt welfare system that destroyed the black community.
Your thinking they did terribly doesn't mean they actually did terribly. "Green Zone" made nearly $100 million gross, "Kids Are Alright" made only $25 mil but with a budget of $4 mil, it seems like a winner (plus several award noms.) "Three Kings" made over $100 mil, "The Kingdom" nearly $90 mil. So not too bad. Plus, I'm not sure how football, hard work, family, self responsibility, Christianity, and criticizing the government are exclusively, or even particularly, conservative. I know many, many football-playing, hard-working, responsible, Christian, family-loving liberals.
There are two huge problems with the "sleeper agent" strategy. First, even if it works, it would take ten to twenty years to bear fruit. Surely, this is an approach that any Hollywood lefty would love.
Second, once someone has invested ten to twenty years in painstakingly building a career, making sacrifices, and developing contacts, who can blame them if they choose not to risk everything they have by "outing" themselves as a conservative? It's far more likely they will rationally choose to continue to benefit from whatever success they have earned – they'll say it's "for my kids" that they must remain silent.
If we're serious about taking back the culture, the time is now. Develop and produce pro-American films that support the value of liberty – do it now! As I've been saying – the only truly difficult part is the writing.
Green Zone cost $100 million… it did not make that. It made maybe $40mil… and generally with advertising, you add $20mil or so, for bigger campaigns… Kids… made 20mil, budget is maybe 4mil… Three Kings, I'm mistaken, sort of, since its before 2001…so I dunno… Kingdom was a good film but had a sucker punch. So … eennnngg… those other films, BOMBED.
I'm going to be a bit hard here, but you can't love family, if you think redefining it is okey dokey. You can't believe in hard-work if you believe the Govt should tenure or unionize your job. You can't be Christian if you pick and choose the beliefs in one's advocating it, or 'personalizing it'. You can't come off reading the Bible and think, abortions are fine and dandy.
Anyway, those are the social conservative hard line views of it… and granted there's plenty of debate even amongst conservatives. But Blindside… the family is REPUBLICAN.
If the market were driving the mogel's and star's choice in projects, as the comment suggests, we've have nothing but wall-to-wall porn….
"Amazing Grace" where a man stands up to the British government to end slavery in Britain, is another great conservative movie.
While it can be risky, more movies are made by a consortium of investors from all over the country who are willing to back films. Conservatives need to develop these networks to help better films get made. How about a "sundance" for freedom and family oriented movies?
I know some people in the industry who are conservative, but to be honest, it is better for them to keep their political views on the down-low and find other avenues to bring free market, free minds ideas to the public. Why do I say that? Because I know even more LIberals in the industry, and when they find out someone is conservative, they literally HATE that person with a fiery passion. It's over, they are cut off, despised and blacklisted. You should hear how they talk about people who don't live in LA or New York–even if they aren't conservatives…
Check boxoffice mojo: "Green Zone" made nearly $100 mil worldwide. And you'd agree that there are dozens of 'liberal' films that have made many hundreds of millions, yes? Easy to cherry pick a few that didn't. Family is how and where you make it. Do you not know anybody who found themselves in a "real family" (biological mom and dad and sibs) whose life was made miserable by the poor choices their parents made?I don't at all accept that a union job means you don't work hard. I don't at all accept that a tenured job means you don't work hard. I don't at all accept that only liberals pick and choose elements of Christianity and that conservatives adhere to it strictly (in fact, as a Catholic and a teacher in a Catholic school, I see egregiously unchristian behavior from some of the loudest drum-beaters of "Christianity" out there. And are you suggesting that Jews, Muslims, Hindus, etc. can't be conservative? As for the party affiliation of the family in "The Blind Side", I'm not sure that equates to the film being explicitly conservative. Do you have to be conservative to be Republican, or a Republican to be a conservative? I know many conservatives who find the Republican party abhorrent, and many Republicans who describe themselves as centrists. I don't think it helps move political discourse forward if each side demonizes the other, if they claim the other side is anti-family, lazy, unpatriotic, or godless.
Touche.
