Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:
> "Steven L." <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
> news:13s8ckmdi5rag57@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Ron wrote:
>>> I was watching the lost in space movie and feeling kinda sad:
>>> we have gone from loving and caring families to ****ed up,
>>> dysfunctional ones. But was it really necessary to make the
>>> Robinsons such a train wreck? Couldn't the writers made them
>>> the way they were baack in the '60s and still have a decent
>>> movie? Maybe even a better movie?
>> That's modern storytelling for you. Everything has gotten
>> darker and grimmer than the original:
>>
>> Battlestar Galactica
>> Bionic Woman
>> Lost in Space
>>
>> Hollywood seems to have some pretty grim, dismal, depressed
>> writers these days. In their stories, it's all darkness, evil
>> conspiracies, paranoia, corruption, dysfunctional families.
>
> Hollywood has always tried to reflect how society views itself. Now
> how society *is*, mind you, but how we view ourselves.
If so, they've always been out of touch.
Polls show that Americans have *never* blamed themselves or viewed
themselves in a negative light over the country's problems.
I've lived long enough to see such polls taken during the height of the
Vietnam War, during the energy crisis and stagflation of the 1970s, and
today. Each time, there was a real dichotomy between how Americans
viewed their own lives vs. how they viewed the government's performance.
Each time, they were overwhelmingly satisfied with their own lives; it
was the government they had an overwhelmingly dim view of.
So Hollywood productions like "American Beauty" and "Blue Velvet" and
even "Twin Peaks," which ridiculed or suggested something sinister about
heartland America, were completely out of phase with how heartland
America viewed itself.
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Steven L.
Email: sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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