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By Hollywood Possessed |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / FEATURED BOOK: Michael Medved's Hollywood vs. America |
| Author: Todd Gitlin |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 1,906 Words, 11,611 Characters |
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Much of Michael Medved's jeremiad against Hollywood is right on, or against, the money. Since the studio system was dismantled in the 1940s and industry censorship was discontinued in the 1960s, moronic violence and automatic dirty words have become the common currency of the nation's (which means the world's) big screens. The most trivial thriller tries to differentiate itself from the common lot of the competition by simulating the ripping and rending of human flesh in such a way as to carry the skills of makeup artists to new planes of dreadfulness.
The body counts mount on the screen far faster than on the street. The world on the screen is amazingly vicious. Nice guys die first. Nice families do not happen. Heroes have vanished. Easy sex is the rule. Religion is taboo or worse--...
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... half a chance.
Surely the complexity of the human experience--the hunger for depth, the sense of homelessness, the burdens as well as the glories of all manner of families, the anxiety about what it means to be living on earth at the end of the second millennium, the desire to feel more human in every sense--is not well served by the take-the-money-and-run capitalism of the box office.
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