- 26th
- May
- 2010
Hollywood: An Empire of Their Own | How the Jews Invented Hollywood
The American Dream is actually constructed by “shadowed Americans” who came to the Land of the Free creating a Hollywood of their own…where ironically it became the norm for all Americans to follow.
During this time of year last year, I started watching old Hollywood films that were produced in the “Golden Age” during the 20’s to early 60’s. As a film major, and gender analyst, I couldn’t help but realize how much all these films influenced in all how we think of the world. Disturbingly, these film helped constructed the ideals of heterosexism and that it is the most natural and only way to live your life. Any other deviations is dangerous. After reading, Dude, You’re A Fag, where I just recently finished it, it only made more sense how hetersexism can only exist through rough policing of how standards are to be made…especially through film and media, such as how Prom King and Queen can only insist of a boy and a girl, and even Senior Superlatives are between a female and male…Any other gender variations won’t hold any valid.
It comes back to this point, in how the Jews created a dream, where “real” or “original” America had not thought of yet but ultimately…after becoming so dessimated, their ideals and values, morals and such, such a heterosexism and courageous heart (bad and good) became the norm and everyone adopt it and accept it as it is without questioning.
This is why…ladies and gentlemen…why films are heavily and carefully constructed the way that they are…All the mainstream is so focused on the heterosexual relationship and nothing less. Sometimes, I feel it so forced upon me…that I start to question, is a heterosexual coupling that natural?
And how modern films…set up standards that are ridiculous and are so fictional…yet people try to live up to it…For example, Gossip Girl…I think it’s a very entertaining show, no lie about it. But the message that it tries to get across is disturbingly dangerous. I can’t help but think of all the young girls and guys out there who watch this show and start to feel more insecure about themselves than they already are. “How come I’m not rich like that” “How come I don’t have clothes like that” “How come my face doesn’t look like that” “How come my girl/boyfriend isn’t hot like that” “How come my life is so boring compared to them”
Honestly, I’m not a hater of shows like Gossip Girl, but I think it’s important that audience know how to deconstruct the images that they see on the screen that make them feel as if these “fictionals” were actually bigger than their lives. I think it’s important that we implant all the tools and resources that we get to the audiences, that there is NO one way to live life and not to follow the limiting and suffocating binary in this society, especially the young and insecure one, as soon as we can. Media Education…I’m looking at you.
And if you want something textual that makes you rethink about your live, I definitely recommend reading X: A fabulous Child’s Story by Lois Gould.
I definitely want to make this story into a film… Watch out for it in the near future—Empire Production ;)
