Before François-Marie Arouet’s film review, I wanted to give my two cents on this intersting topic.
I have personally noticed that conservatives who try to avoid getting their career cancelled (as in “cancel culture”) increasingly do “balanced” shows where both a liberal and a conservative, or a “woke” person and a racist, both can go at it. The problem for jewry is that the white conservative scores tons more points. 😉
Two examples I cited in an earlier blog:
1) The Redneck in the MAGA hat wins (and the rapper is black who lets him do it!!!)
2) Woke guy versus the racist
Below is a guest article from contributing writer, François-Marie Arouet. I have not seen the film, avoiding horror movies because I was in a horror reality as a child in MK-ULTRA.
……”The Hunt” should not outrage conservatives but liberals
by François-Marie Arouet
‘The Hunt’, a film written and directed by NYC-born Craig Zobel, has been on my radar since I learned of it in 2018, and I think now is rather a relevant moment to discuss its significance.
Zobel and screenwriter Nick Cuse being interviewed about “The Hunt”
The story, loosely based on Richard Connell’s 1924 short story, ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ — a story I had read while studying at a prestigious Lutheran preparatory school in 9th grade — was to be written with the intention of pitting liberal elites against “deplorables”.
Initially, like most people, I had expected the hunters to be big-city elitists who were gunning down hapless hillbillies. In fact, that is how the film was originally billed.
President Donald Trump, on learning about the film from Fox News, was quick to tweet how the film was going to be deeply offensive (anti- deplorable), and that it provided even more evidence the media was left-wing.
However, knowing the story as I did, I did not want to make a quick judgement about it before delving more deeply. You see, in the original short story, the heroes are the hunted, and the monsters who gun them down for sport are the elitists.
If the writers and film’s director, Zobel, were going to follow this template at all, we, the public, would at least be inadvertently sympathetic towards the victims. And as viewers we most definitely were.
In fact, I will argue that this film does more than just inadvertently want us to pull for the “plebs”. That was the original intention!
But the film still did not stop the President from jumping to conclusions about the intention of the film, nor did it fail to spook Universal Pictures who, after much outrage from the Right, who had claimed that it glorified the killing of human beings (what Hollywood yarn doesn’t?), pulled it in 2019.
Wiki:
In August 2019, the release of his horror thriller film The Hunt, set for September 27, 2019, was cancelled by distributor Universal in response to the 2019 El Paso shooting.[4] However, it was re-scheduled and released on March 13, 2020.[5]
Of course, you will now be thinking, but Universal is certainly part of the liberal establishment, so why would they care? The answer, as it always is, is Money.
Having half the country turn against the film before its release is simply bad for business. Universal cited recent mass shootings and other left- wing talking points as reasons for killing the flick, but the momentary furor and the fear of lost shekels were certainly behind it being “indefinitely postponed”.
The outcry was a testimony to reasons why mainstream movie studios typically shy away from political commentary that blatantly and conspicuously attacks individual groups. (Sure, they bombard us with political messaging and push anti-white messaging, but they try their best to avoid specific groups.), This is why they erase black characters from posters distributed in China, pull gay love scenes from distributions released in the Far East and Russia etc. You get the idea!
Ironically, at the time, hardly anyone — least of all the political pundits and commentary class railing against ‘The Hunt’ — had actually seen the film. However, it seemed clear that the idea of “liberal elites” hunting “deplorables”, the actual language used in some of the releases – and for sport, no less – could only be construed as being anti-conservative.
But….as I stated earlier, when, in any adaptation of ‘The Most Dangerous Game’, have the evil hunters ever been the good guys? This enabled me to keep my mind open.
For the filmmakers’ part, they did insist that “the movie was neither anti-conservative nor anti-liberal, and was simply being misunderstood by people who hadn’t watched it.” This added to my hope.
Fast forward to 2020.
‘The Hunt’ has been re-released, and let me tell you, Trump & Co. got it ALL wrong. In fact, my initial thoughts were spot-on. And, in the case of this film, not only are we inadvertently pulling for the hunted because they are underdogs, but I believe Zobel planned it that way!
I have a theory of my own on the reasons why he might be on side that I will present later. The movie is, as expected, a tale about rich left-wingers who drug and kidnap a group of predominantly rural conservatives. As in the original story, the kidnapped are transported to a controlled environment where they are to be gunned down one by one, until the tables are turned.
I don’t want to give too much of the plot away, as the film is definitely worth a watch, but I will say that the film adheres to the plot of the short story.
So, why do I think that the filmmaker is secretly one of us?
