Posted on 01/14/2013 7:49:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I admit to using the word "conservative" loosely -- we are talking about Hollywood, after all. It here refers to those films that are at least respectful of the American experience and generally supportive of faith, family, and/or country. A film can score as much as 50 on the quality scale and 50 on the conservative scale, the latter graded on a Hollywood curve. The two values are equally weighted. Although it may not seem obvious, 2012 was a better year than most.
10. Dark Knight Rises 75
In the third of Christopher Nolan's trilogy, Batman comes out of retirement to battle "Bane," the kind of action hero only an Occupy Wall Streeter could love. In full OWS mode, Bane schemes to overthrow the ruling class and blow up Gotham City until thwarted by one-per center Bruce Wayne, a.k.a. Batman. Indeed, not even Scrooge McDuck had a butler. Q 35, C 40.
9. Hitchcock 77
This underappreciated film chronicles Alfred Hitchcock's ordeal as he attempts to make Psycho, a movie that would have made no conservative's list when released 50-plus years ago. What commends this film is its surprisingly sensitive portrayal of the Hitchcocks' marriage. I say "surprisingly" because marriage is a subject with which few in Hollywood have any lasting experience. Q 40, C 37.
8. Anna Karenina 78
The new movie version of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina might be a bit stagy for some tastes, but any movie that -- a) stars Keira Knightley and b) allows Leo Tolstoy's contempt for liberalism to play itself out on screen -- is surely worth watching. In the novel of the same name, Anna's feckless brother adopts a liberal attitude in the same spirit he smokes cigars, says Tolstoy archly,"for the slight fog it diffused in his brain." Not much has changed.
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Silly and embarrassing.
Lincoln 88
Republicans haven't looked this good on celluloid since, well, forever. The movie focuses almost exclusively on their struggle to overcome Democratic resistance and pass the 13th Amendment -- with all the skullduggery such fights entail.
To its credit, the movie does explore the liberties Lincoln took with the Constitution during wartime, but my purist friends make a mistake in thinking the Constitution favored the South's position. To deny a class of people liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and, on occasion, life itself and to still expect the protection of the Constitution is to rather miss the point of our founding documents. Q 46, C 42.
I hate it when they change the characteristic of vampires. I want them to be like Dracula.
Actually Dracula (Original version) and other early vampires were perfectly comfortable in daylight. The sensitivity to sunlight was invented for the film Nosferatu for plot reasons.
Place it adjacent to 650,000 rotting humans and show me the equivalence.
“Place it adjacent to 650,000 rotting humans and show me the equivalence.”
The one does not justify the other.
Keep in mind that most africans were far better off here than in their home-land, regardless of slavery.
You did not address the issue I posed. Slavery was a bad thing, but all parties wanted it—the africans who sold them, the north and their ships that moved them, and maybe 10% of the south that had them and mostly treated them well. What drove the north mad, was the fact that the south was making so much money from their rich agricultural production.
"I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.[17]"
Consider yourself educated on the matter.
“Keep in mind that most africans were far better off here than in their home-land, regardless of slavery.”
True; life in Africa was nasty brutish and short it would seem.
“All the parties wanted it,” except the slaves of course.
I hold the black Africans who sold their neighbors just as guilty as the horrible slave “owners” who tortured, killed, raped and subjugated people once they “bought” them.
I recognize that some slave owners were kind and can imagine I’d rather have been their slave than living in a bush on the low end of the scale in some nasty tribe.
However, slavery in the U.S. was and is inexcusable, and indefensible. With the exception of indentured servitude, which we are not talking about here.
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