Is This Something?

Almost 20 years ago, an animated video was released telling the world the real story of George Washington, who saved the children (but not the British children).

Angel Studios optioned that video and made a live-action movie about it.*

* Not really. It's just a movie about young George Washington being a bad ass.

That'll be released just in time for America's 250th anniversary, July 3, 2026.

A Hollywood movie actually attempts to grapple with the excesses and lunacies of the #MeToo witch-hunts.

Mark Judge, journalist and high school friend of Bret Kavanaugh, knows something about the power of evidence-free accusations during a witch-hunt.

After the Hunt is about how false #MeToo accusations can create a mob atmosphere and destroy lives, even driving people to suicide. It's particularly bad if the setting is academia, where hyper-sensitive prevails even as students and faculty tremor to ruin anyone who doesn't parrot leftist wokespeak.

After the Hunt stars Julia Roberts as Alma, a Yale philosophy professor who is about to get tenure. She is married to a psychotherapist, Frederik, and is close friends with Hank (Andrew Garfield). Alma's best student is Maggie (Ayo Edebiri). One night, Maggie and Hank leave a cocktail party together. The next day, Maggie tells Alma that Hank sexually assaulted her. Hank replies that Maggie fabricated the story after he confronted her about plagiarism. This conflict creates hysteria on campus, with all of the characters in danger of losing their careers and their sanity.

I know what you're thinking. A major Hollywood movie starring Julia Roberts and about #MeToo is not going to come down on the side of men, socially, when the character making the accusation is a minority and a lesbian. And yet - hang on - that's exactly what happens. Star student and protege Maggie is in fact a plagiarist. Her professors pretend to think she's brilliant because she's the daughter of big donors and, as Michelle Goldberg put it in the New York Times, "presumably, because she's Black and queer." "You are the worst kind of mediocre student," Alma tells Maggie. "With every availability to succeed but no talent or desire to do so, yet so many resources, so much of other people’s time is wasted on you." This dialogue actually made it into a Hollywood movie starring Julia Roberts.

If that's not enough, in the film's climax, Alma reveals that as a teenager she had an affair with her father's best friend. Then, in a jealous rage when he wanted to move on afterward, she falsely accused him of sexual assault. Eventually, the man commits suicide. "He was a good man, and I destroyed him with a lie," Alma tells her husband.

It's an understatement to say I was stunned by After the Hunt. My book The Devil's Triangle is about the nightmare I lived in 2018 during the Brett Kavanaugh nomination battle, when a woman named Christian Blasey Ford claimed that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in 1982 and that I was in the room when it happened. As I have written on Hot Air, the last several years of my life have often been spent debunking attempts by Hollywood and the media to create a false narrative about what happened. Hollywood has been a central part of the attempt to declare me and Kavanaugh guilty.

I personally won't watch it because 1, too little too late as usual, and no one's actually admitting any wrongdoing, are they?

And 2, Hollywood is dead to me.

And 3, F*** Julia Roberts.

Ultra-gay TV producer Ryan Murphy still thinks it's 2018, because he's produced a girlboss/vengeance on toxic men TV show.

posted by Ace at 04:20 PM

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