Hollywoke Heroes and Movies We’ll Never See

A movie critic X friend of mine, Movie Mad Motto, regularly cites the films he’s watched or is about to watch. What I like about his posts is that though Rob is much younger than me, he appreciates old films and astutely disparages most new ones. Case in point, amid all the intra-Industry manufactured fervor for the recent box-office bomb Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Rob pegged it for the feminist fantasy claptrap it was.

Conversely, he compiled a list of the ‎100 Best Westerns Of All Time that includes such lesser known gems as The Violent Men with Glenn Ford and 70s anti-Western Lawman starring Burt Lancaster. Rob’s level of next generational insight suggests not all young people have been brainwashed by woke media culture. And that cinema may not be a totally lost art, despite the best efforts and ignorance of Hollywood to bury it.

For instance, last week Rob posited that homosexual representation on screen far outweighs the actual gay population. “Being gay will never be mainstream,” he tweeted. In the usual display of leftist obliviousness, instead of addressing his point, they attacked him for homophobia with homophobic slurs. “You say that while looking like you drink cum hourly,” responded one of many idiots.

So, Rob had to waste time clarifying the obvious. “Gay people make up 10% of the population. My point was that as much as gay relationships and themes are presented as much more common in entertainment and art it’ll never be relevant to most people. This should be obvious, but this is also Twitter.”

Last weekend, Rob posted he’d just watched Billy Wilder’s sublime Witness for the Prosecution (1957), based on a short story turned play by Agatha Christie. The picture is so clever that revealing the surprise ending would be a spoiler even today, unlike famous modern finale twists like in The Sixth Sense and The Usual Suspects. In my reply to Rob, I suggested several other reasons for the film’s superiority over almost all current fare.

“They don’t make movies like Prosecution anymore about clever, likable, positive, ethical people,” I wrote. “Sadly, even British justice has become weaponized.” See my August article here on new socialist, er, Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Metropolitan Police Commissioner sheepdog Mark Rowley threatening to jail UK citizens for regime-disapproved online political speech, like criticizing mass migration. (READ MORE from Lou Aguilar: Reagan Made Me a Conservative)

Witness for the Prosecution depicts a much more majestic legal system, represented by a moral hero worthy of the land that created jurisprudence via the Magna Carta. “No free man may suffer punishment without the lawful judgment of his peers,” decreed the revolutionary document more than 800 years ago (1215). It’s a lesson not only tyrannical British leaders have forgotten, but their American counterparts as well, now waging endless lawfare on their chief electoral opponent and probable next President of the United States.

But my other point is just as salient regarding the hero of Witness for the Prosecution, barrister Sir Wilfrid Robarts, a noble legal crusader delightfully portrayed by Charles Laughton. Sir Wilfrid reacts with righteous outrage at a perversion of justice in the story. He would doubtless condemn his profession’s contemporary mutation into a political guillotine. That he’s also a heterosexual (Laughton’s real-life sexual proclivity notwithstanding) aristocratic white man in a colonialist nation makes him an unlikely subject for a Hollywoke remake.

To the list of unlikely Hollywoke heroes, I must add the protagonist of my new political detective thriller The Washington Trail — private eye Mark Slade. This hit me during a fun interview I did with the Daily Wire. Editor Joel Kneedler asked me what should have been a dream question for an author, “If (and when) The Washington Trail gets turned into a movie, which actor do you see playing Slade?” I soon realized I could only indirectly answer him, due to the sad state of modern screen casting.

“My trouble is that Slade and Cork are young men (32), and I haven’t seen a recent movie featuring a virile, commanding young white male lead in a decade,” I said. “Most current actors are minority acolytes to the ubiquitous and ridiculous girl boss protagonist. But if there’s a young Sean Connery out there, then I’d love to hear him say, ‘My name is Slade — Mark Slade.’”

A Hero Made for the Movies

In fact it took an independent producer to make a good, positive movie about one of the greatest men of the 20th Century, Reagan. And if Hollywoke had a clue instead of a self-destructive leftwing agenda, they’d make a movie or TV series based on one of the greatest heroes of the 21st Century, Elon Musk. But there’s only one drawback. They hate his guts for letting those outside their elitist liberal bubble have their say.

Here’s my pitch to a sharp producer for the series, Rocket Man: “In the vein of Arthur Hailey. A multi-billionaire engineer who revolutionized the electric vehicle industry buys a social media platform to save free speech from tyrannical censorship and must repel domestic and international lawfare while building rockets to take men to Mars.”(READ MORE: Election 2024: Real Men vs. Feminist Women and ‘Men’)

Episode One (pilot). When DEI incompetence junks a NASA corporate contractee’s spacecraft leaving two astronauts stranded on a space station, the liberal Administration has no choice but to seek help from their number one civilian target, Nathan Burke, even as he joins their challenger’s campaign against them.

Rocket Man would be a monster hit, along with The Washington Trail, but not in Hollywoke.

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Praise for Lou Aguilar’s The Washington Trail: “If ever a city needed a couple of tough guys to bust some kneecaps, it’s Washington D.C. Go get ’em, Slade and Cork.”

— Andrew Klavan, author of the Cameron Winter mysteries, including the brand new A Woman Underground

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