{"id":10181,"date":"2011-11-14T12:54:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T12:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/14\/advice-for-hollywood-liberals-2\/"},"modified":"2011-11-14T12:54:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T12:54:06","slug":"advice-for-hollywood-liberals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/14\/advice-for-hollywood-liberals-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice for Hollywood Liberals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert M. Thornton, ed., Cogitations from Albert Jay Nock<\/strong> (Irvington-on-Hudson: The Nockian Society, 1970), p. 59:<\/span><\/p>\n

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If realism means the representation of life as it is actually lived, I do not see why lives which are actually lived on a higher emotional plane are not so eligible for representation as those lived on a lower plane. (Memoirs<\/strong>, 200)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Exactly. If the aim is to depict reality as it is, why select only the most worthless and uninspiring portions of reality for portrayal? Why waste brilliant actors on worthless roles, Paul Newman in The Color of Money<\/em>, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner in The War of the Roses<\/em>, Robert de Niro in GoodFellas<\/em> and Casino<\/em>, Warren Beatty in Bugsy<\/em>, to  take five examples off the top of my head from a potential list of thousands. <\/span>The Grifters<\/span><\/a> is another example. An excellent film in any number of respects. But imagine a film of the same cinematic quality which portrays in a subtle and intelligent manner a way of life \u2014 I avoid 'lifestyle' \u2014 that has some chance of being worth living. Notice I said "subtle and intelligent." I am not advocating Sunday School moralizing or hokey platitudinizing. And note that I am not opposing the above mentioned, but pointing out that a constant diet of dreck is both boring and unhealthy.<\/span><\/p>\n

But I don't expect the folks in HollyWeird (Michael Medved's expression) to comprehend the simple point I have just made. They are too mesmerized by the color of money for that. Nor do I expect most liberals to be able to wrap their minds around it. So I'm preaching to the choir and to a few fence-sitters. But that has value: Maybe a fence-sitter or two will slide off to the Right Side; and perhaps the choirboys and girls are in need of a little extra ammo.<\/span><\/p>\n

By the way, that is one of the purposes of this blog:  to supply culture warriors with ammunition.  So take it and visit it upon the enemy.<\/span><\/p>\n

A deeper question concerns the purpose of art. To depict reality? That is not obvious. A good topic for someone else to take up. Conservative bloggers, get to it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert M. Thornton, ed., Cogitations from Albert Jay Nock (Irvington-on-Hudson: The Nockian Society, 1970), p. 59: If realism means the representation of life as it is actually lived, I do not see why lives which are actually lived on a higher emotional plane are not so eligible for representation as those lived on a lower … Continue reading “Advice for Hollywood Liberals”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-aesthetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}