“Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story.” – Michael Moore.
Shaken by #MeToo, paralysed by Covid-19, the $50 billion film industry is finally emerging from a four-month lockdown – only to find a new and very different world, where tension is rising as surely as the thermometer.
For if the very public Black Lives Matter protests have polarised America, the silent fallout has now reached Hollywood.
A revolution is under way. White actors are being fired. Edicts from studio bosses make it clear that only minorities – racial and sexual – can be given jobs.
A new wave of what has been termed by some as anti-white prejudice is causing writers, directors and producers to fear they will never work again. One described the current atmosphere as ‘more toxic than Chernobyl’, with leading actors afraid to speak out amid concern they will be labelled racist.
Useful idiots.
When you hire based on skin tone rather than talent your product will suffer. When you produce based on ideology rather than interesting story line your product will suffer. When your product suffers and people no longer purchase it the disposable income goes down and consequently the cash flow to the demoncraps dries up.
Right, so we should continue pretending that diversity is not a code name for white genocide.
F*ck em.
When you concede everything to the post modern nihilists filling the crab bucket of identity politics, then stick your hand in it, and finally stuff your face in it you might not like the sensation. As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
The institutional left is eating its self and I like it.
I refuse to be entertained by depictions of sodomy. It is NOT normal, it’s disgusting! As in my gag reflex kicks in.
Same goes for the whole other spectrum of “woke” BS. I won’t be watching any of it.
They supported this when it was politically correct to do so and it wasn’t aimed at them. Now they’re reaping what they sowed. And if they think producing a product that meets with the approval of the “woke” fascists will bring in the same revenues and keep them wealthy, they’re in for a big disappointment.
I’m crying…..I’m laughing so hard. Maybe Hollywierd should resurrect those Charlie Chan films of yesteryear. Or some of those Bleck Lives in the Ghetto ones, with the pimp mobiles and big hats……and Hot Pants on the chicks.
John C calls it.
“The institutional left is eating its self and I like it”
I do ,let them suffer.
I no longer consume their product and the only influence they have on my life is negative,so their path to irrelevancy and bankruptcy is the only entertainment they provide.
So go Hollywood.
Every Bimbo Eruption on the Burn Loot Murder meme is pure gold,for the Reelect President Trump campaign ,that is.
These entitled children are so stupid,that “Segregation is Evil,we want separate washrooms for Coloured folks..”
Sooner or later something will stick in their throats,so it is possible they might begin to think.
Probably not in our lifetimes though.
Faster Harder.
I rarely watch Hollywood movies past the 1980s, but now I am not going to watch them at all.
A movie is an escape from reality. The reality of our brown society in a movie is not an escape.
Note to WokeallyWood: I will not be seeing any film with a black transgendered lead actor and a lesbian Mexican Marxist as a leading “lady”. Good luck with your woke casting decisions.
Put me in the “sow the wind, reap the whirlwind” category. Since Marx was alive, the cultural revolutionaries who ascribed their motives to Marx’s ideals have always ended up feasting on each other. If the kingdom of Hollywood implodes over this, I won’t shed a tear. Perhaps the denizens of said kingdom will finally realize that their cultural value to the rest of us is simple — you entertain us, and that’s it. Your opinions are neither required nor desired.
Garth, “Your opinions are neither required nor desired”….Or valid!
Re: ”A revolution is under way. White actors are being fired. Edicts from studio bosses make it clear that only minorities – racial and sexual – can be given jobs.”
Sounds like the CBC!!
Re: Hollywood: Let the bastards go broke!!
Plainz Drifter
Exactly, but CBC started doing it 20 years ago.
Channel surfing, momentarily, onto the CBC news channel, the putrid network is almost devoid of white, heterosexual males. And the content of CBC news has become so bad — rife as it is with over-the-top identity politics — I am glad that few Canadians watch it any more. I hope left-leaning white male journalists spend much of their time unemployed, by virtue of reverse discrimination. Same holds true with Hollywood employees. They are radical leftists, do I hope they spend time unemployed.
Hollywood is for groupthink propaganda, product placement, consumerism, debt-promotion and war recruiting. YMMV.
Hopefully we can see a swath of “unwoke” films from Mel Gibson..
FREEDOM!
lol
While last year’s box office hits – films such as Black Panther, Get Out and Crazy Rich Asians – were a huge success, their casts, predominantly black and Asian, were not represented in the major acting awards. This year’s winners – Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, Renee Zellweger and Laura Dern – were all white.
Yes, well, that’s because they’re all better actors, and have more experience, and are starring in films that have broader market appeal. Chadwick Boseman is a block of wood, Key & Peele are comedians and are still in their Jim Carrey phase.
