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Why Is Sen. Ron Johnson So Afraid of the The Lego Movie?
It isn’t the anti-corporate propaganda he thinks it is.
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What do you call a $60 million film from a multibillion dollar multimedia company that grossed almost half a billion dollars?
If you’re most moviegoers, you call it The Lego Movie, one of the surprise hits of last year. But if you’re Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, you call it anti-business propaganda.
Speaking to members of the Milwaukee Metropolitan Chamber of Congress on Wednesday, Johnson lamented a “cultural attitude” that “government is good and business is bad,” singling out The Lego Movie for its villain, the tyrannical Lord Business, who rules the world and enforces total, regimented conformity through his all-powerful company, the Octan Corporation.
To Johnson, a millionaire who made his fortune in corporate boardrooms, this is evidence of Hollywood and the entertainment industry’s anti-business climate. And in a short post on his Senate website—responding to a story from the Huffington Post on his comments—he defended his take as a “pretty good point,” repeating a portion of his remarks to the Milwaukee crowd. “I actually called a gentleman, it was probably a couple months ago, that was so upset when he took his children to an animated movie, 6- and 7-year-old children, to an animated movie—and guess who the villain was. Evil Mr. Businessperson, OK? So it’s insidious it’s that propaganda starts very early.” He concludes, calling The Lego Movie an “especially egregious slam on business.”
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What do you call a $60 million film from a multibillion dollar multimedia company that grossed almost half a billion dollars?
If you’re most moviegoers, you call it The Lego Movie, one of the surprise hits of last year. But if you’re Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, you call it anti-business propaganda.
Speaking to members of the Milwaukee Metropolitan Chamber of Congress on Wednesday, Johnson lamented a “cultural attitude” that “government is good and business is bad,” singling out The Lego Movie for its villain, the tyrannical Lord Business, who rules the world and enforces total, regimented conformity through his all-powerful company, the Octan Corporation.
To Johnson, a millionaire who made his fortune in corporate boardrooms, this is evidence of Hollywood and the entertainment industry’s anti-business climate. And in a short post on his Senate website—responding to a story from the Huffington Post on his comments—he defended his take as a “pretty good point,” repeating a portion of his remarks to the Milwaukee crowd. “I actually called a gentleman, it was probably a couple months ago, that was so upset when he took his children to an animated movie, 6- and 7-year-old children, to an animated movie—and guess who the villain was. Evil Mr. Businessperson, OK? So it’s insidious it’s that propaganda starts very early.” He concludes, calling The Lego Movie an “especially egregious slam on business.”
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I don't know anything about it, and I don't need to in order to assume that it isn't really anti-corporate regardless of some likely superficial plot point. The name is The LEGO Movie...
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