I have long been on record — on Big Hollywood and throughout the web — as wanting to see a motion picture based on the experience of Charles Robert Jenkins, a frightened U.S. Army sergeant who crossed the DMZ and defected to North Korea in 1965 in hopes of being sent home after briefly being held. He ended up being beaten, tortured, and imprisoned by the NorKoms for 40 years, and was forced into making anti-American propaganda films for dictator Kim Song Il. He also was forced into a marriage with a Japanese woman kidnapped by the NorKoms off the streets of Japan (per NK policy). Forced together, they grew to love each other.
Jenkins' story is told in his book "The Reluctant Communist," and now is being made by producer Brett Ratner. Ratner has presided over inspiring pro-soldier films, but he's also one of the apologists for Roman Polanski. I'm on pins & needles as to how he might approach the story, and wondering if there is a bonafide Hollywood actor (who presumably will be young, and aged in the film over the decades ) is brave enough to play Jenkins.
"A frightened US Army sergeant?"
I can tell you right now how this "Reluctant Communist" movie is going to play out: The US military, you see, is a brutal and dehumanizing institution that forced this poor soul to commit a desperate act. Once isolated from the dark influences of capitalism and imperialism, he was finally able to reach his inner human being and open his heart to true love. Oh, sure, NK has flaws, but let's face it, what could be worse than being a soldier for imperialism?
It wasn’t his fault, not really. It was the system . . . the antediluvian American system of greed, lust, violence, exploitation and genocide.
Got that?
In a conservative movie, the Army sergeant is not frightened. America's enemies are FRIGHTENED OF THE SARGEANT.
Newsflash you ignorant clod: Hollywood is NOT a free market. Tinseltown, in its current state, is the result of political connections and busines practices that, if committed by anybody else, would result in extensive jail time jail time. Anyone who knows any of the producers and isn't also on their payrol wil tell you they are THEIVES. The motion picture industry is a MONOPOLY that have SABOTAGED, often through violence and vandalism, independent efforts to crack the system.
Yeah. That was so… sigh. Lame.
Though I suppose a person could look at it as a reverse-sucker-punch. Sugar to make the medicine go down for those who might be too upset that it showed Muslims as the bad guys.
Okay, so I'm really stretching it.
The movie already had heroes who were locals so the equivalency at the end was gratuitous. Still, in the end, it didn't bother me as a sucker punch as much as it bothered me as vapid.
Good point about "free market."
People think that "free market" means anything that the government isn't controlling, but if the control and dominance is coming from businesses where is the "free?"
I think that technology is opening up the market and the market is becoming more free… There is more competition between Hollywood and other movie powerhouses in other countries and we're starting to see more of those films released in the US, and there is more opportunity for smaller productions within the US to make a professional product. Distribution is a problem, certainly. There is a long way to go.
It's a true story, so I would hope not.
I have no idea why Hollywood hasn't done something with North Korea – beyond a couple of action movies that didn't really cover the nation.
Team America is actually the best to have done something with the reality, and that was an outlandish comedy!!
Just go look at some of the documentaries that have been made. You would think they couldn't possibly be true.
Or read Reluctant Communist or Aquariums of Pyongyang. Or visit sites like One Free Korea.
The level of brutality and isolation – the sheer bizarreness of the nation — it is truly stranger than fiction, and it should make for very compelling cinema. Lots of stories. The concentration camps. Refugees living desperate lives in China only to be sent back to torture and death camps. Chemical and biological experiments. Refugees who made it from an anti-utopia to a model of progress in South Korea. The underground railroad that got the North Koreans to the South much like slaves did in the US pre-Civil War.
In North Korea, we have the worst of Stalin and close to the worst of Nazi Germany occurring year-after-year.
And Hollywood does nothing with it.
We all (liberals and non-liberals alike) like to believe "we would have done different" if we had been around for the Pol Pots and Stalins and Hitlers….
A good, conservative movie on Jenkins would be a bi- or tri-opic movie looking at three parallel lives: Jenkins, the soft-headed southern boy who made a mammothly bad decision for idiotic reasons – and suffered an unimaginable life OUTSIDE of North Korea's concentration camps. He was actually somewhat "privileged" life in the North in the 1990s compared to the 3,000,000 who starved to death.
The other would be the story of the Aquariums of Pyongyang author – whose entrepreneurial family in Japan followed their communist leanings to move to North Korea only to be put in concentration camps because they knew about the outside world and couldn't be trusted by the state. The boy spent 9 years before being released and then went through the modern-day underground railroad to reach the capitalist South.
