Michael Cieply: Searching For The Jewish Soul In The Academy’s ‘Hollywoodland’
deadline.comPondering Will Smith’s recent triumph at a local Cinemark and Donald Trump’s post-conviction surge, I got to thinking about “movie-think.” You know, the way we’ve become accustomed, after watching hundreds and hundreds of mainstream films, to thinking the way the movies do.
The real villain is someone in power. Anyone too pretty, male or female, is suspect. Things will get worse, much worse, before they get better.
Our hero is almost always an outsider — someone who is knocked off a pedestal, beaten down, and kicked around, all the way to the bottom of the second act, before rising in triumph (e.g., Rocky) or existential martyrdom (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) to win our hearts and minds forever.
From our heroes, real or cinematic, we forgive and even expect transgression — a misbegotten slap, a tawdry liaison and all that comes with it.
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