There’s no way to verify if this commenter is a real Hollywood Executive or not. But anyone with experience with the Hollywood mindset will tell you that the mentality and thought process on display rings pretty true.
Where to begin? Anyway, have a read. The comment is not edited in any way, and he or she appears to be sincerely confused over our issues with Hollywood (and Matt Damon?).
Maybe you could help out.
P.S. We have a hot review all set for tomorrow. Big stars, big director, a release date already set. You won’t be at all surprised the film has a liberal bent, but to say it’s unsubtle to the point of lame and insulting would be an understatement.
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Commenter justaskinman:
I am a Hollywood executive and it is my job to sell intellectual properties to producers and filmmakers. I’ve sold over 150 books, scripts and life rights to every studio. I’ve been in this for almost a decade and I’ve seen most everything, content-wise.
I want everyone who believes so passionately in a left-wing Hollywood conspiracy to hear me when I say this. On my grandmother’s grave, I swear to you that selling a leftist project to a Studio is nearly impossible. There is a strong bias against traditional leftist narratives, like [a] stories about poor people, [b] stories about minorities, [c] anti-business/capitalism stories, and so on. If I could sell those stories, I would do it. If filmmakers and producers were interested in a leftist agenda, I’d be there with a pressed shirt and shiny shoes to sell that. But I can’t, so I don’t. You folks are so painfully wrong about this issue.
Capitalism alone drives Hollywood. It’s the American audience that mistrusts the government and mistrusts the abuse of power by any government agency with three letters: CIA, ATF, whatever. It’s the American audience that prefers to watch movies about attractive white people with straight teeth and nice cars. It is the great religious diversity at the heart of American democracy that is responsible for secular humanism in Hollywood movies.
John Wayne was a man named “Marion Morrison” who walked around Hollywood drunk with his hand hanging limply, fond of terry cloth shorts, held his cigarette like a woman, and wore very gay-looking European fashion. This is a well-documented fact. His image was his job. Jeff Bridges on the other hand is what he seems, and is a much more natural fit for the Rooster Cogburn character in the novel.
Finally, let me say that one of my ancestors was a Blacklisted screenwriter, because he was one of the founders of the Communist Party and the Writers Guild in Hollywood. He was the real deal, jaunty and funny well into his 90s, and he never named names. I asked him several times about why he became a Communist. The true answer, not a party punchline, was that he joined to meet girls, because that’s where you could meet educated modern women. He also described driving up to N California to distribute long-handled farm equipment to farmworkers whose bosses were too cheap to pay for the long wooden pole. At his funeral, a Japanese American family of heart surgeons and pediatricians described how he sheltered their grandmother when their grandfather was interned during WWII and their house seized by their next door neighbors. This is the reality of the myths you folks on the right weave.
Could someone explain the Matt Damon hatred?
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