The third would be a North Korean refugee who made it to the South earlier – in the 90s, or 80s or 70s, and spent those years the other two were in the North adjusting to freedom and capitalism and knowledge about the modern world while building a profitable small business in the South…….There are enough such stories like that in Seoul for Hollywood to locate….
To do it right, I'd make two films to do it or a trilogy. Jenkins and the Aquariums author's stories are so bizarre and impressive, they deserve movies of their own — but I'd love to see the one described first….
It may be based on actual events, but filmmakers often take extreme liberties with true stories and present reality colored by their own "interpretation."
It does sound like an interesting story, but my gut feeling is that it will be full of what John would call sucker punches. I imagine some sort of Cold War Dances With Wolves. I think a pro-American filmmaker would have chosen a different story to pursue.
Interesting ideas, but convincing investors that the movie has solid commercial potential would be an extremely tough sell. Decades ago, there was a solid market for richly produced, intricate historical and geographical adventures. With today's jaded audiences, not so much. For history and culture buffs, there are hundreds of CGI-packed cable channels offering everything they can dream.
As long as the story takes places mainly with "physical" action rather than "mental" action, there is hope it can be made into an excellent film. But for the sort of budget it would require, it would be tough. By the time it got through the fifth re-write and the third director, there would be plenty of added sucker punches.
I think one problem for a left-leaning Hollywood is fear of pushing the US government to get more involved in toppling another government.
The only time I've heard people like them on the left mention North Korea was in the build-up to Iraq War II — They kept saying, "If we're toppling a regime cause of WMDs and oppression, then we should go after NK first…" — Which means they have some awareness of what goes on with the North…
There are dilemmas for the post-Kennedy liberals: They don't believe in American exceptionalism, of the positive variety, like JFK. They also rail against the use of the CIA or more overt talk of things like "regime change" through military or economic or other means.
But — they also want to feel good by championing the weak and oppressed.
So, they pick places like Tibet and Darfur and feel self-righteous about things like Rwanda and Cambodia under Pol Pot —— Places and events where they knew the US government would not become heavily involved.
But when it comes to something like NK (or even Egypt) – where the US has national interests — they become not so concerned about democracy and freedom and ending tyranny and prevent genoicide. (And although North Koreans are killing North Koreans, it is on the genocide scale.)
Question, you less than gracious poster: do you think other industries, say banking, insurance, or telecommunications for example, actually aren't controlled by political connections and shady business practices that should land people in prison? You're kidding yourself if you think not. Those industries are every bit the monopolies you say the film industry is, and their crimes do significantly more damage.
North Korea is a Schindler's List that continues to unfold under our very eyes – day after day.
In the hands of a good director, it could be a blockbuster. It has everything – action, thriller, sex, violence, psychologically intense, love, heart, inspiration….
The things the author of Aquariums saw inside the concentration camps make for compelling footage. Some of the camps are the size of small US cities. The stuff that goes on their unimaginable.
It is the unimaginable nature of this true story that would hook contemporary audiences.
Stuff like, in Jenkins' case, he and the 3 other American defectors being given North Korean women to have sex with — women who were supposed to be infertile. Jenkins couldn't get along with his, but she was an entrepenuer in the NK black markets – since capitalism is banned. And she turned the kind of small scale crafts the Americans could do into cash that gave the trapped US soldiers basic items we take for granted but were luxuries (like food) in North Korea.
Then, one of the women gets pregnant, and they are removed immediately — can't taint the Korean blood. (This would parallel with the Aquariums story where Koreans returned from hiding out in Manchuria after being caught who are found to be pregnant (possibly by a Chinese) have their children smothered by putting a plastic bag over their heads and leaving them to die in a room. This is a common story defectors tell…)
Then, the North Korean government still feels that keeping their American defectors happy (and laid) is important, so, they give them — foreign women. Jenkins gets a Japanese woman abducted from Japan in order to have someone teach Japanese language and customs to North Korean agents.
The Jenkins' love story itself should be sell-able.
Put it together with the parallel bio stories in the concentration camps and making it in South Korean capitalism and freedom as a refugee from North Korea (a demented Disneyland), and you have an epic tell that would be very compelling to critics and audiences.
