b hooks

First off, bell hooks is amazing.  Let me say that any scholar confident enough to say the F word in a documentary when it could have easily been replaced by a much more politically correct term, gets my vote.  It shows how passionate she is about her work.  Anyways, sorry for the tangent.  She makes some incredibly great points that I have always been curious about pertaining specifically to pop culture.  It amazes me how influential the makers of the big blockbuster movies are in determining what is right, wrong, natural and unnatural in everyday culture.  Some of these powerful people are even advocates of movements/support groups whose main mission is to fight the very scenes they film and sell in their movies!  I just don't get the disconnect, here.  Making money is a very strong motive, but at what point does morality set in?  Thus far I'd say that point doesn't ever occur and if it does, it's the reason those people aren't making big blockbusters.  However, Spike Lee is one producer/director I absolutely admire.  In both of his movies, Bamboozled (2000) and Crash (2004), Lee goes against the stereotypes by sensationalizing them.  No one can watch either of those movies and not take away his motive behind the film.  Today's media is always going to hold the incredible power and influence on culture that it does.  I just can't see the "clouds" passing anytime soon.

Tom P.