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There's a very few I clamp on a blanket boycott for (Michael Moore being at the top of that list), because so often, things are just complicated or unknown as with the two subject films here. And I think there are more actual conservatives/libertarians underground in Hollywood than we realize, since they keep up a lib front. Yeah, it's easy to call 'em cowardly hypocrites, but if they manage to get the Truth out sometimes, I just sit and watch. The best example I can think of is a songwriter, but Don Henley, who lib rep and all, puts out some killer conservative songs. And some are going to laugh at this, but I just can't believe that Jodie Foster was as dumb as she tried to make us believe after making The Brave One. Her lib friends weren't fooled either, making her do penance by making movies like Elysium, and having her come out of the closet, whether she's a lesbian or not.

And another aspect of this was made clear to me by one of the more famous lapsed liberals, David Mamet. As he says in his book, The Secret Knowledge, unlike actors, directors tend to be more conservative, primarily because they're forced to deal with the fiscal and rational realities of making movies. I think directors are the more common examples of underground conservatives than actors, most of whom have never had to actually sit down and think rather than emote. And when I say conservative, I mean politically and economically conservative, while being spiritually agnostic--among whose numbers I count myself, albeit in even more rarefied numbers out here in flyover country.