July 1, 2011 - 12:15 pm
Paul Witt, the original producer of A Better Life — the film for which I was the first writer back in 1989 — appears on Poliwood to explain, among other things — why it took us so blankety-blank long.
Actually the film is doing well now, good reviews and platforming across the country. NY, LA, Dallas and Houston this weekend… More in the weeks to come.
I wrote the first script over two decades ago, and it’s taken that long for the film to finally make it into theaters. Poliwood co-host Lionel Chetwynd says A Better Life is one of the most honest, apolitical films dealing with the subject of illegal immigration. Watch Poliwood to find out why.
It sounds like a well-made movie, Roger, but when it comes to movies I’m pretty shallow.
The Bicycle Thief was a real downer. I hate movies like that.
I think it’s good that someone is showing the illegals as people which means that they are saints, scum and a lot in between.
This is a major problem I have with Roger L. Simon and many on PJM. They are not real conservatives, merely less hard-left liberals. The US is not just a random collection of people dumped into an artificial border. Not everyone can come here. Not everyone can get along. Conservatives understand that, Liberals believe in essence in “magic fairy dust” to make everyone a giant Kumbayaha Coke commercial. This is a LIBERAL movie through and through. Totally Hollywood (and that’s not a compliment).
The great Irish-Eastern European migrations in the 19th and early 20th Centuries were not shaped by overt anti-White racism. The immigrants themselves were all White. The culture could absorb and make them into simply variants of the dominant Anglo-Celtic culture of America. Italians or Jews or Poles are not Mexicans: they did not hate Whites (they themselves were White) and were forced to basically Anglicize almost all their culture, values, attitudes, and habits of daily life. Thanksgiving and Halloween were celebrated, not Day of the Dead. English was spoken, not Gaelic or Yiddish. And the place was pretty much empty, and booming.
Roger seems to think that just sprinkling magic “American dust” will make Mexican immigrants … and their kids, into highly educated Jews or Italians in NYC in 1930. The evidence says no: “A Better Life” is matched against Mexican immigrants and their kids booing Team USA at the Rose Bowl for World Cup Soccer play, and the National Anthem. The entire winners ceremony was conducted in Spanish. This was right here in LA. Or perhaps you’d like Azusa 13, indicted for using violence and intimidation to ethnically cleanse Blacks out of Azusa, by the local US Attorney’s office.
The utter reality is that the US has ceased to exist for some time. “Its All Over For Anglos in Texas” says one former US Census Bureau demographer. This year non-White babies outnumber those born to Whites, nationwide. We have essentially just become Northern Mexico, with preferential race-based treatment (Whites on the bottom, save those with power/money), defacto permanent Open Borders, citizenship to anyone born here (unlike all other countries and particularly Mexico), and a hostile culture that creates only poverty and failure destroying the culture of the Founding Fathers. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin did not speak Spanish, did not hate Whites, did not reject European culture, did not consider themselves “the Cosmic Race,” and did not preside over a permanent Hacienda system with merely new Commandantes replacing old ones.
Whites are now a minority in California, from 80% of the population in 1960 to only 40% today. I don’t care about immigrants from Mexico legal or not. Even less their kids. I suspect most Whites in California and outside it feel the same way.
It is nearly the Fourth of July, and Roger’s new movie celebrates in essence the death of America and its corpse being re-animated as Northern Mexico. Don’t expect me to care about our new overlords. As a foreigner and third-class one at that in Northern Mexico, I care about them the way they care about me (and the former, late great America).
Or perhaps, you could say I didn’t cross the border, the border crossed me. I’m in a variant of Mexico. So I’ll be missing this one. Roger would have been better served writing more Moses Wine novels. Those are actually good and people actually enjoy them. The Better Life for Mexican immigrants and their kids comes directly at my expense. So no I’m not going to celebrate the ethnic cleansing of White people out of California.
[Don't like my attitude? Maybe you Liberals should have thought of that before you made Whites a sudden minority, and third-class one at that, in our own country.]
That’s the irony in all this: the same minorities that decried discrimination and that screamed “RACISM!” at every real and perceived affront now feel quite comfortable in denigrating and vilifying the “new” minority (white folks).
Well, my message to the black and Hispanic majority-wannabes is that if you persist in your hypocrisy, it’s gonna be a long, hot summer.
Burn, baby, burn.
What? A story driven by a story, rather than by 3-D special effects? I gotta see it!
I saw the movie over the weekend. It is outstanding. The message of the movie is not that “just sprinkling magic ‘American dust’ will make Mexican immigrants and their kids, into highly educated Jews or Italians in NYC in 1930.” In fact, the strength of the movie is that is has no “message” at all, at least not an explicit one. It lets the story unfold without preaching a moral or a solution.
So the movie can be seen by all audiences, and it may make people want to read books such as VDH’s “Mexifornia” or Norman Podhoretz’s “My Love Affair with America” and think about them in the context of this story.