I read your article about Kevin Spacey and Hollywood recently and couldn't agree with you more regarding the film "American Beauty." My wife and I were living in China when it came out and we heard about the film right around the time it won the Academy Award for best picture so we saw it a little later than most.
Your observations about the film, especially about the homosexual couple being the only redeeming characters in it were the same as mine. My wife summed it up best when she said to me after we watched it, "There was nothing edifying in that film at all." Thus, it got 4 Academy Awards.
Keep up the good fight. You inspire us like-minded individuals to stand up and not be afraid to speak up about what we believe in the face of the opposition's derision. Not always easy, but thanks for showing the way.
Tinseltown is no longer glittering.
The movie industry was already foundering because of technological advances in
media and entertainment. The latest string of flops pouring out of the studios has
signaled that Hollywood's malaise is bad, really bad this time. But it’s good
for us. The liberal, progressive agenda thrived on big money from media moguls
and movie stars. Moviegoers were funding this institution, which invested in
candidates and causes against our freedom, our traditional values, our constitution,
and our Judeo-Christian culture.
There is no better
representative of Hollywood’s epic down fall than Kevin Spacey. This actor
would sing, dance, and take on stage and screen in all kinds of acting
exploits. He had earned two Academy awards--Best Supporting Actor in The Usual Suspects; Best Actor in American Beauty--then became Artistic
Director for the Old Vic Theater. He had quite a repertoire.
Then came the allegations
of child molestation from Anthony Rapp, which followed the numerous women
lining up to single out producer Harvey Weinstein for his repeated and
long-term predatory behavior.
Spacey issued a press
release immediately, apologizing for these acts which he claims that he had
never done, but if he had done them, he was probably drunk at the time--oh, and
he had been bisexual and now decided to come out as a gay man. Yes, Kevin tried
to cover up for past pedophilia perversion by coming out of the closet.
The moral swamp of
sexual degeneracy is getting worse for Spacey. More actors are coming forward
announcing that he had made numerous unwanted advances toward them. Young men
who were minors are now recounting more devastating sexual assaults.
The consequences have
been swift and telling. Spacey has lost his Netflix miniseries "House of
Cards", which has folded up instead of going into its sixth season. The
Emmy Awards was going to have a tribute for him, but that has been cancelled.
There was even talk about another extravaganza on his behalf at the Academy Awards.
All of that has fallen
away.
Speaking of Academy
Awards ... should anyone be surprised that his private life has overwhelmed his
public persona with such duplicity? In The
Usual Suspects,he played a
down-and-out cerebral palsy stooge narrating a crime. The detective mocked him,
talked down to him, but suspected him of nothing more than being a big nothing.
Turns out at the end
that Spacey’s character was the mastermind for the whole crime, and every
aspect of the crime scene he narrated, he had drawn from objects and items in
the detective's office. It was a brilliant tour de force for Spacey: a con man
who conned law enforcement.
Consider how long Spacey
the actor got away with his perverse behavior and masterminded his way toward
getting away with it?
Then there's American Beauty.
The main character,
Lester Burnham played by Spacey, is a bored, empty, repressed suburban father.
Right away, all the brazen, Freudian Marxist stereotypes come to the forefront.
Married life is bad, sexual license is good. People should be able to sleep
with whomever they want to, and there is nothing wrong with that.
An explicit example of
this occurs when Father Burnham sexually pursues his daughter Jane's best
friend Angela. In an early scene, the father falls into lust with this young
girl during a cheerleader performance. As early as 1999, the movie industry was
glamorizing an adult sleeping with a minor!
That film should have
been called "American Ugly". It revealed Hollywood’s broken moral
compass spinning out of control, justifying everything contrary to sound moral
order. A homosexual couple living down the street from the Burnham family was
presented as the only real stable, loving "couple". The army veteran next
door (with mentally ill wife and drug-dealing son) was a closet homosexual. The
film showcased adultery, mockery of natural marriage and family, and then
glorified the natural yet destructive impulses in human beings.
Is this truly high class
or artistic? Did this film remotely reflect reality in any true fashion? Nope, but
in Sadistic fashion, this fiction outlined a moral treatise, one of decadence
and disdain as acceptable as long as people feel “free” or feel good.
What is troubling now is
that ONLY
NOW do movie goers and Spacey fans look at this scene and comment "This makes my skin crawl." Why didn't this adult-minor lust make
Hollywood elites sick to their stomachs 20 years ago?! Nevertheless,
Hollywood’s left-wing elites thought this film was a "beauty", and
they awarded Spacey the Best Actor Oscar. The film also won Best Picture, Best Director,
and Best Screenplay.
