Posted on 11/06/2015 9:52:02 AM PST by EveningStar
"Dalton Trumbo was a socialist, but he loved being rich."
So says Bryan Cranston, who stars in "Trumbo," out this week, and plays the screenwriter who went to prison with the Hollywood Ten in the time of Harry Truman.
Actually, Trumbo was not a socialist. Bernie Sanders is a socialist. Trumbo was a Stalinist, a hard-core Communist when the Communist Party USA was run from Moscow by the Comintern, agents of the greatest mass murderer of the 20th century.
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Hayden later testified as a friendly witness for HUAC.
In that case Orwell was a communist too. ‘Animal Farm’ is predicated on the idea that communism can work it it’s ‘done right’.
I suggest you reread the book.
I’ve read it multiple times. It posits collectivism as a noble goal that is corrupted by its practitioners.
Remember that pigs are carnivorous animals and will eat every thing, omnivorous?
The Karl Marx figure who gives the inspiring speech at the start is shown as a noble and wise. The revolution itself is shown as smooth and right (the actual 1917 revolution and subsequent civil war was bloody and genocidal).
I don’t know what Cagney’s politics were.
Now I do remember reading the story where Humphrey Bogart, his wife, Lauren Bacall and others went to D.C. to protest the House UnAmerican Committee, not sure of that date, late 1940’s very early 1950’s.
See, he changed his mind, he liked his money better than the politics.
Reason why she became columnist she knew her career as silent movie actress as kaput
BTW you know who her son is
William Hopper aka Paul Drake from Perry Mason series
The visuals had a problem, too (omitting for the moment Trumbo's hatchet job on the person and life of Marcus Licinius Crassus).
There was a broadly-applied anachronism in the arms and equipment of the Roman soldiery, which was from the Trajanic period 175 years later.
Roman soldiers of the first century B.C. wore simple Montefortino helmets (whose Roman name was conus, so you get the idea) and chain-mail, thigh-length hauberks, not the laminated plate armor seen in the film. The shield form was also wrong, and the swords used in Caesar's and Pompey's time was not yet the straight-edged, simplified form called "Pompeiian" (one was found there).
Just gratuitously complaining about the details; but the larger complaint I've read and am unable to criticize is that the real story of the Servile War, the revolt's actual name, is contaminated by "Spartakist" German Communist pseudo-historical "lore" which advances the Marxist-Leninist historical narrative.
He was a very idealistic leftist in the early 30's. Experience changed his mind, when the Spanish Stalinists started shooting his French labor-movement friends, and then the Communists came for him and he had to flee for his life -- literally across Spanish rooftops. He ruined his ankle in the process, making him unfit for service in WW II in any service but the coastal watchers, which he joined.
He learned about Communism in the school of hard knocks, and he wrote about it postwar, when the implications of a global Communist victory began to drive him mad.
But what people like about the film is Kubrick flexing his directorial muscles with panache, not the bloated melodrama of the script.
I'm sure most Americans of that day fully registered the spookiness of Communist fanatics, who were out every day in front of the White House holding signs enjoining FDR against interference in European wars until the day Hitler invaded Russian-held territory (actually Polish territory), when they completely disappeared, overnight.
A day later they reappeared, holding different signs with warhawk messages, demanding that Roosevelt jump into the middle of Hitler's back.
As someone said in a different Hollywood venue, the Communists were certifiably "freakazoid".
I liked the spectacle. Where else but on a wide screen can you see an entire Roman legion deploy? Oh, and Kubrick nailed the triplex acies, the Roman battle line.
If you count noodles in a freeze-frame, I suppose you might find another anachronism, if the noodles added up to much more than 3600 or 4200, tops. The big legions of 6000+ men was an exigency of the civil wars 20-25 years later.
Cagney was an FDR Dem in the 1930s, but was quite conservative later in life. Seemed to follow a similar path that Reagan did.
OUR DAILY BREAD is horrific and an extreme propaganda screed if ever there was one.
An interesting read with a lot of surprising information.
Hardcover: 365 pages
Publisher: Prima Publishing; First Edition edition (October 28, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0761513760
ISBN-13: 978-0761513766
Product Dimensions: 1.5 x 7 x 9.5 inches
Oh, absolutely, “Our Daily Bread.” One of the worst. I always found it quirkily funny that it awkwardly plucked RKO b-cowboy star Tom Keene (whose 1931-33 series I always liked) as the lead. Didn’t help his career. I think the movie basically bombed. The leading lady, Karen Morley was quite a lefty.
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