By Jason Apuzzo. Obama adulation in Hollywood has apparently not yet waned completely. Some are still apparently holding out hope … trying to resuscitate the dream, as its embers fade in the cold wind of Obama’s own narcissism. Note above-left the new Dreamworks Shepard Fairey-inspired poster for Megamind, with the villain depicted as an opponent of Obama-style hopefulness.
Perhaps more depressingly, since such partisan nonsense is to be expected from Dreamworks, is Tron’s Olivia Wilde (above-right) in a new Shepard Fairey-inspired ad for the ACLU. Is this the kind of activism we can expect from Ms. Wilde when Tron debuts in December, with what may be some subtle political messaging already embedded in that film?
I think it’s the smugness of these posters that bothers me most, their basic triteness, beside the fact that they feel like they’re about two years behind the times. Who is actually persuaded by this nonsense anymore – other than the young, poorly educated and easily impressionable … oh, right, that’s quite a lot of people these days. [Sigh.]
Posted on September 15th, 2010 at 10:36am.
The ACLU is a terrorist organization. No different than Hamas and Al-Qaeda. They all three seek the destruction of America.
I don’t support the ACLU, but I don’t remember any ACLU mass-murder sprees (no, support for abortion doesn’t count. And just for the record, I’m generally anti-abortion). So no, they aren’t just like Hamas and Al-Qaeda, and you trivialise the evil of those organizations by saying that they are.
Au contraire jic and let me quote Uncle Joe Stalin
America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.
and apologies to you because the ACLU is worse
I’ve never really liked her on “House,” and now there is one more reason for me not to like her. The ACLU is a complete fraud, and always has been.
I haven’t watched that show, so I wouldn’t know … but it’s bumming me out, re: Tron. I find this kind of thing quite distracting when I’m otherwise trying to lose myself in a film.
Personally, I think the poster has simply become a part of pop culture and, as such, is ripe for parody, regardless of the politics involved (if any). Just my opinion. 🙂
I thought In the Loop (a darkly hilarious British political satire) did a good job with this: http://www.impawards.com/2009/in_the_loop_ver4.html
You need to cut Dreamworks some slack. Their animation brand tends to cater to the left. They didn’t cast Brad Pitt, Will Ferrell and Tina Fey in Megamind because they’re looking to sell tickets to any stinking conservatives, so a faux Obama poster is just about dead on for the audience they’re trying to reach.
So basically they’re catering to, say, the children of West LA left-wing movie executives. An odd niche to fill, really.