Posted on 01/18/2006 5:11:41 AM PST by 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?
I think you've also just described Oprah's target audience. Great rant.
Is THAT... an understatement. The self-guilt of liberal, American Jews HELPS fire the hate in the hearts of jihadists and anti-semites alike.
100% agree.
I also do not go to movies anymore. The odds are that whatever movie you select (after either reading reviews, or else watching preview scenes) will unpleasantly ambush you with some blatant leftwing agenda - and you will leave irritated at having subsidised the nonsense.
There's no way to know beforehand, which movies are the propaganda screeds, and which are actual movies.
I did go out of my way to see "Beyond Borders" with Angelina Jolie, some while back. It was supurbly done, even if profoundly depressing at the end. No ambush about the message so I didn't mind. Every once in awhile when something obviously interesting like that comes along I'll go, otherwise I'll see it on cable, thanks.
Hollywood has gotten to the point where they've begun responding to being outside the mainstream, by going futher outside the mainstream. And raising prices to capture the loss of revenue.
Meanwhile as they abuse ever more consistently those who pay their bills, every day more and more genuinely interesting competition is available.
Basically, they're in exactly the same down spiral, as broadcast network television.
..I though it quite good!
I liked Ledger in Ten Things I Hate About You...a clever teen version take-off of Taming of the Shrew...
...He seemed pretty good in The Patriot...
..but I will not...am not, interested in seeing him in another movie....ever...
..because he lacks any credibility now!
He's either gay or bi....and who wants to watch someone playing a romantic interest with the opposite sex and knowing he's.........icky!
The same for Jake Gyllenhall....
..I thought him adorable in October Sky....
...I think both these young men have forfeited their careers.....they took a chance....they lost, IMO.
We don't go out to the movies at our home. Instead, we buy DVD's and watch them at our leisure. My teens get a bit stressed that so many "stars" are on my DO NOT BUY list, but after hearing about the anti-American antics of Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, George Clooney, et. al., they get the point.
Half of those movies/TV shows I've never even heard of, and I've seen none of them.
I've said this before and it's even more relevant now: Hollywood and the MSM is one of the few (if the only) industry that actively works to insult and repel it's customers. And they're doing a very good job of it.
Drudge has already written the headline.
Thank you.
Oprah, the Great Do-Nothing Mystifier.
Harhar, I remember way back when .... when she was on local L.A. television doing her usual crap. One show I recall. "Mothers of serial killers" was the theme of one of her standard garbage shows.
She hasn't come any farther in taste or standards, has she?
She IS a fabulous saleswoman, though, and, like Martha Stewart, can sell herself to the tune of billion$, to the tasteless, standardless American women T.V. audience.
"They say don't go.....on Brokeback Mountain.....if you're a-lookin'....for a wife...."
My apologies to Claude King's "Wolverton Mountain"
I've noticed that animated movies tend to have conservative themes, and do much, much better at the box office (Brokebutt Mountin': $30M; Narnia: $585M). Perhaps it's because a cartoon character doesn't have to suck up to some leftist toady to get a gig. And maybe (just maybe) the vast majority of Americans don't buy Hollywood's version of reality.
I remember years back would-be flick-makers wishing they could make the movies they wanted to make instead having to manufacture formulaic crap that the old movie system forced them to make. Well now that they are making what they want to make, most of it is worse than the old junk. The old maxim still holds true: Beware of liberals with messages and film-making equipment.
Really now. . .
The best thing about Hollywood's spate of virulent anti-Americanism is that it finally puts to rest that old canard that they're only interested in making money.
IMO, Heath made a poor decision to make Brokeback. I just don't feel like seeing any of his movies again.
you made my point!
I also loved "October Sky" and thought Jake Gyllenhall did a great job, but now I'm also wondering if he and Heath like gals AND GUYS!
I have a feeling there are good movies out there that don't come to my area. All the theaters around here play the same movies.
We never got the Gerard Butler movie called "The Game of their Lives." He was excellent in "Phantom of the Opera."
http://www.gameoftheirlivesmovie.com/
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