Praefectus
Good Political Films
Thought I'd make this thread, as there's a similar one in the VV. Generally speaking I'm talking about films of a political nature, or with a political theme to them.
To get the ball rolling, I'd like to recommend...
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
These are some of my favourite political films off the top of my head. I'm sure you guys know of more.
Praeses
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uhhh, no V FOR VENDETTA?...just die Jingle
there are many but I really can not think of them right now....I'm sure I watched a lot at certain points in my life but I hate to try to remember this stuff.
"Therefore I am not in favour of raising any dogmatic banner. On the contrary, we must try to help the dogmatists to clarify their propositions for themselves. Thus, communism, in particular, is a dogmatic abstraction; in which connection, however, I am not thinking of some imaginary and possible communism, but actually existing communism as taught by Cabet, Dézamy, Weitling, etc. This communism is itself only a special expression of the humanistic principle, an expression which is still infected by its antithesis – the private system. Hence the abolition of private property and communism are by no means identical, and it is not accidental but inevitable that communism has seen other socialist doctrines – such as those of Fourier, Proudhon, etc. – arising to confront it because it is itself only a special, one-sided realisation of the socialist principle."
Marx to A.Ruge
Vicarius
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That movie missed the point of the book so much that it boggles the mind.Originally Posted by dogukan
The movie is absolute crap when compared to the book.
Campidoctor
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Good Night and Good Luck chronicles the transformation of the news media from reporting the facts to crusading on behalf of their communist cronies.
A bastion of sanity
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Your kidding right. You are saying that McCarthyism was a good thing? That the senate should have being allowed to make anyone appear to be a communist even if they had something as basic as a piccasso painting in their house.
Campidoctor
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No I'm saying the media are a bunch of crusading leftards who use their power for social engineering, which is a gross betrayal of their duty to simply report the facts.Your kidding right. You are saying that McCarthyism was a good thing? That the senate should have being allowed to make anyone appear to be a communist even if they had something as basic as a piccasso painting in their house.
Dux Limitis
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Whether simply reporting facts is the duty of journalists is hardly uncontroversial. In fact, at no point in history has it been thus and most reporters and others say that it's even impossible. The simple selection of what news to report on already reveals bias.
And I've noticed you like to be contrarian, but how Murrow handled McCarthy is widely recognized as a supreme example of journalism.
I'd say A Clockwork Orange belongs in this list.
Some day I'll actually write all the reviews I keep promising...
Praeses
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fixed it for you. Unless you mean that anyone whoi isn't a warmongering neo-con fanatic is a communist in your world...
Last edited by justicar5; February 25, 2010 at 11:20 AM.
Praefectus
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KERAWRSPOFFLE!V FOR VENDETTA?
Ahem. Please do not mention that film in my presence. If a director can take a comic book that is at its core anti-neo liberal, and make a film out of it that Libertarian critics were favourable of, then he deserves to burn in HEYULL.
Besides, Children of Men > V for Vendetta. So, so, much.
Remember to smile
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Songs from the Second Floor
Thorolf was thus armed. Then Thorolf became so furious that he cast his shield on his back, and, grasping his halberd with both hands, bounded forward dealing cut and thrust on either side. Men sprang away from him both ways, but he slew many. Thus he cleared the way forward to earl Hring's standard, and then nothing could stop him. He slew the man who bore the earl's standard, and cut down the standard-pole. After that he lunged with his halberd at the earl's breast, driving it right through mail and body, so that it came out at the shoulders; and he lifted him up on the halberd over his head, and planted the butt-end in the ground. There on the weapon the earl breathed out his life in sight of all, both friends and foes. [...] 53, Egil's Saga- The pranks played on the knight Jean de Joinville, 1249, 7th crusade.I must tell you here of some amusing tricks the Comte d'Eu played on us. I had made a sort of house for myself in which my knights and I used to eat, sitting so as to get the light from the door, which, as it happened, faced the Comte d'Eu's quarters. The count, who was a very ingenious fellow, had rigged up a miniature ballistic machine with which he could throw stones into my tent. He would watch us as we were having our meal, adjust his machine to suit the length of our table, and then let fly at us, breaking our pots and glasses.
http://imgur.com/a/DMm19
Praefectus
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The Contender (2001) was entertaining, Oscar nominated. About a woman being vetted for Vice President.
"Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement in the narrower sense is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result. Eloquence may set fire to reason." -Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Praepositus
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Wag the dog (political comedy)
Lions for Lambs (yawn)
Lord of War (political crime thriller)
State of Play (political thriller)
EDIT:
Charlie Wilson's war
All the President's men
Last edited by Jagdpanzer; February 24, 2010 at 06:47 PM.
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Nixon and JFK.
Praefectus
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In The Loop was pretty funny. It's an acquired sense of humour, but I thought it was great political satire.
Triggering
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"When I die, I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like Fidel Castro, not screaming in terror, like his victims."
My shameful truth.
Praefectus
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You want the book. The film misses out some important characters and events.
Triggering
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Read it when I was 9 for the first time, but your topic was movies not books
"When I die, I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like Fidel Castro, not screaming in terror, like his victims."
My shameful truth.
スマトラ警備隊
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The Fog of War: Eleven lessons from the Life of Robert Strange McNamara
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/
a documentary about the life of Robert McNamara, going all the way down to surviving the depression, to his service in the Navy or OSS can't remember now, to how they were dumb with vietnam war.
Land and freedom
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114671/
movie about the fight against Franco when he took the power
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/
the best movie about MAD, also it is funny
The very ugly forgive, but beauty is essential - Vinicius de Moraes
Praefectus
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Goodbye Lenin is a good film, I watched in when BBC 4 had that series about Eastern Europe under Communism. (more of a comedy really though)
The Germans make some good little films like that.
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On Cuba I found Before Night Falls pretty interesting.
Evocative and moving story based on the life of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas. The film has excellent acting from Javier Bardem (and smaller but equally excellent performances from Johnny Depp and Sean Penn), wonderful scenery and, most of all, powerful and moving snippets from the work of a novelist whose poetic powers can inspire and lift above the poverty of life or bring emotional poignancy to the depths. This is set in a country where, under Castro's rule, there is no "upper class" - and yet where brutal intolerance can be shown to any 'misfits'. Arenas happens to be homosexual, which is unacceptable, and his poetry extols natural beauty (which is, it seems, seen as counter-revolutionary). The writer survives torture and imprisonment but his works survive and the success of his novels prove an inspiration to him as he survives in abject conditions. The film is a bit slow to start, and occasionally meandering, but overall it provides a powerful piece of cinema.
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