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"MASH" must have been pretty liberal -- or maybe just anarchic. Lots of movies of the time fit the bill: "Easy Rider", "Zabriskie Point", "Joe", "Billy Jack". Mustn't forget Jane Fonda in "Coming Home." Or Spike Lee's movies -- like "Do the Right Thing." Also, "Regarding Henry." "The Piano." "Pleasantville." Didactic movies like "War Games" -- if that's what the Matthew Broderick vehicle about Nuclear War was called -- "The Russia House," and a long boring discussion about ecology with Sam Waterston and Liv Ullmann.

A lot of what the media usually does blends into the soft left message. Curiously, a lot of "right wing" adventure films are loaded with "left wing" messages by the choice of villains. Kevin Costner's done a lot of that, though it often backfires. Movies thrive on dramatic tensions and oppositions, and the acceptable kinds of villains become ever more restrictive. Many women's films are feminist and therefore generally liberal. The case with youth movies is similar. The bad guys are always going to be the "uptight squares." Smarmfests with Whoopie Goldberg and Robin Williams. The Seventies paranoia thrillers also fit the bill. And Spielberg. Are his movies liberal, or just escapist?

[Rick_Hunter]

Regarding Henry

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One thing I learned from Regarding Henry: the best way to change a lawyer for the better is to shoot him in the head.

[3catsanadog]

By the way, Spielberg has PC adjusted his re-release of ET. The police in the film will not carry guns anymore. The guns are being replaced with walkie-talkies.