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Add to FavoritesAt the core of The Hollywood Film Industry is a money-fueled infrastructure. Citizens often forget that their dollars dictate what sells and what becomes popular. Many extremists blame media, movies and music for societal problems, and partly they are right, but when people stop pouring their hard earned money into bad examples, society can then begin to charge what's accepted. The only way Hollywood will change is if your wallet demands it to change. Just like any other trend, Hollywood fills the demands of the viewers paying to see movies.
While Hollywood has had it's standard uniform for decades now, a breakout star has come onto the scene and has shaken the perception of a Hollywood actor. In these rough times, drama and entertainment that depicts the pain and sorrows of the world has become more popular than comedies or light-hearted films. When you get a chance, take a look at Academy Nominations; mostly drama-laced films.
Many movie viewers have become very critical of what's on the screen.More and more people are demanding movies filled with drama and pain from another's life perspective. Just like high school, people have conditioned themselves to appreciate another's pain. When someone else is experiencing sorrow, whether on channel nine news or on the movie screen, people feel 'uplifted' because they may be in a 'better' situation.
Hollywood is known for glitz and glamour, exploited relationships, and public outcries of attention. In 2009, a movie "Precious" has changed the norm in what's accepted on the screen. Who would have thought that overweight black women can be put on a movie screen and people are filling theaters, paying to see it? This is not a jab at overweight or black women, but it points out that the country's obsession with another's sorrow has broken down the barrier of what's normal for Hollywood. The American dollar has made a star of someone who would be otherwise overlooked walking down a street.
Hollywood can change and it will change, when people demand it with their dollars. People are wising up and realizing that everyone has a story to tell. Not just the pretty faces that litter our magazines and nightly news, but regular people who wake up everyday to tackle life. With the right people speaking up, media consumers are realizing their dollar power. Hollywood can clean up its act as far as integration and stereotypes, but as far as sex and violence, sorry people that's here to stay. Whether the economy is good or bad, left or right, people will pay to see sex and violence. But then again, if the dollars demand something else, it will change: It's modern society.
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Morality is at an all-time low in Hollywood. There is no movie foul enough that it won't be made, no music dispicable enough it won't be recorded and not enough people willing to speak up and demand decency in all media. When a famous director, who is also an admitted rapist, is finally caught after escaping to a country that allows no extradition, Hollywood does not demand he be brought to justice, even though his victim was a thirteen-year old child. Instead, they belittle those who want him tried in a court of law, citing it was so long ago or the victim has forgiven him.
Does anyone consider he gave the child booze and drugs before raping her or that it was without a doubt not his only rape? Not in the least. 'Free him' is the cry not only from Hollywood, but an amazing number of 'normal' citizens and France.
Unless people rise up to the level of of anger they now show against the current American government, nothing will change in Hollywood. Directors, producers, movie stars and all others associated with that film making seem to live in an unbreakable bubble of indecency, reveling in sex, drugs, liquor and lack of care for the real problems of the world. They DO, however, enjoy going on all the talk shows with little if any indepth information about the latest foolish subject of the day and making fools of themselves.
Will public outcry make a difference in Hollywood? No, because the public has fallen prey to the lowering of morals and until they can take steps to bring themselves back up to a higher standard and refuse to go see the filth at the theaters, they will never be taken seriously.
As long as movies sell and stars are paid impossible salaries for putting out garbage and cheered for their outrageous and immoral behavior, Hollywood will remain a cesspool of little people who think they count for something special and they do. They count for taking our country from responsible, caring, respectful people to thinking we should be given everything without consequence.
The occasional film that either tells a story without foul words, writhing sex scenes or showing dope as a fun thing, sells big and is usually a cartoon. The days of the Duke being tough, but loving or Tyrone Power making a woman's heart beat faster with just the langugage of his eyes are gone, replaced by actors who can't act and writers who have vocabularies limited to four letter words. The real Hollywood is dead, replaced by a bad copy.
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