What Conservatives Need to Know About Hollywood
by Michael WilsonWhen I was trying to make my first little documentary, subtly entitled “Michael Moore Hates America,” I begged for money. Nothing new there, as begging for money is as much a part of life for independent filmmakers as it is for the myriad windshield washers or single-rose vendors that relentlessly approach my gas-guzzling SUV whenever I pull onto an offramp in any major city. I was turned down… a lot.
One night, I sat in a room in New York where I’d been invited to do a dog and pony show for the vast right wing conspiracy, including four of the nation’s billionaires. I made my little speech and showed them a trailer which I’d ably culled together from the hours of footage I’d already shot (and which was unknowingly financed by Mastercard). I made a great pitch. More than a few of the people in the room approached me to tell me that they thought it was awesome. “This is really what we need. I hope you can find the money,” was the quote of the night. But, alas, conservatives have ventured as far as AM radio and the book store when it comes to imparting their ideas into pop culture. And it seems the movement fears trying new things about as much as it fears Obama’s tax policy.
Hollywood doesn’t like us to begin with – even those of us who are hardcore libertarians and don’t automatically identify with the GOP or social conservatism. They don’t like our pro-American, pro-liberty, self-interested way of life, and they certainly don’t think our ideas would work on film. There is a an old-hat idea that speaking truth to power (especially when the power is a rich old white man or evil corporation) is what makes for the most compelling films. It’s a tried and true formula. And despite its self-aggrandized reputation for creativity and artistic risk-taking, Hollywood thrives on formulas. Hell, they can tell you by noon on Friday what a movie will make over a weekend, because there are teams of people who spend their lives figuring out the formula. But I digress.
The truth about the “conservative film movement” that was whispered about a few years ago is that it doesn’t exist yet. I mean, unless the films involve Jesus getting the living shit kicked out of him, conservatives haven’t proven to be a reliable audience when it comes time to hit the theaters. It doesn’t help that there are a few conservative film festivals that show more speeches on DVD than compelling, emotional films, simply because they think about ideology before entertainment.
What conservatives need to know about Hollywood is that a filmmaker’s first job is to entertain people. To make them laugh, cry, be inspired… to feel. Ideology is secondary to entertainment… which is why they call it the entertainment industry and not the ideology industry (the latter resides across the country in DC). Some people on the right even went so far as to tell me that because my movie got “two thumbs up” from Ebert & Roeper and laudatory reviews in the trades, that we must’ve cowed to “Liberal Hollywood.”
The trick to transforming the very real liberal bias in Hollywood is to change the formula that Hollywood uses by finding AND FINANCING films and television projects that engage people emotionally first and speak to ideology second. If they watch our stuff and walk out of the theater not feeling ripped off, we’ve done our job. If they think about our message, that’s simply a bonus. Check out Adam Sandler’s “Click” for a tutorial on what I mean. It’s a high-concept story that is both funny and poignant with enough star power to draw a crowd. And in the end, the message is about being responsible for your decisions and putting your family before your career… a family values film that sold tickets and lots of DVDs.
And if we do care about our ideology, we’ll definitely need to stretch our comfort zones. Penn Jillette said “Fuck” 14 times in my movie. The 55 year-old mother of grown children at the MPAA cringed as she read the list of vulgarities that earned us an R rating. Yet there was a conservative preacher in the audience at one screening deep in the heart of Texas who told me that she didn’t like the language, but liked the message, so she was willing to suffer Penn’s foul, filthy mouth. We need more attitudes like that if we really want to change the culture.
If you want to make a long-term impact in pop culture about the potential of the individual, about freedom and responsibility, about the greatness of the United States of America, we need to quit trying to make two-hour speeches on film and start telling stories that make people feel things. There are plenty of Michael Wilsons and Evan Coyne Maloneys (the genius behind “Indoctrinate U”) out there, just waiting to do stuff that matters. We just need your trust and the chance to beg for your money. Maybe you won’t be the one to hope someone else writes a check.
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As a conservative Im not looking to get rid of the foul language, although I do think writers can be more clever about its use rather than filling it in wherever just get ratings up – - and it might be more “forgiven” if the person who spews the language is either the villain or shown to be ridiculous for doing so. But I wholeheartedly agree – one cannot get to moving messages by bleaching human stories of all the icky elements we want to shield our children from. “Tell the truth, but tell it slant.” I had made a comment on Dirty Harry’s site before he moved here that I thought that this is what fairy tales are good for: communicating some deep and dark messages about the World and Life in a manner that is easier to swallow. If conservatives filmmakers want to find good source material, model a story after a fairy tale…and try to find ones that are teh usual (there’s only so much about Cinderella I can take). Im telling you, there’s some gutwrenching stuff to be mined in those stories, and Im talking about the OLD stories, not the ones bleached by Disney and Hollywood even in its Golden Age.
