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Academy Award time: What's the most liberal movie of all time?

Posted on 03/23/2002 8:22:39 PM PST by cincinnati65

Which movie (past or present) embodies the most liberal message?


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To: lentulusgracchus
I couldn't watch "Arlington Road." It was too much like a Nazi propaganda film. It was at once crude and chillingly sophisticated the way that they ascribed pure evil and diabolical cunning to characters who in real life would have been different. Even if Robbins's character had been pure evil, he wouldn't have had the patience to do what he did in the film.

Basically, what the filmmakers were doing was attributing to Robbins character all the traits that other paranoia films had ascribed to agents of other governments or our own. And that transfer wasn't very well done. You could see just how flimsy and contrived it was, and how crudely it fit together.

What Hollywood does is to take the hostility and fear that "outsiders" produce in cultures and societies and direct it against "insiders," or "people like us." Unfortunately this is done with all the crudeness that earlier societies brought to their fear of outsiders. It's combined with some technical cleverness, but you can see that it's just an attempt to turn old folktales into political propaganda.

282 posted on 03/24/2002 12:17:26 PM PST by x
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To: Cultural Jihad
Ultimate Liberal Film - no copro tho
283 posted on 03/24/2002 12:18:44 PM PST by fnord
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To: JLS
Sorry if I'm Late with this, but I think Rebecca won the year of Grapes of Wrath.
284 posted on 03/24/2002 12:21:11 PM PST by Burr5
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To: cincinnati65
1. Cider House Rules

2. American Beauty

3. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest


285 posted on 03/24/2002 12:26:17 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg
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To: Clemenza
Kubrick was not a liberal.

He was a brilliant visionary who knew who the enemy was.

286 posted on 03/24/2002 12:29:44 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg
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To: glorygirl
Absolutely without a doubt the most liberal movie of all time is.....Bullworth.

YES I would put Bullworth as number 1 on the list of liberal propaganda movies... too bad it was a flop for the lefty crowd.

I wonder who Bullworth represents maybe good ol' Ted Kennedy, he is a "Ghetto Superstar".

287 posted on 03/24/2002 12:32:06 PM PST by Dengar01
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To: Gordian Blade
Congratulations, you win an all expense paid trip to the Mother Ship courtesy of Calypso Louie, a.k.a. Louis Farrakhan.

WOW!! Can I hope to be actually escorted there by the numerologist in chief himself!! What an honor!

288 posted on 03/24/2002 12:33:37 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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To: Dan from Michigan
I saw a movie with DMX and Steven Seagal last week on HBO I forgot what it is called but it basically paints all cops as corrupt. The gangbangers are "innocent" while the Cops are racist and arrest blacks. I liked the action but the message was very lefty.
289 posted on 03/24/2002 12:35:06 PM PST by Dengar01
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To: nunya bidness
Yes, to Stepford Wives. But, I'd also have to say: "The Great Rock and Roll Swindle," featuring Malcom McLauren, starring the Sex Pistols and directed by Julian Temple. Now, THERE was an exploitation film!
290 posted on 03/24/2002 12:39:00 PM PST by summer
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To: nunya bidness
The purpose of "Stepford Wives" was not to push a liberal agenda.

Ira Levin is plenty hip to the real culprits today. Recall that the #1 bad guy previously "worked for Disney" before he moved to Stepford.

Watch it again and note all the road signs along the highway into town.

291 posted on 03/24/2002 12:39:07 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg
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To: summer
See #291. Ira Levin is no liberal.
292 posted on 03/24/2002 12:40:42 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg
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To: glorygirl
I liked Bullworth. It was lib, but I think it took a shot at some of these dems that take the black vote for granted while trying to run as conservative for the stupid moderate vote.
293 posted on 03/24/2002 12:45:10 PM PST by Dan from Michigan
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To: glorygirl
Absolutely without a doubt the most liberal movie of all time is.....Bullworth.

I'm jumping into this thread some almost 24 hours after it started. But as I read the wonderful "nominees" I kept thinking of this movie. Couldn't remember the name, couldn't remember the name! So thank you glorygirl because when I read your post I jumped up and ran around the kitchen shouting "Bulworth! Bulworth!" Much to the complete dismay of my dogs.

I remember there was one whole scene when Bulworth lectures to my utter horror on the wonders of medicare and a socialized system of medicine. Compared to a free market medical and prescription system, according to Bulworth, socialized medicine was clean, efficient, orderly and waaaaay cheaper than the capitalistic route.

Anyway....thanks again. And heaven save us from Warren Beatty because I believe this was really HIM speaking, not his character.

294 posted on 03/24/2002 12:47:04 PM PST by Fishtalk
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To: Dan from Michigan
I liked Bulworth, too. That movie nearly got Beatty drummed out of Hollywood.

He's probably back in line by now.

295 posted on 03/24/2002 12:56:35 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg
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To: gumbo
I wasn't referring necessarily to tomatoes specifically, but to the general problem. Lead makes a fine quality of glass that made good looking wine decanters. It has since been ascertained that it is not wise to store wine in lead-glass containers. People didn't know enough about chemistry to know when they were poinsoning themselves.
296 posted on 03/24/2002 1:11:48 PM PST by RLK
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To: Dengar01
Steven Seagal is one of the best martial artists I've seen in films. He has also gone off his nut and has become a clown with a leftist wing mission. He, along with Alec Baldwin, are two people whose work I avoid for political reasons.
297 posted on 03/24/2002 1:21:47 PM PST by RLK
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To: cincinnati65
The Shawshank Redemption. The prison inmates are universally noble and good, the prison administration is universally corrupt and evil. Plus numerous gratuitous shots at Christianity.

I thought of this when someone mentioned The Color Purple. I loved both of these movies as movies--while at the same time realizing what anti-American propaganda they were. The point is that cinema is a liar's art, and--here I am also reminded of Triumph of the Will and Battleship Potemkin--great films can be made in the service of evil.

298 posted on 03/24/2002 1:25:57 PM PST by denydenydeny
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To: cincinnati65
Nine to Five
299 posted on 03/24/2002 1:32:11 PM PST by Roscoe Karns
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To: nunya bidness
I just say Being There again the other day. Why do you think this was a liberal film? I thought it was brilliant. And I read the book!
300 posted on 03/24/2002 1:32:31 PM PST by Hildy
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