Saturday, January 22, 2011
Hollywood's Moral Compass
"Xi...reported in a diplomatic cable through WikiLeaks that he had told the U.S. ambassador that he liked the moral clarity of Hollywood movies"
From a recent interview of a Western expert on China, regarding Xi Jingping, the supposed successor to Hu Jintao as Prime Minister:
Moral clarity in Hollywood is almost absurd to think of, considering the furor in socially conservative circles regarding Hollywood's sexuality, etc. But he's right.
Our movies are almost laughably prurient morality plays. Movies from East Asia are told very differently (for a good example, watch Oldboy.)
Try to think about the last ambiguous ending to a movie you watched...
Labels: Black, white and communist red all over
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