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Movie Theaters Hosting Screenings of ‘1984’ to Protest Trump
Breitbart ^ | February 21, 2017 | Ben Kew

Posted on 02/21/2017 10:33:48 AM PST by C19fan

Dozens of cinemas across the United States are planning to screen the film adaption of George Orwell’s 1984 in protest of reports that President Donald Trump is allegedly considering cuts to arts funding.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 1984; georgeorwell; left; nineteeneightyfour; orwell
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To: C19fan

Article says book is about fascism. I thought Orwell made it clear he was writing on Stalinists in the West.


61 posted on 02/21/2017 11:41:21 AM PST by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

It’s also the year of the greatest ad of all time (directed by Ridley Scott of ‘Blade Runner’ and ‘Alien’ fame): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I


62 posted on 02/21/2017 11:41:43 AM PST by ctdonath2 (Understand the Left: "The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution.")
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To: woweeitsme

Yup. 1984 is exactly what Obummer’s regime for the past 8 years has been like.


63 posted on 02/21/2017 11:42:48 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: C19fan

“Dozens of cinemas across the United States are planning to screen the film adaption of George Orwell’s 1984 in protest of reports that President Donald Trump is allegedly considering cuts to arts funding.”

“1984” the book was not facilitated by arts funding.
“1984” the movie was, AFAIK, not facilitated by arts funding.
And redistribution of both is, AFAIK, not facilitated by arts funding.

Big fat non-sequitur.


64 posted on 02/21/2017 11:44:18 AM PST by ctdonath2 (Understand the Left: "The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution.")
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To: C19fan

Do both. Why limit yourself?


65 posted on 02/21/2017 12:05:16 PM PST by confederatecarpetbag
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To: Steely Tom

A lack of self-awareness among the benighted elites is what led to Trump’s ascendancy. They wouldn’t understand the dark less of 1984 - even if the lights were left on.


66 posted on 02/21/2017 12:08:14 PM PST by confederatecarpetbag
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To: Steely Tom

A lack of self-awareness among the benighted elites is what led to Trump’s ascendancy. They wouldn’t understand the dark lesson of 1984 - even if the lights were left on.


67 posted on 02/21/2017 12:09:51 PM PST by confederatecarpetbag
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To: C19fan

More Irony.


68 posted on 02/21/2017 12:10:43 PM PST by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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To: C19fan

And it figures they screen the crappier 80s version vs. the Michael Redgrave and Edmond O’Brien version...


69 posted on 02/21/2017 12:18:17 PM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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To: Steely Tom
They might remember 1984 as it actually happened

70 posted on 02/21/2017 12:18:20 PM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: C19fan

The millennials don’t have the attention span to sit through it, they’ll just watch the Apple commercial instead!


71 posted on 02/21/2017 12:20:02 PM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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To: C19fan

Lol! Hey, maybe we’ll get lucky and they will watch it and actually wake up.... Unfortunately that would require them to engage in something called ‘thinking’.


72 posted on 02/21/2017 12:22:08 PM PST by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: Steely Tom

Just think if all of those libtards gave their money to arts endowments rather than liberal hipster bar corporations and billion dollar movie studios.


73 posted on 02/21/2017 12:22:21 PM PST by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: VietVet876

That’s racist!


74 posted on 02/21/2017 12:23:09 PM PST by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: windsorknot

The publisher (I think it was Penguin) hired well known commie agitprop artist Shepard Fairey to design covers for Orwells two antiCommie books. They know nothing of irony.


75 posted on 02/21/2017 12:24:58 PM PST by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

I heard a lib with degrees in art history talking about liberal and conservative Chinese dynasty eras drawing parallels to today.

These same revisionists would tell you how conservative the USSR commutes were.


76 posted on 02/21/2017 12:27:56 PM PST by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: C19fan

Is this the version where in the nude scene the woman looks like she’s got a cat in a headlock.


77 posted on 02/21/2017 12:29:35 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: C19fan

They are the ones charging people to watch their movies and other media products. Not Trump.


78 posted on 02/21/2017 12:50:18 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: C19fan

Socialist "Art"






The State that pays the artist gets to call the tune.



And it is nearly always ugly.

Peter and the Commissar

79 posted on 02/21/2017 12:58:25 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: C19fan

Unbelievable. These authoritarian leftists really don’t see how it’s their side pushing hard for the realization of 1984. It’s their side inventing and promoting modern day New Speak and Double Speak (renamed Political Correctness) coupled with hardcore thought policing and the suppression of free speech and uncomfortable truths. It’s their side rioting, attacking cops, and burning property to try shut down the expression of different opinions. It’s their side that refuses to accept the results of the election. It’s their side praising spies in the government for listening to a private citizen’s phone conversations because he worked for Trump. It’s their side that was all for a reset with Russia but in true “we have always been at war with East Asia” style, they are now desperately trying to restart the Cold War solely to try to win a few political points. And perhaps foremost, it’s their side that wants a gigantic federal government to have almost total control over everything in order to mandate radical egalitarianism and to simply do thing they personally like.

They seem to be entirely blind to what they are fighting for and what the consequences of their anti-freedom, anti-American stances are. There is nothing quite like arrogant, hypocritical lemmings being led over the cliff by their indoctrinators, especially when they are also intensely intolerant and tend toward violence and disorder. This article would make a lot more sense if it said that the radical leftists were watching 1984 because it is their guidebook. Or maybe they are just looking for more Communist-style pithy P.C. slogans to paste all over our public schools.


80 posted on 02/21/2017 1:35:10 PM PST by FenwickBabbitt
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