As Hollywood drifts farther and farther to the left, more and more conservatives are realizing they no longer have a home there.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/antonio-sabato-jr-conservative-studio-hollywood-blacklist
He's free to do so. No doubt he will be mocked for it.
shareI have no problem with this. I think that anyone who feels that they are not being represented in Hollywood should be making their own movies and not expecting the Hollywood machine to do it for them. Kirk Cameron did it. John Travolta did it. And I don't say this to be mocking. I fully respect him for it.
shareIt's interesting that you bring up Kirk Cameron.
Just the other day a friend of mine mentioned him. My friend, who isn't Christian, somehow started talking about Kirk Cameron and he was like, "You know, I respect that dude, because he left Hollywood and went and did his own thing and he's stuck with it for years now."
He seemed impressed by the sheer fact that someone today would stand on principle and remain resolute in the face of criticism and financial sacrifice.
I respect him. I can't say that I agree with everything that he stands for, but he did his own thing, and that's respectable.
shareI had a feeling that something like this was going to happen. The only trouble is, he's gonna run into the same issue that some Christian film studios in the central US have had to deal with. He's gonna have problems getting fair movie ratings, there will be very few advertisements on tv, and much of what people hear about any films that come out of his studio will be by word of mouth, since the mainstream advertisers will fully be in the original leftist Hollywood's pocket, and refuse to do much to promote films that don't push a leftist agenda. He might even have to film in secret, or in another country, like some other politically incorrect film-makers have had to do in the recent decade.
Either way, I'm glad someone's doing this. Hollywood's time has run its course, and I wouldn't be surprised if it collapsed under its own weight of rot after all the crap they've been pulling for the past decade.
I'm sure you're right that the films will be poorly reviewed. That seems inevitable.
I'm sure they can buy ad time on TV if they actually have much of an advertising budget, but I doubt they will have a lot of money for marketing, at least at the outset. So I'm sure you're right awareness will largely spread through word of mouth.
I just hope the movies are good. I've seen some of the films that have sprung out of the Christian movie industry, and while the good intentions are there, sometimes the filmmaking ability is not. The worst thing that could happen here is that they squander this opportunity by making poor films that no one wants to watch.
First, they have to build a statues of John Wayne and Clint Eastwood.
Oh and Scott Baio.
would/should this studio hire liberal staff & actors ?
shareI wouldn't mind if they hired someone who leaned left to perform certain roles, but they can't be granted creative control in any way that would compromise the vision and purpose of the studio.
shareok, but that sounds like you are legitimizing what the 'leftist' studios are doing.
i.e. how can you complain about some studios doing what you yourself would approve of
if you or people who (uniformly, apparently) thought as you do about complex matters
did the same in this hypothetical reactionary studio ?
I see what Sabato and his co-conspirators are doing as a way to carve out a home in an industry that refuses to employ them. It's a survival mechanism for actors who are being persecuted for their political and religious beliefs. You can think of it as self-defense for a group of people who just want to work and were told, "No, you can't do that, not around here at least." Them not giving Leftists control over the tiny pocket of the film industry that they are able to carve out for themselves just makes sense.
I'll also say that it's a little different in that these guys are being open about the sorts films that they intend to make. They're saying, "We're going to be a conservative film studio. We're going to make films about patriotism and Chrisitainity." Sony and Universal and all the rest don't do that. They claim to have no ideological bias and present themselves as simple entertainment companies, but then they work to force people who hold inconvenient political beliefs out of the industry. It wouldn't be as big of a deal if right-leaning people had options--like, okay, Universal and Sony are known to not be friendly to conservatives but you can still go work for Lionsgate and MGM--but it's not like that. Left-wingers have almost total control over the mainstream film industry in America. If you're going to be conservative in Hollywood you better be very low-key about what you believe and go along to get along.
the is the 'poor little persecuted me' rationale waved by every right-wing organ since the reagan era.
i need conservative ideological purity against a sea of enemies.
i don't buy your premise. there are plenty of conservative themes out there in the cinematic offering,
certainly when it comes to celebrating wealth, materialism, militarism, islamophobia, delegitimization of protest.
its true that when it comes to gender, we're going thru a bit of puritanism, but as to the general conservative
laissez-faire social order, plenty of lip service is paid, with of course many exceptions as well.
you have your fingers on the scale.
obviously, you feel differently. but that's my take on your take.
Sounds a bit agenda pushing-y, just like the other side.
Not stuff I'd watch, most likely, but good for him for taking the initiative to make the stuff he wants to make instead of just whining about it.
Fine, let the public decide if this is something they want. However, I can confidently predict that it won't make a mark internationally.
Americans don't realise how jingoistic and pro-capitalism their films actually are. Socially, Hollywood films are generally progressive in spirit if not in detail. However, the flag-waving, gun-happy, money-worshipping and violent nature of your average American film stands out very clearly to foreign audiences. Can you imagine Captain Belgium? Or a charming Afghan superhero who is also a billionaire weapons dealer?
I'm not even sure what an even more right-wing and socially conservative blockbuster would look like. A return to John Wayne westerns, with Indians getting mown down by heroic white men while women cower and scream? Or perhaps a reboot of Dirty Harry, in which the detective executes black people without trial in an immigrant-infested ghetto? Or how about an inspiring biopic based on the Koch Brothers?
I certainly don't think of the average American film as being "flag-waving" or "jingoistic." What's your basis for this? You cited Captain America but he's an old character, created in another era, and the modern version never really does anything that's particularly patriotic. About the only films I can think of that include any elements of patriotism at all are war films.
I wish that American films were MORE jingoistic. We need films that are going to tell people that America is actually pretty damn awesome to counter the prevailing narrative in the media and academia that America is a terrible country and everything is racist.
In regard to films being pro-capitalism, I mean, instead of what? Being pro-socialism or communism? Yes, we like capitalism here. We fought several wars (hot and cold) to defeat the scourge of socialism/communism/marxism because of how harmful those ideologies can be.
To address your last point, I imagine "an even more right-wing and socially conservative blockbuster" would be overtly patriotic, would have little or no graphic sexual content, would include overt Christian elements, and would reinforce traditional conservative ideals such as the importance of self-reliance.
AMEN! It's ABOUT TIME! Good for him!
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