Everything is there. Anytime you find real life more bizarre than our imaginations can contemplate, you have material for a good movie…
Yeah. Now that you mention it, pretty much everything goes to sh!t once lefties are put in charge.
Go f*ck yourself you retarded troll.
I think as consumers of media we conservatives should work harder at supporting those who are working outside the usual modes of delivery for entertainment and information. There are lots of books, magazines, indie productions we should be buying for ourselves and as gifts.
Is there a sequel called "Fear of a Republican Woman?" I think Michelle Bachman and/or Sarah Palin would serve as pretty good consultants. They might get Anne Coulter to write the screen play.
This is your response? A vulgar insult and a partisan generalization that has at its foundation a complete disregard for the legislative agenda and corporate irresponsibility of the past decade? And you wonder why it's hard for anyone of sense to take most of you seriously. When you can actually start responding to a topic with intelligence, courtesy, and facts, then the two "opposing sides" in these matters might actually be able to fix the things that need fixing. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you'll never be part of the solution. Best wishes.
I think the key word here is "writers". Look at the credits for any modern movie and most of them were "written" by the producer, director, gaffer, etc. Rarely is a film written by someone (a screenwriter) who's ONLY JOB is writing scripts. Furthermore, there are thousands of great novels out there (Klavan has a couple) that would make great movies, but rarely does Hollywood option these books, hire a REAL scriptwriter to turn novel into screenplay and put out a "Giant" or "Not as a Stranger" or "Gone With the Wind". Instead we get political propaganda like "Avatar" or "Valley of Elah". What makes matters worse is then the Academy honors these crapola films by nominating them for Oscars, excluding those actors, films and documentaries ("Secretariat", Mark Wahlberg in "The Fighter", "Waiting for Superman") that don't fit the Leftist party line.
And then they wonder why half of us don't go to movies anymore.
They probably should do what the Lefties did — lay low, keep their real politics to themselves and slowly and incrementally take over. That's what Ho'wood (and the Lefties did.) The reason Hollywood can't get over the McCarthy Era was they were outed before they (or the country) was ready for Reds in the movies or in the government and their slow, steady progress hit a snag. But they recovered and now Leftism is the predominant policy in HO'wood and in Democratic Politics. But they won't forget so continue to demonize "McCarthyism".
To Hollywood's credit, they weathered the storm of being outed too soon, and like the German U-boat captain in "The Enemy Below", stubbornly returned to course. Thankfully (for them), the Left also had co-opted the media, so within a decade, Hollywood was back making Leftist propaganda. Nowadays a film that doesn't have a leftist message can't easily be made and if it does ("Waiting for Superman") never gets honored, actors who don't toe the party line have trouble getting work. Heard from Jim Caviazel lately?
How different is that from how it was in the old USSR? Artists produced what The Party said. Those who didn't found themselves on the wrong side of the grass or in the Gulag. American Boslhies are move forgiving; they just don't let them work.
On the contrary, this community is made up of people who admire cinematic art and who want to support good films, good acting, casting and writing. We're just PO'd because it isn't out there. What we're getting is political propaganda, "the sucker punch" as Nolte calls it, films (also Nolte) filled with "The Liberal Tell", films that have no desire to entertain nor even educate but rather to brainwash. We want a return to the old days of film making, when you had an Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly not blonde clones (Aniston, Parker, all the others) who can't act their way out of a wet paper bag (Helen Mirran, Amy Adams and a few others excepted). We want actors like Marlon Brando (a roaring liberal), Montgomery Clift (a homosexual), Rock Hudson (ibid), John Wayne — all of whom totally commanded the screen and became the character whether straight or gay, not Tobey and Elijah and Jake — who are interchangeable. We don't want Matt Dammon cast as a macho CIA spy because we know he's going to eventually slip in some opinion that the USA sucks and is the cause of all the world's problems or George C. Looney acting cutesy because he is cutesy. Let him pose for GQ instead. They have a political agenda, too.
We want movies with scripts that have a beginning, middle and end, not some loony political propaganda piece ("Valley of Elijah") to educate us how we're supposed to view a Republican President or puff pieces like ("An American President") when a Lefty is in the WH. Leave that to the historians and professors who are perfectly capable of coloring facts with political opinion.