I don’t have a lot of sympathy for the Hollywood Left as they’re getting a taste of what actors like Kevin Sorbo, Dean Cain, and Adam Baldwin have had to deal with their entire careers for the crime of being conservative Christians. Fortunately this is a self-correcting problem – the domestic market doesn’t care about this foolishness half as much as the studio heads think, and the foreign market is fabulously racist and homophobic, so they’re cutting their own financial throats here.
Perhaps that’s a good thing. Maybe this will be the end of the studio system. George Lucas once said his goal was to advance the state of the art in filmmaking to the point that anyone with a garage and $10,000 could make a feature film, and if you look at various SF fan films I think we’re there. Multiple films that are at least the equal of the studio rejects Netflix hoovers up by the crapload have been successfully crowdfunded. All we need is for producers to start leaving the studio system and being beholden to the market they’ve been ignoring for decades.
Oh. boo hoo.
Leftists always forget that when you make a deal with the crocodile to eat you last… you still get eaten.
Crocodile just came around for Hollyweird. Got my popcorn right here.
Going to be a big crop of multi-megadollar Woke(TM) films coming out and bombing like a B-52. Like “Solo”, but with no white people in them. The mockery will be EPIC!
Yeah Phantom, I remember the Harvey Weinstein attempt to destroy the NRA with a movie starring Jessica Chastain a few years back? (before he got busted on any rape charges) It bombed, and the premise from predator Harvey, was that it would devastate the NRA and the second amendment Cuz Chastain is such a huge star and every thinking American hates the Second Amendment! Yeah right!
That was supposedly a “Woke” movie, and it went from woke to broke, in a heart beat!
I had to look that up. No idea who the actress was or what movie it was. I guess it didn’t even make a ripple when it sank.
Harvey should have done a little homework. He’da found out that while Republicans love guns, Democrats like them a lot as well.
Senator Joseph McCarthy was right all along.
Oooo Baby!
Love that schadenfreude.
Of course, such woke folk should have resigned en masse in favor of the newly favored long before this.
Hypocrites.
Should make for some great tabloid reads as the former icons discover their real worth and are reduced to peddling their ass on Sunset Boulevard.
If reading is still allowed.
There is no Black Panther without Captain America, Iron Man, the Hulk and Thor.
The search for a successful black society continues.
Reality only throws up failures-Rhodesia, South Africa, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, Atlanta, Los Angeles……………..
Its why mythical Wakanda was so alluring.
Hollywood was already creatively and morally bankrupt. Its writers are all fan-boys with no imagination and social justice warriors with agendas to push and its producers are marketing to the Democratic base.
Let these self-inflicted wounds finish them off.
With CGI, actors are redundant. Anyone with a good software program can make a movie that looks “real”. Even the voices can be synthesised. Goodbye overpaid, huge ego, actors!
It would seem that fascism is in the mainstreem of the woke culture of Hollywood, the media cartel and so called “Democrat” politics, for they are none such.
This is why they don’t teach history. The students would recognize the down slide to fascism and perhaps, one would think anyway, that they would have some questions.
Hollywood needs a bailout, they have no money coming in & they have spent all the budgeted clips….The California lock down kills investment & even the Hookers get fucked…The Cast is not getting Expenses & have to feed & drug themselves…. No talented Producers means no foolish Sponsors… Soup Kitchens in their Future
MikeT… I was checking the Television Equipment Vendors… Miranda (Quebec) & GVG (Grass Valley) sold to Belden (a wire cable manufacturer) The Belden group was then sold to a Venture Capital Group (Black****). They seem to predict a future that looks like the Net Cloud will be the choice of distribution……It was always a fact that High Cost Production could be replaced with OLDER cheaper methods… A Super Bowl with 28 cameras & Older Super Slow-mo (not HD) could cost < 150K with a Virtual Sportscasting crew… It would out-preform the 4-6 Million HD-12 camera Production & ESPN fools….Interesting times….
L-Remember the last scene in the movie ‘Planet of the Apes’ ?
I see a similar last scene in Hollywood’s last movie ‘Planet of the fakes’, as in fake talent.
But in the Cult. Marxist state, you won’t buy tickets to movies, the Marxist state will do that for you. Using your own money, of course. As for attendance… only if you want to keep your job.
Jobs will have two categories:
1. Gov’t. jobs.
2. Gov’t. regulated jobs- providing something for those in category 1 to do.
Thus the approved films making guaranteed profits with all the tickets purchased by the government with your money and your name on the ticket, which the government makes public.
3. Thus the actors, as fictional as the characters they play. It will be, in effect, a production of the empty chairs. Foreshadowing was Clint Eastwood’s Academy Award skit. The interaction with an empty chair, aptly standing in for Pres. Obama. Admittedly, the chair gave a most credible performance.
4. Last week Pres. Donald J. Trump and Mexican President Obrador-Lopez met to proclaim the official 3 country trade pact the U.S.M.C. . The missing in action, Canadian P.M. Justin Trudeau was represented by an empty lawn chair.
