Fox News: "Lego movie is liberal propaganda"

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Once again, we see a kid's movie being taken out of context to support another Fox outrage.

Do these people even understand Fiction 101? Most villains in any story are going to have some form of power, whether it's tons of wealth, ownership of a corporation, etc. That doesn't mean the writers hate rich people. It just means that villains usually have the same access to wealth and resources as many rich people, because a villain has to in order to carry out their evil deeds. Why can't Fox understand this simple concept, instead of twisting every fictional plot device into a "leftist narrative?"

Something else I found interesting is the statement that Hollywood is controlled by the "Far Left" and is anti-capitalist. I mean, it doesn't really make sense when you really think about it because if Hollywood really hated Capitalism, why would they be releasing movies for profit?

Oh, well. It's just another day in Fox Noise land, where a kid's movie is part of a secret, sinister plot to indoctrinate your kids into some lifestyle. I normally laugh at this kind of stupidity, but I worry about how many gullible people are falling for this type of fear propaganda from Fox. It certainly can't be healthy for the mind.

 

The Lorax was written half a century ago.

Anyway, here's a video of corporate bad guys taking on Hollywood good guys (warning, foul language):

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I guess those are the innocent capitalistas who just pay their rent, give to charities and to their churches.

 

The evil should be a growing poor population who destroy a country from within.

 

The bad guy is " Lord Business"; hardly the concept we need to be promoting in this JOBLESS, STAGGERING economy.

"Mommy Government" has done enough damage.

We will be DECADES rebounding from the entitlement mentality we have created and nurtured in this presidency.

 

Wasn't that Robin Hood and his Merry Men?

 

When Star Trek originally aired, the representation of the Klingons and the Romulans was that of the Soviet Union and the People Republic of China, respectively. Yet those representations were not taken literally by those who watched the cult classic yesterday and today. Or we can talk about the representation of Godzilla. Or how about Sullivan's travels? Or Wagons East? And the list goes on.

There may be a representation that invokes some stereotype of the business, but we all know that Hollywood, not to mention Bollywood, Tokyowood, or any other media outlet that movies are about real, life drama or real life experiences. It is fictional, make believe, in essence of today, a computerized fantasy and that is all.

 

Oh for (*)(*)(*)(*)s sake...Murdoch, you've got to have better uses for your money than this.

 

No it means that the writers do hate rich people - but they're too gullible to realize that they're doing more to help capitalism by making the movies than they are by putting an 'anti-capitalist' message in a kid's movie

Kind of like how Kirk Cameron claimed his "Avatar" movie to be "serious" about its anti-capitalist message... yet he didn't seem to grasp the irony at the fact that the film was produced by News Corporation (aka, Fox ) Or any of Michael Moore's movies, etc

 

I always find it hilarious when people accuse Hollywood of being communist or anti capitalist when they're they're the ones raking in billions.

 

Because they're stupid... - so what you're saying is that Michael Moore "isn't serious" in his films - he just pretends to "hate capitalism"?

 

I find it likely, that anything the big wigs at fox find unattractive is labelled as liberal.

 

Then Michael Moore is just "pretending" to have capitalism? He 'really loves it' and his films are just a circus act?

I find it hilarious too - the problem is some on the far left don't see the double standard in that - they seem to think that "decrying the evils" of capitalism somehow atones for their sin of reaping it's rewards I guess


...though on the same note, then it's hilarious that people decry Fox as part of some "vast right wing propaganda conspiracy" - when it's NewsCorp that produced James Cameron's Avatar (which had anti-capitalist themes), and which hosts Family Guy on cable (which frequently jabs are Republican politicians)

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I don't believe in any "conspiracy", but I do believe a good chunk of Hollywood scriptwriters, film producers, etc have left-wing views and end up integrating them into their films (and it gets old after awhile - it'd be nice to see a film on occasion where the 'capitalists/colonists' are the good guys, and the villains are the natives/indigenous inhabitants - just for the sake of variety - since that "noble savages vs. the big bad evil colonists" theme has been done to death as far back as Disney's Pocahontas).

They may not grasp the double standard of 'bashing capitalism' while making millions off of it, but their views are still their views.

 

I think you mean James Cameron

I actually can't decide which is sillier... people in Fox News seeing anti-capitalism in everything Hollywood does... or people in Hollywood not seeing the capitalism in everything it does...

 

Yeah

 

There definitely are writers that do hate rich people, and that does come across in their stories.

However, like I said in the OP, a villain that wants to carry out their evil deeds needs access to large sums of money or resources to carry out his/her plans. I bet most conservative authors write their villains the same way, because it's common sense storytelling.

There's a reason you rarely encounter poor or homeless villains. That's because they don't own or control anything, therefore they're largely harmless.

 

I do agree with you about Michael Moore. The guy is one of the biggest hypocrites in Hollywood.

 

That's true yeah, however in a lot of films you do encounter a theme of the "big bad industrialists" vs the "noble indigenous inhabitants" - it's not like "Lego" is the first film to have this theme. Vary rarely if ever would you see a theme such as "the noble colonists" vs "the big bad natives" - I think there's definitely a bias within in the industry to certain politically correct themes

I think if someone tried to make a movie, with a theme such as a Spanish conquistador being a hero, and Native Americans/Aztecs being the villains - it would never find a publisher and be decried by the MSM as "racist"

 

Much like it's viewers, Fox News is fading and becoming irrelevant. All they have is fear as a tactic to get the last remaining of the old guard who are unable and unwilling to keep up with the times.

 

Hahahahahaha!

 

I cannot comment on The Lego Movie because I haven't seen it, but you're a fool if you don't think that the mannerisms and traits and storylines of a villain in movies can be real-world politically motivated. For example, the villains in the movie Avatar were an evil corporation trying to mine "unobtanium". It was so ridiculously obvious a parallel to oil companies that they really should have just dropped the ridiculous façade and said they were drilling for oil. The movie Wall-E certainly had an anti-corporate, anti-consumerism message to it. I admit I found it ironic that The Disney Company was lecturing me about big-box consumerism. And if an individual doesn't realize the underlying left wing message behind Elysium, then they are a moron.

 

But anti-consumerism doesn't always translate into anti-capitalism.

For example, I'm a capitalist, but I'm not a huge fan of consumerism, at least the kind that leads to people getting arrested or killed on Black Friday. I'm also very frugal with my money and I try to make it last as long as possible, so in that sense, I'm not a consumerist.

For me, capitalism is an economic system, whereas consumerism is a mindset.

 

Wow. I didn't think there were people stupid enough to believe that is an actual Fox News screen capture.

If you have to make something up to try and make someone look bad, chances are they're not really that bad.

 

You have heard of the term "Limousine Liberals", right? It kind of applies to these Hollywood types.

 

ah, but not how far fox is from reality when gatewood didn't claim that screen capture was fake - it wasn't unusual in his mind to see that on Fox. Hence, his post wasn't discrediting it, he just debated past it.

 

There's another side of that ironic coin. Can you figure it out?