Bridge of Lies …anyone who has made a habit of comparing fact-based films with their real-life antecedents can hardly avoid noticing the shamelessness with which Hollywood alters history both for the sake of a better yarn and to suit its political, indeed polemical, purposes.
Don’t skip this one.
Worst-named movie of the year: “Truth”.
Spielberg and Hanks produced ‘Band of Brothers’ which will always stand them in my highest esteem.
The KGB infiltration of North America has never been dealt with by Hollywood and probably never will. Socialism or Communism Lite has won the war of political idealism plain and simple. There is currently no basis for optimism either with Republicans in the USA or the Conservative Party in Canada. The CPC is controlled by progressives and I see no change in the future.
Many Canadians laugh at Kevin O’Leary but he made a point/suggestion the other day that resonated. He thinks that both the USA and Canada should change their constitutions so that no politician can hold office without having ran a company and had to meet a payroll for at least 2 years. Something as simple as that would solve a lot of governance issues in today’s world.
2016 arrives soon and it is hard to be optimistic about our future.
I got rid of my cable TV account over a year ago and I do not go the movies any more unless it’s a very special offering. I do NOT support Hollywood in general, nor cable companies, they are corrupt. Netflix is as far as I will go now for entertainment for those sources. nine buck a month and that doesn’t allow for much profit on what I watch.
We need a revolution badly. I hope Trump achieves that without any shooting.
Maybe the shoe will be on the other foot with the upcoming movie on the Benghazi video, I mean attack. I suspect Donald Trump will be very pleased:
“13 Hours: The Non-Political Benghazi Movie that Hillary Can’t Avoid:
“Two long weeks ago, Hillary Clinton was declared the undisputed winner in her face-off with Republicans on the House subcommittee over the part she played during the Benghazi attacks of September 11, 2012. But that was before an Optimus Prime–sized hole was blown right through her campaign’s and the media’s narrative that Benghazi has finally been put to rest.”
The bomb was the release of two new trailers for 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, director Michael Bay’s action-heavy portrayal of events (already labeled “Bayghazi” by the Internet), which hits theaters January 15. Its pop-culture treatment of events that night will have people talking and debating in a way that all the Fox News specials and C-SPAN hearings in the world couldn’t. The recently released trailer has shown that no matter how scarce the names “Hillary Clinton” and “Barack Obama” are in the film, their involvement in what’s depicted is unmistakable. The film is based on the Mitchell Zuckoff bestseller of the same name, which deals primarily with events on the ground that night, and the efforts of a small group of operators and security forces to extract their fellow Americans from the attacks.”
We can expect 13 Hours to follow the big-Hollywood credo of not pointing fingers at the leaders in the party they agree with. It looks from the trailer to be aiming any blame for bad decision-making that night straight at the CIA operatives on the ground (“We’re not even supposed to be here” an agent growls and not at Hillary Clinton’s packing it in while the attack was still happening or at whatever Barack Obama’s orders were. The film is surely not going to feature portrayals of Barack Obama and Joe Biden traveling the country to thump their chests and proudly declare that al-Qaeda was on the run and bin Laden was dead, therefore the threat of terror in hostile foreign countries was largely over. The film will ignore Hillary Clinton blaming a YouTube video while standing in front of four flag-draped coffins. But none of that may matter. Examining the scenes in the trailer alone points to a failure of leadership extending up the chain of command, which ends with Mrs. Clinton’s State Department and Barack Obama’s apparent delinquency while resting for a campaign stop the next day, a campaign stop he did not cancel. The film will most likely lay blame on a big, mysterious, and complicated bureaucratic system of red tape that led to a string of intelligence failures without ever showing faces or revealing names. The problem with this narrative is that the people ultimately in charge of those failures are named Obama and Clinton.”
I plan to see it if only as a foil against the mediocracy’s statist hero worship and any Michael Moore claptrap.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/426607/13-hours-michael-bay-benghazi-hillary-clinton
I don’t think TV is a cause celebre for revolution. How about corruption; one-party state or Prime Ministers for life?
Well, they could have dubbed it “Gaykhazi”
As with the old left, the new left almost always sticks to the narrative over the truth. In the fifties and even the forties (It’s A Wonderful Life), the villains were mostly businessmen, capitalists and corporations while all virtue came from the state or altruistic individuals. These days, the US government (when under a Republican administration) is often put in the role of villain but usually with a corporate co-conspirator or puppet master. The left lies. There’s money to be made by hollowing out a culture and the greatest irony is that the business of Hollywood revisionism sees every other corporate entity (and American institutions of Liberty) as evil while perpetrating a much greater evil.
The biggest lie in Hollywood is the claim,”based on a true story” in the lead up to a film.
The only “base” is usually that,yes,there once was a man named “Fred”, but the rest of the story won’t in any way resemble what really happened to Fred. I was sucked in by that claim on the movie,”Fargo”, and enjoyed the performances,until I read the truth about their lead-in,”based on a true story”.
About the only truth in the movie is that,yes,there is a State called Minnesota,and they DO have cops there.Everything else is made up of tiny bits of numerous crime cases all mixed together in a hodgepodge of pure fantasy.
Today’s audience will watch the three movies named in the article without questioning a single one of the “facts” presented, and thus the false narratives will become the truth,and live on for many years.
The point I find most disgusting,is that Stalin era communism was no worse than American capitalism of that era,and that both sides had their rights and wrongs. Allah almighty!
Just work along side the many refugees from Soviet-era Eastern Europe,as I did, and you might get a different picture of the “people’s paradise”.
I read the article. It is wrong about about Bridge of Spies. The film has exaggerations, but politically tilted? How does having Hanks see guards execute East Germans trying to flee help a political tilt in the fashion of Trumbo? The Russians come off not so bad because the East Germans are the real bad guys of this film, which the article writer inattentively hints at.
// How and why Hollywood distorts history by filming it with a leftist lens //
Just one of the distorting lenses. And Commentary would consider anything this side of “I was a Communist for the FBI” to be leftist.
How can the Left distort history?
They deny we have any.
Convenient lies are all they have.
The “narrative” is all important, actual recorded events and people?
Not important.
Look at the race baiters currently in power and then to Martin Luther King.
Colour or Character?
Whats the meme?
Black lives matter? Except to other blacks in Democrats precincts.
All lives matter? Hell no, thats racist.
The media are paid propagandists, Presstitutes to their fans.
Hollywood is dismal naval gazing, no plot,no story and no talent.
when is a movie more than just a movie? Never.
My solution is to simply not watch movies. Hollyweird produces only crap and it was their attempts to interfere what I could do on my own computer that started this boycott. Occasionally I’ll pick up a DVD for $5 in a sale bin, but when I was putting away my DVD’s and noticed I hadn’t unwrapped one of them that practice stopped.
I’d much rather read a book than watch a movie and I avoid movies based on books I’ve read.