'Hollywood Run by Liberals' Shock!
Alright: maybe not such a shock. But I still find myself pretty appalled by how frequently and shamelessly Hollywood is prepared to distort the truth in service of its liberal propaganda goals.
Take the latest Matt Damon movie, Promised Land. It's about a town in rural Pennsylvania whose tranquillity and beauty are threatened with ruination by sinister energy interests. Now, if the energy interests in question belonged to Big Wind this would indeed be a fair representation of reality. Industrial wind farms are spreading misery all across the world - driving a wedge between communities, slicing and dicing birds and bats, blighting views, driving up energy prices, making people sick with their Low Frequency Noise.
Instead, though, the film's target is the shale gas industry which - despite numerous attempts to smear it by a well-funded anti-fracking propaganda campaign featuring everyone from loveable Russian gas giant Gazprom to Sean and Yoko to Matt Damon - has benefited the US hugely by creating real jobs, increasing energy security and driving down energy prices.
The story of the desperate measures to which Damon was driven in order to make the shale gas industry look like plausible villains is well worth reading.
Whereas, of course, the villains in real life are those greedy, fascistic, corrupt, junk-science-worshipping, rent-seeking, bullying environmentalists.
Will the movie industry ever acknowledge this?
Well, I hope so because I'm currently collaborating with a long-established Hollywood veteran - his credits range from The Parallax View to Alien - on a movie version of my book Watermelons: the Green Movement's True Colors (Publius). The plan is to recast it as my favorite of all Hollywood genres, the conspiracy thriller.
Question is, will we get the finance? I reckon there's a huge market out there, not least from all those millions of us who are fed up to the back teeth of environmentalist bullying and tax-hiking and overregulation and hypocrisy and mendacity. But if the finance does come I suspect it's highly unlikely to come from those impeccably liberal, polar-bear hugging mainstream Hollywood sources.
Nor, somehow, can I see it ever get a screening at Sundance.
If there's anyone out there who's interested in helping out with this project I'd love to hear from you. (Rob Long: does such a thing even exist - movie funding that isn't controlled by foaming lefties?) All I know is that the bad guys have been making all the running in the movie industry. It's time we good guys struck a blow for truth, freedom, originality - and healthy box office!
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Dec '10
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I have $100 with your name on it.
I'd love to have a movie like this do well in the box office. Perhaps you should get a hold of the 2016 people? Good luck!
Edit: As long as the movie doesn't get in the way of your podcast!
Edited on September 26, 2012 at 2:41pmRe: 'Hollywood Run by Liberals' Shock!
I watched some of the Emmys the other night and was absolutely shocked at the beginning when the host tried to set up an obvious "you're all liberals" joke.
But he began it by asking if anyone would be voting for Mitt Romney -- and there was rather noticeable positive response of actual applause. My husband and I looked at each other because it was so unexpected.
Anyway, I think Clint Eastwood was onto something -- there are many people in Hollywood who are not reflexively liberal. You might be surprised by what happens.
Oct '11
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Matt Damon movies aren't worth seeing anymore. Even if they weren't all liberal issue-movies, after what he said about Sarah Palin, I don't want to see him in a movie.
Nov '10
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A hollywood movie that pits some big nasty company against the little guy? There's something new! And with Matt "Does she believe in dinosaurs Damon, no less.
May '10
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Are you looking at a "State of Fear" type story?
Apr '11
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Kickstarter.com James is one place to go.
My son just successfully financed an independent short film there last month and with the Ricochet community you could launch it easily.
Jan '11
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Sounds like a perfect project for Kickstarter
oops - too much time formatting the link :-(
Edited on September 26, 2012 at 8:33pmNov '10
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If I'm reading James's blog post correctly, it sounds like the plot of the movie is the sort of thing usually associated with the tinfoil at crowd. "Uh, yeah, all these environmentalist frauds are secretly working for Big Oil to undermine the environmental movement. They're lying about being liars, man!"
I also loved the commenter asking why right wing bloggers "assume" Hollywood is run by statists when the studio owners are such uber capitalists. It's like the guy didn't even read the article.
Apr '12
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James, speak to Doug Urbanski. Big Hollywood producer and occasional fill-in host on Rush Limbaugh. He's as sound as a pound, and could be the guy you are looking for.
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@rush-is-right. Doug Urbanski? He sounds just the man!
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@umbra fractus. I was similarly puzzled by the man's idiocy. Weirdly, he works at the - not-noticeably left-wing - Spectator. But this has even been one of the left's problems: their inability - cf Michael Moore - to distinguish between capitalism and corporatism.
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BTW I agree with you all that Kickstarter is another option. I'm just not sure whether it deals with projects on the scale of the one we envisage. But maybe. I shall put it to my partner. Perhaps once he's written his treatment.
Jun '10
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Bill Whittle of PJTV and Declaration Entertainment is involved in many such efforts. DE is using a membership model to develop movies.
Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer are using a Kickstarter page to raise funds for FrackNation, their pro-fracking film.
Other than multiple venues on PJTV and the "Firewall" series on YouTube, Bill also does a live personal gig for an hour+ on Wednesdays at 9 ET on Ustream. Look for The Stratosphere Lounge.
Apr '11
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You could disguise at as a sports movie James and call it "Hockey Stick"
Jul '11
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@Lord D - Fantastic news! Please use the Ricochet community for support and more.
Apr '12
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James, remember that pitching movie for financing is very different from talking about the movie content. The investors want to know how much money they could make. Dinesh D'Souza went to politically right wealthy Angels and has made back their money. He would be the first person to call and get advice on how he convinced them to give him financing.
Will you be paying them back? do you see it as a loan? with interest? Or as a donation? Once you answer those questions, you can then do a financial presentation - VERY different.
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@indaba Cripes! It didn't even OCCUR to me that this would be anything other than a movie investment opportunity - with all the upside possibilities and downside risks that such things entail. This certainly wasn't a charity begging bowl type plea.
Mar '12
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If you don't pay for the ticket to a liberal movie, it will
a. make less money, or
b. lose money
Lose money consistently - assuming one isn't merely trying to avoid taxation on a loss - and people won't finance your movies.
A few money losers and maybe MD and his ilk won't be hired at big money to front another liberal movie.
Sounds good.
Oct '10
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I don't know, he was pretty good in Team America.
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@severely ltd. I agree. I think his performance in Team America had much more life, more humanity, more everything than any other film he's ever been in.