La otra excepción cultural.

Holywood también tiene su propia excepción cultural. Descartan por principio aquellas películas que puedan resultar positivas con la familia, los valores humanos o el sentido trascendente de la vida. ¡Aunque sean tremendamente rentables!

Sobre eso habla un artículo del TorontoSun

«Which brings me to The Passion of the Christ and its predictable but shameful lack of any major nominations at the Oscars. All thinking people know why this happened. Simply, Hollywood is dominated by an anti-religious and left wing agenda.

With DVD and foreign sales The Passion made more than a billion dollars, and cost less than $50 million to make. An almost unprecedented financial success. You would think an entertainment culture obsessed with sequels and spin-offs has to be working on movies based on, say, any of the four Gospels, one of numerous Biblical stories or a biopic of a saint or religious leader. Instant stories, guaranteed to make money.

But no. In fact, no major studio in North America has a religion movie in production. Such is Hollywood's hatred for orthodoxy, religion and family values that producers would rather go out of business than cater to genuine public opinion and admit that perhaps they were wrong.

The issue goes beyond religion to basic family values. Of the ten most successful movies of 2004 only one of them had an "R" rating. And that was, yes, The Passion. So the 10 movies that made the vast bulk of Hollywood's profits last years were family films, entertaining cartoons and a depiction of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Which should tell us something about what North Americans want to see at the cinema. When asked, members of the public repeatedly explain that they want less offensive language, less gratuitous violence and sexuality, less perversion and more reflection of reality and stability.

Reality and stability, however, do not win Oscars and do not stimulate invitations to fashionable parties.

There are ways to fight back, as The Passion demonstrated. Another such movie is Therese, currently playing in selected theatres throughout Canada. In the United States this gentle and sensitive life of a nineteenth-century French saint did extremely well through word-of-mouth and an e-mail campaign among supporters. The mainstream media, of course, refused to recognize it.

Fight back. You, your family and the culture deserve it.»

Esto es un extracto. El artículo completo en el TorontoSun

Sobre esta visión parcial de la realidad que no ofrece la cartelera, también está muy bien el artículo de Juan Orellana en Libertaddigital.