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Has Any Recent Hollywood Movie Offered Positive Portrayal of Conservative Activist?

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Perhaps, it was because I so enjoyed Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side that I snapped up Two Weeks Notice in Costco on Sunday.  While the script is uneven at best, I liked the film when first I saw it on the big screen.  Bullock is outstanding throughout and she and Hugh Grant have great chemistry so we believe their romance.  It held up reasonably well on a second viewing.

The flaws in the screenplay are too numerous to mention, notably that Grant plays the heir to a New York real estate magnate without losing his English charm, manner or accent.

While Bullock’s Lucy Kelson has left-wing politics, the film tones them down so they never really become offensive and a conservative can enjoy the film without feeling the filmmakers are making fun of our politics.  Still, Kelson is a liberal type of activist who cried when Bush was elected.

It seems that liberal activists are a staple of films made since the 1970s and almost always portrayed in a sympathetic light as was Miss Bullock’s Lucy.  So that got me wondering:  can anyone recall a movie where a conservative activist is portrayed in a positive light–even if his conservative politics are only incidental to his character?

Comments

  1. Hey Daniel….

    Thanks to the bug you put in my ear I couldn’t help but search the web. You have to really go out on a limb to find a film which indeed shines a positive light on a “conservative activist”. The 2 films I did find were the very recent Canadian picture, “The Hand of Peace”, it sheds a new light on the papacy of Pius XII during WWII … and the Japanese block buster completed in 1948, “The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail”.(because of it’s portrayed positive feudalistic tones it was banned by the Truman administration until 1952)…..

  2. Oh boo hoo, nobody’s making movies about conservatives! Well, there’s the Airplane guy, how’s that going over?

    Meanwhile, the “anti-American” movie that all the conservatives hate, Avatar, is cleaning up all over the international free market to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. What gives? Why oh why wouldn’t anyone want to watch a film extolling the virtues of trickle-down economics?

  3. Dan, I think for Hollywood liberals portraying conservatives in a good light the best they’ve ever done might be in The American President –you know, where good is defined as all things liberal and environmental activism lobbyists sleeping with the prez and bad is defined as conservatives playing the demagogue role– because they took great care in detailing out the movie’s antithesis: GOP conservative Senator Bob Rumson.

    Recall this classic “speech” by the title’s character?

    http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechtheamericanpresident.html

    It had me running for the exit aisle.

  4. After thinking about it a lil longer, I guess if you turn your head side ways while sitting in the theatre recently, “The Blind Side” starring Sandra Bullock portrays Evangelicals in a favorable light (God fearing folks are activists….right?)…… I also must make mention how after 8 weeks, this low budgeted non-thriller is still making a helluvalotta money at the box office.($29M cost = $200M to date)

  5. Being something of a craigslist enthusiast, I brought up that very point in a post in the local “Rant & Rave” section, but ended it with a challenge to show any movie or story where a liberal or an atheist ever showed the same kind of committment to a person of similar unfortunate means as the conservative Christian family did in this movie. The response was all defensive and ad hominem, but no one answered the challenge.

  6. #3: Michigan-Matt, Ann Coulter had this to say about The American President in the introduction to her book, How To Talk To A Liberal (If You Must):

    “The American President–message: DEMOCRATS WILL VOTE THEIR CONSCIENCES EVEN IF IT HURTS THEM POLITICALLY AND ALL REPUBLICANS EVER DO IS CALL PEOPLE NAMES. In this movie, Michael Douglas plays Bill Clinton as Clinton would like to be–handsome, thin, courageous, liberal, and widowed. The president’s top Republican adversary goes on national TV and calls the president’s girlfriend a ‘whore.’ So it’s a plausible story.”

    Widowed. Hilarious.

  8. Dan, people in Hollywood don’t know conservatives. They think they are the gun toting, Church going rednecks in flyover country.
    How can you make a movie about someone you know nothing about except their cartoon caricature?
    They feel the need to inject their stupid political bias in every movie, I’m watching Julie and Julia (meh, not very good) and for no reason whatsoever they have to put in their digs at Republicans.

    Its’ beyond time for Hollywood to grow up and move beyond kindergarten.

  9. I think The Blind Side is the Christian’s Brokeback Mountain. It is the most realistic portrayal of who Christians are and why they do what they do that Hollywood has ever produced.

    While not exactly a conservative activist, Marge Gunderson in Fargo is a realistic portrait of a woman with strong Midwestern values.

    Hollywood thinks the most realistic portrayal of flyover country is Children of the Corn.

  12. My read would be that Lucy Kelson “thinks” she’s still a Lefty…but in reality had shifted right-wards without really recognizing her change in perspective. Like many in the real world who fancy themselves LIBERAL, upon actual examination of their actions and attitudes actually are quite center-moderate, they just make all the radical-left noises out of habit.

    Like the liberal who’s been mugged, or received and unpleasant tax-demand, or who’s actually dealt with the non-thinking, unaccountable civil-service bureaucrats they lionized from the safety of the college campus; they really are moderates who own guns and don’t want THEIR DAUGHTER to need or get an abortion.

  13. Meanwhile, the “anti-American” movie that all the conservatives hate, Avatar, is cleaning up all over the international free market to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. What gives?

    No one has ever gone broke capitalizing on peoples’ self-loathing.

    The entertaining thing about Avatar to me is that it essentially declares human beings to be awful, evil, irredeemable individuals — and that the only way to be anything else is to renounce humanity completely.

    No surprise that Levi and his fellow liberals, who openly advocate infanticide as a means of fighting “global warming”, love this movie.

  14. Believe me I would prefer to stay on point here, however if we’re gonna keep this baby going than I think it really is OK to waver a bit. That being said, Fred Thompson’s character of a New York D.A. on “Law and Order” is a politically charged role. It also has it’s moments of principled conservative values being portrayed in a positive light…. but than again, we could hardly expect NBC to win Fred over in to believing he should play his character the same way all the bigoted agenda minded bastards deliver their roles on that or any of the brand’s spin-off shows.