Posted on 07/27/2004 6:38:11 AM PDT by jalisco555
Forget "Fahrenheit 9/11."
Disney, which didn't want to release the controversial nonfiction film because it deemed it too partisan, has another political movie about to be released.
In fact, M. Night Shyamalan's "The Village" could turn out to be more anti-Bush and more controversial than "Fahrenheit" simply on an artistic level.
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In the case of "The Village," when the cover-up is suggested, it's all you can do not to laugh out knowingly, because the message of the film seems so clear. It's almost as if Shyamalan is saying that the woods called the "Coventry Woods" here are the red states.
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I take this review with a huge boulder of salt. Friedman claims that the woods represents the "red states," and supports his theory by quoting the director as saying he made the movie with thoughts of the 9/11 disaster. Those are two very different metaphors that Friedman has thrown together. Perhaps if Friedman had equated the woods with Iraq, his anti-Bush claim about the movie might make more sense. My guess is that Friedman knew throwing Michael Moore's name and the name of his movie around a few times in his review was good red meat for the Fox audience. I haven't seen "The Village" yet, but I certainly will, to get my own take on it.
I liked this guy's movies.
And Signs, IMHO, was a great movie about faith.
The guy makes scary movies, he hasn't made any political statements, at least not that I'm aware of, so I'm not putting much stock in this review.
On the other hand, I've heard the remake of the Manchurian Candidate has exchanged "Big Business" for Communism as the sinister brainwashers. Don't think I'll be seeing that one, although I loved the original.
I thought "Signs", the movie he did with Gibson, was one of the most unusual I had ever seen. A science fiction film with a strong faith component - very odd, but well done. If you haven't seen it, you should. Hard to describe otherwise.
I would have to say this reviewer is reaching as well.
It would be possible to say many movies made decades ago were anti-Bush if you spin it right. Its called assigning meaning where no meaning was intended. If I thought about it a bit, I could write a review saying this movie is an indictment of the Dems.
Its all in the spin.
I agree, the last M. Night movie, Signs, was about faith in God.
I agree, When faced with this awful danger, it was his reevaluation of the recent events that brought him back to his faith.
Ok, other than a gossip columnist's opinion of the film, what do we have here?
Who knows what the "cover-up" is and is willing to spoil it for those of us who won't see the film?
Understood but the enemy picked Red for the Bush states, not us. Slick little move to lose their "commie" connotations.
I haven't seen the movie so can't comment on it. But in a general sense you don't have to be in the same timeframe to satirize something.
Silliness. It's a fright flick, not a political statement, fercryinoutloud.
I really like his movies, and really doubt that there is any ulterior motive on the part of the director...JFK
I'm not so sure this guy has got it right - I remember watching the movie 'Signs' right after the war started, and at first I was afraid it was going to be one of those movies about how horrible it is to give in to our "irrational fears", cause there really weren't any aliens or anything to fear, and if there WERE aliens, we should sit down and have a nice long talk with them. But as it turned out, the message was that our fears are justified, and instead of talking we need to smash their heads in with a baseball bat.
My lawn tractor which happens to be red has been breaking down this year. I think I'll vote Kerry/Rats(blue) this year because my tractor must be telling me something about those evil Republicans and their broken down ideas.
I plan on seeing the movie.
I think Fox News has a troll who is attempting to discredit the whole organization by putting out faux paranoid "theories" like this one. Even if it is supposed to be satire, it's too clever by half. My 2 cents.
I agree, it sounds like it's reaching... however we did give Shyamalandingdong's people the shock and awe. Just kidding, I did like signs and unbreakable and he is the most original film maker out there.
"The mouse is obviously a sign of Republican's fear as we all know that elephants are afraid of mice. Additionally I believe that the cartoonists are ridiculing Bush because Speedy is wearing a hat. See hat leads to cowboy hat which leads to Bush. Yah, I know that these cartoons were made decades ago but the drugs I'm currently taking let me make leaps of stupidity like that."
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