Thanks, fireman. I did enjoy Trump Card the Movie.
What I loved is that every few seconds, the scene changed. Lots of great visuals and music. You could not get bored. I was entranced for the full hour and forty minutes — Only had one break.
Dinesh interviewed many patriots and right thinkers and got a short something excellent from each of them. Just a splendid mix of narrative, news footage, Abraham Lincoln in a railroad car, and a beautiful, restful stroll through every major issue in the campaign, I think.
Though the topics covered could easily enrage the average viewer, the way the movie was put together kind of focused your energy. You became a restful martial artist having complete awareness of a dangerous situation and yet remaining calm and more purposeful.
In the credits I notice his wife (who is originally from Venezuela) was the singer in a hauntingly beautiful rendition of America the Beautiful.
I found her on Twitter and saw the 3:00 minute production of that music as preformed by a Budapest orchestra (not shown in the movie itself).
https://twitter.com/i/status/1313170142176653315
As you suggested, fireman, I rented the movie for $3.99 on Google. Basically, they give you a month to view it and it’s available for 48 hours from the time you first view it.
I'm sure I will watch this month, maybe a night this week or next weekend - been meaning to.
I listened to Debbie's rendition. Yes haunting in the beginning. Back in my music school days we called that a re-harm - or reharmonizaation, in fact I THINK we might have had an entire class on it or at least a section ... maybe it was an arrangement class. You take the melody either exactly or slightly modified (because you might have to) ... and slap it into another key or mode or at least a different set of chords.
This one teeters on wanting to be minor (starts in one of the minor modes - vague and saddish!) but is purposefully vague ... never fully lands but threatens to ... into minor ... then does a bunch of key modulations which also never land - hard to call them modulations, probably there is a name for that which I've just forgotten, or maybe you just call it 'a bunch of V7s. The Minor suggests the threat and what would be lost if this shite continues, the modulations and never landing suggest the teetering that the US is doing right now ... on the brink of disaster quite frankly but from our perspective more of a death than disaster, although both.
Then it restarts normally. Very well done whoever wrote it. I'm ASSUMING that was the intended effect.
Thanks to both of you. I will check this out.
Short bio from IMDB:
D'Souza refuses to see America follow Venezuela's path, and that drives her work today. As a warning to Americans, she speaks about how the path that America is taking repeats many of the same policies that destroyed Venezuela.
She is an advocate for conservative Latinos and hopes to educate them in the importance of voting for a party that reflects the principles of the majority of Hispanics.
She has a unique perspective because of her dual nationalities reflecting both her Mexican-American heritage from her mother's side as well as her Venezuelan roots from her father's.
D'Souza has been singing since the tender age of four and her love for music continues to this day. She started singing in her birth country of Venezuela for a weekly-televised variety show called "Las Voces Blancas."
During her teen years in the Rio Grande Valley, she continued to sing in school choir, church, weddings, and was the lead singer in a jazz band. Debbie also sang radio jingles for local businesses.
D'Souza is a recording artist and former worship leader. Her voice can be heard at the end of the film "Hillary's America" singing "God Bless America." Debbie is married to conservative bestselling author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza. Together they have three grown children.
NOTE: Danielle D'Sousa, who appears in Trump Card is the step daughter to Debbie.