In search of the young male movie goer Hollywood has released:
Elizabethtown---totally boring
Good Night and Good Luck---story of Edward R Murrow (Who?) About a newscaster nobody under the age of seventy has ever heard of.
Domino---story about the daughter an actor nobody under the age of sixty has ever heard of
The Fog---Pirates of the Carribean re-ducks
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio----you gotta be kidding
Just Like Heaven---this chick keeps appearing and disappearing,
Who greenlights this shit? And does anybody give a shit about the shareholders?
10/16/2005
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Who greenlights this sh*t?
A couple thoughts:
Hollywood has put up a public relations facade of youthfullness for decades. However, one suspects that most Hollywooders with real decision making authority, say so or say no, are elderly.
These elder tycoons prefer movies that interest them. The biopic about Murrow, for instance, which I assume is really about Sen. MacCarthy, whom the surviving elders of Hollywood cannot ever forget.
Acutally, i first though this thought sveral years ago while watching part of the movie "Funny Girl" on cable TV. This flick was made in the 1960's, but is set in, I think, the so-called "Gay [18]90's." I though to myself, "People who like that movie must have some memories of pre-WWI show business."
Hence also Hollywood's preference for 1960's oppositionalism, or whatever you want to call it. Baby Boomer Hollywood execs are starting to qualify for the Senior Discount, and these machers born fifty or more years ago assume that today's young men go for '60's era attitudes and poses.
Hence we get movies such as "Troy" and "Alexander" instead of unabashed war movies about current wars ... war movies which make kinds sorta have to have a point of view and take a side, maybe not the Left side.
As for these PG flicks such as "The Prize Winner" -- the Hollywood biz also seems to be crippled by the corprate sclerorsis of blandness, blandness, blandness, play it safe.
Or maybe not always safe. Get this:
Holy war looms over Disney's Narnia epic
As the UK prepares for a CS Lewis movie blockbuster this Christmas, a row has broken out about its Christian message
by Paul Harris
Sunday October 16, 2005
The Observer
To millions The Chronicles of Narnia are a childhood tale of wonder and triumph now made into a film that could inspire millions of children to read. To others, including the celebrated fantasy author Philip Pullman, they are stories of racism and thinly veiled religious propaganda that will corrupt children rather than inspiring them.
Either way, one thing is certain: this Christmas, and perhaps the next six, depending on sequels, everyone will be talking about Narnia. Disney is already in the middle of one of the biggest marketing campaigns in recent cinematic history. It is trying to lure both mainstream filmgoers and evangelical Christians, who will respond to CS Lewis's parallels between his characters and the Bible. HarperCollins is set to publish 170 Lewis-related books in more than 60 countries, many of them Christian-themed works. Disney has hired Christian marketing groups to handle the film.
For Pullman, who is an avowed atheist and a critic of Lewis, that is bad news. 'If the Disney Corporation wants to market this film as a great Christian story, they'll just have to tell lies about it,' Pullman told The Observer ...
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1593201,00.html
-- david.davenport.1@netzero.com
Or meebe the movie biz has simply been taken over by Lefty politics, and that's it, all there is to it.
Consider this from Steve Sailer's excellent isteve.com:
Charlize Theron plays an iron miner in "North Country:" I review the fictionalized biopic (opening Friday, October 21st) about the lady miner who sued for sexual harassment in the American Conservative now available to electronic subscribers (subscribe here). An excerpt:
You might assume that the sexual harassment issue died of hypocrisy in 1998 when feminists stood by the wounded Bill Clinton, but the left's long march through the institutions is immune to shame. The media is perhaps the key institution, because, as Orwell noted in 1984, "'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'" ...
Unless Charlize does a nudie scen in that movie, I don't think many young guys are going to watch it.
-- david.davenport1.@netzero.com
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