Hollywood's Propaganda Binge

The American Thinker ^ | January 18, 2006 | Cinnamon Stillwell

[Quilla]

 

The Golden Globe Awards, Hollywood’s latest orgy of self-congratulation, demonstrated how utterly out of touch with mainstream America Hollywood has become. Far from the days when Hollywood celebrated traditional values, moral fiber and American heroes, modern films celebrate deviancy, moral relativism, and America’s enemies.  This year’s nominees and winners for the Golden Globes were a case in point.

Felicity Huffman of Desperate Housewives fame took on yet another brush with degeneracy by playing the part of a man about to undergo a sex change in the not-so-subtly titled, Transamerica.  It seems all an actor has to do these days is to gain or lose a considerable amount of weight, make themselves ugly, portray a pimp, prostitute or above all a transgender type (a la Hilary Swank in Boys Don’t Cry) and accolades are sure to follow.  Predictably, Huffman won the Golden Globe award for Best Actress and is being talked about for an Oscar nomination.  Even if she had to play a man playing a woman to do so.

Similarly, Terrence Howard was nominated for his role as a rapping pimp with a heart of gold in Hustle & Flow.  The adultery thriller Match Point was a nominee in several categories, while The Constant Gardener, a tale of evil pharmaceutical corporations exploiting African natives was also nominated.  Crash, the film that purported to expose America’s alleged racial divisions but was instead filled with caricatures and outlandish situations picked up a nomination for best film. 

Television offered more of the same.  Geena Davis won the Best Actress in a Television Show award for her thinly disguised Hillary Clinton presidential campaign booster, Commander In Chief.  Grey’s Anatomy, the show that seems to consist entirely of a hospital staff having sex with each other was a nominee.  Desperate Housewives, no doubt competing with Brokeback Mountain for the greatest number of scenes with men kissing, was a nominee in several categories.

Liberal crusader George Clooney had a double-hitter this year with two of his films lavished with praise by an enamored Hollywood.  Syriana, Clooney’s version of the well-known antiwar slogan, “No blood for oil!” was a nominee, while his ode to the glory days of McCarthyism, communist heroes and old media, Good Night, and Good Luck, seemed to be a sure bet for best film. 

But then along came Brokeback Mountain and stole the show, winning awards for Best Film and Best Director.  While director Ang Lee has an admirable body of work to his name, his latest endeavor is beyond the pale.  In addition to spawning a host of jokes with its unfortunate title, Brokeback Mountain puts forth a love story between two married men and expects mainstream America to embrace it.  And the film just happens to take aim at an American icon, the cowboy. 

Glowing reviews aside, filmmakers seem to have overlooked the ick factor.  That is, most Americans don’t want to watch two men getting intimate on the big screen.  The miniscule gay population residing in liberal coastal enclaves may have thronged to theaters to see Brokeback Mountain, but I doubt many straight people, especially men, did the same. 

The hype surrounding the film was completely self-generated with a propaganda campaign of which Goebbels would have been proud.  Before it was even released, the buzz could be heard a mile away and now that it’s in theaters, it has risen to a crescendo.  Meanwhile, one has to wonder if box office sales are being inflated by interested parties.  In any case, it’s imperative for the cause that Brokeback Mountain be nominated and win every award possible. That way when children look to the entertainment industry for validation that homosexuality is the norm, they will be sure to find it.

Rounding out the list of winners was Paradise Now for Best Foreign Language Film.  This is the film that provides a “human face” to Palestinian suicide bombers.  In the process, Israeli lives are dehumanized, but in the realm of the politically correct that’s an acceptable trade-off.  Perhaps judges should also have viewed footage of the aftermath of one of Israel’s many suicide bombings before making their decision.  But such uncomfortable truths would likely have been sidelined as inconvenient. 

This award comes as little surprise from a crowd that also lionized Steven Spielberg by nominating his exercise in moral relativism, Munich, for several awards.  No doubt Palestinian terrorists everywhere are thanking Spielberg for so generously adding to the cannon of anti-Israel propaganda they have fastidiously cultivated over the years.  Hollywood may be run be Jews, but they’re certainly no threat to anti-Semitism.   

