CBS won’t comment, but the NY Times reports that on Tuesday night’s episode of the “The Good Wife” the story revolved around an artist killed by a bomb after he drew a cartoon featuring Muhammad. It looks as though the episode used a number of camera dodges to ensure no one got a good clean look at Islam’s founder:
In a plot line on Tuesday’s episode of “The Good Wife,” the show’s law firm deals with a suit brought by the widow of a newspaper editor who was killed by a bomb after he published an editorial cartoon showing the Prophet Muhammad being searched by airport security officers. In scenes like the one above, the editorial cartoon is depicted only in small portions, obscured by shadows or pieces of paper, and never revealed in its entirety.
If you combine this with Comedy Central’s over-the-top censoring of a recent “South Park” episode, we’re really only left with two explanations, right? Either Hollywood’s had a massive change of heart and has suddenly decided to treat religion with respect or they’re terrified of becoming the next Theo Van Gogh.
Right?
We should all be rippling with anticipation over how one or both of these moral revelations will alter upcoming Tinseltown product. If The Former Religious Bigots Known As Hollywood have finally come around and changed their ways when it comes to insulting people of faith — just for starters, who will the new bad guys be on all four of those “Law & Order” series? Who will be the new whipping boys in the independent film world?
Just think of how this new era of religious tolerance will change everything; how it will force arty-types to address certain issues with a little — oh, I don’t know — creativity? The result: Better product for us, more money for Hollywood. A win-win.
All together now: Kumba-freakin’-ya.
From Tuesday’s episode of ‘The Good Wife.’
On the other hand, if what this means is that Hollywood’s finally figured out that racist, sexist, homophobic Islamic extremists are the enemy, this is also a win-win.
Naturally, we can’t expect too much from The Cowards Who Make The Movies. They’re not going to take the enemy on. After all, this isn’t your grandfather’s Hollywood where men like Jimmy Stewart and Clark Gable went to war while the rest of the industry rallied ’round protecting liberty. Hell, this isn’t even your father’s Hollywood where men like Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Frank Sinatra and Charlton Heston risked their careers and faced threats of violence marching for Civil Rights before marching for Civil Rights became très chic.
But maybe now that this current generation has figured out these fanatics do need to be defeated, our creative-types will stop losing hundreds of millions of dollars on embarrassingly bad movies churned out in the hopes of undermining America’s drive to bring about that defeat.
Or not.
Forgive my fit of optimism. It’s just too depressing to think that after all this we’ll still have to deal with a Vichy Hollywood’s hoary old anti-Christian prejudices.
Side Note: Has anyone seen the “Good Wife” episode mentioned above? If so, please don’t tell me the story ends with one of those “twists” where the real bomber is revealed to be some uber-patriotic, right-wing, Christian out to frame innocent terrorists through the act of becoming what he hates.
And if that was the case… lemme guess: he wore a lapel flag?
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