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Hope For Hollywood
By Ed Driscoll · November 27, 2005 09:45 AM
· Hollywood, Interrupted
I felt pretty cynical about the hope that Brian Anderson expressed for Hollywood in his recent City Journal essay, but hey, maybe he was right after all, when he noted: Guess what: ever more Americans are shunning Hollywood’s wares—and disgust with Left Coast politics, both on and off screen, clearly plays a part. In a time of declining moviegoing, what gets people out to the theaters, it turns out, are conservative movies—conservative not so much politically but culturally and morally, focusing on the battle between good and evil, the worth of heroism and self-sacrifice, the indispensability of family values and martial honor, and the existence of Truth. Hollywood used to turn out a steady supply of such movies—watch just about any film from its Golden Age of the thirties and forties—and it still makes them once in a while (sometimes thanks to off-screen lefties like Steven Spielberg). We may soon see a lot more of them.Narnia is due out next month; and Michelle Malkin links to this Times of London article that says that Bruce Willis is planning to make a film about the heroes of Deuce Four, (the battalion that won the battle for Mosul) based on the reporting of embedded journalist/blogger Michael Yon: ANGERED by negative portrayals of the conflict in Iraq, Bruce Willis, the Hollywood star, is to make a pro-war film in which American soldiers will be depicted as brave fighters for freedom and democracy.A lot can kill a film production before it gets off the ground (hey, how about that blockbuster cinematic version of Atlas Shrugged, huh?!), but hopefully this one will actually be made. As a member of the Pajamas editorial board is apt to say, Faster, Please. Update: Lorie Byrd and Betsy Newmark have some thoughts as well.
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