“Unlike filmgoers during World War II, contemporary audiences are avoiding these event-driven pictures”
I concur with the Purple Avenger at AOSHQ, Steven Bochco is an asshat. My reason are a littledifferent though. Lewis Beale of Newsday interviewed him and both seem to be seriously misguided.
Beale:
This is not your grandfather’s war. This war is unpopular and controversial, seemingly endless.
Where does Lewis get the idea that WWII was popular? FDR ran on the promise that he would not send your boys to war. America rallied when attacked on 7 December, 1941, but much of the press accounts from that day forward, mirror the public sentiment of today. The difference is that in 1941, America depended on their radio and a newspaper for information. In 2007, we have 24/7 coverage available at all times.
Unlike filmgoers during World War II, contemporary audiences are avoiding these event-driven pictures
During WWII, the studios worked with the government. Our studios put on a united front. The message was simple. The United States Of America is on it’s way…We stand united and we will fight the enemy and make the world a safer place for all mankind. In 2007, our studios send out a message that America is the enemy. During WWII, the studios released pictures that were propaganda pictures for our government. In 2007, Hollywood puts out propaganda pictures for our enemy.
Bochco:
“It’s a hugely unpopular war, and there’s a staggering amount of depressing coverage,” says producer Steven Bochco. Bochco’s 2005 TV series “Over There,” about a platoon of soldiers fighting in Iraq, lasted just one season. “TV is fully saturated with this war,” he adds, “and I don’t know if you can do a serious drama about this war and locate any angle that would overcome the negativity about it.”
Bochco mistakingly thinks that because his poorly written television show was rejected, the American people will reject all war related t.v. Wrong. We are tired of Hollywood trying to portray America as the enemy. Bochco’s failure does not translate to American failure.
“World War II was hugely romanticized in terms of its fiction,” Bochco says. “There were unambiguous villains, and the feeling we were fighting the right people over the right issues, as opposed to this war, which many people feel is misguided. And it was a mass effort war; every single American was touched by that war in some fundamental way. There was a real feeling of shared sacrifice, which emotionally gives people a sense of inclusion and commitment.”
Misguided? In the words of the Purple Avenger:
What pray tell does this fucktard find “ambiguous” about blowing up packed markets, school children, chopping heads, etc? Why are the perpetrators of such atrocities NOT the “right people” to have our armed forces engage, and why the fuck is this NOT the “right issue”?
November 10, 2007 - 11:36 PM on November 10th, 2007
JIMMY STEWART,JOHN WAYNE,GLENN FORD,BETTY GRABEL and all we have today are a whole bunch of no good spoiled wacko mug whumps
November 11, 2007 - 11:23 AM on November 11th, 2007
I agree; Botchup doesn’t understand the differences between WWII and now.
Another Hollywood idiot shown to be so…
November 11, 2007 - 11:32 AM on November 11th, 2007
Well Bochco and other anti-war Libs feel this war is misguided because Saddam really wasn’t a threat, he actually was a stabilizing force in the ME, he had nothing to do with 9/11, He had no WMD, nothing to do with Al Qaeda, never sought yellowcake from Niger, and Bush lied 100s died, blah, blah, blah.
1. Saddam was not a threat. Yes he was, as stated in no uncertain terms by all leading politicians, Democrite and Rpub alike.
2. Saddam had no WMD. Bullshit, his WMD were self-reported at the end of the Gulf War and CATALOGUED by the U.N. inspectors. There was never any records or evidence of their destruction. Clearly they were moved.
3. He was a stabilizing force (for evil) and the post invasion management was botched.
4. Yes he had no involvement in 9/11. So what?
5. HBad no invo9lvement with Al Qaeda. Yes he did, that has been proven/documented.
6. Tried to buy yellowcake: Yes he did, despite the manipulations and lies of Joe pos Wilson and Valerie “analyst” Plame
7. Bush lied 100s died: Bush operated on the same intelligence information available and provided to all the other politicians who also forcefully spoke that Saddam needed to go.
So sorry, Bochup, you are wrong and another Hollywood pos/idiot.
November 12, 2007 - 07:30 AM on November 12th, 2007
All the anti-war asshats delude themselves with the declaration that they are the majority.
November 12, 2007 - 09:12 AM on November 12th, 2007
And those same liberal hollywood wackos who shout NO BLOOD FOR OIL also do it from the back seat of their 4 mpg limos what a bunch of spoiled brats
November 12, 2007 - 08:59 PM on November 12th, 2007
Perhaps if they actually produced a movie that showed our soldiers and their mission in a positive light, perhaps people would actually go see it. I don’t recall the Die Hard movies dying at the box office. I don’t believe “Stealth” was a box office bomb. I know the Rambo flicks pulled in a lot of dough. WHY? Because they depicted a HERO doing things that inspire people to emulate them. NOONE wants to see a movie that depicts people who should be considered heroes being denigrated for their actions.
Just this weekend I was talking with a woman I know and told her about how the Army had medically disqualified me when I tried to reenlist last year. I said that it would make more sense to send a divorced orphan with an attitude than someone with a wife and children. She agreed and then called our service members “Kids”. I exploded on her. I informed her that they are NOT “kids” they are young men and women who have made the conscious decision to risk their lives to defend this country and she should not degrade them by calling them “kids”. She apologized and scurried away. I don’t think anyone there had ever seen me blow up on anyone like that before.