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At a time when parents are waking up to the threat of critical race theory in schools, Hollywood is doubling down on it.
In fact, they’re eating their own. Just read the primary criticism of the latest work of Lin-Manuel Miranda—a man who literally cast black and Hispanic actors as America’s founding fathers in Hamilton: the actors playing Dominican characters aren’t dark enough.
After catering to a smaller and smaller group of coastal elites, La-La Land is finally collapsing into itself under the weight of the political left’s own contradictions.
It’s not enough for the left to set the agenda. They also have to rewrite the past—even some of the finest work Hollywood has ever produced.
Gone with the Wind? Removed from streaming services for its depiction of slavery.
Peter Pan, Dumbo, The Aristocats, and Swiss Family Robinson? Disney blocked them for users younger than seven years old.
Leftist activists have even asked John Wayne Airport to change its name.
Of course, when an industry caters to a smaller and smaller group of political radicals, they lose most of their customers.
Even before the pandemic, box office revenues were declining. Take away the handful of superhero sequels, remakes, and reboots that studios release and it gets ugly fast.
Hollywood’s premier event, the Academy Awards, used to be a night on which studios, stars, and the rest of us shared a common cultural moment.
But it has morphed into an unwatchable, self-congratulatory, virtual-signaling, leftist rally in which critics and corporations alike fall all over each other to win “Wokest of the Year” awards.
After drawing over 20 million Americans last year, fewer than 10 million Americans watched it this year.
It’s no mystery why. Hollywood has seceded from mainstream America. As John Nolte, Breitbart’s hugely popular culture critic, has pointed out, the recent history of Best Picture winners reveals a sharp downtown in films with any broad public appeal. Consider the last seven movies to win the Academy Award for Best Picture: Birdman, Spotlight, Moonlight, The Shape of Water, Green Book, Parasite, and Nomadland.
Maybe you’ve heard of a few of them. Did you actually see any of them? One? Maybe two?
Compare that to the winners between 1994 and 2004: Forrest Gump, Braveheart, The English Patient, Titanic, Shakespeare in Love, American Beauty, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, and Chicago.
Don’t hold your breath for the Golden Globes to seize the mainstream either. The 2022 Golden Globes were cancelled after a former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association called Black Lives Matter a “hate movement.”
Hollywood’s long love affair with the left has gotten so extreme that it now carries water for some of America’s adversaries like China.
While the United States navigated a pandemic born in China, Hollywood studios enforced the Chinese Communist Party’s censorship for them, scrubbing scripts of anything that might offend the Chinese government.
Even Hollywood’s so-called “tough guys” have folded faster than Superman on laundry day.
Actor John Cena, who had the audacity to call Taiwan a country—a big no-no in China’s Orwellian double-speak—issued a video apology. Cena, a former professional wrestler who never wore a shirt he didn’t want to rip off, couldn’t have looked any weaker.
“I must say right now, it’s very, very, very, very, very, very important,” Cena said in Chinese. “I love and respect China and Chinese people. I’m very, very sorry for my mistake.”
And, in the upcoming Top Gun sequel, Tom Cruise—ironically playing a character named “Maverick”—has had the flags of Japan and Taiwan stripped from his flight jacket after they appeared in the 1986 original.
With bottom lines plunging, an American public losing interest in their product, and California seemingly doing everything it can to drive successful people and businesses out of the state, it’s decision time for studios and actors.
For actors, with California’s state income tax, the highest in the country, how much longer will they stay in Hollywood? After all, huge number of professional athletes make their home in Florida for tax purposes. Why can’t actors?
And if big companies like Oracle, Hewlett Packard, and Charles Schwab can move their headquarters out of California, why can’t Universal, Paramount, and Warner Brothers?
But the real question for studios might be: will they go to Texas? Or China?
The days of Golan and Globus productions are over. It’s a shame.
FL, TX don’t want Hollywokes. Most of their films are in Canada. I no longer watch sports, new movies- very few, or tv. Most are completely vulgar, anti-American, porn level trash.
I haven’t been to a movie theatre in 2-3 years. I read the synopsis and watch the trailer and decide it’s not for me. I do miss the movie theatre popcorn! But guess what, you can drive over to your local theatre walk in and buy some popcorn, without having to pay to see a movie, and go home and watch a good black and white movie from the 40’s or 50’s on TCM and life is good!!
Hope they keep their crazy politics in California and stay there. The left destroys everything it touches…..
They can all go to China! Every awards show is nothing but politics. We stopped watching them years ago because of this. Not entertainment anymore. Won’t go to any movies, either since politics is at the base of what they do.
I worry about my grand children who are brainwashed. It’s impossible to discuss truth with them. They support BLM with tears in their eyes about how badly we’ve treated them and how racist their parents and grandparents are. How to get through to them? I pray a lot.
I hope they stay in California! Please don’t let them corrupt the rest of our country!!!
