Being that it was a Hollywood movie about Hollywood, I was very pleasantly surprised to see how the communists were depicted in the Coen brothers’ movie, Hail Caeser. And George Clooney’s character, a movie star who bought into the communist propaganda, was portrayed as an idiot. Good fun.
Amen to that - I don’t know if anyone other than the Coens could get away of making fun of the ‘Hollywood Ten’ and jerk weeds like Herbert Marcuse. And I also liked the fact that they painted characters like Eddie Mannix and Hobie Doyle in a favorable light, as (pretty much) just genuine dudes, trying to do their job as best they could. Not the most profound Coen brothers cinematic effort, but it left me with a warm feeling of satisfaction.