Hollywood's identity crisis: Actors, writers and producers
warn of 'reverse racism' in the film industry
which has created a 'toxic' climate
for anyone who is a white, middle-age man
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Caroline Graham
Original Article
Posted By: zephyrgirl,
7/12/2020 8:27:42 AM
As the wooden boards are taken down from shopfronts and studio lots grind slowly back to life, Hollywood is basking in an unseasonable heatwave. The famous boulevards shimmer in 40C haze and warm Santa Ana winds fan the Beverly Hills mansions. Shaken by #MeToo, paralysed by Covid-19, the $50 billion film industry is finally emerging from a four-month lockdown – only to find a new and very different world, where tension is rising as surely as the thermometer.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
franq 7/12/2020 8:30:16 AM (No. 475439)
Hollywood can go bankrupt, for all I care. My DVD collection is nicely stocked. And if I need more, there is a local used book store where they can be had for ten cents on the dollar.
40 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
droopydog 7/12/2020 8:38:10 AM (No. 475449)
They made their pig sty, now go wallow in it. I feel lucky to have retired a couple of years ago.
44 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
pros7767 7/12/2020 8:41:57 AM (No. 475454)
Well, well, well. Be careful what you advocate for!
After having been lectured by these preening, pompous arses for years, to the point where I refuse to go to the movies except on very rare occasion depending on who the director is, the shoe is now on the other foot! Welcome to our world that you started. I can only imagine the losses these studios are going to take. Their movies are already bad enough. Throw in movies with actors with no experience and bad subject matter, it will be fun to watch Hollywood implode!
So much for being "woke". Idiots all.
62 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 7/12/2020 8:45:31 AM (No. 475460)
"But," Cried Robespierre, with his head firmly ensconced in the embrace of the guillotine, "I am one of you!"
41 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
philsner 7/12/2020 8:54:13 AM (No. 475468)
You don't say!
15 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Pearson365 7/12/2020 8:58:04 AM (No. 475478)
This racist madness is going to impact most if not all publicly traded companies. Unlike Hollywood, the hardest hit will be middle age white women, not men, because men were hit by gender hiring and promotion quotas decades ago. The beneficiaries of those anti white male policies were mostly young white women, who are now middle age. Their opportunities for advancement will now be as difficult as it has been for men. Welcome to the wonderful world of racial equity, white girl!
What’s most troubling is that the uniformed services, from the military to police and fire, will be the most negatively impacted. We can avoid movies but it’s hard to avoid calling the police or wondering if our armed forces will defend the country.
26 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 7/12/2020 9:00:09 AM (No. 475481)
Hollywood is toxic to all human life.
36 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
erobot 7/12/2020 9:01:02 AM (No. 475485)
Not to worry. The "film" industry as in theaters is dead. Dissing and ignoring the majority population is not a smart move. Ditto network television. Without stealing from US taxpayers to pay for alternate entertainment, where's the money to come from -- oh, I forgot, they'll use Obama's idea, "we'll just print more money." LoL
26 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
seamusm 7/12/2020 9:11:27 AM (No. 475496)
Ya think? I hope the Hollywooders starve or at least hole up with their millions and shut the H up.
18 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/12/2020 9:17:15 AM (No. 475505)
Hollywood brought this situation on itself by creating the expectation that a person of color be included in every show, every commercial and playing the role of the smart person while the white actors are portrayed as bumbling idiots. Not to mention that the shows are boring, repetitive and incredibly stupid. Result: They are losing all but 13% of their former audience.
Congratulations you imbeciles, you have killed the Golden Goose.
56 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
red1066 7/12/2020 9:21:41 AM (No. 475515)
That mindset spilled over into commercials, and into real life as well. It's not just middle age men, it starts in elementary school and runs through the entire educational system. As for commercials, the latest insult to men is the commercial on TV advertising a product to keep your pet calm. I guess the advertising agencies think it's funny, but it's kind of insulting when every commercial portrays men as idiots and buffoons.