Today, lo and behold, we
now see in this film what has burst forth in Spacey's real life for everyone to
see. He had perversions within him, which had been spilling out for quite some
time. The first accusations against him had occurred 13 years prior to winning
his second Oscar. Should we be surprised as this long history? Not if we
recognize the fact that Spacey’s enabling peers was celebrating sexual abuse
and perversion on that stage. His acceptance speech highlighted significant
premonitions of what we have learned. His
first line? “This is the highlight of my day. I hope it
is not all downhill from here.”
Indeed.
It would go downhill
from there. His work titled toward less popular fare. He took over artistic
direction in a London theater, where he would prey on young men and boys. He
would then claim in his speech that viewers would see the good in Lester, even
though he did so much. He thanks his
mother for being his date--even then, people suspected that he was gay. Notice
also that Spacey never mentioned his father, who was an abusive Nazi,
literally.
Spacey's fall from Glitteratti
pre-eminence should not shock us, ultimately. How could anyone look at trash
like "American Beauty" and call it award-winning? Hollywood, and the
same coven of creeps and greedy moguls enabled and covered up for Spacey's
behavior for decades to follow.
Tinseltown is not glittering right now. The whole movie industry was already foundering because of the rapid changes in technology, media, and entertainment. The latest string of flops pouring out of the studios has signaled that Hollywood's malaise is bad, really bad this time, and it does not look as if it will survive this time.
I am really glad about this. The liberal, progressive agenda has thrived on big money from media moguls and movie stars. We had been giving this cultural institution all kinds of money, which they in turn spent against our own better interests as a free people living in a constitutional republic. It's about time that we stopped giving them our money, that we stopped enabling them to bewitch us with their fiction to push their Utopian fantasies on us.
There is no better representative of this epic down fall than Kevin Spacey. This actor would sing, dance, and take on stage and screen in all kinds of acting exploits. He had earned two academy awards--Best Supporting Actor in the Usual Suspects; Best Actor in American Beauty--then became Artistic Director for the Old Vic Theater. He had quite a repertoire.
Then came the allegation from Anthony Rapp, which flowed from the numerous women lining up to single out producer Harvey Weinstein for his repeated and long-term predatory behavior. The actor whom Rapp called out? Kevin Spacey. When and for what? Thirty years ago, when Rapp was a minor, and Kevin Spacey was 26 years. Spacey made a number of unwanted advances toward the boy Rapp, carrying him into Spacey's apartment, then
Spacey issued an immediately press release, apologizing for these acts which he claims that he had never done, but if he had done them, he was probably drunk at the time--oh, and he was bisexual and now decided to come out as a gay man. Yes, Kevin tried to cover up for past pedophilia perversion by coming out of the closet.
The moral swamp of sexual degeneracy is getting worse for Spacey. More actors are coming forward announcing that he had made numerous unwanted advances toward him. Young men who were minors are now recounting more devastating sexual assaults.
The consequences have been swift and telling. Spacey has lost his Netflix miniseries "House of Cards", which has folded up instead of going into its sixth season. The Emmy Awards was going to have a tribute for him, but that has been cancelled. There was even talk about another extravaganza on his behalf at the Academy Awards.
All of that has fallen away.
Speaking of Academy Awards ... should anyone of be surprised that such moral duplicity has come flooding out of Spacey's private life and overwhelmed his public persona? Think about "The Usual Suspects." He played a down-and-out cerebral palsy stooge narrating a crime. The detective mocked him, talked down to him, but suspected him of nothing more than being a big nothing.
Turns out at the end that he was the mastermind for the whole crime, and every aspect of the crime scene he narrated, he had drawn from objects and items in the detective's office. It was a brilliant tour de force for Spacey. He played a con man who conned law enforcement. How long did Spacey get away with his perverse behaviors and mastermind his way toward getting away with it all?
Then there's "American Beauty."
That film should have been called "American Ugly" or "Le Mal Americain", since the French word "mal" best covers sickness and evil at once. The film was sick, and it was evil. The main character, Lester Burnham played by Spacey, is a bored, empty, repressed suburban father. Right away, we see all the brazen, Freudian Marxist stereotypes. Married life is bad, sexual license is good. People should be able to sleep with whomever they want to, and there is nothing wrong with that.
An explicit example of this occurs because Father Burnham is sexually attracted to his daughter Jane's best friend Angela, who in turn is a slattern, at least by the way she talks. In one early scene, the father falls into lust with this young girl. Wake up, people: that young lady is a minor. We have a movie released in 1999 which was already glamorizing an adult sleeping with a minor!
Because of his renewed sense of "love" for this young girl, Lester starts exercising, working out, he quits his old job and gets a new job as a cashier at a fast food place. His wife then dives into another set of dalliances with another realtor, they have an affair .. blah, blah, blah.
