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On 20 Feb 99, , Kris wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
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> from:
> http://www.homevideo.net/FIRM/lowest.htm
> <A HREF="http://www.homevideo.net/FIRM/lowest.htm">FIRM - What's Really Going
> on in Hollywood</A>
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> WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON IN HOLLYWOOD
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> A Recent Speech by John W. Cones
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> Geronimo
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> I saw a movie a few years ago, in 1993 actually. It was a major studio
> release by Columbia, and featured one of my favorite actors, Robert
> Duvall. The movie was Geronimo--An American Legend. Maybe some of you
> saw the film.
>
Just for the record, Walt Disney was notoriously and rabidly anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi,
paid all his workers peon wages, never drew as much as a mouse, but betrayed the
man who created Mickey Mouse for him (who had spent most of his life working for the
Disney Studio)--fired everyone in the Studio when his animators finally held a strike
for
a living wage, yet managed to be fabulously successful until the day of his death. Now
how did he manage that?
It might, furthermore, help to remember that movies became successful during the
Depression, when what the public wanted was escape fantasies of love, romance, and
riches. American immigrants flocked to the movies, for a nickle, craving an image of
an American elite that they could use as models. Their greatest dream was
assimilation into "American" culture. Most moviegoers of that era wanted to escape
the cultures they had come from--in some instances, fled--and longed to become
beautiful, rich, successful, Americans with fabulous lovers and expensive
wardrobes.Most of the "role models" of this early era represented the dominant Anglo-
Saxon WASP Christian culture...and it seems to me that this image has persisted
throughout most of movie history....until quite recently.
It is only in the last two decades that movies have become especially violent. In the
early Dick Tracy films, the villain was laid flat by a single punch. One shot from a
gun
actually killed someone. It is only very recently that violence has escalated into
sheer
pyrotechnics and heroes survive attacks that would wipe out several battalions. I don't
see this tendency toward violence as liberal. I see it as feeding something sick that
the culture is both asking for and that the Hollywood establishment is supplying and
cultivating. And I can't imagine how all this violence could possibly be conceived of
as
an anti-gun message. It desensitizes the public towards both unspeakable ugliness
and insane violence. How does this jibe with humanistic liberalism (which the right-
wing hates for its willingness to overlook minor flaws, forgive, and offer second
chances) ?
There may be some truths in this article. But there's a lot of nonsense, too.
People who are interested in and study world cinema can always find and see fine
examples of movies from all over the world, representing every culture that makes
movies. . Guess why they aren't shown in your local cinemax. They don't attract big
audiences. And they don't make money (or sell popcorn). They are shown continually,
and if they interest you, you can usually find a place where you can go to see them.
sno0wl
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