Memo to Hollywood: There’s Money Sitting On the Table

That the SEALs solved the pirate problem with three shots/three kills last weekend was no surprise; what was should have been really interesting to those of you in the Industry was the American public’s reaction.  The public was thrilled.  The good guys won, the bad guys lost – decisively.  There is a lesson there for you.

Here’s another lesson.  During an unpopular war, a popular star risked everything to bring a bestselling book to the screen about American fighting men battling a cruel and vicious enemy.  In 1968, you might think an unabashedly pro-war movie where the Americans were the heroes and the enemy the villains would have been soundly rejected, and it was – by the liberal elite. 

Roger Ebert, who never saw a film trashing the American fighting man he didn’t praise, still lists John Wayne’s “The Green Berets” as one of his most hated films forty years later.  But the public welcomed it, a film that could tell good from evil, and turned it into a hit.  It even spawned a hit song.  Where is the next war movie that outrages Roger Ebert while lining audiences up around the block? (more…)

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Tags: box office, john wayne, Military, Roger Ebert, The Green Berets
Posted Apr 17th 2009 at 12:02 pm in Entertainment, Media Criticism, Military | 1075622 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kschlichter/2009/04/17/memo-to-hollywood-americans-like-it-when-their-side-wins/Memo+to+Hollywood%3A+There%27s+Money+Sitting+On+the+Table2009-04-17+19%3A02%3A58Kurt+Schlichter