Name your favourite Right & Left wing flicks here.

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 03:02
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CHRISISALL

Monday, June 22, 2009 4:14 PM

No middle of the road here! Only extreme-like movies. Make two lists, long or short. I don't think we have to indicate which political end of the spectrum they represent, but go ahead if ya feel the need.
Me first:

Conspiracy Theory
Silent Running
Demolition Man
Star Wars
They Live

Conan The Barbarian
Dirty Harry
Magnum Force
Demolition Man (it's both I guess...)
Rocky 4

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JONGSSTRAW

Monday, June 22, 2009 4:30 PM

Fav. Lib.: Wild In The Streets, Network, I Love You Alice B. Toklas
Fav. Con.: Executive Action, Rollerball, Zardoz

CHRISISALL

Monday, June 22, 2009 4:40 PM

Where does a movie like Gattaca fall? I mean, it's about an effed-up future, so at first glance I'd think of it as Liberal, but who's to say that that kind of repressive nonsense couldn't have it's origins in Liberalism?

Whaddya think?

The laughing Chrisisall

JONGSSTRAW

Monday, June 22, 2009 4:43 PM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Where does a movie like Gattaca fall? I mean, it's about an effed-up future, so at first glance I'd think of it as Liberal, but who's to say that that kind of repressive nonsense couldn't have it's origins in Liberalism?

Whaddya think?

The laughing Chrisisall

Similar to Zardoz.....good intentions by Liberals turns to depressing nightmare

CHRISISALL

Monday, June 22, 2009 4:54 PM

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:

Similar to Zardoz.....good intentions by Liberals turns to depressing nightmare

I effin' love that flick.

So then, what about Planet Of The Apes? Seems Liberal in intent, all that social commentaty & satire, and ultimately anti war, yet Heston was a noted Conservative, & some Conservative values (The right for humans to bear arms

) seem to come thru...

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JONGSSTRAW

Monday, June 22, 2009 5:05 PM

1968 Apes has elements of both. Clearly a conservative society, but a few scientists represent enlightened liberalism. They clash, but the status quo remains at the end of the film. I'd have to characterize Heston as liberal in the movie, but ultimately he finds out that Dr. Zaius was right, and he can understand the witholding of the knowledge of ape & humanity's past

CHRISISALL

Monday, June 22, 2009 5:17 PM

I can agree with your interpretation, though Taylor was a disillusioned Liberal at best.

Hey- Parallax View, it doesn't get more Left than THAT, eh? The opposite equal might be Red Dawn...

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COZEN

Monday, June 22, 2009 5:27 PM

Oh, Idunno, how about Triumph of the Will? The Milagro Beanfield War?

Either of those out on Blu-Ray?

My sig count?

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CHRISISALL

Monday, June 22, 2009 5:30 PM

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Originally posted by cozen:
Oh, Idunno, how about Triumph of the Will? The Milagro Beanfield War?

Never saw the first one, and it's been a while since Milagro- was it Conservative-like? I don't remember...

The laughing Chrisisall

COZEN

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:44 AM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
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Originally posted by cozen:
Oh, Idunno, how about Triumph of the Will? The Milagro Beanfield War?

Never saw the first one, and it's been a while since Milagro- was it Conservative-like? I don't remember...

The laughing Chrisisall

Meh, Milagro was as lefty a film as I could think of while I was replying to this thread during a brief time-out at work. Triumph of the Will, on the other hand, is the shit, in a massively non-trivial way.

Ever seen a commercial on your television? Regardless, whether or not you have been swayed to purchase a consumer item or to vote one way or another based on an advertisement, rest assured that the tropes, the imagery, the visual technique, the music and the presentation of any advertisement you have ever seen are all based on the techniques that Leni Riefenstahl introduced in Triumph of the Will. I think that it's fair to assume that any film studies course at the university level necessarily incorporates TotW in it's curriculum. It's gorram seminal.

For all that TotW was mere propoganda on behalf of the German Nazi Party, for which Riefenstahl was vilified for the greater part of her 100+ year lifespan, its tropes and imagery, it's camera and lens techniques, and it's use of music was the grandmother of all propoganda -- ergo, in my mind, "advertisement." Love it or hate it, it's effect upon modern media is immense, is fundamental, is profound.

I had the intent of providing a link to a vid of TotW, but when I googled it I got too many hits for my lazy self to choose from, so I leave it to you to find the time to search for and view this amazing flick. It's time well spent, if you've any interest in what makes well rendered images so powerful an influence upon our willing minds.

Other than that, it sucks!

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