Just my rambling thoughts….
Thank you for saying what NEEDS to be said. I would love to make film that speak too the the conservative values that I believe in. The problem is, I can watch these great stories on TCM and few people will want to spend the money remake them.
Yup, on the “Hollywood Elsewhere” blog, someone said that conservatives can’t make good films, as did some commenter here, as well as our very own Roger Simon.
To be honest, I can’t blame them.
I’m no filmmaker, but I’ll tell you for certain — a film’s ideology or worldview does not by itself make the film boring, since even liberal films fail when they put ideology first. It is when you become didactic and preachy that your film begins to smell of garbage; when cardboard, flat heroes and one-note, predictable villains are the order of the day, the viewer cannot relate in any meaningful sense at all.
I’m not saying you have to be some relativist that accepts all things as equally valid; discounting the existence of evil is certainly not necessary. Rather, I’m saying that it helps to write something that, at least at the start, portrays the world — and the people in it — as they actually are, and not as how we would like them to be.
Just my $.02.
Here is a conservative film made by a conservative in 1968. A huge sensation, it made millions cry when it first came out.
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCLlIw8rFIA&feature=related[/url]
Classic literature is essentially conservative.
That link was a dud. It was to Zeffirelli’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’
That book “South Park Conservatives” speaks to this also, and there is an youth undercurrent trending toward a more conservative outlook in America.
Plenty of people in their 20-30s are sick of PC nonsense, sick of getting bullied by foreigners living in the middle ages (including the UN), like the idea of achieving success through the “American Dream” and were not wooed by Obamanation. In a way, it’s rebellion against our overly-sensitive and terribly immature Baby Boomer parents.
I’ve also noticed that these people tend to have a stronger sense of humor, especially when it comes satire and irony. And let’s face it, the left is an endless spring of hypocrisy and policies ripe for ridicule.
Looking forward to your next movie!
Big fan of Michael Moore Hates America and nice to hear your opinions again, Mr. Wilson. It doesn’t dampen my love of the documentaries made by folks on our side, but the concern to make more, and well-done, narratives still exists, something I brought up when I interviewed David Bossie last year. Hopefully, he just wasn’t blowing smoke when he told me Citizens United would be taking steps in that direction.
I think that if you try and ‘MAKE A GREAT CONSERVATIVE FILM’ you are very likely to fail. Just like all those supposedly fantastic anti-war films of the past few years failed – it’s simplistic and demeaning toward the audience to push something on them like cheap student propaganda. I suppose that’s the point of this site, that if you recruit more conservatives into film-making, eventually you will find a good storyteller out there, a talent who can engage people, not propogandize, but whose sympathies make for a very different set of villains and heroes than is typical for Hollywood.
I just want to see a good story, about interesting characters, that is well and simply told. Is that conservative or liberal?
I would propose that when you look deeper into character arcs, successful Hollywood films are predominately conservative. Happy-ending movies tilt to conservative optimism. Just look at the construct of the classic hero archetype. If I were to propose in a story pitch that my hero is a victim who cries out for government handouts, I’d be laughed out of the meeting. If I were to pitch that my hero is a bitter narcissist who forces others to comply to an ego-driven utopian ideal, again I’d be shown the door. But if I define my hero is a purpose-driven individual of integrity, humility, personal responsibility and self-sacrifice, they’d love it. If I said my hero is an individual who rarely complains and makes the best of difficult circumstances, they’d be getting out their checkbooks.
I’m just saying look a little deeper, folks. There are tons of conservatives in this town.
Bad language is something that’s become US culture specific. If you want to present something that is considered worthy of attention by adults, it’s become necessary to employ liberal use of the F word and possibly some gratuitous gore for good measure. Otherwise it will be ignored as facile or immature. Remove the children cursing, killing, urinating etc in South Park and you have a 3 episode series.
Interestingly, Japanese anime, for example, has an enormous fan base of very nearly the same South Park demographic. Yet the Japanese don’t have curse words per se. I read this that produce work which is artistic, creative and perhaps exotic enough and you’ve got an audience.
