'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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Mar '11
Re: 'Hollywood Run by Liberals' Shock!
Surely, as rich as Harry Reid has become since becoming a humble servant of the people, you can raise some funds as a MP. Maybe you can get oil interests to "contribute" like the watermelons do. Or maybe you can raise the rents on the tenants living on your 27,000 acre estate? :-) Hey- think there may be some shale gas on your acreage?
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There is nothing more hideous than driving through those wind farms. Such a blight on the landscape. But it's liberal blight... So much prettier than offshore oil drilling rigs.
Nov '10
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Severely Ltd.
I don't know, he was pretty good in Team America. · 2 hours ago
True story: He was actually disappointed that Parker & Stone didn't ask him to provide his own voice. And he wasn't the only one!
Apr '12
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Umbra Fractus
Severely Ltd.
I don't know, he was pretty good in Team America. · 2 hours ag
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True story: He was actually disappointed that Parker & Stone didn't ask him to provide his own voice. And he wasn't the only one! · 0 minutes ago
Wow, they dubbed a different voice over his most emotive, moving role ever?
Dec '10
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@Donald Todd
"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. "
Actually, it is typical for investors to wish to break more or less even, in the U.S. (highest corporate tax rates in the world), and wish to earn money overseas, so American box office can become less valuable than returns from worldwide distribution. A film that will sell well in places where America is the villain has allure to investors.
And Matt Damon is likeable, but a mess. He was a neighbor of Howard Zinn, growing up, and deeply influenced by his communism and America-hatred.
Oct '10
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Matt Damon is likable enough. Like Hillary.