Now, at the end of the movie, the young girl Angela ends up lying down for him, but admitting that she has never had sex before. Lester backs away from having sex with her, as though his decision not to sleep with her just simply justifies everything before.
But still, folks, what we saw in "American Beauty" was ultimately American Ugly, the moral compass of Hollywood clearly spinning out of control, justifying everything contrary to sound moral order for any stable, strong society. A homosexual couple living down the street from the Burnham family were presented in the film as the only real stable, loving "couple". The army veteran with his dispossessed wife and drug-dealing son was a closet homosexual. The father, the breadwinner in the other family was lusting after minors. The film showcased adultery, mockery of natural marriage and family, and then glorifying the natural yet destructive impulses in human beings.
Is this really high class? This is Artistic? Is any element in the film remotely true or in concert with reality? Nope, and in Sadist fashion, this fiction did indeed outline a moral treatise, one of decadence and disdain for what is good in marriage, life, and family.
This one scene encapsulates had warped and twisted Hollywood had become, the "love scene" of an adult with a minor:
What is troubling now is that ONLY NOW do movie goes and Spacey fans look at this scene and comment "this makes my skin crawl." Why didn't it make Hollywood elites and movie house goes sick to their stomachs nearly 20 years ago?!
But hey, the Academy Awards certainly thought this film was a "beauty", and they awarded Spacey the Best Actor Oscar, and the film also won Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. "American Beauty" would have entered a privilege class of Academy Award Winners if Annette Benning had won for Best Actress, the film would have been the fourth Big Five movie.
That did not happen, but behold, we saw in this film what would later burst forth in Spacey's real life for everyone to see. He had perversions within him, which had been spilling out for quite some time. The accusations against him had occurred 13 years prior to winning the Best Actor Oscar. Why is anyone surprised, though? The long history of sexual abuse and assault was CELEBRATED on the Academy Award stage in 2000!
Consider some of the most stirring--and now disturbing--remarks from his acceptance speech:
This is the highlight of my day. I hope it is not all downhill from
here.
Yes, it would go downhill from there. Taking over a theater in London, where he would prey on young men and boys.
To my friends, for pointing out my worst qualities. I know you do it
because you love me. And that's why I loved playing "Lester," because
we got to see all of his worst qualities and we still grew to love him.
No, we do not grow to like this character. He turns into a selfish man-child who seeks to please himself, ruining his family and undermining himself. No.
This
movie to me is all about how any single act from any single person put out of
context is damnable. But the joy of this movie is that it is real beauty. We
found real beauty in this extraordinary script by Sam Mendes -- by Alan Ball.
It feels like he wrote it though, doesn't it?
The only ordinary object which inspired any beauty was a plastic bag swirling around in a dust devil. That was it. The amoral abyss of the characters, the caricature of loving family and legacy was sad.
And Mother, I
don't care what they say about bringing you to award shows. I will always bring
you to award shows because I'm proud of you and I love you. And thank you,
thank you, thank you.
His mother was his date--even then, people suspected that he was gay. Notice also that Spacey never mentioned his father, who was an abusive Nazi, literally.
Spacey's fall from worldly pre-eminence should not shock anyone, really. If anyone was paying close attention, it all would have been crystal clear. How could anyone look at trash like "American Beauty" and call it award-winning? Hollywood, and the same coven of creeps and greedy moguls enabled and covered up for Spacey's behavior for decades to follow.
Rosie O'Donnell jumped on the left-wing and right-wing train to condemn Kevin Spacey and his immoral, evil attempts to justify his child predatory past with the "I'm Gay" card:
u don't remember the incident - 30 years ago? - fuck u kevin - like Harvey we all knew about u - I hope more men come forward @KevinSpacey
Since Hollywood is burning to the ground, why not start with
a metaphor from a movie: Carrie. The
title character is a shy girl, repeatedly picked on, but finally gets honored
as prom queen. She ends up the butt of another cruel prank, when her creepy
haters pouring pigs’ blood all over her. Little do they realize, however, that
Carrie has telekinetic powers. In a massive rage she burns down the entire gym.
In a sense, the American public is like Carrie. We’ve been
put down and shamed so much by the “Cool Kids” of Hollywood, but now we are
setting Hollywood on fire. Frankly,
Hollywood has been getting away with way too much, like the catty mean girls
who harassed Carrie, and we didn’t realize the power we had to stop them until recently.
They have abused and bullied us long enough, certainly in disregarding then
mocking family values and our Judeo-Christian culture, then ultimately panning
on any kind of ethical standards.
