Hollywood can hardly be called a sanctuary for honesty but it is a definite sanctuary for hypocrisy. Actually, it’s not just Hollywood but the entire film making industry that represents the quintessential embodiment of hypocrisy. Check out any discussion, history of, talk about, etc. re film making and you will find two recurring ideas: 1) YOU, filmmaker, can be an agent of change. 2) In order to be an agent of change, you must challenge “existing norms”. And therein lies the problem.
Turns out “existing norms” is a euphemism for certain existing moral norms. This, of itself, is not necessarily bad thing. However, when combined with the selectivity exercised by the film industry in what “existing norms” should be challenged, it is not only a bad thing but quintessentially hypocritical. A simple but glaring example: Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary 2016: Obama’s America received virtually no support while Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story was well promoted. (The good news is despite this, the public voted with their dollars on both these movies. The bad news is that the film making industry doesn’t care.) A single example obviously doesn’t convey the pervasiveness of the liberal bias but you already know that. The point is, film schools follow this dictum and so virtually every budding filmmaker out there is going to “change the world” according to liberal dictums. Any other change is, well, a non event. The film making industry doesn’t REALLY want counter-cultural movies unless they are the “right”, er, left counter culture.