At the movies: Robert Davi’s “The Dukes”
For those of you who are sick of spending money at the movie theater supporting Hollywood libs, there’s good news.
Tomorrow, Robert Davi’s critically acclaimed “The Dukes” opens at the box office. The movie website is here. Lisa dePasquale has a review and profile here.
She writes:
I had the chance to talk to Davi about his views and it’s clear that he has just as much passion for politics as he does for acting. Occasionally, the two intersect. While promoting An American Carol at the Republican National Convention, Davi gained even more credibility as someone with a deep understanding of international issues and conservative principles. Davi did many of the voiceovers for the convention videos and McCain-Palin campaign ads.
In an interview prior to the election, Davi told me, “The polarizing discord has grown… The press is bamboozling the American people. We’ve become a nation of Keith Olbermanns.”
Davi recently told the online site, The A.V. Club, “Hollywood is a very liberal community, for the most part. There are a lot of guys that are also conservative that are frightened or fearful of being able to come out. I’ve been a little more outspoken th an most, but the fear of it is that you get marginalized…”
Despite pressure from the cocktail party crowd, Davi has been a strong advocate against Islamo-fascism and has appeared on numerous political talk shows. Davi told me that many people that do understand the threat of Islamo-fascism still put party above country. Davi talked about a liberal friend that read Oriana Fallaci, the now deceased Italian writer that dared to tell the truth about Islamo-fascism despite numerous threats against her life. “In spite of that, the Democratic Party trumps concerns he has over the threat of radical Islam,” said Davi.
Many actors simply parrot liberal talking points and are considered intelligent or deep without ever having to defend their views. Davi actually participates in the policy debate on higher level. He sitson the Board of Directors of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the Steering Committee of the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University. He is also a confirmed speaker for the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in February.
Davi’s The Dukes, which opens nationally on November 21, has racked up numerous awards, including the Jury Prize for Best Screenplay at the Monte-Carlo Film Festival, the Queens Spirit Award for Best Producer and Best Director, among others. Rarely is a movie with this pedigree able to be enjoyed by such a broad audience, but The Dukes tells a wonderful story. Its message is universal – if you wait for perfection, you’ll miss your chance.
Sounds like a fabulous, uplifting film. Enjoy!
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This is the type of artist that we must support or our side is just talk talk talk…
C-CS
Since we have small children, we can’t go to the theater much. The last theatrical movie we saw was Facing the Giants.
Definately need to catch it on DVD.
I’m looking forward to seeing this movie.
John Nolte, conservative Hollywood filmmaker and proprietor of Dirty Harry’s Place, has a full release schedule.
Looks like a Sunday afternoon viewing for me this weekend…i try to support same thinking entrepreneurs, American thinking citizens.
i can cancel my movie going plans for Sunday, not in the area here, eug/spfld orygun.
…don’t go. Wait until the movie hits the $5 bin at Walmart and really limit their profit!
More info on Davi at IMDB, including lots of quotes.
Back in the day, there was a director named John Milius or something like that. He made a movie called Red Dawn and all the film critics went berserk with rage that he portrayed the Soviet Union and the Red Army in less than glowing terms. About the same time as Milius was making Red Dawn, there was a liberal movie called “The Falcon and the Snowman” about two twentysomething guys who sold secrets from TRW to the Soviet Union. The movie idolized the two young spies for profit and the movie had the Soviet spy masters come across as reasonable tea sipping intellectuals. In contrast, the FBI agents were foulmouthed losers with lousy haircuts and cheap Robert Hall suits (If you don’t remember Robert Hall, ask mom and dad about Robert Hall!)
While Sleezywood keeps throwing sex, violence and offensive language at us, it’s great when we get a movie that doesn’t make us cringe. Thanks Kirk Cameron for “Fireproof”. Don’t think there was a dry eye in the place. Looking forward to seeing “The Dukes”!
EXCELLENT!!! Hubs and I have a date night planned tomorrow.
The highest achievers in our society, in science, engineering, or creative arts such as fiction or movie making, are overwhelmingly liberal. Sure there are a few sour apples (this site makes conservatism seem sour) — Ted Nugent, Mel Gibson, Orson Scott Card (I loved Ender’s Game), Edward Teller. But there’s something about being very creative or smart that makes people liberal.
The same Robert Davi from Showgirls?
I loathe going to the theaters, but I’ll certainly put on my wish list when the DVD is released.
An important thing to add to the list of Conservatism 2.0 traits: Right-of-centers need to become more involved in the arts and entertainment. Left-of-centers should not have what appears to be a near-monopoly on artistic creativity.
Sounds good.
My family loves Red Dawn. Of course, we were all in love with Patrick back then too.
I’m looking forward to seeing Australia - Hugh Jackman - yum!
My high school-aged daughter is hyper-excited about Twilight of course. She begged me to read the books, I’m about halfway through the first one. Not too bad but not nearly as good as the Harry Potter series.
The Day the Earth Stood Still looks promising as does the Tale of Despareaux. Next spring it’s the new Star Trek movie.
