Posted by
Tzimisce on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 1:06:59 PM
Danny Glover is getting 17.8 million dollars American from Hugo Chavez to make a movie about the slave revolt in Haiti. The stipulation from Chavez is that Glover has to make it as anti-American/anti-Western as he possibly can. Which leads one to ask the question: How do we tell this from any other film coming out of Hollywood in the modern day? Most big films in recent times highlight their hatred for everything Western from kids movies discussing our destruction of the environment to dramas about soldiers being sent/killed in Iraq. But don't worry, Glover's readiness to do a movie showing the evils of the United States doesn't make him unpatriotic. Indeed making a movie about how evil and rotten America and Americans are shows what a great patriot he is.
This news parallels nicely with the news of the Cannes film festival going on in France right. The jewels of these awards are chalk with anti-Western/anti-American ideals. Michael Moore's new "documentary" got a standing ovation. Of course if his new "documentary" is anything like his old "documentaries" there are exaggerations of details and important facts left out to make Moore's left wing conclusions look better. Naturally this isn't done to further political agendas. Need I remind you that the Nazis were masters of "documentary" film making? How stupid do the elites of the world think we are? Note that although "Sicko" is a critique of the US HMO system, Moore trades HMO stock. But if lefties taught me anything it's that it is okay to live high on the hog as long as you're doing to the work of "the people".
Just take Leonardo DiCaprio for instance. His new film "The Eleventh Hour" is a sound warning about what will happen unless human beings cut back on energy usuage right now. Of course, this didn't discourage him from using a small, gas guzzling jet to get to Cannes - but take heart, it wasn't *his* private gas guzzling jet and they lost his luggage. So it's all okay. The CO2 from his trip will be hardly noticeable. DiCaprio even took umbrage at being asked the question.
"It's finding another way to convolute the issue and argue about semantics and things that ultimately don't matter," said DiCaprio.
"Look at the message. ... Isn't that the larger story?"
I guess in lefty land it is. After all, liberal elitists are constantly wanting to make rules that don't apply to them. But from where I'm sitting and what I've been told it's up to *ALL* of us to stop environmental destruction and that means that we *ALL* cut back. Not just the poor class working slobs.
But hypocracy is nothing new - especially for unbiased, non partisan left wing film makers. It seems that Cannes itself is in a bit of hot water for not having selected any films from Africa to compete at the festival in over a decade. Now I'm sure that our media has much more things to cover than the gaping holes left wing practices (just like only certain hand picked information ever seems to get in to Michael Moore films.) But that's okay. The real issue here is the larger story of racism in our society. What a handful of people do ultimately doesn't matter.