"Steven L." <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> 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.
Hence, the comment later on about them always doing it poorly.
>
> Polls show that Americans have *never* blamed themselves or
> viewed themselves in a negative light over the country's
> problems.
But we do, at the moment, blame "us" for our ills, more often than
not. Not *me*, mind you, just *us*. In other words, I'm an angel,
but everyone else isn't.
>
> 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.
Hence, the comment still quoted above noting the difference between
how we view ourselves and how we really are.
> 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.
>
I think you should switch to decaf.
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