Why are people surprised Hollywood capitulates to fear? It's a generally risk-averse industry. That's why Fast and Furious 7 is coming out soon. The precedent

Why are people surprised Hollywood capitulates to fear? It's a generally risk-averse industry. That's why Fast and Furious 7 is coming out soon. The precedent for this was set 70 years ago when Hollywood execs decided to blacklist purported communists and fellow travelers. Several movies were never distributed because of alleged left-wing sympathies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_of_the_Earth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_of_the_Earth). As a curious side-note, North Korea's GDP is 12.4b and Sony's market cap is 22.8b.