The Golden Globes were just a preview for the Academy Awards, which is sure to feature much the same lineup.  Where once Hollywood produced great films, today’s offerings are little more than propaganda disguised as entertainment.  But don’t expect the liberal glitterati to take notice.  They’re too busy inhabiting a bubble world in which transgenderism, homosexuality, communism and terrorism have been deemed worthy of the highest praise. 

And they wonder why no one goes to the movies anymore? 

[neodad]

Plus the popcorn is too expensive.

[stm]

Great article, Hollywierd and the overwhelming majority of it's "actors" (and I use that term very loosely) has joined the ranks of the enemy from within.

[Leo Carpathian]

Just briefly surfed over some shots from the G Globe media orgasms, couldn't help but felt sorry for them groomed, puffed, siliconed, painted, pathetic "actors" being self grandiozed for the filth and garbage they "produce" and slap themselves on their backs. Keep it up marooooons!

Yep! #1 hhhhhomosheepherderboys rock! (In pervert "community")

[Quilla]

I can recall admiring the characters (and actors) in the Hollywood of my youth. Apparently heros, kindhearted, generous, unselfish souls are a thing of the past.

[Guenevere]

The good news is Heath Ledger did not win for Brokeback Mountain....

..his little feelings were so hurt, he totally skipped the post awards press thingie, where he was suppose to support the director and the movie.

If he had won.....it would be far worse, and we would have him being interviewed from here to China.--He would be so in our faces...

...I think little Heath is waking up to realize he's been had....literally and figuratively.

I truly doubt he will win any of the coming awards...

..and I think whoever told him....'Heath baby, this is your big break...you can be a contender'......is laughing ...

Heath, you lost.....bigtime!

[joebuck]

"Crash, the film that purported to expose America’s alleged racial divisions but was instead filled with caricatures and outlandish situations picked up a nomination for best film."

I thought Crash was an excellent movie, one of the years few surprises. I also think the author missed the point entirely or was just determined not to like the movie because it explored issues of race. The thing I liked about Crash was that it wasn't preachy, didn't play favorites, and threw everything out there and let the audience come to its own conclusions. Also, the sterotypes the author refers to all end up breaking out of their sterotype by the end of the flick. The "good" characters end up showing a very bad side and the "bad" characters end up showing a noble side. All in all, a very good flick.

[Beth528]

I do not go to movies any more...This has gotten so anti American in the way they put these movies out..They want the world to think we the people of America see this trash when the opposite is true..They also want the world to thing we are a bunch of queers and do anything sexually there is..it makes me want to throw up..Everyone should boycott this filth and then we will see how many movies are made..

[dakine]

If the movies don't make back their investment, the companies will go broke...Not happening...

[mikeybaby]

Since the Market was closed Monday for MLK day my wife wanted to go to a movie. We pulled the paper out and looked at what was showing.
Nothing was even remotely enticing.
We ended up going to lunch and drinking beer (uhmmm, beer; at least I did anyway).

[william clark]

I, on the other hand, do agree with the author. I found "Crash" to be insultingly simplistic with its "everybody's racist" approach, not to mention the sense that the filmmaker just discovered that racism exists and rushed out to inform everybody about the problem, as if it hadn't been far more intelligently and subtly communicated by many previous films.

[stm]

The John Wayne's, Henry Fonda's, Robert Mitchum's, Lee Marvin's and Gregory Peck's of Hollywood are long gone, most likely never to be re-incarnated. I'm pretty much done with anything coming out of that depraved city.

[MarkL]

I love a good cross-dresser movie! The only good one I've ever heard of, or seen, is Victor/Victoria, but that was OK because it was a woman playing a man playing a woman. And Robert Preston was in it. And "Mongo."

Mark

/sarcasm, although I really DID like Victor/Victoria!

[Uncle Vlad]

Here's a prediction: a day or two after the Academy Awards show, you'll see a story that this year's show had one of the lowest overnight ratings ever.

I realize I'm really going out on a limb with this prediction. ;)

[Quilla]

Ledger was quite good in The Four Feathers, but I've written him off after his choosing to portray a homosexual in Brokeback Mountain. This past weekend, I happened to catch the 1939 (?) version of The Four Feathers on Turner Classic Movies. It was introduced with commentary about the film and the host assured the audience it was better than the Ledger remake. His assessment was accurate - my 19 year old daughter and I both enjoyed it immensely.

