for the promotion of conservative principles and values. It has not been a viable option since Public Law 79-601 was enacted and the House Committee on Un-American Activities was added to the congressional list of standing committees.

Hollywood’s anti-American position is clear and unambiguous. Its position hasn’t even been “questionable” since the aftermath of the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Our energies would be better spent reforming our government schools and holding them accountable.

Because “creative” people, for the most part, are ONLY interested in their art at a young age. They take no time to learn anything about the rest of the world and just absorb the feel good left wing views of their contemporaries.

Later, as they get older they might take more of an interest in the outside world, but since they are ignorant this usually manifests in grabbing some politically correct cause to champion.

As you said, those more interested in actually doing something, business, military, technology, are the ones more likely to become moderate or conservative. But they are simply not interested, or lack the talent, to move into the arts.

It takes a certain type of person to do a certain type of job, it has always been that way and will continue to be.

Conservatives must compete in the culture by making TV shows and movies; becoming professors, deans and Chancellors for universities; and owning press outlets and becoming journalists.

Yes, the natural bent of actors and writers and such is to be liberal tending degenerate. It seems to have come with the talent since time immemorial. That said, the people who pay the creative types, though they may themselves be liberal, are about making money and as such are acutely attuned to what the consumer is interested in buying.

If you think back to the ’70s, we’d been on a steady diet of anti-heroes and degenerates for a decade or more. Then, along come the Dirty Harry movies, the Rambo movies, even Star Wars was nothing more than a ’40s or ’50s Western set in space. Alll of those movies were in direct opposition to the cultureal elites’ thrust to the left and moral ambiguity and I think it is fair to say that they presaged the coming of morning to America.

I don’t know if Christopher Nolan is a conservative but I thought the parallels to the War on Terror could not have been more obvious in The Dark Knight.

I don’t know if Christopher Nolan is a conservative but I thought the parallels to the War on Terror could not have been more obvious in The Dark Knight.

I’d like to see more biographical films along the lines of the John Adams mini-series on HBO. My 12 year old son liked the movie so much that he started reading the book. It took him almost 2 months to get through it, and now he wants to read up on TJ.

Cuban-American Garcia spent 16 years making this epic about Cuba. Its a little long and dry at spots, but it was completely blacklisted because of its premise. The 2005 film starred people like Garcia, Dustin Hoffman and Bill Murray, but Garcia refused to listen to the Hollywood editors.

GET THIS. He demanded the thruth be told. about Castro and Cuba. The film makes mortal mistake of actually showing Che murdering people, showing Castro is a less then admirable light and showing pre-Castro Cuba as a flawed, but relatively peaceful and prosperous place.

So this historically accurate epic went nowhere.

Want to support conservative Hollywood, buy “Lost City”

Look, I don’t know about you, but I am a born-again Christian, and I believe that cultural values doesn’t appear in vacuum, they have to come from somewhere. And it is within the spiritual realm, where moral and cultural values are formed.

Think about it. Americans in early history dressed modestly and shied away from talking about sex and other taboos, because that was morally and culturally unacceptable. Such customs existed because Americans back then were deeply religious people. Over years, customs were dropped and more vile ones were adapted as norm, partly due to the fact the grip on upholding religious values slipped away.

Going Hollywood won’t help conservative causes at all, because at its most basic level, Hollywood culture is always opposed to the idea of keeping old-fashioned principles in every category imaginable. The best way possible to keep conservatism alive is preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ, who has died on the Cross for our sins, buried for three days, and resurrected from the dead, calling on His name to save us from spending eternity in Hell. I actually believe that partly because of numerous spiritual revivals in 19th and early 20th centuries, which were done in a biblical way (unlike Billy Graham’s revival meetings today) helped to keep America on the right track and closer to the right of center politically.

Destroy the spiritual values, and there will be an instantaneous change in cultural and moral makeups of American society. That’s how Hollywood become as it is today, because it had no concept of being morally and spiritually upright. Changing culture through any other means will prove in the end to be ineffective.

I’m sorry if I seem to be harsh, but that’s something I strongly believe in. GOP and conservatism alone aren’t going to change America for better, only the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ can do that….

for traditionally based films. But that market is almost exclusively from the religious right. I mean the Passion of the Christ was a phenomenon.

Films depicting the evils of collectivism are rare these days. I think a re-make of 1984, and some focus on what goes on in China and North Korea would be apropos. What we need is some over-arching understanding of what the drift to collectivism is. Then we’ll be in better shape.

What kills us is our inability to teach conservative moral values to our kids anymore. I think there is a generation coming up that notices the dark side of secular progressivism, but we need to offer the alternative, which for many is traditional religion. While that is not a “growth” sector, we should focus on religious films, and then branch out. Capitalism is something that is difficult to have an emotional attachment to.

so well with conservatives. She is “real” and “glamorous” in a way that very few conservative politicians or intellectuals do. (I mean, it took a Hollywood actor to finally elect a conservative Prez!).

Idea for Hollywood that might just actually sell: a biopic on Barry Goldwater. A true American “maverick” with solid conservative credentials and quite a personal story. Conservatives would see it in droves, others would go if it were well-made and well-cast. Who would play Barry???

NASCAR, Country Music, South Park, Tom Clancy books & movies, etc… conservative entertainment mediums already exist, and some are massively popular (and lucrative). That’s the best you’re going to get, IMHO.

The internet is a game changer that renders so-con efforts pointless. The web is implicity libertarian, egalitarian and future oriented — and the kids growing up within this new cultural framework are increasingly more individualistic and yet socially conscious. From here on out, I expect culture to steer more strongly to a soft-libertarianism (that is, neither conservative or liberal).

The Barna group has already documented this trend among 30 and under born-agains and evangelicals. If you can’t win in your own backyard, well…

That is the conservatives problem with Pop Culture. Conservatism is hard and liberalism is easy, this is the problem. Children and young adults do not want the hard path they choose the easiest because they want to hang out with their friends. Unfortunately, to appeal to this crowd we would have to sacrifice our ethics and principles to lie to them.