Businesspeople are the New Nazis? A Brief Inventory of Recent Hollywood Villains - The Moviefone Blo
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"It is not surprising that pop-culture protesters are now intent on occupying Wall Street," writes Edward Jay Epstein in his recently released book 'The Money Demons' (excerpted by the Wall Street Journal). "For the past decade, Hollywood has been casting financiers as the demonic villains of society.
For George Orwell and other analysts of his time, it was the middle managers in government that were the villains, the ones behind every evil committed by those governments. Of course, he died decades before the Internet was even a gleam in anyone's eye, let alone accessible to the whole world and even the poorest of the poor. He never lived to see the evolution of the film industry and its products into what would have been unimaginable in his time. And for him, the news was just that: the news, rather than an informational confection served up by manipulative media planners to a passive, consumeristic public. Otherwise, he just might have made the villains of his latter-day novels the executives and board members of today's media, slyly planning out what the public is to think, to believe, to hope, to dread from each day to the next -- and how they are to act in order to further the media's own agendas, without ever realizing it.
"It is not surprising that pop-culture protesters are now intent on occupying Wall Street," writes Edward Jay Epstein in his recently released book 'The Money Demons' (excerpted by the Wall Street Journal). "For the past decade, Hollywood has been casting financiers as the demonic villains of society.
For George Orwell and other analysts of his time, it was the middle managers in government that were the villains, the ones behind every evil committed by those governments. Of course, he died decades before the Internet was even a gleam in anyone's eye, let alone accessible to the whole world and even the poorest of the poor. He never lived to see the evolution of the film industry and its products into what would have been unimaginable in his time. And for him, the news was just that: the news, rather than an informational confection served up by manipulative media planners to a passive, consumeristic public. Otherwise, he just might have made the villains of his latter-day novels the executives and board members of today's media, slyly planning out what the public is to think, to believe, to hope, to dread from each day to the next -- and how they are to act in order to further the media's own agendas, without ever realizing it.