Bushwack, on his blog American & Proud (see my Usual Suspects sidebar) featured a recent post in which he revealed that filmmaker Brian DePalma is about to nationally release a film, “Redacted,” which is about the alleged “real-life rape and killing of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers who also murdered her family.” There is a character in this film called Reno Flake. Yeah. Right. No clue or bias there, eh?
Wordsmith also wrote about this heinous movie with his post — fully illustrative of the good that American soldiers are doing in Iraq.
When I read both posts, I skyrocketed into the proverbial ozone with identical comments on both blogs. They are there for you to read. In essence I said:
So, DEM (Defeatist, Elitist Media) and Hollywood, you want to play at the media game? Then this is what I want:
I WANT A FILM MADE FROM ALL THE HOME AND PROFESSIONAL VIDEOS AVAILABLE OF EVERY FUCKING PERSON THAT WAS FORCED TO JUMP FROM EITHER OF THE TWIN TOWERS ON 9/11.
I WANT A SOUNDTRACK, PROFESSIONALLY MANUFACTURED, IN ENHANCED DOLBY, IN CONCERT WITH THIS FOOTAGE, THAT ENABLES EACH AND EVERY VIEWER TO HEAR THE SOUND MADE BY THE THUD OF THOSE BODIES STRIKING THE PAVEMENT AND IMPACTING THE OVERHANGING METAL STRUCTURES PROTECTING INGRESS AREAS TO THE TWIN TOWERS.
I WANT C.G.I.-ENHANCED CLOSE-UPS OF THE FALLING AMERICANS AS THEY REALIZED THEY WERE SECONDS FROM THEIR DEATHS AND, HAVING MADE A DECISION, CHOSE JUMPING FROM A MASSIVE TOWERING BUILDING OVER BURNING TO DEATH IN THE OILY FLAMES OF JP-4 FUEL.
Here’s a start; I hope these images burn holes in your retina forever:
BZ
P.S.
Looks like my blog is going to have to become a visual repository of the egregious and horrible acts perpetrated against not only MY people, American citizens, but Western Culture as well.
You know what? So fucking be it. Let the visual truth commence.
Ya know, maybe it’s time some apathetic sons a bitches DO see those pics, OFTEN… Makes them remember what we’re all about…
Good job BZ… Damn good job…
I just get so tired of the DEM and Hollywood. . .
BZ
Amen Brother! The “progressives” are blind to every mis-deed other than their own country’s. WTF is wrong with these people? I’m now positive the old saying
“Liberalism is a mental disorder” is 100% true! There is no other viable explanation I can think of.
When you see America as the greatest evil in the world it blinds you to all the true evils.
Americans do bad things from time to time, but I think we are some of the best people on the planet.
America is the greatest nation on Earth but the World looks at us by what our leaders do.
I hope to God we start picking better leaders and soon.
By the way, there are many conservatives in Hollywood, it’s not all Liberals.
Mel Gibson
Tom Selleck
James Woods
Patricia Heaton
Andy Garcia
Gary Sinise
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Chuck Norris
LL Cool J
Freddie Prinze Jr.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Dennis Miller
Denzel Washington
Robert Duvall
Catherine Bell
Danny Aiello
James Earl Jones
Ron Silver
Kelsey Grammer
Morgan Brittany
Ben Stein
Pat Boone
Kathy Ireland
Rick Schroeder
Bo Derek
To name a few.
Where do you think Ronald Reagan, and Fred Thompson come from and were or are part of?
Why aren’t these conservative making movies conservatives want to see?
Why aren’t these conservatives telling their side of The War in Iraq?
To think that Hollywood is this mean Liberal machine is just wrong?
Another movie making America look bad! I’m sick of it too, BZ. I won’t be watching it, but I don’t think I need to tell you that. I hope it flops at the box office and I’m sure I don’t need to tell you that either. What can I tell you that you don’t already know? Nothing. I guess I’ll leave now. š
ranando brings up a valid point that there are conservatives in Hollywood, but the overall atmosphere is left, left, left.
The conservatives are a few lone voices in the wilderness and they rarely speak out.
Ranando: that information is good to know, but you answered your own questions, in a way: yes, there are evidently Conservatives in Hollywood, but they don’t wield the power and they don’t have control over what gets made. Your questions are indeed valid but the overarching answer is: they do NOT have the power. And that’s just the bottom line.
Perhaps it’s time, via you and others, to assist them into some form of consolidation where they CAN have the power to be filmmakers — producing films the public WILL want to see from valid and truthful perspectives.
I know you have “pull” in Hollywood; perhaps it’s time for you to “pull” those strings and see if it isn’t time for a consortium to be created with, perhaps, ALL those listed actors and filmmakers. What a powerful, powerful force ALL those persons would be, neh?
BZ
Those are heart-wrenching images BZ š
BZ,
I donāt have any āPULLā in Hollywood, I wish I had some. I roll the dice just like everybody else. When I say Hollywood, Iām speaking of the major studios, Paramount, Universal, Sony, Warner Bros, and 20th Century to name a few. These studios are major Corporations and are run like any other major Corporation, make money for the share-holders. I can tell you this, just as many conservatives as liberals run these Corporations, its all about making money. When it comes to making money in Hollywood, conservatives and liberals throw their political views right out the window and both look at the bottom line.
Itās sad to say but controversy is a major marketing tool for with these Studios. The more controversy about a film the more successful that film will be, thatās a fact.
My point was to just say that both conservatives and liberals play a major part in what is made and what is not made, itās not just liberals. Iām going to put together a post on this and name, names.
I am far more conservative then I am liberal and that make me a capitalist. We capitalist like to make money if itās our money thatās on the line. I pass on many projects that I donāt agree with and many have gone on to be great winners.
This film by Mr. de Palma is something I know nothing about, no involvement what so ever. If I was asked would I have become involved in such a project, no, I would have to pass on this one and any other project involving the War in Iraq, good or bad. Our soldiers are dying and I just donāt want to profit from that.
However, hope you go see, ā310 to Yumaā and āThe Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Fordā.
I just wanted to say that Hollywood is not āALLā liberals.
I feel that with more and more conservative independent film-makers, using independent production companies. We’ll start to see more films with conservative values being made and that I’m excited about.
Thanks for letting me comment.
Ranando: but isn’t it just POSSIBLE that, with a little prodding or “incentive” or, maybe, an idea offered in a dark bar over a few drinks, that floating the idea of something of a “conservative” or, if you didn’t want to make it so obvious, a “like minded” consortium of filmmakers could be convinced there is a market for their product?
In my opinion, there is a huge untapped market of writers, producers, directors, actors, waiting for a consolidated effort to bring some specific idea-oriented thoughts to market.
Make some consistent money, and people would sit up and take notice.
People did precisely that with “The Passion of the Christ” until Gibson shot himself in the foot.
BZ
BZ,
Yes, that’s very possible and is happening.
That’s why I mentioned these Independent film makers.
They don’t need the big studios. I support these young artist and I hope people will support them as well.
I think these young minds are the future in film-making and I will do whatever I can to help these young conservatives get their films out.
It’s just going to take some time, one step at a time.
I rarely go see movies these days; but if one came out that was unapologetically anti-Islamist and pro-war on Islamic terrorism, I’m there.
Btw,
I don’t believe that Hollywood is driven solely by the profit-motive. I think politics can sometimes trump profit.
And how is it that Fahrenheit 9/11 can get released during an election season, whereas the Path to 9/11 dvd is suppressed, when it could be drawing in profits around this time of the year? Could it be…..politics?