Craig Zobel
Well, unlike the short story where the baddies are quite non-descript – their actions are what makes them evil – in “The Hunt,” the hunters are portrayed as hateful, mean-spirited, anti-poor, arrogant and petty. They abuse each other while squabbling over who “misgenders” whom, and whether or not it is “appropriate” to call African Americans “black.” 😉
Although the victims are all white,
as is the heroine, the killers are a multi-cultural mish-mosh of fags, dykes, nose-in-the-air city elites and other hateful sorts.
Although the victims are initially portrayed as predominantly rural right-wing conspiracy theorists, most of their theories are in fact proven true during the film!
….from crisis actors playing migrants to there being a secret club of elites that kill innocents for sport!
The filmmaker does appear to have gone to great lengths to get us to cheer for the hunted, when I initially expected he’d have done his damnedest to have us root for the lefty murderers.
I do not want to spoil the film, so I will say no more, just recommend you watch it.
I will leave you with a few lines from the pen of a very Jewish Salon film critic who also picked up on how pro-right the film was 😉 omitting the spoilers, intentionally thrown in so no one would pay money to watch this excellent film.
Matthew Rosza writes,
“There isn’t much in the way of plot in ‘The Hunt’. ’The Hunt’ is very much about politics — namely, validating right-wingers who desperately want to believe they are among the wronged of the world.
While Zobel has said that the movie’s goal is to “poke at both sides of the aisle equally,” there are three problems with that statement.
The first is that an early draft of the script reportedly depicted working-class conservatives as the heroes, suggesting that the film always had a pro-conservative agenda.
(Although, it should be noted that Gilpin’s character Crystal, is actually an apolitical schmo who was hapless enough to get mixed up in this business because of liberal incompetence.)
The second is that the film’s attempt at “balance” is to reveal near the end that this brutal hunt never actually existed until right-wing conspiracy theorists incorrectly accused several liberal elites of participating in one, thereby inspiring them to actually create it.
It’s a “twist” that still manages to make the liberals into monsters and the conservatives into, at worst, fear-mongering fools . . . and is also the only significant shade thrown at the pro-Trump side in this story.
The third, and by far the most important problem with Zobel’s statement, is that it reduces politics to a game, cheapening the real-world issues that impact people’s lives and making it all seem like so much pointless bickering.
Take the issues cited by the film’s liberal elite bad-guys. As I watched the film, I made a mental list of the most prominent issues that they cited as justification for conducting a hunt:
Gun control,
global warming,
anti-racism,
immigration,
Refugees who do turn out to be crisis actors in “The Hunt”
gay rights.
These are not issues in which each side is morally equal.
[Here comes some total gibberish, words without any meaning.]
Wanting to save lives from gun violence is not equal to perverting the Second Amendment to satisfy right-wing delusions.
Striving to stop climate change from destroying civilization is not equal to denying it because conservative dogma demands you to do so. (And note how Trump’s anti-science agenda has exacerbated the COVID-19 outbreak in this country.)
Being horrified by how Trump has stoked the flames of bigotry in this country is not equal to being okay with or outright supporting it.
Muslim liberal hunter in “The Hunt”
Empathizing with undocumented immigrants is not equal to persecuting them. Supporting gay rights is not equal to the bogus claims of “religious freedom” cited by those who hate the LGBTQ community.
Gay elitist hunter in “the Hunt”
Yet the difference between the pro-Trump and anti-Trump camps is not Coke versus Pepsi, Tweedledee versus Tweedledum.
By telling a story based on that premise, and then have the liberals take things too far by actively hunting Trump supporters, the writers of ‘The Hunt’ encourage right-wingers to believe something they yearn to convince the world is true — namely, that they are the victims in modern America. ’
The Hunt’ is not satire; it is propaganda of the lowest sort. If you agree with this movie’s message, there is something seriously wrong with your soul. Its only value is in helping dispel the myth of Hollywood’s supposed liberal bias.
’The Hunt’ is currently playing in theaters.
Notes:
I did a little digging around to see if I could find out a but more about the director/writer. Although Zobel does appear to be a Jewish name, I found out that although he was born in NYC he moved to North Carolina as a child. Perhaps he realized rural people are far more pleasant folk than the vile Brooklyn Jews he met during his childhood.
Perhaps Zobel isn’t even jewish; he doesn’t look conspicuously so.
Nick Cuse, the lead writer, looks gentile through and through.
He is in fact the son of longtime screenwriter Carlton Cuse (Lost, Nash Bridges), who is of German and Latvian descent.
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