I ONLY watch 2 channels on cable….neither of them are news channels. They are only tv shows from long, long, long ago! I haven’t watched ANY movies that’ve been made in the last 10-15 years because most are terrible remakes or just plain garbage. I refuse to EVER watch any “reality tv” crap or ANY actor who spouts the woke crap.
I have not been to “the movies” in over 5 years! Until the elite celebrities stop being so political, I have no interest in paying my hard earned money to liberal celebrities!!Wake up world!!
They are welcome to come to Texas… as long as they don’t bring the contaminated social communism way of thinking that brought California to it’s knees.
I haven’t seen a new movie in three years nor watched the Academy Awards in over 50 years. Too political and leftist.
Hollywierd hasn’t made but half a dozen movies in the last 4 decades worth watching. Haven’t been to a movie for about four or five years, but doubt there has been any improvement.
Great article
I have not rented, bought, or watched a movie on TV in so many years, I can’t remember what I saw last! I never DID go to theaters, and never will. So far as television goes, the only thing I EVER watch is the local news, and the I.D Channel. It’s ALL Liberal garbage and evil indoctrination.
Why even use actors and have studios? Just do it all with a computer, and pay nobodies a nice wage for the use of their physical image. Hollywood is archaic.
Hopefully they won’t bring their nutso politics to Florida or anywhere elde and destroy it.
Last film I saw in the theater was Harry Potter 7 Deathly Hallows II. Now I look to Acorn TV and Britbox, until they start the same stupidity. Then It’s books by non-woke authors.
China is already here. They own pino biden and his family.
“Hollyjoke” is a more apt description than “Hollywoke.” But then again, just consider that the greater number of the denizens of Hollywood are just not that bright, often lack any meaningful education, and live almost entirely in a pseudo-reality bubble isolated from 99% of the rest of the country. Many of these people would never be able to find a real job in the real world if they ever had to.
Hollywood constitutes its own asylum; if you are an actor, you are automatically a member (excuse me, inmate). The unfortunate part is that these inmates are allowed out in public to prate their pablum and suck their unwitting fans into their psychopathology. Our nation suffers as a direct result since we have to deal with all the mania surrounding the “woke” hype along with all the other aspects of the Libtards’ dystopian ideologies.
Golden Globes cancelled? GOOD!! Academy Awards next? I hope!! Hollywood depopulated? Couldn’t happen to a more deserving gang of imbeciles!!
Being extremely non-political from my teens through 9/11 when everything changed for me, I could never understand why my father hated and would never watch anything with Jane Fonda in it. Now I get it. BOY DO I GET IT! Sorry dad.
They are getting exactly what they deserve. Nothing. I hope things continue to fall until they pull their collective heads out or their butts.
There is nothing left in that armpit for me. The so-called ‘stars’ are so busy trying to out-do each other with weird thoughts/actions (“LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! I’m further Left than all of you!”), the place has become relevant only to folks sharing the same mindset. But I do wonder if the whole place REALLY believes it all, and I realize some actually do, or if following each other off the cliff is a way to stay visible in case someone would consider hiring them for another movie no one will watch……
Go woke and go broke. People never like ham-fisted political messages rubbed in their face for entertainment as it always comes across as either preachy, pandering, or both. It’s always distracting and takes away from the entertainment value. However, good, entertaining stories that incidentally provide a message are welcome.
Couldn’t happen to a finer group of folks. Maybe they can cancel their own “culture” totally out. I do not support Hollywood anymore than I support the radical left politicians, (kind of the same group).
Hollywierd won’t be allowed in Texas. They will bring china to them. Taiwan is a country and to apologize for telling the truth sounds like something Bernie Sanders would do. And did.
Since all of this stupid woke stuff, and any it dump nonsense, I no longer watch TV, or go to movies. The only radio station I listen to plays music by people that can be understood. I no longer watch award shows. Also, I don’t buy Coke and Pepsi products.
These are people who are highly paid to pretend to be someone they are not and to display emotions they don’t feel. They live in a pretend world, usually with little or no intellect of their own. They are of little or no actual value to society.
The sad part is that they may not have to move to China, maybe they know that China has moved already moved into the United States
I don’t want anything that so easily buckles to the woke left or china to leave CA! Let’s not pollute the rest of our country.
It seems all we watch on TV are a few news stations (conservative or local news), home decorating shows and the old sitcoms. Hollywood and the major TV stations can keep their trash and I hope they recognize what they are doing not only to themselves, but to their country. Demoralization to the max!
Don’t worry the pinko commies hollyweird will go to china
Arms them tio China. We don’t want them in Texas.
Please let them go to China!
Soon movie characters will be totally created by computer. The current actors/actresses will plead to you and I to stand with them and stop that from happening. Hmmm. How will you and I respond to them? Hmmm.
China pays their paycheck. There is nothing more. What is there day concentrated on? Answer: Look at my outfit! Then go out to the pool and calculate dry goods.
