Posted on 12/11/2010 10:24:15 PM PST by This Just In
Announcing: Big Hollywood’s Countdown of the Top 25 Greatest Left-Wing Films
Posted By John Nolte On December 7, 2010
***ADDED: There are already some great suggestions in the comments, but let me add one more qualifier. “The American President” is a great choice, Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in America” or “The Godfather” not so much, at least for what we’re trying to do here. The film’s leftist politics should not be obvious, spoken even, not hidden in the subtext. We’re looking for blatantly political films.
Though it’s not completely my fault, even I get tired of all my negativity on this site. Again, it’s not completely my fault (damn you, Liam Neeson). After all, Hollywood hasn’t done anything right since handing the Superman franchise over to Zack Snyder. But that doesn’t mean I can’t still aspire to something better, can’t try to rise above my ongoing frustration with a medium I’m in love with but that can’t stop breaking my devoted heart. Yes, I’m Frank to Hollywood’s Ava. So in order to lighten things up some, here we go with a Christmas holiday gift to our Hollywood friends on the left: an utterly sincere list of what they’ve done right.
No tongue-in-cheek, no sarcasm, no irony; we will present 25 bona fide left-wing films so well crafted, acted, written, and directed that they rise above their obnoxious politics and still manage to entertain, provoke, and enlighten – and by enlighten I’m not referencing their individual agendas, but rather enlighten about but about something bigger than message: the human condition, our place in the world, what it means to be who we are. Or maybe the story is just too much fun, too entertaining, and too cinematically awesome to be brought down by all the speechifying and stupidity.
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G films make more because adults bring their children instead of just going by themselves.
You called Brazil left wing propaganda. That’s nonsensical.
So all non-Christian narratives are liberal? Candide? Wuthering Heights? Lolita?
It was my belief that RKO started the adaptation in 1939. Wikipedia says 1944. Wouldn't matter, it still has a pro-New Dealer Democrats (which obviously Truman was one, he ran on a national health care platform in '48) undertone to it with a clear anti-profit motive moralization. I mean has Hollywood to this day made a movie with a negative view towards the New Dealers' policies? I would be glad to know of one.
Check out this early New Deal propaganda piece from Hollywood in 1933 (not quite as sophisticated):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2zBU5XnEzs
I wear the label with pride. Who wouldn't react vociferously to leftism?
It was actually based on a greeting card(!) that got sent around the film community. You have to remember that it was also a time when there was massive cooperation between Hollywood and Washington - moreso then there ever would be again for either party.
That all may be true, but it's a non-sequitur as to whether the movie is leftist or not.
Dickens criticizes bureaucracy != Dickens was not a Pre-Marxian leftist. Jonathan Bentham was also a huge criticizer of bureaucracy. Are you putting Bentham on the right?
I did? Where?
Post 26.
Dickens did not advocate goverment programs to fix everything. He advocated hard work and personal benevolence. Furthermore his art is too complex to be reduced to this or that political position.
Absolutely not. I imagine the greatest right-wing work ever written was by Diogenes (no Christian he), judging by the anectdotes. Too bad we'll never be able read it.
Candide, definitely left. Wuthering heights, no.
Lolita could go either way. I'm willing to be persuaded on it.
Candide was an influence on the American Revolution. It’s about not taking the world as it is and making the best of your situation.
Neither did Engels. You seem to have a distorted view of the history of liberal theory that's all wrapped up in some tidy, unsophisticated, libertarian view of "governmental vs non-governmental". Let's try to bring it up past the level of a National Review Online Corner blurb, shall we?
You've nailed it. Liberalism distilled; all the way back to the gnostics. Eric Voegelin had a bit to say on this.
What liberal theory in his work is at play then?
Were the Founding Fathers liberals then? Jefferson? Hamilton?
I never said anything about Brazil being "left wing propaganda". The thread is about naming Hollywood's 25 Best Left Wing Films. Some are propaganda on my list, some aren't. The word has a definitive meaning. Try not to put words in my mouth. Thanks.
What liberal theory in his work is at play then?
Oh, I get it. You think the "Enlightenment" was right wing. Ok, never mind. Carry on.
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