We haven’t seen many movies this year, too busy with my teenagers’ activities - band, choir, ballet, percussion, school, etc. But my daughter and I had a girl’s night out and saw the Duchess - great movie - makes me glad to be a modern woman and not limited in opportunity like she was.
My teenaged son wants more war movies. It looks like there are a couple coming up, both WWII era, one with Daniel Craig and the one with Tom Cruise. They look promising, I hope they don’t disappoint. My son thinks they should make Lone Survivor into a movie and he loved the Flags of Our Fathers book, the movie not so much.
Ok, I’ll watch it. I’m not a big movie fan. Hollywood and everything about it is generally disgusting me.
I agree. The left of centers have a near monopoly because, as in education, they often have the power in who gets to work.
If you have a big enough name and have financial backing you can succeed, but fledgling conservative artists have the most difficult time of swimming against the liberal artistic current.
lgm, your nose bleed much when on that pedestal? The fall is really gonna hurt, putz.
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I can’t let this go…much as I would like to:
I am in the musical arts. And yes, I will acknowledge that the majority of people who are in the arts lean liberal. I don’t, a few I know personally do not, either, and the two specific ones I am thinking of at the moment are incredibly talented. They are also some of the smartest people I know.
When you say “smart”, what exactly is your definition? Because I am related to engineers, scientists, etc. They are overwhelmingly conservative. I’d say your opinion on smart people tending to be liberal is at the very least anecdotal.
It’s in very limited release — mostly CA,NY, and TX.
Is it going into wider release? Or do most of us have to wait for the DVD?
On November 20th, 2008 at 6:03 pm, hawkeye54 said:
All the more reason to get involved. Let’s put some of our money where our mouths are, figuratively and literally. Now’s the time.
John Milius penned the original script for ‘Apocalypse Now’ and is best-known as the inspiration for Walter Sobchak, the John Goodman character from The Big Lebowski. Milius also had a strong hand in the conservative-celebrated Dirty Harry films. Milius was Hollywood Conservative when it wasn’t cool (wait, was it ever?), one of the few who have never run from the conservative moniker. A good taste of his sense can be gleaned from watching ‘Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse’ about Coppola’s infamous Apoc-Now shoot, where he warned Coppola about taking a Hollywood production into the jungle, a shoot that is now part cautionary tale and Hollywood legend. Aside from ‘Hearts’ being arguably the best movie about the making of a movie, we get Milius rolling his eyes at Coppola’s monomania.
For conservative cineastes, David Mamet is the best place to start for the serious stuff. Mamet came out of the closet as a conservative with his hysterical Village Voice piece “Why I’m No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal” and his ‘08 film “Red Belt” embodies any number of conservative ethos and pathos without being political on the surface. The film’s theme - standing by one’s principles when they embody the path of most resistance - is a gem for conservatives (R for language). Mamet also did Oleanna (1994) which forecast the suffocating nature of academic PC through the paradigm of sexual harassment. Most of his work is can’t-miss, but these are two that MM readers would likely enjoy.
operamama38 said (#19):
Surveys of scientifically trained people show them to be overwhelmingly liberal. Not as liberal as English professors, but a significant majority liberal.
I make this point not to annoy people here (though that is part of it), but to help people understand that even if conservatism is correct, it’s not obvious. Very thoughtful well informed intelligent people can reach other conclusions. The people who think it’s obvious, well, they’re dummies.
PROOF SPORT
My “put your money where your mouth is, literally” comment earlier was not worded very well. Sorry, I’m not a college prof (nor a college grad) trying to, uh, subtly(?) annoy people.
We’ll go see it tomorrow evening and call all our friends to see if they want to go. We all saw American Carol and loved it.
You’re sadly mistaken lgm….the greatest scientists and artists ever were non liberal CHRISTIANS!!!! Here’s a few for you….
1).Nicholas Copernicas - Canon of the Catholic Church and father of modern astronomy.
2).Sir Francis Bacon - Father of the scientific method
3).Johannes Kepler - Lutheran professor and established the Laws of PLanetary Motion.
4).Galileo Galilei - Astronomer,mathmatician,inventor and christian believer.
5).Rene Descartes - Mathematician,scientist and philosopher…devout Christian and Father of modern philosophy.
6).Isaac Newton - Devout Christian,inventor of calculus,laws of conservation of matter.
7).Micheal Faraday - Christian and father of electromagnetic physics.
8).William Thomson Kelvin(Lord Kelvin) - Christian,proponent of creationism over Darwinism,a father of modern physics.
9).Max Planck - Devout Christian,forefather of atomic and subatomic quantum physics.
10).Albert Einstein - Christian,Special and General Theories Of Relativity.
This is only a few….we owe our modern science,philosophy,mathematics and creative sciences to these great ‘non-liberal’ men!! NUFF SAID
DAYam! That’s impressive, IronMan! You rock.
Wow ironman you booked him !! Hey lgm did that hurt?????? Lol…..
not to be picky…but wasn’t einstein jewish?
Yes,you’re right cubbiegal..Einstein was Jewish.
Ironman,
I agree with your original point btw.
Thanks.
I’d appreciate the chance to examine the survey data.
I have worked in the electronics industry and the pharmaceutical industry, and that statement doesn’t reconcile with my life experience.
