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August 28, 2009 • 11:55 pm 0
Drink My Red Blood!
Hollywood is at it again, pulling out all the stops on a genre and twisting it to promote their backwards value system of unbridled debauchery while at the same time taking a swipe at conservatives and more importantly, people of faith.
In this NY Times article titled “Necks Overflowing With Rivers of Metaphor,” the argument is gleefully made that the vampire genre is the perfect platform to expose the idiocy of the right and our strange repulsion against poor vampires who merely want to fuck all night and sleep all day.
You want to see an accurate portrayal of the modern day leftist liberal, using the vampire genre correctly? Watch my very first short film that I wrote, produced, directed and edited back in 2005 on pocket change, in 5 days in rural New Jersey using a digital camera and all unknown actors.
It is based on a short story by Richard Matheson titled “Drink My Red Blood” and what compelled me to make it was one scene in particular where the lead character, Jules, shares his composition in school called “My Ambition.” The movie is 15 minutes long. I broke it into two parts and uploaded it to YouTube for you to watch.
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Jules Dracula is the perfect portrait of how leftists develop into pure evil by absolutely despising all that is good and seeking revenge against those who won’t let them simply be who they really are deep down inside; godless haters of Christian values, especially personal restraint.
Those within the industry will instantly recognize the Jules Dracula’s in their lives. And It should be noted that I attempted to make this into a TV series called THIRST and could find no takers. I guess the truth hurts too much.
Please visit the official website built to promote the movie and those involved in making it.
Filed under: Indie Filmmaking , blood son, good vrs. evil, hollywood bias against Christians, liberal vampires, Michael McGruther, richard matheson
August 22, 2009 • 2:02 pm 0
Story of Two Filmmakers: Empathy (Hollywood Style)
The far left values you see hammered into your children’s heads in film and TV, the constant “stupid American” portrayal of people like you and your neighbors in popular entertainment, the overly-sexual teen shows you find on afternoon programming, the awful role models young stars and starlets make by having their debauchery seem invitingly glamorous, and the endless supply of celebrities willing to mock “flyover country” and proclaim them all mental — all these cultural dividends, and more, can be tied back to one extremely powerful and focused force working within show business that seems absolutely unstoppable for now — empathy (Hollywood style.)
Let me explain. Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Most of us experience it every day through our basic interactions as we go about our business, and it causes us to act or react a certain way with other individuals. I see a pregnant woman who needs a seat on the subway. I get up and offer mine, first out of empathy, followed by kindness. Empathy informs the kindness on the most basic human level.
But that’s not how empathy works in modern day, leftist dominated Hollywood.
In Hollywood, empathy’s literally the life-blood those in powerful positions dole out to like-minded up and comers in order to keep the dream factories making entertainment that supports and promotes their world view. Here’s just one example of how it works. Imagine a young filmmaker makes some noise at the festivals with a short film he wrote and directed. He gets calls from agents, managers and producers; they all want to meet and see what else he’s working on, sign him, etc.
The young filmmaker is thrilled. This could be his big break. He goes to L.A. for the ”dog and pony show” (back to back meetings for a week), and feels as though he’s met every single person at every single company in town. In these meetings, which take place on famous studio lots or ultra-modern office bungalows, they serve coffee or water and the mood is decidedly “chill” with plenty of movie nostalgia around to excite the dreamers. Our young filmmaker pitches his next project and the execs start calling out names of stars they can “get,” making it all seem very easy, and this over-the-top reception makes the young filmmaker feel comfortable. It’s as if he’s suddenly in the company of new best friends…
Yet, little does the young filmmaker know that the meetings were no longer about the work once it was established he could do good work. Instead, the focus is on carefully uncovering what he thinks and believes about issues vital to liberals. And only the naive reveal themselves honestly, expecting to be treated fairly. So let’s pretend our young filmmaker is naive (honest) and was asked if he would consider directing a romantic comedy with abortion being the central part of the story. It’s something the young liberal producer has been developing for a while and feels the young filmmaker is just the right guy to pull it off. The title is “He’s Gotta Go!” Our young filmmaker flinches and declines the offer because he’s pro-life and could never do a good job with a project like that. Instead, he pitches some other ideas, but for some reason none of them seem to stick…
So when these same execs and agents meet a second young filmmaker (this one discovered at a Hollywood party, not a film festival) and find he’s on board with the town’s political point of view, the execs naturally feel more empathy towards this one. They look at this young, struggling person who has revenge in his heart against his small town childhood church, American institutions, parents, peers or any number of issues that will bind this person to forever attacking conservative values and thought — and they see themselves.
So while the talented conservative is politely shunned, the young liberal filmmaker lands work on a big-budget film with a like-minded producer attached and together they begin to shape something that could easily edify a pro-American world view into just another dull expensive snoozer filled with liberal themes. (”Superman Returns” is the perfect example.)
Keep in mind that nearly everyone in town these young filmmakers met with know each other well. They party together and steer Hollywood further away from American audiences together. Agents and managers connect talent to junior producers and the assistants at companies who read screenplays and decide what to forward to their bosses — so even young personal assistants have the power to skillfully steer material and people into a pipeline that supports the liberal world view; while steering everything else into the trash can.