28 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 7/12/2020 9:22:18 AM (No. 475517)
This article actually works nicely with the other article posted about WHO saying we should shut our AC off even during this heatwave. What to do, what to do. Hollywood is in trouble because their movies are no longer made for American audiences, but Asian and Europe.
17 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 7/12/2020 9:27:43 AM (No. 475528)
Minority rules.......
8 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/12/2020 9:32:17 AM (No. 475540)
Let’s see how the Liberal writers, actors, producers like this...
17 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
MissGrits 7/12/2020 9:41:52 AM (No. 475560)
This seems easy. Whoever is in the majority, gather everyone together, come to a consensus that YOU are in the majority and hire whomever you wish. Why let 13% of the population dictate what you do? Grow a pair and quit worrying about what everybody thinks.
23 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
HotRod 7/12/2020 9:53:23 AM (No. 475579)
Hollywood will be making movies and shows heavily laced with racist themes and politically correct droppings. I predict a bleak future for everyone connected with the industry.
23 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Laotzu 7/12/2020 9:56:52 AM (No. 475582)
The last normal movie made in Hollywood was "True Lies" in 1994. Then everything went Left.
9 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
Aubreyesque 7/12/2020 10:11:01 AM (No. 475600)
BURN
HOLLYWOOD
DOWN
10 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Kate318 7/12/2020 10:11:07 AM (No. 475601)
Hey DM, if you’re going to write about Hollywood, USA, please use Fahrenheit instead of Celsius.
10 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 7/12/2020 10:11:09 AM (No. 475602)
I've always said this if your target audience is made for 'blackness' then let that percent of the population support your product because I won't. I love this one, Hollywood goes black so what's a 'woke' white millionaire to do?
12 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/12/2020 10:11:11 AM (No. 475603)
Oh, and watch out for those Racist TREES...a HUGE majority are Dark Brown, the only white trees live in the North East!
6 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 7/12/2020 10:13:15 AM (No. 475605)
I have just about stopped watching any news or live TV, but the little bit I have seen since April no show ads with women kissing women or men feeling up other men. It's like when the BLM riots started, the 6 foot rule and mask wearing were suddenly abandoned in favor of Kumbaya. I still get a daily intake of news, but I READ it and therefore avoid the lily-liver voices yakking at me.
12 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
LeftCoast 7/12/2020 10:21:32 AM (No. 475622)
No such thing as "reverse racism". Racism is racism no matter the color.
19 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
Petronius 7/12/2020 10:22:21 AM (No. 475623)
Hollywood has made nothing worthwhile in decades. I won't miss them.
23 people like this.
I'm a writer/director/producer in Hollywood and this is the truth. As conservatives, we meet in secret and smile and nod at work. Fortunately, I'm gay so my silence never makes people think I'm not a liberal. But now the mob is going after liberals. Which makes it doubly dangerous for conservatives. Even though it's fun to watch the left eat itself, this will spread to companies all over the country I'm considering moving back to Texas to make films where the cancel culture isn't as strong. White men, like myself, are being stamped out in this age of socially accepted racism for the sake of cosmetic diversity.
31 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
GO3 7/12/2020 10:25:33 AM (No. 475629)
And they know it. If you haven't seen it yet, here is Ricky Gervais hitting them hard at the Golden Globes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR6UeVptzRg
Mr. Tom "high moral ground" Hanks is shocked, just shocked I tell you.
10 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
jinx 7/12/2020 10:29:35 AM (No. 475635)
They are eating their own. They are getting a full dose of what they have been feeding us for years. The leading man is gone; in his place is the leading woman. Next will be the leading transgender black. The elite Hollywood crowd will have to live off of what they earned and when that is gone, will have to start selling their three mansions and yachts. How sad(:
14 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
jhpeters2 7/12/2020 10:30:36 AM (No. 475638)
If you can, try to think back at who won the Oscars recently and what for. People of color? Sure. Best pictures with gay characters forced into the storyline? Sure. Best picture nominees and winners that in the past would be unwatchable Movies of The Week on network TV? Sure. Nominees and winners with insipid dialog and weak plot lines? Sure. Will I ever willingly go to a movie theater to watch the items listed above? Nope.
