Hollywood's Bottom Drops Out With the Promotion & Release of "Blackhat"

The devil knows whomever was the propaganda minister of Adolf Hitler, but I could tell you that he or she would be quite proud of Hollywood’s latest disaster of interconnected criminal activity titled “Blackhat”. Credited to writer & director Michael Mann (Heat, The Insider) and Thomas Tull’s Legendary Pictures under the Universal banner, this underhanded and overglossed weak expression of “self-censorship” that Hollywood ever too often claims in righteous waxing is the interconnected crime itself, which quite remarkably fans out to several other TV and movie projects in the cauldron that eclipses the industry’s true value.

Insanity is making the same mistake over and over again, I heard. Sadly, Hollywood has fallen victim to this before: when the Holocaust was ocurring during WWII, many pro-Hitler Hollywoodites blanched over the atrocities whilst feeding audiences less-than-sound intelligence, unaware of the rampant criminal activity overseas.

Why have they not learned again? Why a repeater of perhaps the worst humanity has brought forth in all of recorded time and space?

It’s not just selfless scorn that I offer to this affair: this is what a neighborhood councilmember in the San Fernando valley refers to as a “rip-o-matic”, when other people’s works are--and this next word is cliche personally but I’ll use it anyhow--pirated and profited at not only the expense of the legitimate author but the shared audiences’. The creators of “Blackhat” willfully (and maliciously) takes from my pages an association of cyber with an index to a nuclear meltdown.

This month (January 2015) marks the 2-year anniversary of a personal feat for me, when I finished the third screenplay of a trilogy whose blueprint for motion pictures is to take audiences from real-life historical events on a deep space journey to the edge of science fiction, and back home again by end credits with enough truth to provide adults with as much novelty as the movies surmise to offer children--and its widely adult super-demographic, 17-34 year olds. It took a span of 4 years, 3 screenplays, and an entire manuscript midway to complete the trilogy on paper & e-paper. While the big screen cinema is the endgoal for such work, “Blackhat” among a few others is the rip-o-matic of such and defamatory, degrading antithesis, its biggest sin (myself aside) losing most of the truth in the original work.

I don’t have much more to say about this other than: don’t see it. Ban it. Take “Blackhat” out. We needn’t celebrate its main character as an M.I.T. graduate & prisoner-turned-hero, or whatever course, because the truths which this contraband aims to project are so far off and without any respect or integrity to the business of both movies and its subject matter. What the guys and dolls need is that with an original story.

That writ, happy New Year! I’m changing fields and heading into science!