State of Monday: Hollywood Communists Suffer From A Perennial Plague. It Was On Display At Last Night’s Oscars
No species on earth tops the vapid lack of historical memory than the Hollywood commie.
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The Oscars were last night. I’m sure you didn’t watch. I didn’t either.
Still, I have quite enough material to write something relevant.
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THE PERENNIAL PLAGUE OF HOLLYWOOD COMMUNISTS
Many species are fairly well known for comical lack of memory. It’s a(n) (inaccurate) meme that goldfish memory resets every three seconds. Walleye fish are notoriously stupid. Tagged walleyes have been known to get caught in the same angle, with the same bait, at the same time of day multiple days running. There are cases of turkeys drowning from looking up during the rain. Baby chicks will witness their siblings get mangled by machinery and suffer the same fate seconds later.
No species on earth, however, tops the vapid lack of historical memory than the Hollywood communist.
It was the Oscar awards last night. I’ll forgive you for missing it. Sinners – a flagrant rewrite of From Dusk Till Dawn + black people and the KKK – won best cinematography (lol), best original screenplay (LMAO) and best actor. Nobody should be shocked.
It’s the first time in history an action-horror movie has won so many awards. Closest thing to it was Silence of the Lambs, which won five, and wasn’t really action-horror. Then the Exorcist, which one two. Alien took home one.
Here’s a question: Do we think Sinners will have even 10% the same impact on our culture as the other three? I’ma go with no.
The least surprising thing last night was the parade of woke speeches. Javier Bardem (who?) said “free Palestine.” Jimmy Kimmel whined about censorship. You’ve heard it before.
The most unintentionally funny thing though was Maggie Kang’s speech, which the media dutifully repeated with no sense of irony whatsoever.
As others noted almost instantly, the film Parasite won the best picture award just six years ago. Unlike Kang’s film, which was done in English, Parasite was entirely in Korean. But mah culture, she says, oblivious to her own culture.
Without revealing too much about how much of a movie nerd I am, it’s also safe to say that Korea has been churning out incredible movies for decades now that have massive followings here in the US. Oldboy is a cult classic that was so good, Americans remade it with Josh Brolin as the lead (that one was terrible).
Squid Game will more than likely go down as the most popular show in the world.
How could you miss all that? Do I recall more about film history and her own country’s creative output than Maggie Kang? Almost certainly.
The episode reminded me (and others online) of Jennifer Lawrence’s infamous interview in which she claimed The Hunger Games was the first time a woman was cast as a lead in an action movie. Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hamilton, and Milla Jovovich, among others, would like a word.
Similarly Rachel Zegler recently claimed to be a trailblazer as far as “latina” women in lead roles. We’ve forgotten Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek, Penélope Cruz and my favorite of all, Rosie Perez.
You might be tempted to blame age for the lack of memory, and you wouldn’t be wrong. Stupid, historically illiterate young people fall in thrall to communism all the time, blissfully unaware of its grisly body count.
(Sorry millions of dead Ukrainians who ate bark soup, you need to get in line behind Penélope Cruz.)
The Academy, however, is almost certainly run by old people and just as certainly (and chest thumpingly) instituted race communism without the slightest hesitation.
This is the most insane series of explicitly racial regulations this side of Jim Crow. Aside from being obviously racist, what makes them both alike is just how self righteously they were adopted.
Never mind the long and illustrious history showing that such things never end well.
The perennial plague of communists everywhere, including Hollywood, but not limited to academia, public education, local, state and federal bureaucracy, the mayor’s chairs in New York City, Chicago, Boston and Seattle, is their vicious adherence to the memoryhole.
There is no way to make such claims, institute such policies, or to feel so self righteous destroying beautiful things, unless you rigidly adhere to forgetting the past.
Winston Smith would like a word.
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