Bill wrote, “Hollywood and it’s ilk aren’t going to tell the stories or make the movies about the war Americans want to see. That much is clear. Why doesn’t PJM with its’ vast talent pool create scripts and stories and find financing for them? Get the PJM community to invest since according to this article some of these films get made with a low budget. Heck, I’d hit the tip jars of any of the individuals involved in this undertaking multiple times. Please consider it, PJM. The dearth of patriotic, heroic, meaningful films is confounding and pathetic.”
I think that’s already been tried. “The Kingdom” was one of the results. It was only modestly successful. Partly because Americans have been conditioned against Hollywood war movies.
I don’t see any way to fix that.
That means that even an immediate return of Hollywood to the pro-Americanism of 1942 would take years to bring back audiences. If indeed they’d ever return.
The other reason “The Kingdom” wasn’t a big success was that it got neutered as part of the development process. Liberal groupthink is tremendously powerful. The director was appalled when the audience cheered when the FBI killed the terrorists.
There are some accounts that every Hollywood gathering, business or social, begins with an obligatory Bush-bash. Almost like a religious homily, reminding everyone of what they Truly Believe.
For an interesting thread I participated in on Ace of Spades, see the URL for this comment.
