Posted on 06/22/2019 7:15:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
Animal Farm (1999): George Orwell’s allegory of the 1930s Soviet Union and European international politics, replete with talking farm animals. Patrick Stewart provides the voice-over for the Stalin stand-in, the pig Napoleon. Other voice-overs provided by Julia Ormond, Peter Ustinov, Kelsey Grammer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Paul Scofield.
20 years ago, so the condemnation of Hollywood is correct. It no longer produces anti-communist movies.
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Animal Farm is anti-Stalin but not anti-communist. In the book, soon after the farmer men are driven away it states that the farm became more productive than ever. The Soviet Union was never efficient in agriculture. When they rarely had a good crop they could not properly distribute it.
It would definetly qualify in my opinion. Particularly perhaps some aspects of the romance plot, interestingly enough. There was a good quote in there relating to this, but sadly it escapes me at the moment.
Atlas Shrugged (2011) may not be a good example of a hollyweird move. Those guys did everything but put on bake sales to fund the flick. Rand is among the most rabid anti-socialist (communist?) authors out there.
First movie was great, second not as well done, third kinda limped in....(.02)
The Fountainhead is kinda Atlas Shrugged in more compact form... Similarly anti-tyranny
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“Coming Out of the Ice”
A made for TV movie about a young American’s encounter with the Gulag.
Here’s the book!
There is an obvious reason Kathy was not listed.
Criteria #1: “have been produced in whole or in part by an American studio (which excludes such excellent films as Poland’s Man of Iron and Germany’s The Lives of Others), or;”
Bitter Harvest (2017) isn’t on the list. I think it’s a Canadian production, so maybe it doesn’t qualify as “Hollywood”. It is specifically about the Holodomor.
Another
The Peter Weir film “The Way Back” inspired by this book
Kate Nelligan made one titled “Eleni” I think. Not sure where it was made but it was very Anti-Communist. It was set in post war Greece.
The articles mentions older TV series, but failed to mention The Americans which was recent and excellent.
“Chernobyl” on Netflix is the saddest multi part movie/series I’ve ever seen.
It shows the complete deference to the state and how each bureaucrat is only a cog in a machine that must be defended. Every noble man/woman must be destroyed and the people of Russia love the Rodina so much that it is assumed that your life must be given to the state....for Mother Russia.
The culture of the Soviets is fatalistic and damaged. Communism and all collective philosophies are eventually used by those wanting power and willing to accept the “means justify the ends”.
It ALWAYS ends in totalitarian destruction of the individual and the rise of the grey man with no talent, ambition, or creativity, and only jealousy and envy as motivation for life.
The collectivists are the ultimate human flies. Whatever they don’t eat, they shit on.
Just look at any city, state, organization, religion (Roman Catholic), corporation that has been infiltrated by the collectivist philosophy of Marx/Kant/Hegel.
Nobody’s mentioned Red Dawn, but it never received any awards IIRC.
Sure had lefties in a tizzy, demonstrating outside theaters because it dared to criticize the Great Socialist Motherland.
Oh yes, I loved “Red Dawn” tho it was not really a great movie.
That was on the list.
On another note, when the author discusses 1984, he mistakenly refers to the late actor Richard Burton as "Sir". Burton was never knighted. Maybe the author confused him with the 19th century explorer.
How many anti-communist movies directed at China during the past 20 years?
There was a recent one with Ed Harris and Colin Farrell about three prisoners who escape from the gulag and hike across Siberia to freedom. It’s not blatantly anti-commie, but it doesn’t paint the gulags in too favorable a light.
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