Update: As a consequence of the hacked Sony data, the Sony Corporation has announced that it is cancelling the showing of "The Interview" in all theatres in its distribution network. The decision was criticized by former Obama press spokesmany Jay Carney on CNN Tonight. Another criticism was levied by noted Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein who agreed with Carney that Sony should not have "caved" but questioned whether such an idiotic movie should have been created in the first place.
Reading George Saunders “Tenth of December” as I write so
don’t complain if I slip into streams of consciousness (or
unconsciousness).
Thank you, James Joyce,
if not for inventing it, for taking it to the next level (cliché). “Next level”…
overused expression taken from hip-hop. . . like “back in the day”. . . also
worn out now that it has crept into the white middle class, as things do when
Hollywood gets hold of things, amplifies them, and pretends to be hip.
Not so hip were the hacked Sony emails showing how Hollywood
filmmaker types made little racial innuendoes about Barack Obama. You’d heard, haven’t you? The Sony execs wondering aloud (in email
print) what racially charged films Obama would like the most… complete with
tittering and with a heavy dose of white liberal preening… Isn’t that what they do? All of it in bad
taste, of course, offending even the more conservative Japanese exec-in-charge
who made the filmmakers cut parts of “The Interview” that depicted North Korean
dictator with his face melting and his head on fire.
Did you die laughing yet?
Or don’t you know that “The Interview” is supposed to be a comedy? Yeah, really. The plot is about a duo of
journalists who are going to interview Kim. Of course, the CIA, that diabolical
scapegoat of pointy headed libertarians with propeller caps, radical lefties wearing
Che Guevara tee-shirts sipping lattes in Starbucks, and left-fielding
Democratic Party bigwigs like Senator
Dianne Feinstein, always hires journalists to assassinate foreign leaders.
When talent and creativity is lacking, go with the most
ridiculous, abominable script you can find.
Hollywood scriptwriters and
producers think you’re dumb enough to watch it, and maybe they’re right. We’re all getting dumber, and the dumber we
get, the more Hollywood will dump this artless crap on us. If audiences reject
bad taste, then go for the Big One—free speech. Yes, make bad taste and moral
decay a liberal cause—you’ve got to massage those low and base instincts of
human nature. I’ll believe that free speech rationalization when Hollywood
makes an honest comedy about the Taliban – or Bin Laden-- or what about Mullah Omar?
I’ve got no sympathies for the asshats who hacked Sony, but
I doubt it was the North Koreans. It was certainly someone who profits from
chaos, from creating conflict between nuclear powers, who would enjoy the
destruction that could derive from this dangerous stupidity. Maybe it was the Iranians. A better guess
might be Islamist terrorists, ISIS wannabes perhaps, or even Anonymous
anarchists.
Anyway, the fallout continues, to the degree that Seth Rogen
and James Franco are now declining to give INTERVIEWS about “The Interview.” The film industry newspaper of record,
Variety, reports that the two starts
cancelled all press appearances previously scheduled. Another newspaper of
record, the Wall Street Journal, in a
report today said the star duo felt that, in the current atmosphere of hacks
and intimidation, they wouldn’t be able to discuss the film.
I guess we’re
supposed to believe there’s a deeper meaning in this idiotic “comedy” theme. I feel sorry for all the people who needed the work, but America will be better off if this movie flops. It might nudge American businesses to put more effort in preventing computer attacks which, in fact, could turn off your heat and electricity. Another benefit would be that Hollywood scriptwriters and producers might gravitate to stories that don't play to the worst in us.