Liberalism is based on emotion, and good storytelling is based on emotion, so its very easy to make a Liberal “Message Movie” that is entertaining since the underlying thesis is emotion based.
I think conservatives need to give up on the idea of making “Conservative Message Movies” and just write good stories. The mere fact that they are created by conservatives will put the conservative messages and values into them.
As for material, there’s TONS of conservative/libertarian fiction writers out there (or at least writers that write good stories based on conservative values). There are probably more good novels that could be translated to the screen than could be made into movies in 5 lifetimes.
Hell, we’ve seen some of these types of books turned into movies by liberals (often twisting the original thesis to fit the liberal worldview). Tom Clancy novels, Stephen Hunter’s Shooter, the abominations that were made out of Heinlein’s Starship Troopers and The Puppet Masters.
We’re clearly not lacking in good story ideas.
Bella is an example of a realistic “little movie that could”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482463/
@ ONPARKSTREET
“I just want to see a good story, about interesting characters, that is well and simply told. Is that conservative or liberal?”
Ah, don’t worry one bit. I understand you completely.
Steve Chapman met Milton Friedman when he was an undergraduate. Friedman asked Chapman what he wanted to be when he grew up. Chapman said a “libertarian journalist.” Friedman advised him to be a
journalist first and a libertarian second. Good advice for conservative or libertarian filmmakers as well.
What do you all think of Judd Apatow’s movies “40 Year Old Virgin” and “Knocked Up”? In some ways the are subversive to the current culture. In the former, the protagonist finally finds his sexual fulfillment with in the bounds of marriage, and in the latter, he owns up to the consequences of his actions, and finally marries the girl.
As Peter Gruber said about Hollywood, “We’re in the emotional transportation business.”
A movie must make you FEEL something. An ideology-first movie of any stripe must fail.
Even the nonsensical Fahrenheit 9/11 got a lot of people angry, at least, at Bush.
Michael Moore, of course, used some subtle distortions in that movie. Like NOT showing the planes hitting the towers – in a movie with ‘9/11′ in the title!
That’s because if people saw that footage they might’ve gotten pissed off at the terrorists – and NOT at George W. Bush.
So that footage never made it in the final cut.
But somehow the footage of the recovering soldier who lost his arms made it into the film – even though the soldier didn’t want to be used in the movie and eventually sued Michael Moore.
Thanks for your insights Micheal. I sort of understand the plight. Trying to get my novels to film has been a wierd process, and infact, I’d rather castrate a bull blindfold. The prospects would be so much more delightful.
Your film is a refreshing alternative to the torture that the studios are releasing – we don’t need another Global warming PC message – we want entertainment Very good thoughts, indeed. Rock on.
Andrew – thanks for this site – wonderful
Michael, as a filmmaker myself, I whole-heartedly agree. Any film, but films with conservative messages especially, need to be entertaining. The cliche about women needing to be twice as good as a man to be half as successful may not be true for women in today’s world, but it is definitely true for films that battle liberal ideology.
This may not be entirely apropos, but “Sullivan’s Travels” may be the film where we find inspiration.
Oh, and, please, give us money to make more movies!
@ John the libertarian: “I’m just saying look a little deeper, folks. There are tons of conservatives in this town.”
I would disagree with that a little. I don’t think there are tons of conservatives in H-weird, but I think they have looked past the curtain and seen the wizard. Liberal principles don’t sell. Conservative do. So to a)feed themselves and b)turn a profit, they write semi-conservative films. Then during interviews before the movie, the director and stars denounce Bush, cry “Nazi”, and say that Gitmo needs to be shut down. This keeps everybody looking to the left and nobody really notices the true premise of the movie. It is doublespeak; obviously, leftists are artists when it comes to doublespeak.
It’s really more about distribution than financing. Having a distribution network, e.g. an original pay cable platform, gives you production funding, internal and external promotion options, and a permanent pipeline as opposed to a one-shot deal.
Along with pay cable and PBS, basic cable is the strongest market for documentaries. I don’t think we’re at the point yet where internet or VOD throws off enough revenue to compete with these established entities. But even the liberals, who must be 99% of the pro documentarians, can barely make a business out of it. Existing news organizations and specialized channels built around business, nature, celebrity BS, crime etc. seem to be the most viable.
I do see a significant traditionalist audience available in television for narrative stories targeted to the center-right the way Fox did with news. The new major investor would want to plunk down some serious production funding and incorporate educated achievers in that definition of center-right, so as not to go all bland, cheap and saccharine like PAX or Hallmark. But the entire advertiser-supported realm creates problems because so many traditionalists are fast moving out of the 18-49 demographic.
