Post by mikef6 on Jun 14, 2018 21:40:19 GMT
It is corporate studios who have a social engineering propaganda agenda.
Real art reflects truths about life and Nature. That is why it is immutable. We can still understand Homer or Shakespeare today because they wrote about things that remain constant. Human nature, behavior etc.
So while Stoker's Dracula is about a supernatural creature, it is up to capable men in the society to deal with the threat to the community and neutralize it.
This is not a conservative agenda-it is physics. Truth. Who else is going to face such a threat? The weakest people in society?
There has not been a faithful basic version of Dracula done by any Hollywood studio since 1958 (though made in England by an English company) because the idea that a community is in danger from a foreigner is considered unPC to the studio bosses who were (and still are) sympathetic to communism.
Depending on the studio ownership, the themes of the stories would be tailored towards their POV.
So RKO made The Thing From Another World-in which military people have to defend the earth from an alien threat, and stop an overworked scientist from risking everyone's lives.
FOX on the other hand, made The Day The Earth Stood Still-where a good alien comes to earth to save humans from themselves (especially the military) and a scientist is one of those who knows the alien is on the right track.
Hollywood made lots of films from 1960 on where the male protagonist dies or loses (from Spartacus to 2001 to French Connection to Earthquake) and then when success themes came back, the heroes were either neurotic (Brody in Jaws), the wimpy farmer boy who needs magic (Luke in Star Wars), or an alien (Superman) or a woman (ALIEN) or an archeologist with a pedo scandal in his past who gets ripped off by his own government (Indiana Jones) and later has to reconcile with his father--that scene in Last Crusade where Indiana Jones is acting like a little kid as he reaches for the Grail and his father tells him to let it go--you would NEVER have seen Gregory Peck or Charlton Heston or Errol Flynn or any other older generation star behave like a little child and need advice from his old father to show some common sense!
Communism preaches that Nature can be subverted, and that multiculturalism is better than homogeneity--which tends to run counter to the themes in 2000 plus years of western art and literature.
Part of this agenda is that males, especially white males, cannot be shown to be independent, confident or successful.
If Hemsworth was making movies in the 1960s, he would likely be working in Europe doing what Richard Harrison or Stewart Granger or Ty Hardin did, because someone like him would have limits in Hollywood-he might play Tarzan on tv or a divorced cop or something like that.
Modern Hollywood will not tolerate a strong white male lead unless he has a multicultural crew or neurosis.
lol. Yep, well said. It is basic Conservatism 101 and people should start paying close attention to it. If they did, if they learned what conservatism was really all about, no Republican would ever get elected again.
What we have expressed here is a political philosophy of white supremacy. White MALE domination. Women need to pay attention. Minorities need to pay attention. All citizens need to pay attention. This is the philosophy that undergirds law enforcement in the U.S. The acting out of White Supremacy by cops is why black athletes kneel. It is also why conservative politicians are so supportive of their police force.
So, who are the Trump supporters who lap up this trash. Mostly, they are people who are scared and confused about a changing world, and resentful that privileges they once took for granted seem to be disappearing. Republican politicians and the right-wing “news” media keep repeating this message that a society of equal rights and opportunity for everyone somehow diminishes rights and opportunities for men and white people. Make America Great Again means going back to the era of McCarthyism, segregation, limited women’s rights, the growth of the US Military industrial complex, the repression of the LGTBQ communities and a return to the decades of unchecked straight, white, male power.
Returning to a movie discussion, this (what the quote above is saying) is what is meant whenever anyone posts about how the Oscars are “political” (as if major movie roles and awards going only to white males would NOT be “political”). Don’t take that crap. Call them out every time.