16 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
planetgeo 7/12/2020 10:42:45 AM (No. 475654)
What amazes me is that no budding entrepreneur has yet chosen to move into the huge market void that these leftist Hollywood studios/writers/stars have created. The financial opportunity is massive. There's a palpable hunger in at least half of the country for films that center on protagonists and themes that reflect pro-American, pro-military, pro-all-lives-matter, and good-guys-save-the-day values.
Not to mention the fact that technology now makes every home a top notch movie theater that has better video, better sound, and can provide popcorn/soda combos for way less than 20 bucks a person.
20 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
DVC 7/12/2020 11:04:27 AM (No. 475674)
"Reverse" - nothing. Straight up, pure, unadulterated racism.
Racism, contary to the imaginations of little minds, has NOTHING to do with who is doing it to whom.
Racism is anyone treating two people differently, based solely on the color of their skin.
And today, 90% or more of racism is whites being descriminated against in favor of blacks or other races.
Straight up racism, common as hell, and people are proud of being racists.
Affirmative action is RACISM, it always was, always will be.
19 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
bpl40 7/12/2020 11:25:38 AM (No. 475698)
Racism is unduly exploiting race based differences for PERSONAL gain or profit. Anyone come to mind. Like someone with middle name Hussein or using the title Reverend? A black patient is more likely to suffer certain conditions because of his/her race. A doctor treating them differently is not racist.
6 people like this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
mc squared 7/12/2020 11:43:12 AM (No. 475722)
There is no reverse-racism. Racism is racism unless it's perpetuated by blacks.
Why is anyone surprised at this Hollywood shite?
Morgan Freeman has been on so many DVD boxes I feel like he's following me around in the video stores.. The new head of NBC/Universal says no more white men for him.
No more movies for Wifey and me. Same for network TV.
12 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
jacksin5 7/12/2020 11:43:55 AM (No. 475725)
This will do for movies what rap did for the music industry.
15 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
stablemoney 7/12/2020 12:19:38 PM (No. 475774)
To be successful, you have to produce what customers want. Hollywood has not cared about their customers in 40 years, and they have lost most of them. Making other people happy makes you happy. Stewing in your politics, grievances, jealousies, greed, envy, and self makes one miserable, which is where Hollywood stands.
9 people like this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
BarryNo 7/12/2020 12:32:25 PM (No. 475787)
A month or two late and millions of dollars, short.
3 people like this.
Reply 36 - Posted by:
Omen55 7/12/2020 12:57:02 PM (No. 475812)
So no work for Robert De Niro.
LOL!
14 people like this.
Reply 37 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 7/12/2020 1:05:12 PM (No. 475822)
Hang in there, #25. I still love movies, and the industry needs all the sensible people it can get. (With the exception of The Black Panther, Marvel's first ten years managed to entertain without too much leftist proselytizing.)
7 people like this.
Reply 38 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 7/12/2020 2:18:40 PM (No. 475885)
I can't wait for them all to go broke. Liberals always eat their own.....
2 people like this.
Reply 39 - Posted by:
chance_232 7/12/2020 3:47:02 PM (No. 475989)
I lived within walking distance of Hollywood in the early 90's. Even then, conservatives kept to themselves and their opinions quiet. This was back when Dan Quayle was excoriated for making the comment about closeted republicans, but I knew exactly what he meant.
This insanity will continue and get worse until there is serious pushback. Fortunately, for leftists, conservatives have to work to pay for their welfare and subsidized livelihoods, and dont have time to protest.
5 people like this.
Reply 40 - Posted by:
formerNYer 7/13/2020 12:33:15 AM (No. 476401)
Hollywood is dead. And they say when you're leaving the plane bu-bye.
0 people like this.
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