[Liz]

If I had an agenda, I would create movies to build a following. Then I would slowly introduce my talking points/messages/lines of thought into them once I have a following. And I wouldn't do it all at once, it would slowly be introduced.

Filmmakers are master manipulators of unsuspecting audiences. They do not use sledgehammers to get their points across It's all done very subtly.

Film is one of the most effective ways to proselytize. The world's most notorious villain--Adolf Hitler--who has no peer in the annals of criminality---was very aware of the value of good propaganda to advance his hidden political agenda. In an official act, he appointed filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl to produce Nazi propaganda films and gave her a free hand to build the technicolor myth of Hitler-as-savior----thus facilitating the heinous, genocidal Nazi juggernaut.

[Calpernia]

bump!

[Borges]

None of Riefenstahl's features for the Nazis (Triumph of the Will, Olympiad) were in color. It just shows how art can surpass propaganda. From a technical standpoint Riefenstahl was a great film maker. When she visited Hollywood in the 1930s Walt Disney was the only studio head who would see her and her influence is apparent in stuff like Bambi and Pinocchio.