We want actors to act and politicians to politic. We don't want beautiful people with the IQ of a pet rock trying to instruct us on foreign policy (Gere) or domestic policy (all the rest). We could do less with the hypocrisy of a Barbra Streisand telling Joe Sixpack he needs to share his meager salary for the good of the country while she buys tulips for her manse that cost more than Joe earns in a month. If he earns anything. Since we bought into the propaganda Hollywood spits out, we've elected a "change artist" as president and now ten percent of our workers are unemployed. And don't try to sell me on the economy he "inherited". Anyone with the IQ of a pet rock knows he's made it worse.
Like I said, Jon Voight isn't getting work lately, I wonder why. Indeed, conservatives in H'wood will have to be careful about what they say and do. Then, as time goes on they slowly but steadily gain power and influence like the left did. The Left hates talk radio and Fox News because it reaches a wide audience, allows conservatives to be heard to challenge liberal orthodoxy, and above all, they hate it because THEY CAN'T CONTROL IT. Leftists hate any medium that has a big audience they can't control. Too bad. That being said, I see a glimmer of hope in movies like "The Blind Side" that portrays a white Republican wife and mother who adopts a black youth as her own without mocking, demonizing or belittling her. Hopefully, we'll see more movies like this.
You aren't too bright are you? Very childish in fact. If you had actually read the bible, you'd know that it does not ever mention abortion. At all. There are babies cut from their mothers bodies and dashed upon rocks but god does not condemn this.
If you eat shellfish or do not preach against others eating shellfish, or wearing clothes made of two fibres mixed, or you cut your hair, that makes YOU someone that picks and chooses their rules from convenience in the bible. It is quite clear you haven't read the book, yet feel you have the right to put down other people with different views on religion. Accepting families with gay parents is, according to
the disgusting drivel you post here, akin to hating families. That liberals are lazy in your mind indicates very simple thinking on your part where things are black and white and you are everything good and everyone else is everything bad.
You, hollywoodron, are a hateful simpleton. Please be aware of that and stop humiliating yourself and misrepresenting the bible and faith. Thanks.
I have no intention of being being part of your (final) "solution" you nazi troll. ALL of the faults in government and business alike can be laid at the feet of prog twats like yourself.
Drop dead, c0cksucker.
Therapy. Seriously. You are wrong in the head.
I'm not the one trolling and mooching off the taxpayers. You're the one whose sick in the head, you stupid POS.
Exactly how am I mooching off taxpayers?
I think we should just make really good movies that make a boatload of money. Movies that appeal to the other half of America who prefer clean, uplifting entertainment.
Does anyone know where funding for conservative projects is available?
The film I'm producing has a rockin' fun script and we already have distribution (national and international) I just need funds.
It's a family friendly Rom-Com about a young married couple working out their issues while on a Jeeping trip in Moab, Utah. It has a strong Big Fat Greek Wedding vibe, but with Jeepness instead of Greekness. http://www.LifeOffRoad-theMovie.com
You're a goon of the hive and therefore, a parasite. Now do the world a favor and please die.
Man, I have to assume that you suffer from constant chest pain with all that hate inside of you. Dig deep into your Christian values and see if you can't find a little love. Of which hive do you speak? As I understand it, members of a hive are in no way moochers; they are in fact all morning-till-night, birth-till-death workers. What is you do that makes the honest work of others seem like mooching?
Damn right I hate you. And when i say hive I mean that you lefties are mindless insects who want to be queen over people who actually work. Now fvck off, you bastard
Hate me? You don't even know me, or anything about me. All I've done is ask questions, require evidence, and challenge assumptions. What about being held accountable do you hate? Isn't that what conservatives claim to believe in, holding people accountable?
You're a brainless insect. There is nothing more to "know" about you than a common tick, which is exactly what you are. I hate you thes same way I hate all other low-life criminals. Now disappear, you cvnt
I would suggest that between the two of us, I've demonstrated significantly more mental acuity. All you've done is spew hate.
And "hate" is all you deserve. Now STFU and leave
Give me one valid reason why you should hate me, one reason that you can actually substantiate, and I'll leave. Just one.
How about YOU'RE A F*CKING TROLL
No, just a confused soul looking for answers. Not finding many here.
Well, you got the confused soul part right.
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