I was on a movie set last summer. During lunch I was sitting with a friend and one of the stars..politics came up. They both started bashing our troops in Iraq (I’m a vet and so is my friend’s brother). After listening for about two minutes. I stood up, looked at my friend and said, “I can’t believe you are saying that. Especially since your brother was a Navy SEAL. Is he a murderer too?” I walked away leaving them with very somber looks on their faces. Needless to say, the rest of my week at the movie set was icy. Hollywood SU*KS
Einstein was Jewish by ethnicity, but he was an atheist.
Don’t forget Blaise Pascal, who issued his challenge that: “If there is no God, he benefited in that he lived a better life, and lived in hope. If there is a God, he’ll go to Heaven.”
In the arts, of course, there’s William Shakespear, devout Christian.
Handel, who wrote his classic, The Messiah.
Most country music stars are Christian and Conserative.
Simon86,
Thank you. Every time we fail to confront liars, the lie grows.
Liberals are really nothing but stuffed shirt, prideful little sh*ts.
Yes…also 1).Robert Boyle,devout Protestant,postulated Boyle’s Law of Gases.
2).Gregor Mendel - Abbot of a monastery,laid the mathematical foundations for genetics.
3).Charles Babbage - Inventor of the mechanical computing machine
4).Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel - Christian,astronomer,mathematician,discovered Uranus,Proved sun was not the center of the galaxy.
5).James Joule - Discovered God’s Laws of Thermodynamics.
6). James Maxwell - Laid the electromagnetic foundations for radio,tv,and microwaves.
It’s a fact that Karl Marx even considered becoming a Lutherian minister in his youth and attended prepratory school in his youth…he became caught up in the ‘enlightened’ teachings of Rousseau and the like that began his spiral downward.Could you imagine what the world would be like today if Marx had became a minister instead of an ‘enlightened’ athiest?
Many years ago, James Woods was shooting a scene for a movie that went straight to video. The scene that he was shooting was filmed in and municipal city hall building near where I worked at the time. So I walked over and eavesdropped on Mr. Woods between takes. He was telling someone about what a moron Spike Lee is and how Mr. Lee engaged in the same prejudices that Lee always accuses other of. Mr. Woods did not pull any punches in his description of Lee. I have liked Mr. Woods ever since that date.
I believe what you’re referring to is herd mentality. Free thinkers tend toward independent thought.
Cite your source, please.
LGM,,, has as much proof of his statements as he does as about his claim of daily bombings of abortion mills. He has no joy in his life and is satisfied to full fill his life here on earth and then going into an empty eternity. Folks like him merely support that we are in the last days.
On November 20th, 2008 at 5:33 pm, lgm said:
You know, that could be a very racially dangerous and bigoted concept if some embittered yet charismatic failure, say a house painter, for example, were to get into his twisted head the idea of building a political movement around this idea.
Oh that’s right, some Austrian guy already tried it in Germany back in the late thirties!
Any guesses on how that turned out?
I was really exicted when I read about this movie a few days ago. Then I found out there is no release scheduled in the Chicago area. I guess I’m also one of those waiting for the DVD.
What LGM is NOT saying, is that so-called artistic people in Hollyweird say they are liberal so they can keep working. If they admit they have conservative principles, they can’t get an audition, much less a job. So, Save the stupid rhetoric, LGM–you’re blowing smoke.
Thank you Ironman for your great post! Thanks, Simon 86, for standing up for vets! And, thanks , DBNKinKY for your analogy. The libs have been comparing Bush to Hitler for years, but they really meant they were talking about LGM.
Darn! lgm seems to have signed off before posting a link.
Another reason many performers are liberal is because in order to be a really great artist (actor, singer, musician) you deal primarily with emotions. You have to “live in the moment” as that character, feel the emotions that inspire you to convey the story, music, etc. The performers we love to watch, who are extremely talented, can do that well. It isn’t easy to do, but that’s why we like their work. They can commit on that level and be convincing. That said, you have to step back from that line and go back to reality. In my experience, too many actors, performers, etc. do not separate themselves well and don’t come back to reality as easily. They think too much about every single emotion they have in real life as a result and put a huge, somewhat unnatural importance on it. Makes for a distroted view of the world, in my opinion.
Now, look at what we always say about the liberal mindset- they deal with emotions, not facts. Makes more sense now in regards to artists being overwhelmingly liberal, doesn’t it? Obviously, there are many who can separate and still be terrific at their craft. But they are sadly outnumbered, because it is too easy to be lazy about channeling emotions in the proper context.
This is all just my opinion as an artist who is good at what she does, and is conservative to boot
Put up or shut up. Given that I am a “scientifically trained” person and have been working with hundreds likewise “trained” over the last 30 years I’m sure both you and your “survey” are full of crap. People who require logic and facts to do their jobs don’t tend to be leftists. That is exactly why artists of all stripes tend to be leftists and exactly why engineers and non-social scientists tend not to be leftists.
As Darth Vader said to Luke Skywalker: “You know it’s true.”
But you also can check here:
This survey was a few years ago. Bush has driven these numbers much farther in the liberal direction since then.