RICH: 'MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE' MORE PARTISAN THAN 'FAHRENHEIT 911'

Matt Drudge ^ | 7/25/04 | Drudge

[NotchJohnson]

An all out media blitz may very well put sKerry in

[Paul Atreides]

Everything about this remake sounds stupid.

[Abcdefg]

The original was great. I bet this one sucks big time.

[Shermy]

It's just a film. In real life we have a "Parisian Candidate" running.

[ChocChipCookie]

Drats. I really wanted to see this movie. Just one more to stay away from. Oh well.

[CFC__VRWC]

Yawn - another piece of garbage with a far-left slant being pushed out the back cheeks of the Hollyweird commie crowd. I hear this remake really sucks, which is a shame. The original Manchurian Candidate with Angela Lansbury was one of the greatest films ever made.

[MikalM]

Rent the original instead. One of the greatest suspense films of all time, with amazing performances by Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Angela Lansbury, and many others.

[Petronski]

...Freed from any obligations to fact...

Lumpy Reifenstahl enjoyed the same luxury.

[sandbar]

I thought it looked partisian from the commercials. I think you are right though, the media is determined to get this guy in, or get Bush out rather.

[Petronski]

I'd go so far as to say 'buy the original' instead. Angela Lansbury is just brilliant as a 1960s Hillary Clinton, and Sinatra is fabulous in one of his best performances.

It's John Frankenheimer, for heaven's sake! How could one go wrong?

[CaptainK]

It's opening the same weekend as M. Night Shyamalan's The Village.

In other words: DOA.

[proust]

But Meryl Streep looks like Hillary in the ads. she denys it, but come on! If anyone should be suggesting a game of solitare it's her!

[dc-zoo]

I'm sure looking forward to seeing these left-wing liberal miserable rotten pukes go down in flames when Bush cleans their clocks on election day.

[giotto]

From what I've heard, the Streep character is a dead ringer for Hillary. It's more likely that viewers will see this resemblance and infer that the story is about Hillary, which is the way I've always viewed the original--especially the scene where the mother tells Raymond that she is his American operator. Those dead eyes are Hillary's eyes.

[AlbionGirl]

The problem with the film is that streep is hillary to nearly all that have seen it, the visual and historical assoications it conjures up will transmogrify the partisanship of it. Sometimes, the truth prevails because it is force that cannot and will not be denied. And let's face it, rich is way too turded up to be able to see or admit it.

[hope]

Saul Alinsky: "Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."

[timydnuc]

If the American People ignore the "remake" and watch the original, they will see the enemy, and they will fight!

[leprechaun9]

John Freakin' Kerry is a MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE and his assignments were/are to oppose all legislation which provides for enhancements to our Military and Intelligence capabilities!

[jrcats]

The orginal movie is my all time favorite. I won't pay to see the movie but hope its on tv soon.

[x]

A lot depends on how close they can tie the characters to the Bush administration, and not simply to politicians in general, but it's likely that Frank Rich is overreacting and projecting his own partisan passions up on the screen. On the whole, it's doubtful this film will have much of a political impact.

In the original version, McCarthyism was presumably the target, and those who strongly opposed to what McCarthy had said and done a decade before were probably pleased at seeing a film that expressed their feelings, but did the wider public notice, or care? For everyone who saw McCarthy in the presidential candidate, took it as a slam at him and was pleased, others may have been angry or seen in that character simply another fictional construct.