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December 08, 2008
Big Hollywood
It's no secret that the Hollywood community is overwhelmingly liberal, deeply left leaning. Many of the films that Hollywood chooses to bankroll are often thinly disguised propaganda pieces flogging the year's most fashionable "progressive" causes.
It's also no secret that there are plenty of Hollywood conservatives who are forced to fly below the radar because there is an unofficial black-list against those who do not mindlessly spew the party line.
A few years ago I wrote about my experiences in Hollywood as it became clear to me that Islamo Nazism was being ignored or excused by liberal Hollywood. It was also chillingly obvious that Hollywood consciously abandoned Israel. No big shock for the left is a comfortable home for Jew-hatred disguised as “mere anti-Zionism.”
I've been in too many meetings where studio and TV execs shy away from stories that feature Arab Muslim terrorists for fear of being accused of that non-existent prejudice, Islamophobia. The only place this condition exists as a terrifying fact—not as some new and novel victim liberal fantasy intended to excuse terrorism—is in Muslim societies where Sunni slaughter Shia and Shia slaughter Sunni.
Hollywood, more and more, is revealed as a gullible group of appeasers and anti-American hysterics—one miserable film after another about Iraq is nauseating proof. And so, it has become necessary for conservatives, those who share common Judeo Christian values and a love of Israel, to band together and expand the narrow political and aesthetic discourse that dominates Hollywood and those who write about Hollywood.
To this end, Andrew Breitbart founded Big Hollywood, an informative, entertaining and articulate all-things Hollywood website. My good friend Dirty Harry was tapped by Andrew to be Editor-in-Chief.
I've been asked to be a regular contributor, a great honor, for the list of contributors is long and impressive.
My first article is "The Real Battle of Algiers," a two part essay that illuminates the skillful jihadist propaganda that is Gillo Pontecorvo's film, The Battle of Algiers. I examine the true historical record, the inconvenient facts excluded from the film, including the horrifying Muslim Jew-hatred that helped fuel the battle of Algiers, and the eventual expulsion of Algeria's entire and ancient Jewish community by the Algerian terrorists after the French surrendered.
As I've said many times, movies are a moral landscape.
The Battle of Algiers is a movie that inhabits a deeply immoral and dishonest landscape. It's a beautifully crafted film, but at the core it is a stealth piece of Jihadist propaganda. Like Leni Riefenstahl's work for the Nazis and Sergei Eisenstein's films for the Soviet Communists, Pontecorvo's movie is in service to a totalitarian and genocidal ideology.
Big Hollywood makes its debut on Tuesday January 6, 2009.
To get regular Big Hollywood updates, sign up here.
Clara Bow salutes Big Hollywood.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at December 8, 2008 09:53 AM
Comments
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Mr. Avrech,
Congrats on the new job! I'm a daily visitor to your site (as well as Dirty Harry's), and you both deserve to be on a site regarding cultural issues.
I look forward to reading your piece on The Battle of Algiers. Brilliant film, but a true anti-West, Communist propaganda piece. (I wonder how much Michael Moore and Paul Greengrass were influenced by it.)
Posted by: Jonathan at December 8, 2008 11:16 AM
Yay! (Did you have our previous threads in mind when you wrote it?)
Posted by: Jeremiah at December 8, 2008 11:42 AM
Jonathan:
Thanks so much for the kind words. The Battle of Algiers is, as you know, a favorite on college campuses, and it's been hugely influential on subsequent generations of movie directors and writers. What's lost in all the excitement about the film's technical innovation, etc. is that the film is at the core, clever propaganda for a band of Arab Muslim terrorists who were deeply influenced by Nazi ideology and of course, they singled out Jews for particularly horrifying treatment, though many liberal Algerian Jews, naturally, supported the FLN.
Pontecorvo was, naturally, Jewish, secular and a card-carrying Communist.
Some things never change.
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at December 8, 2008 12:32 PM
Jeremiah:
Yes, absolutely. Your articulate comments made me sit down and watch the film a few more times and evaluate its wretched moral fiber.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at December 8, 2008 12:36 PM
Scriptwriter John Rogers [Transformers, The Core, Leverage, Eureka, and sadly... Catwoman] has several posts on conservatism in Hollywood that I enjoyed. His opinion runs contrary to your own, but they're worth reading.
http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2008/10/hollywood-conservatives-thoughtful-post.html
http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-wish-hollywood-was-that-organized.html
http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2006/02/just-stay-down.html
http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2008/10/hollywood-conservatives-not-so-gentle.html
Posted by: Rob at December 8, 2008 08:48 PM
Well, I am becoming lately aware of how critical blog are by informed people - I just signed up. I am wondering if knowledgeable directors and writers would think of equating Leni Reifenstahl and Michael Moore as far as their documentaries. Haven't both utilized skillful editing?
What has stuck in my mind is a comment Robert made about the Walt Disney Co hiring a director who was convicted of child molestation - man, what a slope Hollywood had traveled down...Wonder what Walt would say about this.
I think among the Hollywood "artistic" community, child molesters are higher on the caste list than conservative Republicans, unless you are established.
Posted by: Bill Brandt at December 8, 2008 10:43 PM
Rob:
Thanks so much for the links. I look forward to reading them.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at December 9, 2008 11:13 AM
Bill Brandt:
I think that most film enthusiasts separate the formal qualities of these films from their ideological core.
Naturally, this leads to a terrible moral disconnect, something most people are unwilling to live with, much less admit.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at December 9, 2008 11:17 AM
I look forward to reading them.
That's what you think now. Wait till you've read them.
Posted by: kishke at December 9, 2008 12:11 PM
I just reread the article about Republican-hating in Hollywood. Would you be allowed to sell your original scripts to another producer, or produce them yourself, or at least publish them to the blogosphere?
We would appreciate them. ;o)
Posted by: Kiwi the Geek at December 11, 2008 11:14 PM