Posted on 10/07/2011 7:20:33 AM PDT by RonF
Hm. For some unexplained reason the Chicago Tribune web site seems to have the text of the review cut off. But I manually copied some of the text out of my newspaper this morning. The review is of a movie about someone running for office. The following is a description of one of the movie's characters named Hammond who was elected President and his actions:
“He doesn’t believe in the American democratic process at all, in fact, though the movie doesn’t seem to realize what it’s even espousing half the time.
Hammond goes to work, declaring martial law; lining up gangsters for execution by firing squad at the base of the Statue of Liberty (!); and setting his sights on the so-called Army of the unemployed and it’s planned march on Washintgon. As Thomas Doherty wrote in his excellent book ‘Pre-Code Hollywood,’ this MGM picture calls for “a total redefinition of the government, institutionally and ideologically.’ If there’s one film exemplifying the most extreme examples of tea party rhetoric, this is it.”
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
This is both insult and ignorance. The Tea Party movement stands for the interpretation of the Constitution according to the meaning of the people who wrote it. Declaration of martial law and mass executions are the antithesis of what the Tea Party stands for. With reference to your first assertion, the Tea Party movement has embraced the American democratic process deeper than any other political movement out there, constantly attending and organizing political rallies and supporting candidates; which is why the 2010 election ended up with the House of Representative’s biggest swing in party membership (both in raw numbers and percentage) of any election in American history, including the First and Second World Wars, the Korean and Vietnam Wars and the Great Depression!
Is your intent here to write a movie review or political propaganda? Have you ever read what the various groups involved in the Tea Party have written and said (actual people, not grandstanding politicians), or are you just reading what people who agree with your own policital viewpoints have said and are committed to helping them spread their mischaracterizations? George Orwell’s “1984” was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.
From what I understand, it was loosely based on the Howard Dean campaign of 2003/04.
Good for you. The movie sounds like a missing chapter from the Manchurian Candidate.
George Clooney = wont waste my time
Like sportswriters, theater or movie critics feel they have to be over-the-top moonbats, to try to suck up to the big boys in the editorial department.
Occasionally, it pays off and the editors let them write goofy shallow screeds on politics, like Ebert, Lupica, or Frank Rich.
There was no Tea Party at that time.
Every cLOONey movie is a condescending leftwing commercial, and that’s why no one likes to see his movies except his fellow lefty movie critics and beret-wearing movie goers. He is like Penn, movies will not make a buck. The only small exception is Oceans Eleven, and in it he still bitched about evil America but in a small way.
It’s a conspiracy, I tell ya! Oh, wait... http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/sc-mov-1004-ides-of-march-20111006,0,7254884.column
Yes, the link works fine. The truncated review is there. That was never the issue.
But the online review is still missing the controversial quote at the top of the thread that the poster says is in the print version.
By the way, that movie was made 79 years ago... http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/chi-talking-pictures-gabriel-horns-steve-jobs-20111007,0,3354464.column#start
“Up in the Air” was another political jab at corporations that they are evil. And by coincidence, I saw the stupid movie during a flight to Asia. Clooney always makes sure he makes lefty movies. Even effing Leatherheads, he inserted a scene where his character bitched about “this country”.
It was critical of a specific practice that would only make sense for large companies to begin with. It doesn’t deal with anti-corporate rhetoric at all.
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