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AlicetheKurious wrote:.....
But that's a molecule of water in a vast ocean of unrelentingly heavy-handed, even ham-fisted racism of the most vicious kind, that Hollywood has been churning out, decade after decade. It's interesting, with the rivers of ink analysing every little aspect of the movie industry, it's fallen to Arab-Americans to point this large and hairy gorilla squatting dead-center in the living-room of American culture. And breaking wind.
It's kind of hard to miss, duh. Of course, this should not be interpreted as evidence that Hollywood is literally controlled by zionists, and used as a propaganda tool for Israel...
orz wrote:I agree for once!
...blame the CIA, State Department, and Pentagon for Hollywood stereotypes.
Not Zionists.
The overlap of motives is historically complex and erratic but
Hollywood is the USG, not Israel.
Hollywood has been the US government's propaganda mill since WWII when the Office of War Information moved in to the script business for the war effort.
This system continued covertly under the CIA's direction after WWII.
Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:
Correction: Hollywood has been the US government's propaganda mill since WWII when the Office of War Information moved in to the script business for the war effort.
This system continued covertly under the CIA's direction after WWII.
So blame the CIA, State Department, and Pentagon for Hollywood stereotypes.
Not Zionists.
The overlap of motives is historically complex and erratic but
Hollywood is the USG, not Israel.
My grandpa traveled to many countries when he was younger (one of them being Iran) and I believe his words about Middle Easterns, is that they are "crazy." I just couldn't believe he would say something like that. And that is truly how many people that support Bush view Arab people, even if Bush himself claims, "Oh, we have nothing against Arabs or Islam..." Hmm, but somehow it is justified to kill thousands of innocents and make their lives a living hellhole for eternity, because they are "crazy."
In "True Lies" the villain was a crazy Arab. But where was the example of the Arab spy agent that works alongside Schwarzenegger?
AlicetheKurious wrote:PPPS: If anyone can point to one, or even better, more than one vicious/evil Jewish/Israeli character on TV or in movies produced by Hollywood, similar to those ubiquitous Arab/Muslim villains, that would be a far more effective rebuttal than a rambling post that boils down to: 'move along, nothing to see here.'
[President Carter on TV]
President Carter: -high inflation. What is the solution?
[TV cuts to commercial for Luke's yard taking place in Roy's yard]
Jeff: You want the solution to inflation? Hi, friends. Marshall Lucky here for New Deal Used Cars, where we're lowering inflation not only by fighting high prices, not only by murdering high prices, but by blowing the living shit out of high prices. Yessir. Here's an example. It's a 1972 Cadillac Coupe DeVille, for sixty-two ninety-nine. That price is too high.
[shoots car]
Jeff: Yessir. Here's another one. It's a Lincoln Continental, Mark IV, 1973. It's loaded. It's got air conditioning. It's got a stereo. It's got white-wall radial tires. It's got power steering, power brakes, power seats, power windows. And a price that is just too high.
[shoots car]
Jeff: Yessir.
[Jim appears on car behind him in costume]
Jim: YAAAAAAHHHH.
Freddie: [on microphone] Look out, Marshall Lucky. It's High Prices.
Jeff: Take this, you dirty ol' High Prices.
["shoots" Jim, who puts on a very convincing act]
Jim: AHHHH. Ya got me Marshall. Ahhhhh...
Jeff: [shocked] Jesus Christ.
[winks at screen]
Jeff: Yessir, that's New Deal Used Cars... Now wait just a Goddamn minute. What the hell is this? Is this a 1974 Mercedes 450SL for *twenty-four thousand dollars*? That's too fucking high.
[blows up car with dynamite. Roy watches at home]
Roy: You sonova bitch.
Jeff: [laughs] Yessir. We blew the shit out of that over-priced motherfucker just the way we blow the shit out of *all* high prices, down here at New Deal Used Cars. So y'all come on down. Did you hear what I said? New Deal Used Cars. So y'all come on down. Did you hear what I said?
[TV cuts back to President]
President Carter: I have heard you, with unmistakable clarity...
Roy: You sonova bitch.
[kicks TV and electrocutes himself]
later on……..
FBI Inspector: You want to give me that again?
Jeff: Uh, well, yes. As I say, Inspector, I heard this large explosion and I rushed out, I couldn't tell what was going on. I saw the car over there in flames and all these strange little characters, you know, with towels on their heads, weird little goatees and stuff, running around yelling: "Ayatollah, Ayatollah." Then they all got in a car and drove away. I guess it was Iranian students out to discredit the American way of life. I can't imagine who else would do such a thing.
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