Posted on 07/13/2016 5:09:16 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Thank heavens for progressive Hollywood. Otherwise, how would we know what to think about our culture, particularly the newest chic cause célèbre du jour, which is the LGBT movement?
Actually, let me reconsider that statement. It doesn’t matter what we think. We will be told by our statist overlords what to think, how to feel, what to accept, and when to celebrate whatever new human right of their choosing. This, of course, is always done for our own good.
So, sorry Black and Hispanic actors and actresses – you’ve been displaced. Sure, you’re people of color and all, but beyond that, you’re as passé as the rest of us heteros. There’s not much more advantage Hollywood can extract from your oppression, so they are moving on to the new frontier (pardon the pun) of jamming the LGBT agenda down the public's throat.
Case in point is the latest big-budget installment of the new Star Trek series of movies. Even if you’re not a Star Trek fan of old, you probably know, or would at least recognize, the actor George Takei, who played Hikaru Sulu in the original 1960s television show. Takei has made cameo appearances in numerous television shows - the most recent of note is The Big Bang Theory.
In real life, Takei is homosexual and has been, I guess, for his whole adult life. Yet, he and everyone else on the Enterprise Starship were straight. Of course they were – it was 1960s television.
But the times have changed and Hollywood is more concerned with pressing the LGBT agenda than making good films. The writers, directors, and actors - all whacky liberals - have decided to make the Star Trek character Sulu homosexual.
This is said to be a tribute to openly homosexual Takei.
However, the actor himself does not agree. Takei has come out firmly against the idea. Takei, who personally knew Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek said: “Unfortunately, it's a twisting of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry's creation, to which he put in so much thought. I think it's really unfortunate.” He added that Roddenberry, who knew Takei was homosexual, always envisioned the Enterprise's helmsman as heterosexual.
But this doesn’t matter to the progressives who know better. They will honor Takei’s homosexuality, whether he likes it or not. Because, as I stated – it’s not a tribute to the actor at all – it’s the agenda baby – always the agenda.
Actor Simon Pegg, who plays Mr. Scott in the films and also co-wrote the latest installment, doesn’t seem to give a crap what Takei thinks. Takei isn’t allowed to disagree. He should know that.
I often quote movies and TV when they apply, and now is no different. In an episode of the Big Bang Theory, one of the main characters, Sheldon, has a falling out with his core group of friends, so he ventures off to find new ones. He then shows back up at one of the old friend’s apartment, where his old friends are all gathered. They ask why he is not with his new buddies. He exclaims that “they were having fun wrong.”
This sums up this latest (and every) leftist agenda item. This is how we must proceed and no one is allowed to disagree – not even the person they claim to wish to honor. Just sit down – shut up – and be honored!
We don’t, at least most as movie-goers, go to see a big budget action movie for the intricate plot lines or character interactions. We go because of the bigger-than-life non-stop action. Sure, the movies must have good, likable characters, or those we love to hate, but beyond that, we don’t much care who does what extracurricularly.
But Hollywood will gladly sacrifice viewer approval and lose viewership for the agenda, which is what will happen. Again – they don’t care. Advancing the agenda is all that matters. You just watch. Hollywood will begin to insist that every movie and new television program have at least one LGBT character in it.
Maybe this can be the centerpiece of Hillary Clinton’s campaign platform – a chicken in every pot and a homosexual in every movie and television program.
In the ancient past, homos were used as “comic relief” in various shows. Now they are the main character, and the “straight” person is now comic character.
I don’t watch Tv shows or go to movies anymore. I have lots of OLD good movies.
Wife: But Verizon's new plan has unlimited texting"
Hubby: "Yes, but they don't know that."
I loved that commercial because it showed the white, male father outsmarting his teenager children and getting them to do a chore. And impressing his wife with his parenting skills.
In Sleeper Woody Allen featured homosexual robots.
Being a veteran I never watched one episode of this crappy series.
Wow! A white male looking good in a commercial? Will wonders never cease? Another reason to stick with Verizon.
I quit watching Walking Dead because they felt obligated to show a homosexual kiss. Quit watching Lost for the same reason. I really liked both shows but I won’t have that crap rubbed in my face.
They took TVLND off our lineup.
Yes but he even stated that they are perverting Roddenberry’s original vision so good for him.
Who is “we?” You don’t speak for me. I noticed that they were sodomites and was disgusted.
Raj is going to.
They’ve been hinting at it for years.
A great movie.
I was speaking colloquially.
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Much like the obligatory “wheel chair person” in almost every TV commercial.
I hope that the declining numbers of cinema goes is a true fact. I have to humour my spouse (bless her) and go to a movie. This is about twice a month.
Now the only choice of six movies locally was a movie called "Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates". I am not easily shocked and am not prudish. My quick summation of it is that it shows what an older generation would call perversion. If, what is shown in that movie is accepted as a "norm", they (perverts) may have won. It not that, then they are winning.
I say this to my wife, everytime.
I also ask her about the “profusely tattooed” chef and whether they have had their HEP-C immunization.
Not only must they have one, but he/she must never be portrayed accurately.
HOMOSEXUAL, because there’s nothing GAY about it.
Do you mean that the actor is not homosexual, or that the character the actor plays is not homosexual but faking it? I don't watch it either.
Disease vectors in the kitchen.
There's ALWAYS been more than one in every movie...and has been since the first movie was ever made....only we never knew it.
Basically, every movie ever produced has had or now has a cast of actors of which a goodly percentage are homosexuals and lesbians...and we've been watching them for most of our lives without knowing it.
Examples: Ramon Novarro (one among many in silent films), Montgomery Clift, Rock Hudson, Dirk Bogarde, Ian McKellen, Jodie Foster, John Glover, Cesar Romero, Sal Mineo, Farley Granger, Greta Garbo (bi-sexual), Marlene Dietrich (bi-sexual), on and on.
During the Golden Era of the Silver Screen, studios went to great lengths to hide the predilections of their stars, even routinely arranging splashy "beard" marriages with the opposite sex for them.
Today, in films and increasingly in TV, homosexuality is all out in the open and being deliberately foisted on us and our children as a normal, loving, routine aspect of life.
I haven't been inside a movie theater for 20 years now, yet I'm an inveterate classic film watcher at home. I just won't support the agenda of today's leftist and amoral Hollywood colony with ticket money at my corner Bijou.
Leni
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