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To: LindyBill who wrote (78573)	10/18/2004 8:20:38 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793841

That paragraph was a diplomatic attempt to get Hollywood liberals to listen to him. Are you suggesting that he really didn't mean it? That it was a lie? If he did mean it, then it cuts both ways. If he didn't mean it, well... "Rockford arrives in a small town run by a corrupt sheriff and an evil businessman." I would have liked the article to describe some movie plots that he thinks should be done. The problem with focusing movies on good, small-town, Christian conservatives is that there's no drama. Few people are going to go see a movie about a nuclear family where Susie does the dishes and Johnny mows the lawn without backtalk and they grow up to be a nice mommy and a nice Walmart manager, respectively. I suppose we could have a plot where they get taken hostage by some vicious atheistic criminals from the big city, but then how much difference would there be between that script and one written for vicious atheistic criminals taking hostage an atheistic metropolitan Democratic family? This argument is the same one we had about that global warming movie. Stories need plots. If there were no corrupt sheriff and no evil businessman, what would our hero/anti-hero, Rockford, do? I guess there's the evil minister or the evil housewife. Whoops, no, those are out. How about the evil park ranger or the evil newspaperman or the evil teacher? You can only do those once or twice each because they don't provide enough plot variety. Then you have to go back to businessmen. (The sheriff has to be either evil or stupid in all PI shows because the show wouldn't last an hour if the sheriff got on board and helped Rockford in the first act.) BTW, I've noticed that more of the cops and lawyers on TV show signs of religiosity than they used to. Perhaps the message is getting through. But there's only so much you can do with that and still have the edgy plots that produce ratings. And there are some shows on TV that are rural in setting and follow the Father Knows Best pattern where junior starts hanging with druggies or a "fast" girl but by the end of the show sees the error of his ways.