Why didn't the Right try to even the chances in the Entertainment culture war a bit?

PeachyKeane said:

I'm just curious, when we talk about entertainment that fights the culture war on behalf of the left, which entertainment are we talking about?

It might also be worth noting that most of the international film markets that get American movies are not fighting a culture war, and have a social and political center which is well to the left of the US.

Entertainment producers aren't trying to win a culture war. They're trying to make a profit.

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PeachyKeane said:

Purchase the rights?

I'm confused. What sort of property should be helpful in the culture war?

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FireDragon76 said:

Outside of the bubble that the Far Right have constructed, there really is no culture war. That rhetoric is simply created for power brokers to bamboozle people like the carnival barkers they are.

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RDKirk said:

Copyright seems not to have prevented them from being created...and yet paid the copyright holders.

But notice that copyright is only upon a specific expression of an idea, not upon the idea itself.

There are many expressions of Ovid's "star-crossed lovers" of Pyramus and Thisby. All of the latest specific expressions of that story are copyrighted, which does not prevent new expressions ever few years, such as Romeo and Juliet (in several versions), "West Side Story," "Romeo Must Die!," "Gnomeo and Juliet," et cetera.

I could write this story: A young Afghani farm boy's family is killed during a wedding ceremony by an American drone. The boy is taken under the wing of an old Mujahadeen who had fought against the Soviets during their invasion. The boy himself is radicalized when the old Mujahadeen is killed by an American combat patrol and then joins the resistance against the invaders. He later becomes a major player in a successful attack against an American base.

Of course, that's just "Star Wars: A New Hope." Same idea, different expression, and can be copyrighted as such...by me.

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TLK Valentine said:

Everything is based on an old IP... ain't no such thing as an "original" story..

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Ringo84 said:

The real reason is that doing something like this would be like the dog catching the mailman. They need an enemy against which to rail.

Another good reason is that punishing people for having opinions other than your own is exactly the kind of thing they claim (wrongly) is done against them. Not that anyone seems to care about hypocrisy these days, but to do to your enemies what you claim they do to you would be pretty breathtakingly hypocritical.

The Bible says "in the world, not of", but some Christians conveniently seem to miss the "in the world" part. People have different ideas than you. That's OK. Doesn't mean you have to agree with it or follow it, but it's time to get over it.
Ringo

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Kentonio said:

Hollywood is full of people loving their guns, 'heroes' who torture people and glamorization of war and wealth.

It's basically a neocons dream already.

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FireDragon76 said:

There's a culture war now only in the minds of rightwing political hacks. For everybody else, it ended years ago, and was never as big as it has been given credit, anyways.

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PeachyKeane said:

Disney?! You think Disney doesn't want to make money?



...I would assume, as I quoted someone else in this post. But I like your ambitious way of pre-informing me of things you haven't said. I never mentioned fire-hydrants in this thread.

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