Hollywood has since, its inception always promoted racism, sexism, violence, etc.
From D.W. Griffith’s “Birth of A Nation” to modern day hip hop music… All serve to downgrade the image of males within the minority community.
The subliminal messages in Disney cartoons are questionable at best and nearly all females are constantly portrayed as sex objects in every facet of the entertainment industry. And need I start with the industry’s fascination with the occult/satanism??? Is that good for children?
And I’ll never forgive them for Maid in Manhattan or Jar Jar Binks from the crappy new Star Wars movies.
Not sure if I’ve ever seen any pro-Satanism movies. Satanists are generally painted in a poor light, I thought. Unless you’re the type who considers any fictional representation of the practice of magic as being evil.
Hollywood is out to make money. The notion of cinema as an uplifting art is fairly limited in its ability to make money. You might make the same claim about authors of novels – they’re full of sex and satanism and whatever, as well. Those things sell. Some movies are, indeed, more socially aware (they often win Oscars, since the Academy likes to justify itself in broader terms than just corporate greed), but they are socially aware in ways that meet with popular approval so that patrons will spend $$ at the box office. To deplore Hollywood is to deplore the capitalist system.
And, by the way, most of the world’s truly greatest films were made in Hollywood. The system has its flaws, of course, but that doesn’t mean they don’t produce great movies. But again, the same is true of other art forms as well: Wagner was an anti-semitic jerk, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t write great music.
For that matter, “uplifting” art of all kinds has a history both of not selling well*, and simply not being very good. Artists who let their agendas shape their art tend to produce art that only appeals the the True Believers of whatever cause they are pushing.
*Outside of organizations sharing the “uplifting” agenda in question and buying them to distribute (and/or to bump up sale numbers in order to claim that it’s a a “bestseller”), but that’s not genuine popularity.
