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Evil Businessmen: Do almost all businessmen who appear on the Silver Screen have to be greedy, ruthless, polluting Robber Barrons who'd be thrilled to sell poisoned bubble gum to orphans if they could make a couple of bucks on it? Big corporations provide jobs, pay huge tax bills, chip in countless millions of dollars to charities, and usually bend over backwards to make sure their products don't hurt anyone and comply with the law (out of fear of lawyers and government regulators, if for no other reason). Yet, if you formed an opinion of businessmen from watching films, you'd think the average corporate CEO had the same ethical standards as a Mafia Don. Isn't it time for that to change?
Deranged, Trigger Happy Soldiers: Almost every American has family and friends who've served in the military, which is why it's more than a bit annoying to see our soldiers so often portrayed as kill-crazy thugs with mental problems who'd happily kick their own grandmothers down the stairs if they got an order to do so. If anything, soldiers tend to be some of the best of us, which is what makes the way they're so often treated on film such a shame.
European Terrorists: We're in the middle of a world wide war against Islamic terrorists and yet, what do we see at the theaters again and again? European terrorists. That makes about as much sense as making movies about British redcoats threatening America during WW2. Come on, Hollywood, don't let political correctness keep you from doing movies featuring the least sympathetic villains since the Nazis. What better enemy could there be for a hero to fight?
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Ignorant And/Or Dangerous Country Folks/Southerners: As someone who has actually lived in the country, let me tell you the difference between country folks and city folks: country folks are nicer, friendlier, and considerably more polite. On the other hand, country folks do tend to have a low level of tolerance for snobby Yankees who think they use outhouses and secretly have KKK robes in their closet, which probably encompasses an inordinate number of people who work in Hollywood. Maybe that explains the way Southerners/Country folks are so portrayed in the movies. Some big shot Hollywood script writer stops at a diner in Tennessee, makes some joke about inbreeding, gets told to go take a flying leap, and then he gets them back by writing a movie that features a bunch of ignorant, buck-toothed Southern hicks. Then, he's puzzled about why the movie bombs in the South. It's not a mystery to everyone, bub.
John Hawkins at
www.rightwingnews.com
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Don't forget my favorite: the Dysfunctional Family, with either the Bumbling Stupid or COld and Distant Dad and the Mom who's either Slavishly Devoted (and secretly drinking) or Overwhelmingly Ambitious (and secretly sleeping around). The Smart Kids ultimately find salvation by replacing the family with the Wise Teacher Who Has A Socially Unacceptable Flaw or with the Socially Unacceptable Peer Group. Prime example: American Beauty.
Oh, and let's not forget Misunderstood Criminals Who Are Just Victims of Rich White Men/The System, either. Or Wise Gay Friends With Awesome Fashion Sense. Hollywood is nothing but stereotypes. Collect 'em all! Amaze your friends!
Don't forget TV and Holywood's latest sterotype, the Power Girl.
This is typically a teenaged or 20-something girl that wears spandex jumpsuits or military uniforms, is proficient in martial arts, and miraculously can punch (and take a punch) just as well as a muscular male twice her size. And oh yeah, she's smarter, to boot.
Power Girl has amazingly overcome the biological fact that females simply have less muscle mass than men do... all for the sake of the self-esteem of women everywhere!
John, you missed the biggest one of all: the Bumbling White Father.
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