Let's Break Some Taboos, Hollywood!

So Hollywood is getting braver, according to actor George Clooney. He means, one assumes, that Hollywood is becoming more comfortable making movies that mesh with Hollywood’s political left-liberalism. That’s why Hollywood finds it so meaningful, according to Mark Goldblatt to make movies about

two gay cowboys as star-crossed lovers, a gay writer as a soulful artist, a transsexual as a responsible parent, a Palestinian suicide bomber as a thoughtful, conscience-driven activist, greedy oil company executives as, well, greedy oil company executives, and Senator Joe McCarthy as (gasp) a threat to American civil liberties.

All very noble, and all very courageous, that. Making movies that your peers will applause even as red-state America wrinkles its nose.

But Goldblatt has a suggestion for Hollywood. How about a sequel to the Che Guevara Motorcycle Diaries with the noble Che ordering executions in Cuba?
Or try this:

Ambush at Gush Katif: This film would dramatize the 2004 roadside attack in Gaza on a car driven by Israeli social worker and expectant mother Tali Hatuel.

And then there is this, “based on a true story,” as they say:

The Uneasy Rest of Jesse Dirkhising: A graphic horror film, along the lines of Silence of the Lambs and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, it would tell the story of the last hours of young Jesse’s life — a life that ended in September 1999 when he was abducted by two gay men, Joshua Brown, 22, and David Don Carpenter, 38, who drugged the 13-year-old, bound him with duct tape and gagged him with his own underwear, sodomized him with foreign objects, and repeatedly raped him.

Then they took a rest to eat a sandwich and Jess died of suffocation.

You gotta say, movies like that would really create a sensation, wouldn’t they? Because they would break societal taboos, liberal societal taboos.

And liberal taboos are the strongest taboos in America.