Taking questions about his upcoming Showtime series, “The Secret History of the United States” (aka “One more attempt to propagandize US and world history in order to further a leftist agenda”), Oliver Stone dropped this little bombshell : He wants to portray Hitler and Stalin (yeah, THAT Hitler and Stalin) “in context.” Coincidentally, historians have been trying to do just that for the last half-century. But more particularly, Mr. Stone criticizes “the Jewish domination of the media” for preventing such a fair portrayal.
*Aims-gun-at-foot-and-pulls-trigger* BANG!!
Essentially immortalized- at least among male college students- after writing the screenplay for Brian de Palma’s ‘Scarface’ in 1983, William Oliver Stone went on to direct the left-leaning war film, ‘Platoon’, in 1986, among many other allegedly “classic” movies, proving himself to be a versatile filmmaker by tackling numerous genres. Personally, I liked his politically-neutral screenplay for 1982’s ‘Conan The Barbarian’ *wink*. Since then, liberal cinema has been his life’s greatest commitment, though he did pause briefly to direct 2006’s ‘World Trade Center.’ Considering these and the rest of the twenty-three films he’s directed since entering the scene in the early 1970s, one might anticipate that his relationship with liberal Hollywood should thrive for as long as he’s willing to direct, right? Well, maybe not.
As Michael Moriarty points out in his excellent blog on Big Hollywood, if there’s one historical group that Hollywood absolutely will not tolerate, it’s Hitler and the Nazis, and on this most of America agrees with Hollywood, since it IS pretty difficult to belittle the extermination of 6 million innocent people. Of course, Stone did just that, arguing: "Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people, 25 or 30 [million killed]."
*Reloads-gun-aims-at-other-foot-pulls-trigger* BANG!! BANG!!
So why hasn’t Stone received the kind of criticism from the mainstream media that was directed almost immediately towards Mel Gibson after his drunken anti-Semitic rant? Well, there are at least three reasons, the first being that Mel Gibson directed ‘The Passion of the Christ’. ‘Nuff said.
Secondly, Oliver Stone is not a Republican. Hurling the word “Nazi” at Republicans is a favorite pastime for the average progressive, and had a well-known conservative filmmaker made a similar statement, he’d be on the first flight out of California. Of course, being that there AREN’T any well-known conservative filmmakers in Hollywood, such an event is unlikely to transpire.
But the third reason is that, in reality, not a lot of people really care what Oliver Stone has to say about… well, anything, anymore. His earlier films were clearly propaganda, but what WELL-DIRECTED propaganda! Even the most hard-core conservative has to admit to the artful directing of ‘Platoon’ and ‘JFK.’ But thanks to poor productions like 2008’s ‘W.’ and the recently-released ‘South of the Border’(a gushing love-fest for Venezuela’s communist dictator, Hugo Chavez), Mr. Stone has been accelerating rather rapidly towards a very Michael Moore-ish state of irrelevancy.
When and if the media chooses to challenge Mr. Stone’s borderline anti-Semitic statements, he’ll likely answer that he’s just trying to see both sides of the story.
But as a man once said, the middle of a two-way street can be a dangerous place to drive.
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