The sexual immorality of this elitist cabal has been rolling
out for decades, although it wasn’t always that way. Movie contracts insisted
on morality clauses with their actors. They had to avoid scandal and shame in
public and private, since perverse behavior would sink a movie’s box office
receipts back in the 1940s and 50s. Then came the 1960s, and the sexual
revolution.
Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, the golden couple of Hollywood, lived
openly in adultery, for example, and popular sentiment let them get away with
it.
That should have never happened. Movies in that era and onward
celebrated criminals and crime families, too (Bonnie and Clyde, The
Godfather), and the ongoing decline in family values continued apace. How
many lovers did Marlon Brando have? What about Jack Nicholson? He lived with
Angela Huston for decades, but they never married. Then there’s Woody Allen,
who has been dogged with allegations of rape and incest for decades, too. Lots
of celebrities had disparaged it.
How about Roman Polanksi? Think about it, folks. This guy raped a
14-year old, and is still getting away with it! He flees to Europe, stays out
of the hands of American authorities. The liberal media and the
Hollywood/International Film Industry celebrate him with abandon and without
remorse. Fast-forward to liberal loony Whoopi Goldberg on “The View”, and she
excuses his evil crime: “It wasn’t rape-rape.” Someone please tell me how these
incendiary remarks (as well as actions) have gone public and continued in the
press without further incident? Why wasn’t Whoopi called to task for this?
The year 2002 was a distinct year fort liberal media/entertainment
hypocrisy. The Pianist featured
Adrian Brody winning an Academy Award, and Polanski won Best Director. However,
he couldn’t accept it in Los Angeles, since he would end up behind bars—where
he belongs. I don’t believe that people should be prevented from receiving
recognition just because they have done something wrong. But for someone to
continue receiving rewards without first paying the price for their
wrongdoing—that is wrong!
The
same year, Michael Moore won an Academy Award for Bowling for Columbine. Numerous sources within weeks of the film’s
release exposed that he had edited, distorted and outright lied throughout the
movie—hardly a documentary. Two years later, the late Andrew Breitbart blasted
Moore to Michael Wilson for his own documentary Michael
Moore Hates America. By
then, we began to witness a latent movement among conservatives and anti-establishment
media to debunk the narrative of Hollywood’s pristine moral superiority. It
still needs to sink in, though: The
Academy of Arts and Sciences gave an Academy Award to this fraud, and no one did anything about
it!
Hollywood
elites reject family values, they skirt our criminal laws, and they lied to us
and get awards for it! How much longer were they going to get away with this?
The dam has burst with the Weinstein exposures, sure. The serial
abuser and sexual assaulter is going down. More actresses came forward. Actors
spoke out, too. Kevin Spacey’s career us gone because he tried to go down on a
minor when he was 26 years old. Incredible.
But still, what has taken so long, or rather why is it that
Hollywood is now—only now—finally burning down to the ground?
1.The large
swath of arrogant liberals in Hollywood stood against Trump and with Crooked
Hillary throughout Election 2016. For decades, they had presented themselves as
counter-cultural, or ahead of the times. In 2005, while accepting an Academy
Award for his role in another anti-Bush pick, George Clooney took pride in that
Hollywood types like him did not fit in with the cultural times. The truth is
that fewer people were watching Hollywood’s movies because we bitter clingers
got tired of our views and values being shamed. Trump’s election and victory further
marginalized Hollywood, showing the world how out-of-touch they are, and how
out of patience we have become with their liberal, elitist condescension.
2.The complicit media has been
exposed for lying to us about the facts as well as shaming us about our values.
The Trump campaign and now Presidency forced them to show their true colors,
and this same media had been covering for corrupt, creepy Hollywood types,
including Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, and their ilk for years.
3.The ascendancy of social media and
the ease for independent films and journalists to publish their own content have
undermined Hollywood’s dominance. They have pushed aside the monopoly of Big
Hollywood and Big Media. Before the latest outrage over Spacey’s perversions, I
had been staying away from the movie theater just because there’s so much great
stuff on YouTube. Now it’s even easier to boycott Hollywood since there’s so
much better and cheaper ways to be entertained and informed than the liberal
cabal/brothel of Sunset Blvd and LA Times Square.
Hollywood is burning down because consumers have more choices. We
can also create and consume news and media to our taste. Boycotting Hollywood
has never been easier.
Then Spacey tries to space himself away apologizing for behavior he had committed when he was drunk, although he said that he was drunk at the time, so how would he know about it?
For decades, the regressive Left has been selling us anti-American messages, telling us to feel bad about ourselves because we were all hardworking Americans, or that we lived in the greatest country in the world.
Media elites, star athletes all believed that they had every right to shame us and belittle us, then make us pay for the privilege of letting them talk down to us.
