Posted on 05/04/2005 2:51:42 PM PDT by rogermonroe
I'm a liberal but growing increasingly disenchanted with the left. I'm also a movie fan. I'm looking for a list of the movies most beloved by conservatives, movies that support conservative ideals, films that make a good argument for conservatism. I figured this was the place to go. If you were making such a list, what would be on it? Rambo? Red Dawn? What?
Dirty Harry
Arioch7 out.
Lonesome Dove
I just saw that. Poor hacker never got to meet Sporky Dorky.
Which one? >:*3
LOL!
The Charlton Heston version.
Figured as much, though I rather like the Ramon Navaro/Francis X. Bushman version. The quarter-scale ships just don't do it for me like the full-sized ones of the earlier film.
Who's Sauron -- bin Laden or Bush?
The success of "The Lord of the Rings" has launched a war over Tolkien's politics, pitting pundit against pundit, and Viggo Mortensen against John Rhys-Davies
http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2004/02/28/lord/index_np.html
I cannot think of any movie directly advocating Buchanan's type of conservatism in the modern post-Cold war context. That must be because post-Cold War Hollywood has entrenched as a liberal bastion. They can on occasion do something not wholly unpalatable to the neo-cons, but for true conservative cinema one has to look earlier, and so loose a direct connection to what Buchanan is known for today.
Buchanan himself liked Braveheart.
A British epic Zulu reflects a view of the Western Man under seige. A theme of a noble soldier placed firmly in the context of the Western Civilization is dominant in Captain and Commander. The Patriot isn't bad either, despite some phoney notes.
All Rocky movies, -- not just the one where he fights a Soviet boxer, -- are kind of subliminally conservative, because of their individualism and the theme of the spiritual driving the physical in the Rocky's character.
On occasion a small town America movie gets made without condescension, women's lib or class-struggle overtones, and it becomes conservative sort of by default. Such are The Deerhunter and more recently October Sky.
Did anyone mention On the Waterfront, -- the only movie I can think of where a central character is the heroic figure of a priest?
loose -> lose
The first two I thought of were
The Patriot
and surprisingly, I've not seen it listed...
The Passion of the Christ
Please note - Mel Gibson's involvement in both, so the libs hate them.
And, just about ANYTHING with John Wayne in it. I saw True Grit posted a lot, but also Big Jake is one of my favorites. He goes off to rescue his grandson, and you better not be the one who took him....
I think a forthcoming movie with numerous conservative themes will be "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" The central authorities are choosing to ignore the danger of a criminal/terrorist insurgency, while the protaganists fight on virtually alone against the encroaching authoritarianism imposed as a wrong-headed approach to the problem. Heroes must sacrifice in order to fight evil. Of course, we've got to get "Goblet of Fire" out of the way first.
Loved Best Years of Our Lives and Scarlet Pimpernel with Leslie Howard!
Excellent choices!
There is also a wonderful WW2 movie called Dark Blue World that I adored!
Yes! In my post #84.
Two other movies that portray heroic priests are "I Confess" (1953) starring Montgomery Clift, directed by Hitchcock, and "The Keys of the Kingdom" (1944) starring Gregory Peck.
:-)
Another one: "Satan Never Sleeps" (1962) starring William Holden as a priest in China battling Communists.
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