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2006-12-21 Fifth Column
Hollywood and the Spread of Anti-Americanism
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Posted by .com 2006-12-21 01:10|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 It is not ALL about you being anti American, but more anti human than anything. The screes you flicker past us now days makes us feel cheapened when we watch it. Nothing personal but you sucked for some time. Why not for a spat, concentrate on connecting with the world instead of trying to change it from your worms eye view.

EIC (Eeek) Editor in chief.
Posted by closedanger@hotmail.com">closedanger@hotmail.com  2006-12-21 03:22||   2006-12-21 03:22|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm in South Korea. Last month I saw someone here, a Korean, watching "Law and Order--SVU" on TV. I told this lady, in my halting Korean, that I was sorry that Americans made such bad television and that most Americans who had any intelligence or morals didn't watch much of anything Hollywood made. My statement seemed to surprise her.

Over here, the Korean Wave of soap operas is sweeping through Asia on a HUGE wave of popularity. Guess what they're about: boy meets girl, fights through difficulties honorably, marries girl, lives happily ever after. The good guys are good, the bad guys are bad, and the crowd eats it up. They come back waving money and begging for more. Why did the degenerate idiots in Hollywood forget--or more accurately, throw away--the formula that created the magic in the first place?

Anybody who doesn't think it's because they hate this country, and particularly the heterosexual, white, and churchgoing segments of it, has a seriously uphill battle to fight to even begin to persuade me. Howard Veit has been saying for a long time that Hollywood would rather lose money making films that further their destructive social agenda than make money providing what the audience wants to see. Amazing. Absolutely amazing.
Posted by mac 2006-12-21 03:50||   2006-12-21 03:50|| Front Page Top

#3 And even if Hollywood films with anti-American themes have some detrimental effect, she said the number of patriotic, apolitical and high-quality films exported surely outweigh any negative effect.

Like the remake of "Herbie the Love Bug" and "The Dukes of Hazzard"?
Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-12-21 05:59|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[ http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]  2006-12-21 05:59|| Front Page Top

#4 
Naw, it'dn never sell
Posted by Shipman 2006-12-21 11:23||   2006-12-21 11:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Not without emphasizing The Apology thingy, anyway.
Posted by .com 2006-12-21 11:26||   2006-12-21 11:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Forgot about that .com. Also never noticed he's got 2 very low gears there.
Posted by Shipman 2006-12-21 11:32||   2006-12-21 11:32|| Front Page Top

#7 "You don't have to love Stalin to hate America,"

No, but it helps!
Posted by Raj 2006-12-21 11:46||   2006-12-21 11:46|| Front Page Top

#8 “Roger Kimball, an art critic, essayist, editor and social commentator…”

Never heard of the chap but judging by his pedigree I’m willing to wager he’s a major-league pain in the ass.
Posted by DepotGuy 2006-12-21 14:33||   2006-12-21 14:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Good point, DepotGuy. And he's got all those jobs, none of which are actual jobs...
Posted by tu3031 2006-12-21 14:37||   2006-12-21 14:37|| Front Page Top

#10 .com, LOL.
Posted by Jules 2006-12-21 15:53||   2006-12-21 15:53|| Front Page Top

#11 Good lord -- in Germany, at least, Michael Moore made magazine covers, his books and movies sell out and go into extra runs, and I get to hear about all his stupid little theories. The same in England. And the man has been lauded in Hollywood for his work. My Polish au pair firmly believed that Hollywood 90210 represented the real America, and used to ask me why the characters did things. Darned right they're actively undermining the world's opinion on this country, and they lie when they say otherwise. But of course, they believe that the image they're spreading is true... or truthy, anyway.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-21 17:43||   2006-12-21 17:43|| Front Page Top

#12 During its run, "Baywatch" enjoyed greater global distribution than even "Jeopardy." 'Nuff said.

"Hollywood has manufactured a new 'American Way' that doesn't fit with either truth or justice," he said.

[snip]

Hollywood is, above all, a business that shouldn't be criticized for attending to the "bottom line," he said.

Only if you agree that the almighty dollar is job one. The almighty dollar has little, if anything, to do with "truth and justice". Please note I referred to the "almighty dollar" and not an "honest buck". As is becoming obvious, a lot of this world is willing to embrace one at the cost of the other.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-12-21 18:28||   2006-12-21 18:28|| Front Page Top

#13 Actually, this has been a concern for thoughtful Hollywood types (all three or four of them!) for decades. I remember reading an article in TV Guide about the time I was in college, over how the image of the US as represented by the TV shows we exported presented such a distorting lens of us to the world. Michael Medved has been banging on about this since publishing Hollywood vs America. I even ran into a bit of this personally when my daughter was about 12, and we were preparing to return to the US from overseas, where we had lived since she was about 2 and a half. All she knew of the US was what she had seen on AFRTS, and believe me, she was not very keen, based on that.
All most of the world knows of Americans is what they see on their TV and movie screens. It ain't real flattering, folks. Which is why I am savagely amused by all those Hollywood creeps who get up and moan about how violent, irrational and crass Americans appear to be. Gee, wonder where everyone got that notion?
Posted by Sgt. Mom 2006-12-21 19:55|| www.sgtstryker.com]">[www.sgtstryker.com]  2006-12-21 19:55|| Front Page Top

#14 Not only to the World but to other areas of the US. The Beverly Hillbillies depicted Southerners as stupid, ignorant people. I had to dispell these steriotypes in New England as late as 92.
Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues  2006-12-21 20:03||   2006-12-21 20:03|| Front Page Top

#15 surprising again is the overall % of jews in teh industry and they continue to turn out jew-hating apologia for arabs, or replace arab villians in books/scripts with non-descript neo-nazis or serbs...

self-loathing OK, patriotism? no
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-12-21 20:39||   2006-12-21 20:39|| Front Page Top

#16 "Most art sucks,"

-well, at least we agree on one thing.
Posted by Broadhead6 2006-12-21 21:08||   2006-12-21 21:08|| Front Page Top

#17 Will say again that America is not even officially SOcialist or Communist or under OWG yet, and the Commies = Chicoms have already claimed or set aside 1/2 of CONUS-NORAM, and plan to POLITELY BUT NECESSARILY EXTERMINATE 2/3's or 200Milyuuhn of Amer's population. 2/3 - 3/4 of the world's population also has to be politely but necesarily exterminated be it for Socialism andor the Enviro. THE LEFT IS THAT CERTAIN - DOING SO WILL FORCE THE GIANT SUN TO SURRENDER, CAUSE ASTEROIDS-COMETS TO UNILATERALLY CHANGE THEIR COURSE, + SO THAT HOLLYWOOD, NOT ROCKET/SPACE SCIENTISTS, OR MINE WORKERS, WILL DEV THE STARSHIP TECHS REQUIRED TO SAVE OUR SPECIES, JUST IN CASE SOMEBODY MADE A MISTAKE DUE TO INSUFFIC GOVT GRANT MONIES. God or Universes, Suns or Aliens,etc. all must surrender to the Actors Guild.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-12-21 21:51||   2006-12-21 21:51|| Front Page Top

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