Did Ayn Rand even see “The Best Years of Our Lives?”
There is no scene in which a returning war hero is bumped from a plane by a rich businessman. What “businessmen?” At the beginning of the film, everyone is trying to get home on military planes carrying military personnel.
True, the hero who goes back to his pre-war job at the drugstore is unfairly treated by his younger boss — but before the war, the boss was a lowly clerk whom the hero had treated badly by calling him “Stinky.” The petulant boss is just getting back at the tormenter now under his thumb. This is hardly an indictment of capitalism, and has nothing to do with the drugstore being a “National Chain.”
And the banker veteran DOES give a veteran a loan to buy a farm without collateral. He doesn’t “refuse.” He doesn’t even hesitate. The banker’s boss wants to hear his reasoning, the banker veteran defends his decision, and the farmer gets his loan. (This is a not-very-veiled defense of the GI Bill).
You would look long and hard before you found a movie so ANTI-Soviet, so anti-everything we were fighting in that terrible war, and such a moving portrait of the promise and genius of America and the American system.
Ayn Rand had no earthly idea what she was talking about. Dead WRONG about “The Best Years of Our Lives.”
Well, Blue, the problem is everyone thinks they’re a movie critic - hence, you get Ayn Rand bloviating about one of the best movies ever to come out of Hollywood. It’s a beautiful movie about a poor man (Dana Andrews), a middle class man (Homer) and a rich man (Fredric March) who all come together to recreate the American dream. You just know that Dana Andrews is going to make it!
Best Years of Our Lives was one of my favorite films.
However, like basically every film, it serves the purposes of the financial power elite.
The elite have set up the sheeple to see the only two possible “sides” as capitalism versus communism.
In truth, it was promoting what the bankers wanted after the war - all the young folks to go into debt as much as they possibly could, like morons.
Ayn Rand played the perfect role in this case in real life of telling the sheeple that the movie was pro-communist and anti-banker, when quite obviously the lender is treated as heroic in this movie, as long as he gives out loans to the sheeple with no collateral.
Did anyone hear about this thing a few years ago where bad debt that was turned into securities which were widely held and traded defaulted ? Remember that ?
The banking elites love government-backed debt, with no care if it defaults because they have placed all the risk on the taxpayer/sheeple.
I could go on line by line about that movie, starting with the title. The whole thing is one big mind-control op.
Especially (makes me laugh now) the scene where the here punches the guy saying that the war was contrived.
They made damn sure to slam the door shut on anyone thinking that WWII was engineered. And, if someone says it was - punch their lights out and be a hero !
If you learn about financial power elite, i.e., new world order, practically every line of this movie will jump out at you as being engineered to mold the little minds of the sheeple in the elites’ post-WWII era.