One well positioned company to challenge the status quo would be Liberty, owner of pay network Starz and the Encore channels, as well as chunks of DirecTV and Discovery. Starz has never been a big risk taker, and their recent original output mimics the harsh, edgy tone of their competitors instead of going traditional and mature like TNT, which I consider the best entertainment network out there right now.
It is not necessary to tolerate swearing in films. Conservatives only do this for the same reason we tolerate the white guy being the villain – because often we do want to kick back and watch a movie, but this is all we get. Except if you haven’t gone retro yet. In that case the Golden Age of (studio production code) Hollywood is your oyster. Virtually any film made during that era would count as conservative.
To get back to the swearing example – most people on seeing “Goodfellas” for the first time might be inclined to imagine that Joe Pesci’s terrifying performance would have been destroyed by a ban on the F-word. (They would probably imagine an alternative in which he used fake Mutley-like cussing as he did to deliberate comic effect in “Home Alone”.)
Yet I would contrast Pesci’s praiseworthy performance with the at least equally shocking performance of Kirk Douglas in “Gunfight at the OK Corral”.
I will never forget the murderous stare, the slow approach, the clenched fists that you know mean business, as he confronts his character (Doc Holliday)’s mistress, played by Jo Van Fleet.
As if this wasn’t enough, the tension is taken to another level when he demands that she break her silence on her relationship with Johnny Ringo. On the page, I suppose the script reads something like “[Holliday screams]: ‘Was Ringo there?’”. Combine that line with an actor whose masculinity is a benchmark for other on-screen performers – not forgetting the credit due to director John Sturges – and you have an effect that no doubt would make even Tommy DeVito jump out of his skin.
Glad to see this movie, and hope to see more like it.
I agree that a movie first must tell a story and engage the audience, and lastly it can be encased withing a conservative frame.
I also agree that the conservative right of Hollywood must stand up and let it voice be heard in the movies.
Unfortunately the conservative right is still being beat senseless by the liberal left and their control of the schools and their indoctrination of this countries youth.
Michael, remember, the DMG Theorem is our friend! Support it, promote it, disseminate it … and we have our society once again.
“300″ was a VERY conservative film. The lefties just don’t recognize “conservative” themes. Most of the beta-male reviewers do though, and they try to shut down movies like Apocolyto and 300 before the young leftards start lovin’ those good ole “conservative ideas”.
Heh- kinda like the popularity of Fox’s 24.
Wayfarer – January 8th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Liberal principles don’t sell. Conservative do.
Clarify what you mean. Because from my perspective Hollywood is doing pretty well. So if it is doing well then – by your view – the mainstream blockbusters are all Conservative movies. [?]
The bottom line is ‘Hollywood’ and movie producers and distributors and exhibitors will pick up your movie if they think it will sell. There are plenty of movies made by leftists with a real agenda that never see the light of day. But it is not because of it’s politics that keeps it from the megaplex. It is many other factors. Same for conservatives.
Look Ben Stein just put out a movie and it did alright for the niche crowd that would appreciate non-science.
It’s just the nature of story. It lends itself to the David vs. Goliath structure. I’d argue that Clint Eastwoods films are conservative. Most love stories do not paint infidelity in a good light. Most conservatives grimmace through the liberal message to be entertained. We don’t want message, we want escape.
Liberals think that people are stupid and need to be instructed. It’s really the whole philosophy – everyone else is just ignorant – as can be seen in all the network PSA’s telling me how to spend time with my kids. Thanks Hollywood, you’re a great example.
I’m a screenwriter with a host of subtle conservative ideals in both finished script and pitch. I live in the south where the sky is blue almost every day. It would be a great place to start fresh. In my mind that’s the only way to do it.
Here we get to my pet peeve about the Right. There are tons of well-to-do persons who have brains in their heads. There are intelligent conservatives who can make movies], heck, even liberals, like Ron Silver, who use their heads and don’t hate America, and are willing to call them as they see them. But talent is out there.
The problem is that people on the right always gripe and don’t act. If you have some cash, why not set aside a little of it, instead of putting it all in the market, the yacht, or the think tank, and join a syndicate that will finance conservative/libertarian-friendly media, whether it is to buy a bankrupt liberal daily newspaper, TV channel, or finance a movie?
