In the
October 1984 issue of Reason, David Brudnoy wrote
that conservatives “have a grudge against Hollywood, and against
movie critics, too.” But they had failed to create a sustainable
alternative. While some movies may contain clear liberal biases,
Brudnoy noted, movies funded by conservatives didn’t do well.
1982’s Inchon, for example, was “the most phenomenal
money-loser of all time.”
What happened? Brudnoy wrote that Inchon was
“virtually impossible to sit through, embarrassing even to those
who liked its politics.” Better movies, though, didn’t necessarily
do bigger business; Brudnoy cites 1983’s The Final
Option, which “stood forthrightly against the left and for the
established verities” but bombed in the box office. Brudnoy
suggested “the right wing doesn’t attend the cinema,” and that is
part of why conservatism didn’t have influence in Hollywood.
Thirty years later, writes Ed Krayewski, it’s still possible to
find antipathy toward Tinseltown among the religious right.
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