“Secretariat”, Leni Riefenstahl, and the "Master Race"

That Hollywood is Leftist and Decadent is not in doubt. Even though for years family movies, PG13, PG, and G have outsold by large margins R rated films, they have continuously produced films that carry visuals, messages and ideology that most of the viewing public don’t want. Sales have been down or flat for years, and spike when lesser violent, sexual, anti-American value movies are produced.

We can look at the success of “Blind Side”, “The Book of Eli” and the “Toy Story” franchise. Even Christian themed movies like “Rust”,  “Letters to God” and “Fireproof” are getting more notice and sales. Hollywood Leftists continue to use their art to propagate their cultural and political ideology even at the cost of diminished revenue.  

Then there are the critics and movie reviewers that are part of that arts subculture that have a visceral hatred of anything conservative, Christian and traditional. I haven’t seen it yet, but “Secretariat” has revealed the truth of this hatred. “Secretariat” is all about traditional values, merit, and success through striving. This pretty much incensed movie reviewer Andrew O’Hehir of  Leftist “Salon” online magazine.

Remember, this is just a story about a horse. O’Hehir writes:

“I enjoyed it immensely, flat-footed dialogue and implausible situations and all. Which doesn't stop me from believing that in its totality "Secretariat" is a work of creepy, half-hilarious master-race propaganda almost worthy of Leni Riefenstahl, and all the more effective because it presents as a family-friendly yarn about a nice lady and her horse."

Truly? “Master-race propaganda”, Leni Riefenstahl?

“… it uses a "true story" as the foundation for a pop-historical reverie that seems to reference enduring American virtues -- self-reliance, stick-to-it-iveness, etc. -- without encouraging you to think too much about their meaning or context.”

What’s the meaning or context?

“…presenting a honey-dipped fantasy vision of the American past as the Tea Party would like to imagine it, loaded with uplift and glory and scrubbed clean of multiculturalism and social discord. In the world of this movie, strong-willed and independent-minded women like Chenery are ladies first (she's like a classed-up version of Sarah Palin feminism), left-wing activism is an endearing cute phase your kids go through (until they learn the hard truth about inheritance taxes), and all right-thinking Americans are united in their adoration of a Nietzschean Überhorse, a hero so superhuman he isn't human at all.”

Truly? Nietzschean Uberhorsse? Of course what’s a Leftist article without bashing Sarah Palin? Speaking of multiculturalism, check out pics of the Emmys or Academy Awards. All white faces. Using the Leftist’s measuring stick, these awards shows must be racist.  

More from the Nietzschean Uburleftest:

“…it’s legitimate to wonder exactly what Christian-friendly and "middle-American" inspirational values are being conveyed here, or whether they're just providing cover for some fairly ordinary right-wing ideology and xenophobia. This long-suffering female Job overcomes such tremendous obstacles as having been born white and Southern and possessed of impressive wealth and property, and who then lucks into owning a genetic freak who turned out to be faster and stronger than any racehorse ever foaled. And guess what? She triumphs anyway!”

Truly? Right wing ideology and xenophobia? From a bio-pic about a horse?  The horse itself is “symbolic window dressing for a quasi-inspirational fantasia of American whiteness and power”.

This is how Hollywood, and most movie reviewers think.

Full article by Andrew O’Hehir here. Oh, and the title? "’Secretariat": A gorgeous, creepy American myth”. “Diane Lane shines in a Tea Party-flavored, Christian-friendly yarn about one big horse and our nation's past.” Yeah, those creepy rubes in flyover country that believes in and live by traditional American values.

Since writing this I've seen "Secretariat". My thoughts here.