This past week, the documentary Get Back was streamed for viewing by those interested. When I first heard that there were plans to take unreleased film footage of The Beatles from the Let It Be sessions and release it as an alternate documentary to the original, I was ecstatic! I knew that all of that footage existed, and while the original documentary showed the Fab Four in a bad light, with lots of in-fighting, those in-the-know stated that the unseen footage showed them as still four lads having a good time playing songs together.
Then I heard that Peter Jackson was put in charge of gathering up the hours of footage and making it into a more truthful documentary, with the blessings of Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. While I have never seen any of this Lord of the Rings films (I am not a fan at all of those sci-fi fantasy stories), I do know that Jackson does some great directorial work. When his World War I documentary They Shall Not Grow Old came out, I went to see it at the theaters three times, each time leaving with tears of amazement. His work on that film is beyond fantastic.
So with all of that going for Get Back, I waited for months to get a chance to see it. YouTube would broadcast a few trailers, and my mouth would drool. My favorite all time rock-n-roll band coming back to the screen courtesy of one of today’s greatest directors!
Then I learned that Disney was in charge of production and marketing, and I have decided to pass on watching it, at least for the time being.
Today’s Disney is not the Disney of old. Back when Walt had Micky, Donald, and Goofy running around being the cartoon version of the Marx Brothers. Or seeing the brilliant adaptations of children’s stories such as Snow White, Cinderella, or Dumbo. And the awesomeness of Fantasia. I won’t even go into talking about his dreams turning into Disneyland.
No, Disney today is about money, no matter how it is made and who is giving it to them. The company owns so much of the entertainment business presently, and they have become political about it. They lean so far left that there is no coming back to center. They are constantly firing actors from their films for speaking more conservative views. I am totally shocked that they, as owners of Fox News, allow the network to lean a bit more right of center. Most likely only because Fox News is the most watched news network on television, leaving CNN, MSNBC, and the three commercial networks in the dust. And that means money for them!
Disney is also extremely friendly with the Communist Party of China (CCP). With that said, money spent on Mickey Mouse watches, trips to Disney World, and yes, streaming subscriptions to watch Get Back, will filter back to China so that it can build hypersonic weapons that the US has no match to compete.
China was smart. They knew where to attack the US at its most vulnerable part – entertainment. Disney, the NBA, and so many other sports and entertainment companies are in the pockets of Chinese businessmen and politicians. Basketball star Enes Kanter talks about the evils of socialism and communism, and he is reprimanded, while LeBron James is rewarded heavily for defending China and not speaking out about the human atrocities that happen there.
So I refuse to let my money go to helping China put another nail into the US morality coffin. I’m not even going to post a YouTube clip of the documentary here. As much as I will always love The Beatles and their music, I also hate socialism and communism that much more.
Chew on it and comment.
Luegra 