[NavyCanDo]

Boy have times changed. Lets look back at the best picture nominations of the first 10 years of the Golden Globes. Back when in Hollywood Men were Men and the Women had class.

1943 1st Golden Globe Awards
Best Picture
The Song of Bernadette - William Perlberg

1944 2nd Golden Globe Awards
Best Picture
Going My Way - Leo McCarey


1945 3rd Golden Globe Awards
Best Picture
The Lost Weekend - Charles Brackett


1946 4th Golden Globe Awards
Best Picture
The Best Years of Our Lives - Samuel Goldwyn

1947 5th Golden Globe Awards
Best Picture
Gentleman's Agreement - Darryl F. Zanuck


1948 6th Golden Globe Awards
Best Picture
Johnny Belinda - Jerry Wald
Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Henry Blanke

1949 7th Golden Globe Awards
Best Picture
All the King's Men - Robert Rossen
Come to the Stable - Samuel G. Engel


1950 8th Golden Globe Awards
Best Picture
All About Eve - Darryl F. Zanuck
Born Yesterday - S. Sylvan Simon
Cyrano de Bergerac - Stanley Kramer
Harvey - John Beck
Sunset Boulevard - Charles Brackett

1951 9th Golden Globe Awards
Best Picture - Drama

Bright Victory - Robert Buckner
Detective Story - William Wyler
A Place in the Sun - George Stevens
Quo Vadis? - Sam Zimbalist
A Streetcar Named Desire - Charles K. Feldman


1952 10th Golden Globe Awards
Best Picture - Drama
Come Back, Little Sheba - Hal B. Wallis
The Greatest Show on Earth - Cecil B. DeMille
The Happy Time - Stanley Kramer
High Noon - Stanley Kramer
The Thief - Clarence Greene

[starfish923]

A while back (10 years?) Sleazywood's "Oscar" ratings started to drop. No one seemed to be caring what the 4000 Screen Guild Actors chose as "Best Picture" or "best anything" anymore.

After that the self-aggrandizing group of sleaze merchants decided to have a new and numerous group of awards for almost everything from music - T.V. - plays - movies. It SEEMED that everytime you turned on the boob tube there was some new face of some new, beautiful people getting some new award for SOMETHING.

They were impossible to keep track of, totally meaningless, with P.R. behind all of it.

One of these days there WILL be an award for the "best boobs/butt" or "most annoying singer" -- all with the usual nobodies attending the usual hype parties with the usual sleazy media photographing the usual sleazy performers for their standard mediocre performances in front of people with little or no taste and standards.

Groupies, wannabies and women with no lives will suck up all the inane nonsense and babble it back as vapid gossip in their vacuous, spiritually empty lives and wonder why, in middle age, that they aren't happier or more fulfilled in their lives.

That rant aside, Walk the Line was a very good movie but wild horse couldn't get me to Brokeback Mountain. The last love story I saw was Dr. Zhivago. But a homosexual love story with two modern-day "cowboys" and dumber'naboxofhair-wife-who-never-saw-it-coming? Didn't she ever see "Will&Grace" or "QueerEyeForTheStraightGuy"?
Harhar. Not a snowball's chance in H - E - double hockey sticks. Too sick and stupid for words.

[starfish923]

Here's a prediction: a day or two after the Academy Awards show, you'll see a story that this year's show had one of the lowest overnight ratings ever.
I realize I'm really going out on a limb with this prediction. ;)

Oh no, does that mean ANOTHER new bunch of equally meaningless "award" shows to boost ratings?

Oh golly, more T.V. not to watch, s.o.p.

[son of caesar]

any movie that would showcase attributes brought to the screen by the likes of john wayne would simply not get made. the nepotism and outright conspiracy of hollywood is so incredible, few really believe it. there are so many exellent books that can be turned into movies, it boggles the mind. yet, hollywood and the group that controls it will never let these projects get off the ground. now a last temptation of christ is what hollywood is all about. make no mistake, hollywood is the king of non free trade, why else do you think so many of that group were communists?

[JoeGar]

hhhhhomosheepherderboys rock!

Instead of "cow pokes", do you call the two shepherds "sheep pokes"?