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Red, not green ... a Fox pundit has accused the latest Muppet movie of being communist.
A US Fox news anchor has labelled the latest Muppet movie as communist, The Guardian reports. Fox Business Network's Eric Bolling told viewers that The Muppets features a character named Tex Richman, a greedy oil boss who wants to drill under the Muppets' theatre. ''Liberal Hollywood depicting a successful businessman as evil - that's not new,'' Bolling said.
He then asked his guest, media-bias alarmist Dan Gainor, if Hollywood was deliberately trying to brainwash kids. ''Absolutely,'' Gainor said. ''And they've been doing it for decades.'' He pointed out oil could be used to ''light a hospital'' or ''fuel an ambulance. They don't want to tell that story.'' Bolling's Fox News colleague Andrea Tantaros chimed in: ''I just wish liberals could leave little kids alone.''
They're right, of course, the Muppets have a long history of this sort of thing. Just look. It began with The Muppet Movie (1979): the Muppets head for liberal Hollywood, while a fast-food magnate is the antagonist. The notion of slaughtering a pig (in this case, Miss Piggy, above with Kermit) is treated as if it were murder. Thank you, veggie-nazis. Next, The Great Muppet Caper (1981): the Muppets hit London, home of socialised medicine. Features some squatting. In The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) private charity is promoted over state intervention, but the message is still that poor people got that way through no fault of their own. Muppet Treasure Island (1996) treats entrepreneurial treasure hunting as ''piracy''.
Why, for once, can't the bad guy be an overzealous environmental regulator? Muppets From Space (1999) posits a godless universe; as anti-Christian as any Harry Potter film.
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Reds under the pig...
Reds under the pig...
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Reds under the pig...
This Muppet silliness aside, it is of course a fact that Hollywood has a long tradition of portraying wealthy businessmen as evil villains, going all the way back to the silent era melodramas, and the leering, mustache twirling bad guys who served as the inspiration for Snidely Whiplash....
While I'm sure that the pronounced liberal bias of folks who work in the industry plays a role in this, there's also another, more practical reason involved....
Rich powerful bad guys are just more interesting than poor powerless ones...
There's a lot more plot development you can have with rich bad guys than with poor ones; because rich bad guys, being rich, can do so many more things...
Take the James Bond series for example...
It's chock-a-block with rich bad guys, (mostly white, but not always; Dr. No was Asian, and Kananga was black) but the fact is it's just kind of tough for a poor bad guy to buy an island, or support a private army, or fund his own space program...
Also, what beautiful but misguided dame is going to fall for a poor bad guy?
However, Hollywood doesn't always portray the fabulously wealthy businessman as the evil doer...
There are some notable exceptions...
While I'm sure that the pronounced liberal bias of folks who work in the industry plays a role in this, there's also another, more practical reason involved....
Rich powerful bad guys are just more interesting than poor powerless ones...
There's a lot more plot development you can have with rich bad guys than with poor ones; because rich bad guys, being rich, can do so many more things...
Take the James Bond series for example...
It's chock-a-block with rich bad guys, (mostly white, but not always; Dr. No was Asian, and Kananga was black) but the fact is it's just kind of tough for a poor bad guy to buy an island, or support a private army, or fund his own space program...
Also, what beautiful but misguided dame is going to fall for a poor bad guy?
However, Hollywood doesn't always portray the fabulously wealthy businessman as the evil doer...
There are some notable exceptions...
Re: Reds under the pig...
And having seen the movie, the point isn't even the oil or the drilling, but that Tex wants to tear down the Muppet Theatre and Studio. And *that* my friends, would be a tragedy of uncomprehensible proportion, no matter what color you are.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
Re: Reds under the pig...
Sorry, but wot?Lord Jim wrote: it's just kind of tough for a poor bad guy to buy an island, or support a private army, or fund his own space program...
Magneto, was a Jewish Holocaust survivor;
He ran his 'Brotherhood of Evil Mutants' by sheer force of will.
He's so complex, he switches sides from time to time. Try checking the Marvel as well as the DC universe for characters with angst.
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Moral ambiguity is the new morality, oh yeah and they can live forever...loCAtek wrote:Sorry, but wot?Lord Jim wrote: it's just kind of tough for a poor bad guy to buy an island, or support a private army, or fund his own space program...
Magneto, was a Jewish Holocaust survivor;
He ran his 'Brotherhood of Evil Mutants' by sheer force of will.
He's so complex, he switches sides from time to time. Try checking the Marvel as well as the DC universe for characters with angst.
Sometimes it seems as though one has to cross the line just to figger out where it is
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Lex Luxor, granted a reboot, but not far off from his Silver Age origins;
The Modern Age Lex Luthor is a product of child abuse and early poverty. Born in the Suicide Slum district of Metropolis, he is instilled with a desire to become a self-made man. As a teenager, he takes out a large insurance policy on his parents without their knowledge, then sabotages their car's brakes, causing their deaths. Upon graduating from MIT, Luthor founds his own business, LexCorp, which grows to dominate much of Metropolis.
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I must have dozed through that part....
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
Re: Reds under the pig...
In this case, Eric Bolling is missing something crucial; this movie wasn't made by 'liberal Hollywierd' but by Disney™. You don't see 'Jim Henson' listed as the creator any longer;
The Muppets became part of Disney™ in 2004 ...and we all know how Right-Wing Uncle Walt was!
The Muppets became part of Disney™ in 2004 ...and we all know how Right-Wing Uncle Walt was!