Anti-war Hollywood? In the words of Donovan: “Everybody’s hustlin’ just to have a little scene.”
The reason nobody wants to watch anti-war movies is that they are redundant. There’s nothing a screenwriter, director, or actor can say about the war that we haven’t already heard, seen, or read about on the Internet. There is no aspect of this war that has not been discussed, and there is no reasonably well-informed citizen who doesn’t already know both sides’ arguments by heart. We do not need to be educated on the subject, nor do we need works of art to shatter our preconceptions and provoke discussions. For once, we are way ahead of the “creative” types in Hollywood. Pro-war or anti-war, American citizens are on the job.
Hollywood is like a little kid interrupting a grown-up talk. It’s just trying to get attention.
