By Robert L. Hilliard
Hollywood Speaks Out explores that infrequent Hollywood function that dared to take on red-hot, social matters while American society used to be gripped by means of the convulsion and controversy they generated.
- Explores why Hollywood has continuously been risk-adverse, and the way so much characteristic flms care for arguable concerns lengthy after the debate is past
- Organized round such vital matters as poverty, racism, sexism, conflict, anti-Semitism, and homophobia
- Discusses the relevance and the influence of characteristic motion pictures from Modern Times to WALL-E
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Apocalypse Now delineated the brutality of the war, including the actions of some of the American soldiers that resembled the persona of homicidal maniacs. One aspect of the film deals with American soldiers who have formed their own society in the jungle because they cannot fathom adjusting to a return to their so-called civilized lives back home after the horrors they experienced and perpetrated in the war. Marlon Brando’s role as an American who defects to become the ruler – in effect, a god – in a native village emphasizes the greedy, power-hungry insanity that is a basic ingredient of war.
But that’s the way the movie industry works. S. ”39 A review of Grace Is Gone stated that “the war is the preeminent issue across the USA, yet movies that explore politically sensitive topics have been suffocating at the box office . . ”40 The New York Times review of 2007’s Charlie Wilson’s War (about how the United States built up the Taliban in Afghanistan in order to oppose the Soviet Union) added the following consideration: “You can make a movie that is relevant and intelligent – and palatable to a mass audience – if its political pills are sugar-coated .
Com. Clarke, Gerald, “Persuasive Pictures,” Time, March 8, 1982. com. ,” New York Times, March 31, 1974, p. 127. Ryan, Michael and Douglas Kellner, Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film (Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1988), pp. 87, 236. Karger, Dave, “Luck Is on His Side,” Entertainment Weekly, January 20, 2006, pp. 22 – 6. qxd 29/12/2008 10:34 Page 25 16 Steven Spielberg, quoted in Thompson, Anne, “H’wood, Applied Liberally,” Hollywood Reporter, February 1, 2006.