Sensing Agrees
I predicted a little while ago that movies would swing right because of the economics of ideology (yes, I just made that up). Here Donald Sensing suggests the same, but reminds us: the ideology doesn't matter so much as the STORY, first and foremost.
But as Marsha Kinder would say: story(narrative) IS ideology.
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NBC has been cashing in on it -- the West Wing has been going increasingly red, every episode of Medium features mention and adoration of the death penalty, and they can't get enough of specials that have to do with Jesus.
You'd think you're watching FOX.
I think its kinda stupid though -- right inclined people tend to shy towards disney-esque crap, I can't really see them drawing a bigger crowd for making the villian in Rock X a left-wing islamist.
oh, agreed. check out 24 as well, which features torturing people week to week.
what can i say, tv is getting better and movies are getting worse. the best movie in the past 5 years is the sopranos...
but the right wing shift to me isn't about disney/christian crap, but more the idea of South Park Conservatives, Fight Club, Howard Hawks, Tarantino, Sam Peckinpah like contempt for pc bullshit like the day after tomorrow and the interpreter (which i haven't seen)
NOTE: i do not include Passion of the Christ in this shift, i think this is about something different altogether - faith and spectacle and maschocistic violence. hmmmm...a good argument can be made that these ARE the characteristics of the right, but that's the typical lazy leftist coastal rhetoric.
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