Taken a step farther- why can’t conservatives open up a high-risk mutual fund that every center-right or libertarian person can toss 1% of the high risk asset allocation of his IRA into, and let that fund finance conservative fillum projects? The distribution and marketing models are pretty well set- if you can’t get a first run deal (a la “Fireproof”), you rent a theater screen for a week in strategic locations as Evan Coyne Maloney did, show the movie, hit all the viral methods (Web, YouTube, etc.), and promote the DVD like crazy. Make a deal with sports bars to devote one screen in the corner to the movie, etc.- sports bars are healthier these days than theaters anyway, since it costs all of $500 to set up a very decent home theater these days with a 4′by 7′ screen.
We complain all the time about lefty media, and then when we have a chance to do something, we go home and whine some more instead of acting on the issue.
I don’t think I understand the gripes conservatives have with Hollywood, or the media, or anything having to do with culture. What I get from this thread, and from other so called conservative blogs, is that a group of people who call themselves conservatives want media to completely reinforce their attitudes and beliefs. And I get the sense that any media that doesn’t follow the spoon fed ideology formula is liberal. Therein, I believe, lies the problem. Who wants to sit through two hours of boring, boring indoctrination? It seems this group is advocating something that is closer to Stalin than Adam Smith. Making movies involves extreme financial risk. You aren’t likely to have Hank Paulson around to bail you out if your movie flops and your investors lose their money. It seems very ironic that a group that supposedly favors the free market wants to socialize one of the few remaining American industries that still makes money.
Wayfarer,
this is the dilemma. Hollywood is unfortunately stigmatized by a handful of self-adulating directors who make crappy movies and rush to their favorite MSM outlet to espouse their political views. And then there’s actors who, to some extent, cry out I-am-an-insecure-narcissist, please-just-really-like-me-Sally-Fields, and would therefore not be caught dead in anything but designer clothes and liberal chic. The rest of us – producers, animators, writers, SFX, composers, sound engineers, agents, managers, distributors and all the below-the-line talent – it’s at best a bell-curve distribution of political ideology. I can’t count the times I’ve talked to self-described liberals in this town who surprise me with how conservative they really are.
Most of the conservatives in this town are awfully good at faking liberal chic (it’s very easy to do). We do it to get laid. No, honestly though, we do it to avoid futile arguments. That’s what grown-ups do. Choose your fights wisely. You’re not gonna change anyone’s politics or religion by arguing with him. It’s more important to make good film.
I’m working in getting a home based biz going. I know I will find great success doing what I’m doing, offering what I offer.
I also know that when I make it and have developed a strong financial machine and am bringing in the strong pay days I know are out there, high on my list of things to do is find good, smart, creative Center-Right folks who have a new idea, whether it be a film, book, or whatever, and do whatever I can to get them the financing they’ll need.
Everyone wants something to happen NOW. This is a long term project. If you support it then you need to be in it for the long hall.
Firstly, THANK YOU Big Hollywood –this is an awesome forum.
I would like to throw out here the possibility that the only way to bring an ideological balance and a re-focus on producing quality audience-centric movies to the main-stream Motion Picture Industry is to build a movement outside and away from Hollywood. Far away from the MPAA, the Unions, the self-congratulatory award shows and film festivals, and the celebrity obsessed culture that it perpetuates.
Independence (true independence, not the Starbucks-sponsored-Robert Redford-kind) may be the answer. It might be worth re-thinking how production and distribution works –overhauling the entire business model.
It may be that the best way to truly change Hollywood (and our popular culture) is by introducing real, un-fettered, all-American and independent competition.
Marvin:
Wow. If you substitute “liberal” for “conservative” throughout your entire diatribe we’d be in agreement. I don’t even bother going to most “message” films coming out of Hollywood because the message is merde. And I do believe most of the moving going public in those fly-over states Hollywood disdains don’t go either. Witness the crop of Iraq “message” films that bombed at the box office because the message was AMERICA SO BAD!!!
I guess there are a lot more liberal backers willing to throw their money away backing films that won’t be seen but promote their message.
ONPARKSTREET has it. I want to see movies and other media with a good story. Leave something to the imagination. I don’t want every sexual act in detail and I don’t want to see every murder victim for hours on the screen. If historical, don’t give me crap just so I’ll watch. I’ll put my money down for a good show with no liberal messages.
“start telling stories that make people feel things” Amen!
It’s a Wonderful Life, Family Man, Unforgiven, Gran Torino, Cinderalla Man, Open Range, Return To Me… Great Stories, Conservative Values.
