By Kurt Schlichter
Monday - July 01, 2013
Hollywood is making another pathetic attempt to
manufacture villains out of real Americans in its latest loud, dumb and
explodey retread, White House Down. Surprise! The bad guys are, again, our
military. Yet, bucking the trend, another big-budget film – the zombie apocalypse
epic World War Z – not only depicts our American warriors as the heroes they
are but even gives props to the Israeli Defense Force.
I know - it’s easier to believe in zombies than in a
major Hollywood movie where American and Israeli fighters aren’t the bad guys.
My friend and Townhall columnist Lisa De Pasquale did us
all a favor by seeing White House Down so we don’t have to. When the same movie
about an attack on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue flopped two months ago it was
called Olympus Has Fallen. Before that, it took place at Nakatomi Plaza and was
called Die Hard.
At least in Olympus, the bad guys were North Koreans. In
Down, the “military-industrial complex” and right-wing soldiers are mad because
liberal President Jamie “Obama is Jesus” Foxx wants to take all US military
forces out of the Middle East. Yeah, because it’s not like a bunch of liberals
in the government would be pushing to intervene in the Middle East while the
military resists the idea as short-sighted, unworkable and just kind of stupid.
These right wing monsters also blow up the Capitol, which
was no doubt inspired by the real-life antics of conservative activist Bill
Ayers and the Weatherman Tea Party Front.
Basically, the filmmakers’ big problem with these
villains is that they behave like leftists.
It’s always refreshing to see popular culture take the
lead from the Department of Homeland Security and finally confront the real
threat to America – its fighting men and women. Except, according to De
Pasquale’s review, there are no women on the terrorist team. Nor minorities.
So, in the eyes of Hollywood, the military is an all-white, all-male
organization so dedicated to unfocused imperialism that it is willing to commit
mass murder of fellow Americans for the chance to die in some Middle East
hellhole.
Who needs to risk getting a mouthful of fist by spitting
on our soldiers in-person when you can do it safely from on-screen?
If you spend one damn cent on this crap, you’re spitting
on our troops too. Remember that when one of your friends innocently suggests
going to see this celluloid slander having merely seen the trailer and thinking
it’s just a way to turn off your brains for a couple hours of action-packed
fun.
Repeat after me, conservatives: Not one damn cent.
In contrast, World War Z is a pleasant surprise. Based
(loosely) on the terrific novel by Max Brooks about the impact on society of a
plague of hungry ghouls, Z actually depicts our military as competent, capable
and brave. It shows American and Israeli soldiers doing what soldiers do in
real life – risking their lives to protect their people.
This movie is also the best advertisement ever for the
AR15 rifle platform. M16s and M4s, with all sorts of modifications, abound.
They protect civilization from ravenous hordes of mindless savages bent on the
destruction of all decent human beings. You know, sort of like in real life.
Occasionally, liberals will mock conservatives for their
reluctance to relinquish effective weapons due to worries that the thin veneer
of civilization might crack. I don’t remember any of those liberals on the
streets with me during the Los Angeles riots – I expect they were cowering up
in the Hollywood Hills behind me and my fellow soldiers’ M16A1 rifles.
World War Z is not really about brain-eating zombies but
about the resilience of civilization and how its stability relies on a
relatively few military and civilian defenders. The not-so-subtle message is
that when civilization crumbles, feel-good liberal platitudes make way for
reality.
Accordingly, it’s not surprising that when all hell
breaks loose, Brad Pitt grabs a rifle. And as for the dudes who decide to take
a break from fleeing the zombies by assaulting Ms. Pitt, Brad’s “rape whistle”
sounds a lot like a .30-06.
But World War Z is a lonely exception to the general
Hollywood rule – that everything bad in the world somehow comes back to those
perceived as conservatives. In White House Down, the military goes kill-crazy
to protect its war machine profits. In The Purge, law and order types want to
engage in a bloody free-for-all of homicide. And in Footloose, for some reason
Christians want to keep Kevin Bacon from dancing.
But, of course if it’s corporate profits that need
protecting, the real experts are the Democrat Party’s crony corporatist
constituents. If you want an urban bloodbath, head to any Democrat-run big
city. And count on the Democrats’ feminist phalanx to whine about the
hetero-normative, patriarchal paradigm of Kevin Bacon’s sexy shimmying.
From domestic terrorism to corporate conspiracies, from
inner city slaughter to petty-fascist nannyism, the real source of every evil
the Tinseltown left decries is right there in the mirror. As usual, movies
aren’t the only thing liberal Hollywood is projecting.
No comments:
Post a Comment