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Here's a different take on the Hollywood schmucks. It's tough to watch the hyper-violent opening scene of this documentary, but is it ever worth it. I'm not a M.o.T. myself, but I greatly admire the ideas and contributions that Jews have made to the world. "Jews, Movies, Hollywood, and the American Dream" youtu.be/MXeHnvImcMk
Here's a different take on the Hollywood schmucks. It's tough to watch the hyper-violent opening scene of this documentary, but is it ever worth it. I'm not a M.o.T. myself, but I greatly admire the ideas and contributions that Jews have made to the world.
"Jews, Movies, Hollywood, and the American Dream"
https://youtu.be/MXeHnvImcMk
You g et no disagreement here. The "Hollywood Jews" as I used that term are the ones best described in "What Makes Sammy Run?" There's as many Gentiles as Jews in that collection of crudbirds. It's highly unlikely that the American film industry would have developed as it did if a bunch of "outsiders" hadn't seen it as an opprotunity no one else was taking and stepped in. Neal Gabler's "An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Created Hollywood" is excellent history of these people.
the Gabler book was actually the source for the documentary.
smart documentarians!
seen it, probably twice. it's a good documentary, even if somewhat incomplete.
and one doesn't usually think of Warner Bros. as a particularly courageous bunch of guys, but they DID do the first feature about Nazis in the US, even if the truth turned out to be a lot worse than the movie ("Confessions of a Nazi Spy") indicates.
They not only made the movie (in 1938), but took a lot of heat from their fellow Hollywood Jews for doing it and causing trouble. Hollywood didn't want to get into this because the German film market for American films was the most profitable in Europe. And they got really POed at Warners when the Germans used that movie to ban US films from German exhibition.