It must be truly intoxicating to shape pop culture to reflect your out of mainstream values while enjoying every human vice imaginable … and then using film to tell us we’re the problem.
Let’s never forget it was the conservative, pro-American Hollywood that gave us the finest actors, a majority of the classics, and a realistic portrayal of life in America (not to mention support for our troops without question in times of war).
Corrupting or casting aside a whole generation of conservative entertainers who might just connect with audiences in a way that threatens the liberals’ ability to work and hold powerful positions in town… That’s what the left/right turf war in Hollywood is really about.
No wonder it’s so ugly.
Filed under: Big Hollywood Blog
July 10, 2009 • 12:56 am 0
Moral Relativism; The Liberal Lynchpin
The vast majority of adults in this world know that moral perfection is absolutely impossible, so I get upset when self proclaimed Hollywood/MSM liberals ruthlessly attack any conservative that cannot do the impossible; avoid succumbing to temptation for their entire life. Hollywood/MSM liberals always use this angle to attack conservatives nationwide because by strongly believing in nothing specific they’ve set themselves up to perpetually come out on top of any moral argument, guilt, worry and public-scorn free.
In today’s Hollywood a famous liberal filmmaker could hire a hooker while shooting a $100,000,000 studio feature film, secretly charge it to the budget, snort coke in his trailer between shots and drop E at night without any real concern for condemnation or job loss if he’s caught, because, well, he never proclaimed to be on the side of good in the first place. Whereas a famous conservative Christian filmmaker (pretend with me here) caught doing the same thing would be ridiculed and kicked out of town for the hypocrisy of it all since, by being Christian, he openly admitted that kind of behavior is not the most desirable for himself and doesn’t set a very good example for the fans.
What if this same mentality were applied to other shared parts of society? Could a Hollywood liberal drive his or her gas guzzling, Obama bumper sticker covered SUV through every stop light, plowing down innocent pedestrians and then when stopped by the police simply use the argument “I never said I believed in red lights, therefore I do not have to stop at them.” ?
What the majority of cultural conservatives really want is to reinstate traffic lights in pop culture and most of them set to merely flash yellow. But since Hollywood/MSM liberals thrive on the constant green light for their bizarre behavior from an adoring public in order to stay in power within the town, they must work overtime to keep any kind of national consensus emerging on what is morally good and bad in pop culture.
To quote the Apostle of Common Sense; “Art is like morality. Both begin by drawing the line somewhere.”
And nothing could be worse for the Hollywood/MSM power players than a clear definition of right and wrong because when you’re a profitable purveyor of smut, scandal, lopsided political propaganda and art without lines — the last thing you need is smut, scandal, lopsided political propaganda and art without lines going out of style.
A successful talent manager with a list of star clients once pulled me aside at a party and whispered into my ear “hey, nobody likes a guy that always tells the truth.” He wanted to sign me as a client and was trying to help me work my way through the system by learning to be dishonest when it paid.
So in my experience this “avoid the truth” mindset is precisely why Hollywood/MSM liberal attacks never end when a conservative or Christian does anything wrong; because they are a fearful living reminder of the truth that most of humanity still wholeheartedly embraces; men are fallen and must fight against their natural urges to become ruthlessly self centered and above the law.
If elite media neo-liberals can succeed in getting more people to speed through the red lights and play by their twisted non-rules then there really is no limit to how far they can sink this nation.
Filed under: Big Hollywood Blog
May 23, 2009 • 6:50 pm 0
The Obama Presidency: Another Lousy Remake
Mr. President, the fact that you and your party spent the better part of 8 years systematically and falsely tearing down the presidency of George W. Bush to seize this moment of power is reflective of the fact that your party is corrupt beyond belief. Only a corrupt organization can behave with one singular, mean-spirited and patently false message like that for eight long years. You’re not a real leader, but instead you’re a brilliant MIS-leader.
I’ve intentionally held back from being too critical long enough to give the President and his staff time to really show their hand to the American people but enough is enough. This is a disaster that is going to last 4 slow, long years and will likely end with legions of young Democrats, completely disenfranchised, running to our party because we’re the only ones who actually read and understand the fine print. Consider a vote for a Republican in 2010 and 2012 to be like that extended warranty you can purchase with expensive electronics. You know, the one that provides added protection against defects? If what’s broke cannot be fixed then it’s replaced free of charge with something new and better — and Congress has been making some strange sucking sounds lately…
Democrats; the storyline and slick packaging of President Obama does not have the authenticity and staying power of your intended remake of Ronald Reagan. It’s obvious that you are really trying to create your party’s “Reagan moment” but I’m sorry to inform you that greatness cannot be or packaged together using character traits from past heroes. At least not in the real world. The production was outstanding and believable on the surface but it’s become instantly clear that the script is totally lacking in substance and the star is just another pretty face. The truth sticks, everything else just slides down into the gutter of irrelevance over time, depending on how much BS helps it stick a little longer than it should.