The only time I pay for a movie ticket is when it has been produced by a Christian producer. I don’t remember when I last watched a movie on television, but I’d say several years. Might watch a Netflix movie 2-3 times a year, but In general, I can’t stand American programming. I have discovered Korean Dramas, which I can enjoy watching with children without having to keep my finger on the fast-forward button (unless it is produced by Netflix, which can’t produce a script without screaming the F-bomb every 7 words and has reintroduced smoking). Hollywood could shut its doors tomorrow and I would never notice. Good riddance!
Oh my goodness, if they refuse to properly go down with the California crazies ship, please, PLEASE send them to China or at least to another blue state. We don’t want their crap in our state, no matter how much tax revenue they bring in.
Hopefully Texas will tell them to go to hell, or China.
NO STATE should have to take in refugees from their own stupidity.
The rest of us, the SANE people, deserve to live without these millstones around our necks.
Best news I have had all day!!!! America….stop going to the movies, we’ll get them outta here too!
Why would anyone listen to an actor? If you think about their profession, the have their lines written for them, the have coaches help them determine how to say the lines, they are told where to stand, when to move, where to move, when to smile, and which emotions to add when. Further, they are given their clothes and told how to dress. Then, to top it off, they have their own award shows to pat themselves on the back and tell everyone what wonderful people they are. All this while getting millions And this makes them experts in what? And the reason we should listen to them is what?
Hmmmm, now that I think about it, maybe they should just be getting minimum wage because everything they do is pretty much akin to a teenager in their first job at a fast food restaurant (except the exorbitant salary) .
Hollywood is getting exactly what they deserve. No one cares what actors think. They’re ACTORS! They don’t live in the real world, and now they’re trying to tell us what they think we should think. I’m excited watching old movies on DVD when actors knew their place in society and were satisfied with being entertaining.
Wait until these short sighted idiots get fully woke and discover the government no longer needs entertainers! No more big contracts, no more big pay days, no mire fame!
What ever it may cost them… it will NEVER be enough to make up for the DAMGE they have done!
Dis Own them just like the NFL, MLB, NBA and the Olympics!
Yep, it’s that matter of what goes around, comes around. I haven’t purchased a movie ticket for 20 years….nothing worth spending my money on. I “cancel” the likes of Oscar, Emmy, and all the rest of the self-applauding shows by Hollywood types who have no clue. I don’t care which celeb gets married or has a kid (even when not married), gives to some charity, makes some political comment, sits on some “variety” show/talk show/nite show. Could care less if so-and-so gets divorced, can’t hook up, or beats their spouse. Don’t loose any sleep over any of this. I watch the old classics (DVD) and am happy to do so. For the poor dummies out there whose very existence seems to ebb and flow with the hottest actor, actress, movie, etc…..my pity goes out to them….they have no life. I read novels, poerty, my Bible, and keep my mind sharp, along with my physical skills, hobbies requiring thought and skill and walk every day……Who cares about Hollywoke…..except Hollywoke
As a prisoner of Commifornia nearing the end of what will be a 34 year career in what was once one of the best law enforcement agencies in the country, and once respected around the world, I have seen its decline and its current Chief bending to the leftist politicians.
It is the citizens of Los Angeles where Hollywood resides with all of its bloviating pretenders who think of themselves as subject matter experts on everything from policing, climate change, conservatives, etc.
I will be leaving California, once a beautiful state, that has been run into the sewer that it has become by liberals. Unfortunately, they cross over into other conservative states and see lower gas prices, taxes, cost of living, lower crime rates, but fail to see that it was their idiotic liberal ideas that have made California a place to leave and not even a place worth visiting. In their blind stupidity they take those liberal mindset with them into a new land of freedom that enticed them to leave and vote to screw up their new surroundings.
I will not be admitting that I am from California when I leave, I will just be glad that my vote will no longer be invalidated by the majority of idiots, and will watch from afar this State devolve into one of the worst places of the country.
As Los Angeles moves to eliminate private transportation from its citizens who will wake up one morning to be told that they will not longer be able to drive into downtown. After which, it will be rolled out across LA and everyone will be forced to use the poorly run mass transit system which the homeless have taken up residence and are not allowed to be removed by drivers or law enforcement.
This liberal/socialist experiment should be show cased as the failure it is and drive everyone to the voting poles. No election whether it is for a school board or dog catcher, should be ignored. America does not need more of what Hollywood is peddling or what the bloviating idiots are advocating.
Don’t want them in Florida!
Why don’t they move to China? I have not watched any movies in a long time. California and the hollywierd perverts are having their state scorched with fires….wonder why? Noticed that the George Floyd painting on a wall got hit with lightning….people wake up….God is getting angry.
As a Texan I can state for all my Texan Conservatives and Republicans that we want nothing to do with Hollywood in any shape or form com coming to Texas! No studios, no actors and left wing, radical China loving Commies pushing their Marxist agendas and peddling their WOKE Bullshit! For the most part, Americans are done with Hollyweird and weirdos that live and work in that cesspool community!
If they leave I hope it’s to China. We don’t need any of their leftist ideology in any Red or Swing State: