Hollywood is going conservative
Jonathan Bing in Variety takes stock of conservatism in Hollywood last Tuesday.
The article in part reads:
"The conservative movement's status in Hollywood was the topic of Tuesday's inaugural lunch of the Hollywood Forum, a speaking series designed to foster political discussion in Hollywood.
The event, organized by screenwriter, former Federal Emergency Management Agency worker and conservative activist Steve Finefrock, wasn't particularly bipartisan.
On the right side of the panel were filmmaker Lionel Chetwynd and screenwriter Burt Prelutsky, who lamented the pervasiveness of left-wing politics in Hollywood.
Chetwynd, who offered a few critical words about the Republican majority on Capital Hill, complained, "Too many elements of the Republican Party and the conservative movement preferred to have Hollywood as a punching bag than as an ally."
"There's almost a war against Christianity in this country, and it has to stop," Chetwynd said to spontaneous applause.
"If I were sitting here in the '80s," Chetwynd said, "I would give you a list of people who would not hire me because I'm a conservative. A big change (today) is that conservatives in Hollywood have reached critical mass."
Chetwynd added, without offering any evidence, that among "young people coming to Hollywood, three to one are conservative."
The article in part reads:
"The conservative movement's status in Hollywood was the topic of Tuesday's inaugural lunch of the Hollywood Forum, a speaking series designed to foster political discussion in Hollywood.
The event, organized by screenwriter, former Federal Emergency Management Agency worker and conservative activist Steve Finefrock, wasn't particularly bipartisan.
On the right side of the panel were filmmaker Lionel Chetwynd and screenwriter Burt Prelutsky, who lamented the pervasiveness of left-wing politics in Hollywood.
Chetwynd, who offered a few critical words about the Republican majority on Capital Hill, complained, "Too many elements of the Republican Party and the conservative movement preferred to have Hollywood as a punching bag than as an ally."
"There's almost a war against Christianity in this country, and it has to stop," Chetwynd said to spontaneous applause.
"If I were sitting here in the '80s," Chetwynd said, "I would give you a list of people who would not hire me because I'm a conservative. A big change (today) is that conservatives in Hollywood have reached critical mass."
Chetwynd added, without offering any evidence, that among "young people coming to Hollywood, three to one are conservative."
1 Comments:
Definitely NOT what we want worldwide - "conservative Hollywood"!
If any of these Christian Right people who complain all the time would take the trouble to have a good hard look at Hollywood - they would realise that movie people hardly EVER say anything (certainly not within their movies) that would really offend the status quo. Most movie directors and stars don't WANT to do this - they're doing just fine under the current system, thanks!
Things like the few remarks in "Revenge of the Sith" are minor. The only reason they achieved any attention was because it was such a big fantasy movie.
But when you put it together with something like "Sin City" (which in Britain for a few weeks, only Lucas' epic was able to thankfully keep from the top of the box office)... the "latent", and not even latent, fascist messages in THAT totally counter ANY vaguely liberal messages in anything I can think of produced by mainstream Hollywood.
I mean, the sexist stereotypes advanced by that ludicrous film? The way in which it glorified "alpha" males, who think that the only answer to everything is random violence... and that on the other hand, for women, prostitution is the only worthwhile career choice?? Some kind of Nieztscheanism going on there, I think... and when you add in the scene where a guy is sliced in the neck by a flying swastika, yes, I think you can say, FASCISM is alive and well in Hollywood, whereas "communism" is most definitely NOT. (Not since Warren Beatty's "Reds" has anything been made by that spineless crew of Hollywood millionaires about the left wing ... oh except I think for the bio of the Mexican artist who was Trotsky's lover, big deal.)
No. I've never been impressed by talk about "the Hollywood left". These days it is defunct. The only way it is "left" is in the minds of people who MISTAKENLY EQUATE left-wing thought with "anything goes" - ie, sexist violence and general foulness, usually.
A FEW people who consider themselves "left" (I have some British comics scripters in mind) think along such lines. But most real socialists know they're morons.
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