Put Story First, the Truth will come out of it and ring true.
Good stories make people want to invest!
Michael,
What a great article! You bring a refreshing vision and an opportunity for Conservative Americans. We have to go to the theater and support conservative movies! We can all lighten up about the language a bit. I’d like to be able to take my kids to good movies, so I’d rather the foul language wasn’t there. But, I am a big boy. I have heard the words before. And, I can leave the kids at home in the good care of a trusted babysitter.
Anyway, keep it up! Maybe someday we’ll even get young Disney “tween” stars to stop putting naked pictures of themselves online. Must be some sort of training they go through with Disney to help sell themselves.
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I have to say I find it interesting that this discussion about why Hollywood is so bad seems to focus on the fact that it is too ‘liberal’. But the fact is mainstream Hollywood is loathed just as much [if not more] by Liberals and the Left. We hate the formulas, the tacked on happy endings, the pro-war movies, the sappy family values message films, the romance films, etc.
I don’t know but as a fan of such filmmakers as Cassavetes, Altman, Ashby and Schrader [to name a few] it seems from my view that Hollywood is actually way too Conservative. Yes, the studio heads and directors may vote for Democrats and be socially liberal but they see green $$ before all else and usually they give the audience whatever they want. That is predictable formulas that sell.
I have tried to post on here over five times and each time, they won’t post. The small posting get through but my long ones don’t. Is there a reason for this????
Jack – I’m getting the same damned problem!
Carolyn, I am starting to feel like I am North Korean around here?
I didn’t save any of the posting either and now I can’t remember what I wrote
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“I can’t count the times I’ve talked to self-described liberals in this town who surprise me with how conservative they really are”
That’s because they ARE ‘conservative’. That is to say they want the same basic end product from government–more freedom for everyone, a better world, a safe world etc. They just can’t seem to understand that the ideology of the left only pays lip service to the things they want–the left uses the words, but it has very different ends that what they appear to be advocating.
So when you talk with liberals, by and large, you can agree on a whole host of things.
So right! No one wants to be hit over the head with a brick. In fact the more you shove it down their throats, the more they will gag. So, yes let’s entertain, let’s show liberal Hollywood we can put out projects that make people laugh, cry and want to buy tickets. profit, in the end is what makes Hollywood smile-regardless of ideology. Just look at the Hollywood offers handed to Sarah Palin
For some reason, conservatives have been called humorless. I find the opposite true, so let’s DO IT
MODDEM said: “But the fact is mainstream Hollywood is loathed just as much [if not more] by Liberals and the Left. We hate the formulas, the tacked on happy endings, the pro-war movies, the sappy family values message films, the romance films, etc.”
Ummm… pro war movies? Really? What pro war movies? Are you sure you didn’t tune into a classics night and watched some WW2 movies? What pro war movies do you mean exactly?
Sappy family values message films…? Such as…. what exactly? I’m drawing a blank here.
Romance films. What? You hate romance films? How can one hate romance films? Is this a leftist thing against romance or just you? Did you get dumped recently or something? Angry there aren’t enough gay / transgender cross species romance films? Trying to understand you.
Are you sure leftists (the ones like you anyway) don’t loathe Hollywood because you pretty much loathe everything, yourself included?
Fireproof – OK acting, cheap to make and not much for special effects. The people in the theaters were in tears. There was boo-hooing, snot and tearing going on all over the place. We loved the movie for the message and the ending. The movie made millions and it’s the first time in three years a movie theater got money from me. Hear that Hollywood. We just want decent movies. Keep your politics to yourself. I haven’t seen an awards show in three years also because I just got tired of the actors and actresses spewing their BS views and I wont be watching this year either. There are millions put there who think the same way. We just want decent movies and tv to watch with our families, that’s all.
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Great job, well said. If only HBO would show your movie, that would be a start. The main principle of ‘conservatism’ is ‘individual liberty’, that is instinctual and naturally understood. We must keep planting this thought in the minds of young people, so that they will be better able to resist their institutional brainwashing. ‘Leftism’ is a lie, it is phony.
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe hates
the principles of FREEDOM
fascism comes from The Right
that is the lie of The Left
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
never mock The Left
it’s just their religion
you RIGHT-WING INFIDEL
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All real freedom starts with freedom of speech. Without freedom of speech there can be no real freedom.
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http://libertarian.to
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http://haltterrorism.com
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http://lulu.com/USpace
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