The End of Hollywood’s Last Safe Foreign Enemy

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North Korea’s rise as an international supervillain in Hollywood movies, conquering America in the Red Dawn remake and assailing the White House in Olympus Has Fallen was due to political correctness and greed.

China’s rise as both a major market for films under tight government control and as an owner of a major theater chain in the United States completed the process that began with Scorsese’s Kundun of making movies that offend China off limits.

Political correctness ruled out depicting Muslim terrorists as anything but victims. A handful of movies broke the rules, but most of them did so before 9/11. Post 9/11 Muslims are not allowed to be movie villains, with a few rare exceptions, as I discussed in Hollywood’s Muslim Lies.

North Korea was an easy target because it’s not a movie market. Possession of Hollywood movies in Norkville can get you shot. And it’s only half of Korea so it couldn’t be considered a distinct minority.

So Hollywood went nuts. Now that era is over. Hollywood marches in lockstep. The Chinese hackers did their work well and few studios will want to risk a repeat.

That leaves Hollywood with no villains.

Russia will occasionally show up, but it’s also a major movie market and occasionally dips its toes into investing as well. And Russian hackers are better positioned to repeat the same stunt.

So what does that leave? Expect lots more evil American villains, government operatives, corporate goons and domestic militia terrorists. Americans are the only safe politically correct villains for an un-American industry that pretends to be courageous when it smears its own customers while cowering in front of North Korea.

 

  • Harry Largo

    The smart money is on Ukrainian Nationalists becoming the next go-to villain. The Amish would make a good substitute as well. Think about it, they’re religious, conservative and of the proper skin tone. Best yet, they shun modernity, so it’ll take them a while to notice.
    They’re perfect!

    • Sean DeGan

      ^Congratulations! You just won the internet.

    • Softly Bob

      I agree, but they’re not only religious (after all so are Muslims) but they are Christians and that makes them the perfect soft target for Hollywood.

  • De Doc

    The Hollywood elite power brokers are the end result of years of progressive politics gone wild. They are a bunch of cowardly scumbags.

  • mdmusterstone

    Daniel, please, what movie chain is owned by the Chinese?

  • fmobler

    If moslems can be offended by a few drawings and commit violence, why can’t North Korean hackers be offended by this movie and threaten violence? The left did not defend Jylland-Posten, South Park, Theo van Gogh, Ali Hirsi, and on and on and on. Our own President and former Secretary of State blamed a few clips of a non-existent movie for the attack on Ben Gazi. So why aren’t Obama and Clinton blaming Sony?

  • http://gerardjackson.com/ gerard jackson

    How dare you insinuate that Hollywood is cowardly! For more than 60 years Hollywood bravely fought McCarthy and then it stood fast against the evil Nixon. For eight long and terrible years it fearlessly manned the barricades to fight off the fascist Bush regime. If it were not for Hollywood America would be ruled by those fascist conservatives.

    People who visit this site do not realise the terrible sacrifices the Hollywood elite made in making America safe — not actually for Americans but for Democrats like Obama.

  • Kingscairn

    It’s awesome, LollyWood getting it’s liberal comeupins!
    There are only a handful of actors/tress’s that I care about, all the rest are the enemy and part of the liberal indoctrination machine – that has served obama and his comrades oh so well….
    I haven’t gone to a movie in years just because I won’t support the commie bastards !
    I’m lovin this !

  • tagalog

    Hollywood built North Korea up as a villain to the point where they actually became a REAL international villain instead of an international bad joke.

  • Mitch Alan

    They can still use Nazis from WW II to be be the bad guy.

  • pennant8

    Daniel’s observation about pre and post 9/11 PC considerations in film remind me of the scene in Blazing Saddles where the Harvey Korman character says “I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits,vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwackes, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, sh-t kickers and Methodists.

    Then in a follow-on scene where all the above are assembled, among them is an Arab.

  • seewithyourowneyes

    White South Africans are already turning up as the new Hollywood villains. They speak a catchy lingo and have cold blue eyes. Meanwhile, in the real world, so many white South African farming families have been slaughtered that genocide watch is taking notice.

    • Softly Bob

      Think back to Lethal Weapon 2 where White South Africans were nasty racist villains. Of course, that was in the days of ‘Apartheid’. Now that SA is a rainbow paradise of lynchings, lawlessness and homicide, Hollywood have gone silent, especially since Saint Mandela died.
      I think that the Israelis would perfect make shifty, racist murders in Hollywood’s eyes too.

      • seewithyourowneyes

        See also the more recent movie “Elysium” with Matt Damon – sort of a sci-fi promotion for the open borders concept. The villainous border enforcers speak with a distinctly South African accent even though they’re not identified as such.

  • Mongo66

    We will soon see a reaffirmation of Cold War throw-back movies where the new safe enemy will be the Russians, because they are white. There will also start to be a lot of movies with American home grown terrorists, all white. We may even start seeing the whacky liberal conspiracy theory twaddle with a Jewish/Israeli threat to America.

  • cree

    1984 joins Atlas Shrugged as no longer non-fiction.

  • glpage

    Hollywood will invent a Christian militia intent on overthrowing the kind-hearted progressive establishment.