Consider how President Reagan’s path to Washington began. While serving as President of the Screen Actors Guild he came into conflict with other members of the board who didn’t feel it was necessary for all of the members to vote on an issue that would effect them. He quickly learned that many of those in opposition to the open vote were in fact card carrying communist party members with a political agenda. Shortly after that, Reagan began to carry a pistol around with him because it got that dangerous for him to stand up for individual rights amongst his peers in Hollywood. That’s how he began his move to the right and national politics. Then as POTUS he exposed how inherently evil communism is to the entire world and beat it, restored America’s image abroad and, more importantly, how we felt about ourselves. He is now revered as one of the greatest President’s ever.
Jimmy Carter’s presidency actually was a political disaster that opened the door to Reagan so the Democrats, with the help of liberal Hollywood, went about browbeating into the minds of the American people that anything and everything President Bush did was wrong or bad or dumb or silly. They kept that message coming at us from all angles at all times. From newspapers to late night TV there was hardly anyone in the MSM that went off script. Bush is bad. Period. They manufactured the feeling that Bush’s presidency was a disaster in order to come riding in with all the solutions to save us from their fantasy mess when it was their turn to govern. I can just imagine a meeting where Democratic leadership looked at the history of elections past and asked themselves, “What worked?” instead of, “What’s true?” That’s why so many 6 o’clock news know-it-alls fell hook line and sinker for the pitch. Now everywhere you go people are starting to understand what Congress and the President are doing and with genuine concern are looking at one another and saying, “What’s this?”
Creating a problem in order to be the ones to fix it has been the DNC’s main game plan and it partially worked. I say partially because American’s elected W. twice and then Democrats got to install the most left leaning President ever who will try to charismatically seduce America into embracing less pay, higher taxes, state run health care, political correctness as law — you know…socialism.
I’m still waiting for the press conference where President Obama announces an end to the practice of affirmative action. Too bad that would only happen if his rise to the top was more genuine instead of being so politically convenient for the Democratic party.
Ronald Reagan was a man who rose to the occasion, not a man who the occasion dreamt up in order to keep a political party alive.
Filed under: Big Hollywood Blog
• 2:33 pm 0
The Faithful Go To Church, The Rest Go To Therapy
At the very heart of the Christian way of life is the belief that we individual Christians, no matter what our faith, can best effect society with gentle nudges towards God by living a Christ-like life the best we possibly can, while recognizing at the same time that there has in fact only ever been one real Christian to walk the Earth – Jesus. We’re not capable of that kind of perfection. We know this. We are merely asked to try.
Secularists don’t know that simple fact about faith and feel threatened by their own ignorance, which quickly spirals into enmity as a defense against what they deeply fear is the truth. After all, Pride is what made the Devil. And the Devil’s main goal is your total separation from any kind of relationship with God, which can easily be described as anxiety, loneliness, fear, panic attacks, suicide…anything to get you away from sincerely trying to follow God. In other words, people of faith go to church while secularists go to therapy.
To quote C.S. Lewis, my favorite atheist convert, “Christianity has not been tried and found false — it’s been tried and found too difficult.”
Indeed.
Secularists throw their hands up and give in to “humanity” instantly, under the guise that urges and desires must be completely natural (which they are) and are therefore just fine to enjoy with wild abandon (which they are not). They do not understand that resisting is the real road to that spiritual Utopia we’re always striving for.
We Christians know all to well that we are human and that sin drives a wedge between us and God. No you’re not “going straight to hell” because you happen to sit in a hotel room with a steady diet of hookers and drugs between movie shoots. Although you may wind up in jail at the hands of your fellow Man, what that behavior will really do is gently and pleasurably separate you from knowing God.
By “separate” I mean you will slowly not be able to tolerate anyone you meet of faith (even if they’ve never bothered you) and you will soon find yourself shaking your fist at organized religion as the root of all evil. Your mind will become incapable of accepting that there is anything bigger than your own self and all the other “selfs” you socialize with. You will be, quite literally, out on a limb with no real friends and sooner or later you will realize that, either to your great horror or sinister joy. Welcome to free will.
Yet, even if Christ were not God, the urgency and hatred that secularists use to deny there’s any moral truth to His plainly obvious teaching of what it means to be good, is evidence enough that we’re dealing a wholly evil mindset. This isn’t Atheism. This is Devilism.
The precise goal of a Devilish society is to get as many people away from God as possible through a steady diet of media distractions and stories and role models all meant to edify their Devilish position while tearing down ours. It’s completely harmless to us if others in society are not up for what Christianity asks of its faithful, but where we draw the line is the distorted representation of faithful people in our pop culture entertainment, a culture dominated by secularist ideals and themes.
Look, If you want to know where all the real sinners are, go to church. You’ll see them on their knees begging for forgiveness and admitting they cherished something else in their hearts over God. But if you want to know where the real Devils are, go to Hollywood where the path to hell is paved in gold.
Filed under: Big Hollywood Blog , C.S. Lewis, Catholic Faith, Devilism, God, Michael McGruther
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