Aug. 21, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| Hollywood has probably spent the last 15 or 20 years basically telling half of its audience that they don't want them to watch, that they hate them, that they're deplorable. | |
| If you don't support Obama, if you're not for these rights, transgender rights, these different rights groups, if you're not a part of that, then we're going to demonize you and we're going to make programming that makes fun of you, that ridicules you. | |
| And so when you have a film that appeals to that audience, people turn out. | |
| People go to the theater. | |
| Or when you have a film that just doesn't attack that audience, like Top Gun Maverick, you know, something like that, they turn out. | |
| It's interesting just that you mentioned that film because I was very stark. | |
| When I watched that film, I thought to myself, hmm, I think that film would work for just about everyone. | |
| That's unusual. | |
| And I think that Tom Cruise is smart in that way. | |
| And, you know, people have been calling him the the last great movie star. | |
| I think that's why. | |
| He stays away from politics, although he's not afraid to make a movie that's blatantly patriotic. | |
| He's just not going to say that. | |
| He's just going to show it to you. | |
| Or a movie that's just based on action, like his Mission Impossible movies. | |
| As long as you keep that stuff out of it, either way, people just go to the movies to be entertained. | |
| They don't go to be lectured about how terrible they are because of who they support politically. | |
| And so that's what Hollywood has been doing for 25, 30 years, and people are sick of it, and half the country's just turned them off. | |
| And so that's what I mean by there's an opportunity there. |
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