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In Reply to: Re: if you're "not into love stories", posted by tunenut on January 19, 2006 at 17:40:23:
Some things we do - or don't do - are meant to send the message to Hollywood... OK, not just Hollywood, but also the whole distribution chain.Today Hollywood seems to be on a mission. Some people there believe they can push their favorite subjects on the public with impunity. In that situation I think it is important to push back - by refusing to see their stuff, as I don't think they are qualified to be our mind controllers - something they are certainly attempting. Hollywood is INCREDIBLY sensitive to the bottom line, and that is where we can hit back.
While there IS some similarity between the case you cited and the one here, there is also great difference. "Foreign movies" encompass so much more than any particular genre that by refusing to see them one severely limits his scope. After all, as I usually say, about 95% of the world is "foreign" to Americans. There are "foreign" films on pretty much ANY subject one might wish to see or investigate.
Also, there certainly has not been any particular "push" behind them, no agenda, no mission.
Things are different with gay movies. Many consider their promotion extremely in your face, and there is good reason for that. Such active promotion calls for active push back, if one disagrees with it.
So in this particular case the position the poster took does get legitimacy.
Follow Ups:
I have not seen this movie (to put that aside at the start).I think I understand what you're saying -- vote with your money. You don;t want to see a Gay love story that is fine -- people make choices all the time about what they wish to see and what they don't for all sorts of reasons. The foreign press and most film critics seem to be saying about this particular film that indeed the non American Director is a symbal that these are the kinds of films they want to see (if the number of film critics has anything to say - including most foreign countires top film critics).
The stupid thig about all this is that this is HARDLY new. There have been so many films and tv that have gay characters in love in love stories that I can;t see this as being a "token gay love story" that "They" presumably Hollywood but Hollywood is not the THING from outer space it is made up of individuals from around the world, are trying to promote that "Gay is good, so be Gay."
Frankly, I wish a lot more guys were Gay -- that means there is a lot less competition for ME :-)
I'm libertarian leaning - I sure would rather spend a day with Hugh Hefner and Larry Flint than I ever would with Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson...and if that means I'm going to hell -- GOOD -- because wherever pat Robertson and Jerry Fallwell end up does not sound like Heaven to me!
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