Posted on 07/23/2004 3:21:00 PM PDT by Jon Alvarez
NEW YORK -- Politics and presidential elections were on everyone's lips at Monday's Gotham preem of "The Manchurian Candidate."
"This is a movie about political brainwashing, and we're right back there again now," said director Jonathan Demme. "I hope it has the potential for stimulating people to start thinking about the process because Lord knows we could use some stimulation," he added.
From The NY Times: Plot Summary
RICH: 'MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE' MORE PARTISAN THAN 'FAHRENHEIT 911' Thu Jul 22 2004 20:56:59 ET
"The American people are terrified," says Streep's villainous senator early on as, John Ashcroft-style, she wields a national security report promising "another cataclysm, probably nuclear." And so we watch her and the rest of the Manchurian Global cabal exploit that fear in any way possible, using the mass media as a brainwashing tool, manipulating patriotic iconography for political ends. "Compassionate vigilance" is one campaign slogan. A televised election night rally features a Mount Rushmore backdrop (as in a signature Bush photo op) and a chorus line of heroic cops and firemen
Spread the word, like Paul Revere...The traitors are coming! The traitors are coming! Do not reward Hollywood and its treachery...
patriot ping
I would suggest go renting the original instead of payinmg to see this piece of trash.
Frank Sinatra and Angela Landsbury are great in the original.
Hey Fellow FReepers, let's set a record for most movie rentals of a classic, the original 'Manchurian Candidate' starring Frank Sinatra, rather than patronizing these Hollywood liberals whose current rendition is against our President!
The original version just went on sale in Stop&Shop for $12
Did Angela Landsbury get an Oscar for her role?
She was awsome, I just bought the DVD at the supermarket, $12.
Thanks for the great news about Cpl Hassoun!
I digress, but Haven't we crossed words before?
Nomatter, there won't be any fighting here.
Your answer:
Angela Lansbury was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar of 1962 for her devastating performance, but she lost to Patty Duke for the Miracle Worker.
Yeah, yeah, I know. It was a classic ripoff along the lines of Paul Lukas (from the forgotten Watch on the Rhine) winning the '43 Best Actor over the famous Bogie of Casablanca and the bloated, P.C. Dances With Wolves winning the '90 Best Picture award over the classic Goodfellas.
"Their (the Democrats) method for countering the Bush-Cheney monopolization of fear is to turn the administration into an object of fear in its own right."
"But the new version, even at its clunkiest, could not be more uncompromising in its paranoid portrayal of a political cartel with certain familiar traits that will stop at nothing, including the exploitation and even the fomenting of terrorism, to hold on to power for its corporate backers."
"I cannot recall when Hollywood last released a big-budget mainstream feature film as partisan as this one at the height of a presidential campaign."
"But the new version, even at its clunkiest, could not be more uncompromising in its paranoid portrayal of a political cartel with certain familiar traits (the Republicans) that will stop at nothing, including the exploitation and even the fomenting of terrorism, to hold on to power for its corporate backers."
"The new "Candidate," which takes the first Gulf War instead of the Korean War as its historical template, finds a striking new international villain to replace the extinct evil empires of Mao and Stalin: Manchurian Global, a "supremely powerful, well-connected, private equity fund" that is in league with the Saudis and eager to scoop up the profits from privatizing the U.S. Army. Think of it as the Carlyle Group or Halliburton on steroids, just as its primary fictional political beneficiary, the well-heeled "Prentiss family dynasty," with its three generations of Washington influence, is at most one syllable removed from the Bushes."
And this angry tidbit about FoxNews: "The character's invective, typified by her accusation that civil libertarians enable suicide bombers, is vintage Fox News Channel."
"This conspiracy unfolds in a sinister present-day America where surveillance cameras track library visitors, cable news channels peddle apocalypse 24/7, and the American government launches pre-emptive military strikes in countries like Guinea to prolong a war on terror "with no end in sight." The crucial election at hand will use electronic touch screens for voting, a dark intimation of Floridian balloting mischief. It will not be an election at all, says the movie's military-man hero (Denzel Washington in Colin Powell's rimless specs), but "a coup - in our own country, a regime change.""
Hollywood-the entertainment business/the mainstream media are America's most diligent, destructive, and ruthless enemy!
ping to post # 10
Once I heard the word "corporate" in the ads, I knew it would just be another hit job.
Hmmm. "a coup" - sounds like that idiot Florida Congresswoman's depiction of the 2000 election as a "coup d'etat". Will this Manchurian Candidate remake also try to convince people to get the UN involved in this year's elections?
Thanks for the ping. I will not be attending :)
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