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The Views of Hollywood do not necessarily represent....

Written by Eric

First Posted: October 21st, 2001

Whoopi Goldberg lead the cast of Sister Act.

Whoopi Goldberg lead the cast of Sister Act.

In my opinion Hollywood has become the most narrow minded place in the world. Now I bet most people in Hollywood think the opposite. After all, they are so outright liberal. However, it is the fact that they are liberal that makes them so narrow mindlessly biased.

Eddie Murphy's Dr. Dolittle 2 and On Deadly Ground, a real lousy Steven Seagal movie, are just two examples of Hollywood defending the wilderness against capitalist conservative businessmen. There are always two sides to a story but Hollywood only has one. Big business creates jobs and boosts the economy. Hollywood, in all of its excesses can only concern themselves with the wanderings of some animals who may have to wander in a new direction now that a company has been built.

Hollywood has also become very narrow minded when it comes to religion. Have you ever noticed that in the last 30 years religious characters in a movie only serve one of two purposes. They are either the psycho religious fanatic like the mom in Carrie, or they are simply around for the liberal character to corrupt or just show a good time. In Sister Act, the nuns are all bored and clueless until the immoral (she is sleeping with a married man) lounge singer comes along and makes everything better, At one time religion and prayer were common place in American cinema. Anyone remember The Bells Of St. Mary, or Going My Way. How about the entire theme of It's A Wonderful Life being that people prayed for someone? How many sex scenes would be added to The Sound Of Music if it were made today. Maria losing her virginity. The oldest daughter doing it in the rain with the Hitler youth.

Conservative thought is so rarely put in a positive light in Hollywood that I am having a hard time thinking of many movies that have conservative themes. In The Patriot, Mel Gibson has a line where he says "I am a parent. I don't have the luxury of principles", in a scene to decide whether we need to go to war or not. Knowing full well that if they vote for war his oldest son will go. Of course liberals, who believe day cares and public schools should be raising our kids, never would have spoken such a line that put the welfare of children above parental desires. The movie Baby Boom, starring Diane Keaton, starts with a liberal theme; single motherhood. However, it moves very much toward more conservative capitalistic thought in that the mother does not rely on government funding to support her child. She instead starts her own business.

These are rare examples. Many more liberal movie are being made these days, such as The Last Supper, starring Cameron Diaz, five liberal grad students share a house. They invite conservative people over for dinner and then poison them after they have heard enough of the conservative dinner speech. Each of the dinner guest are cheap stereotypes of conservative thought. There is the racist, the homophobe, the Louis Farrakhan wannabe, the book censor, and a 18 year old high school senior who thinks schools should not give out condoms as they only encourages sex. They verbally attacked the girls with amateur lines like "what about diseases?" and "I knew girls like you in school. All you need is a stiff one." The movie wimps out even more when their final guest is a Rush Limbaugh type media person. Over dinner he admits that he's really moderate and just takes a conservative view for reaction and ratings. Over the course of this one meal he changes the students thought to being more moderate. Moderate hell! Being moderate politically is like being bisexual. You might be able to get in bed with both, but you still have a preference and just don't have the balls to admit it.

In Seven Girlfriends, Tim Daly plays a man looking up all of his old girlfriends to find out why they broke up. One of his girlfriends has her high school age daughter's boyfriend living with them. Yes, he is sleeping with the daughter. Tim Daly's character is shocked by this but of course really says nothing about it. The mother ignorantly explains "Well at least I know where she is at night." As if where her slutty daughter has sex makes any difference. But this is Hollywood, and rules and morals are wrong.

Now maybe your response to this article is that Hollywood is representing the current morals and views of the nations. If that is your thought then you are as wrong as you are dumb. More parents today than ever are home schooling their kids. The numbers increase yearly. Why? Because our liberal public schools are spending to much time teaching socially biased issues than they are math, reading and writing. The most popular radio show in this country is the extremely conservative Rush Limbaugh and if you haven't noticed, we do have a conservative president in the white house.

Hollywood is full of liberals who don't think twice about pushing their agenda. Barbra Streisand placing a picture of the morally bankrupt Bill Clinton in a scene from The Mirror Has Two Faces. Warren Beatty's ignoramus conservative senator in Bulworth. Films like Titanic who always show the conservative rich as selfish one dimensional bigots. Of course any conservative with enough funding can make a movie. And occasionally a movie such as The Patriot and The Matrix will come out with subtle conservative thought. However, they are definitely in the minority. Hollywood has become very politically and morally narrow minded. For whatever reason, Hollywood greatly pushes the liberal agenda, and although they certainly have the right to put their views on celluloid, those opinions are not indicative of our entire nation.