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  1. What seemed extraordinarily bizarre and indocible on her part, of which she should have been infused with some notion of ethics by mere proximity to the topic of the movie set, was Angelina Jolie dissing freedom of the press when she tried to censor all her interviews.

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  3. Angelina Jolie hates guns yet she got the role to act as a femme fatale gunning folks down.

    Hello people, if you haven’t realized yet that Hollywood sells illusion, better update yor virus protection suite. Cause your system has been perverted by backdoor propaganda.

  4. “Please, someone, let me know when has Hollywood ever done right by a true story?”

    United 93 (2006)

    Grizzly Man (2005)

    We Were Soldiers (2002)

    100% accuracy you can’t have, but reasonable honesty is a legitimate, achievable standard.

  5. And I’ve read The Hollywood History of the World by George Macdonald Fraser, which suggests that Hollywood gets more right more often than you might think. Yes, there are lots and lots and lots of liberties. But there are also lots of things that an audience may think have to be made up, when in fact people were like that.

    An example not in the book: Mrs Brown (1997). Surely Billy Connolly’s antics as John Brown have to be made up, a comic being exaggerated for effect, since this is only a movie? Apparently not.

    Movies that falsify real people should not get a pass because “every movie” does that. Every movie does not do that.

    Patton (1970) is a pretty fair look at the famous American general, good and bad.

    It’s legitimate to want the truth, and wrong to give dishonest movies a free pass for not delivering the truth.

  6. I think a lot of people think of Hollywood as the post-modern Hollywood, which doesn’t include the 50s. Or even some of the stuff from the 70s. It just sort of goes that when people got older, and the directors and power brokers got replaced by baby boomers, things started changing faster and faster.

    It used to be in movies that they abhorred abortion and cast it as something evil folks would advocate because it was easy. Now? Shrugs. Hollywood’s problem is not its social conventions, it is the fact that the liberal aristos want to shove their values unto us plebes, by funding Hollywood propaganda films like Munich.

  7. What seemed extraordinarily bizarre and indocible on her part, of which she should have been infused with some notion of ethics by mere proximity to the topic of the movie set, was Angelina Jolie dissing freedom of the press when she tried to censor all her interviews

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