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2008-07-25 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Mike 2008-07-25 15:18|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 "Why is it then that left-wingers feel free to make their films direct and realistic, whereas Hollywood conservatives have to put on a mask in order to speak what they know to be the truth?"

The question answers itself. It's obvious to Hollywood that common sense belongs in a comic book.

Posted by Dopey Glaviper6804 2008-07-25 15:54|| 2008-07-25 15:54|| Front Page Top

#2 "The Dark Knight" is a conservative movie about the war on terror. And like another such film, last year's "300," "The Dark Knight" is making a fortune.

Conversely, time after time, left-wing films about the war on terror have bombed.

Why is it then that left-wingers feel free to make their films direct and realistic, whereas Hollywood conservatives have to put on a mask in order to speak what they know to be the truth?

The left wingers know that they are the accepted conventional wisdom. So they know they can come right out and hit you between the eyes with their sermon.

But the right is anti-establishment. It cannot make its statement explicitly. So it has to use art to make the audience think.

That is why the best movies were made under the Hayes code. There are few moments in film as erotic as Rita Hayworth brushing her hair in Gilda. But that's all she's doing, brushing her hair. When you can get a rise out of somebody brushing their hair you've gone a long way.

And because the audience has to think, they are part of the creative process. There is little doubt in my mind of what Carl Foreman would think of the war in Iraq. Because his script was an attack on the McCarthy hearings, sanctioned by the establishment, he had to be indirect in the same way as today's conservatives. But when today's audience watches Will Kane walk down the street they see W, a result Foreman would no doubt abhor, but a result of allowing the audience to think and help create the entire experience.

Leading me to conclude that censorship may be bad for artists, but it's good for art.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-07-25 16:25|| 2008-07-25 16:25|| Front Page Top

#3 I thought the Joker's makeup was modelled after pelosi's creepy rictus...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-07-25 20:38|| 2008-07-25 20:38|| Front Page Top

#4 eventually the marketplace will overcome the left-wing bias. See the Danny Glover article

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-07-25 21:01|| 2008-07-25 21:01|| Front Page Top

#5 When the boomers die.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-07-25 21:23|| 2008-07-25 21:23|| Front Page Top

#6 enforced retirement. When you make repeated bad calls, and your name's not Pinch, there are repercussions, regardless of the sympathetic financing

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-07-25 22:08|| 2008-07-25 22:08|| Front Page Top

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