Posted on 07/22/2004 6:11:56 PM PDT by NotchJohnson
"I cannot recall when Hollywood last released a big-budget mainstream feature film as partisan as this one at the height of a presidential campaign."
So believes NY TIMES's Frank Rich about the upcoming PARAMOUNT thriller MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE.
"Freed from any obligations to fact, MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE can play far dirtier than FAHRENHEIT 911," writes Rich in a column set for release this Sunday, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE.
"This movie could pass for the de facto fifth day of the [Democrat] convention itself."
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"The American people are terrified," says Streep's villainous senator early on as, John Ashcroft-style, she wields a national security report promising "another cataclysm, probably nuclear." And so we watch her and the rest of the Manchurian Global cabal exploit that fear in any way possible, using the mass media as a brainwashing tool, manipulating patriotic iconography for political ends. "Compassionate vigilance" is one campaign slogan. A televised election night rally features a Mount Rushmore backdrop (as in a signature Bush photo op) and a chorus line of heroic cops and firemen (reminiscent of the early Bush-Cheney ads exploiting the carnage at ground zero)."
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Everything about this remake sounds stupid.
The original was great. I bet this one sucks big time.
It's just a film. In real life we have a "Parisian Candidate" running.
Drats. I really wanted to see this movie. Just one more to stay away from. Oh well.
Lumpy Reifenstahl enjoyed the same luxury.
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.
It's John Frankenheimer, for heaven's sake! How could one go wrong?
In other words: DOA.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Saul Alinsky: "Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."
If the American People ignore the "remake" and watch the original, they will see the enemy, and they will fight!
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.
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