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In the 60s, the New Left was a minority, but they understood that influencing the culture was key (to) becoming a majority.
Like the movies? Tired of crooks being portrayed as heroes and plots that are nothing more than diary entries made by your average neighborhood sleezebag? Love the legacy of the American cowboy as portrayed by big actors like John Wayne? Youll also love this article by Russ Dvonch at the popular blog Big Hollywood:
Heroic Hollywood: American Exceptionalism and the Hollywood Hero
** The first time I started thinking about films as something more than Saturday afternoons amusement was in 1968 with the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey. I was a Midwestern boy in the 8th grade at the time, and it was the first film I kept thinking about after I left the theater: Who made it? How was it done? What does it mean? *** 2001 was unconventional, modern filmmaking and I was fascinated by it, discussing it endlessly with friends and family. Yet, as much as I admired and was intrigued by what Kubrick had done, the film held no personal message for me. *** The following year, however, I saw a very different type of movie that did have a messagean inspiring call to action that changed my life. *** Unlike 2001, this movie was conventional even retrograde Hollywood moviemaking and I was ashamed to let anyone know I was going to see it. As I stood in line at the box-office near my high school, I furtively scanned the crowd, hoping none of my classmates would see me. My social crime? I was about to buy a ticket for a John Wayne movie. **