These attempts to define popcorn action movies as being somehow a precursor of the rise of dormant conservative values in society are vapid and exercises in near delirious wishful thinking.
Most of the audience for Hollywood dreck are low information voters (as Rush calls them) and are only able to link Batman or Spiderman or some other hero to Obama and then on to the basic things they themselves value.
These heroes fighting “evil” have hot girlfriends, built-in wealth or no real obligation to get up and go to work, they live their lives inside what looks like a “really cool” video game etc. etc. To the average audience member, “evil” is a manifestation of immorally rich capitalists or a by-product of such. Indeed, the easy thing to do would be for the screenwriters to simply name all the “bad guys” in every movie “Bush.”
Hollywood knows what it is doing and it is NOT pumping out stuff that will lead people to the political Right. In fact, since 1924 when it started taking marching orders from the Soviet Film Commission, Hollywood has perfected the production of agitprop meant to drive people leftward. And they are good at it. Very good.
Sometimes I think conservatives need to create justifications for going to the movies and thus begin imagining that the product is somehow secretly intended FOR US. It ain’t and never has been
You should see KickAss. It’s actually pretty good, and accidently winds up being conservative.
Hollywood doesn’t produce things necessarily directed at us. That isn’t necessaroly bad as we tend to buy tickets to movies that clearly incorporate some of those values. Obama is never going to be mistaken for Batman, he lacks the muscles an the mental acuity. He won’t be mistaken for Spider-Man. Spider-Man is far too selfelss for him.
They are engaged in a massive effort against the other moviemaking districts of the world in an effort to keep their market share alive. The UK and India, for two, would love to get some more of the global market.