5. A statue of said lawn chair will be erected on the summit of Saskatchewan’s Mount Blackstrap.
The POC Alphabet Aberrants will make movies that are just a tad more crappy than the White Leftard Aberrant Devils make.
“with leading actors afraid to speak out amid concern they will be labelled racist.”
Gored by their own sacred cow. Boo frick’in Hoo. Now they know how Dr. Frankenstein felt.
Well I guess that overrated actors like Di Caprio will have to sell their yachts and extra villas.
I haven’t been to a movie theatre since the early 1990s. Most flicks that I have rented or occasionally bought since then have been disappointing or a downright waste of money.
Piss on them.
I haven’t been to a movie theatre since the early 1990s.
My last time was when Jurassic Park played in a second-run house in Edmonton a few months after its release. My mistake was seeing it over the Christmas holidays. The kiddies who were there ruined the movie for me.
Most of the movies I have in my collection are vintage flicks. I think the newest one would be Master and Commander, but, then, that was a rare gem of a rip-snorting action adventure film. Hollywood doesn’t make them any more, let alone knows how.
Hey BA…I was in Edmonton then, and it was about that time. Likely the Princess theatre on White, before zombies claimed that part of Strathcona. Peace.
JP was showing at the Garneau at that time. It might have been at the Princess as well.
Just when you thought movies couldn’t get worse. I’ve started reading again and won’t be watching Hollywood crap again.
Turner Classic Movies is largely the only reason I still have cable. It’s hard to beat a classic film noir or the old epics (Giant, anyone?) that Hollywood used to make.
Me too, I love the old black and whites – not to be confused with film noir, a very specific genre.
And the casting couch will be a thing of the past, Weinstein hardest hit.
Don’t believe it; there’s always an ambitious starlet waiting in the wings. And, apparently, there will be plenty of lusty lesbians in Hollywood in the future.
> “with leading actors afraid to speak out amid concern they will be labelled racist.”
Welcome to my world. Corporate America has been like this for at least a decade.
I stopped watching Hollywood new stuff in the 70s and 80s. It’s only crap; their big block busters are now based on comics? Give me the old black & whites 🙂
It’s only crap
Not necessarily. Apollo 13 was made in 1995, Blackhawk Down was released roughly 20 years ago, and the aforementioned Master and Commander was in the theatres a bit later. But those are rare examples of quality movies, something that Hollywood has forgotten how to make.
One problem that the movie business is suffering from is a lack of imagination. It has to compete with other sources of entertainment, but that’s not new. During the 1950s, movies had to deal with television, so the studios had to offer something that TV couldn’t. That’s why there were a lot of movies that focused on spectacle, pageantry, and grandeur and did so in colour and with wide screens.
Hollywood has its moguls. Perverts preying on children. Ugly old men humping the young stuff…because they can.
It’s a loosely hidden secret. You want the part, you get the part.
Karma’s a bitch Hollywood, now suck it up and take it like a man.
You have been push this crap for years, never thinking it might turn on you.
Well, guess what, you asked for it, now you got it.
The competitiveness in the entertainment business is extraordinary. There are endless production companies, each fighting to stay afloat. On average, two movies are released every day in North America, up from one movie a day just twenty years ago.
Those that refuse to hire the best in the name of diversity are blowing their own foot off.
Bipoc versus Menemy? Just means Colored people against Caucasians. Same old, same old. What about talent?
The film business will come back, just like Arrnold. It’s big business.
It’s all about good writing, good scripts, good stories.
This new July 2020 release is based on a Canadian story, Victor Malarek of the G&M, W5…
Coming to a theatre near you:
“MOST WANTED” Official Trailer (2020) Josh Hartnett, Thriller Movie
https://youtu.be/-y-y5B1X6lA
PS. Are they so desperate for ideas that they look to Canada for storylines? Remember the movie “Argo?” It worked for Ben Affleck. Wonder if Victor Malarek will get rich over this?
If the Republicans win back the House in November they can assist the decline by repealing the Hollywood tax breaks. Bomb the rubble and salt the ground.
Movies can, and should, be made anywhere. All the talent excluded by these idiotic, suicidal corporations will still be able to make good content that will sell.
This has been going on for a while. Hugh Grant made a movie “The Rewrite” about this. In fact I think calling this whole phenomenon “The Rewrite” would work. “The Rewrite” is a good movie, BTW, a nice rom com about a middle aged successful writer who is shut out of Hollywood and has to take a teaching job in Upstate New York. Even rom coms are banned. Crazy Rich Asians was allowed because nobody was white.
Watching very little new stuff, just legacy – while it lasts, I guess. We all know a business model relying on protected classes as one’s audience will not pass a cost/benefit analysis. In the meantime, grab the popcorn and watch all the useless, Marxist twats get hoisted on their own petard.