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Happy Voting Day, everybody! I don't know about you but I personally am going to have a hard time focusing on anything else today - not even Brad Davis' hairy chest is rescuing me from doomsday thinking. So let's just lean into it and talk about out favorite Political Movies for a second. I'd say that tomorrow that the following list might be totally different but to be honest I could make a totally different list even just thirty seconds from now... hell I could make a totally different list no seconds from now. But let's give this a shot, and list...
5 of My Favorite Political Films
Meet John Doe (1941)
"Lighthouses, John.
Lighthouses in a foggy world."
Lighthouses in a foggy world."
Being There (1979)
"Yes, sir, all you've gotta be is white in America,
to get whatever you want. Gobbledy-gook!"
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to get whatever you want. Gobbledy-gook!"
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"Every lie is another brick in the pathway to hell."
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4 comments:
Always happy to see Meet John Doe appreciated.
First 5 that come to mind: No, In the Loop, Z, The Manchurian Candidate, and Good Night and Good Luck.
But there are of course lots of others including The Best Man and Advise & Consent (both generally, and for their quite depressing/interesting takes on politicians with gay pasts in that era), and several of the movies that captured the overwhelming paranoia many people had re: the powers that be in the '70s/early '80s (like The Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor, and Twilight's Last Gleaming).
I need to rewatch Dick! Such a funny movie.
Even though it doesn't make my list glad to see Meet John Doe on yours.
My top 5:
All the President's Men
Three Days of the Condor
Dave
Missing
State of the Union
There are so many more these are the others that come to mind:
Bridge of Spies
Election
A Face in the Crowd
Frost/Nixon
Good Luck and Good Night
JFK
Lincoln
The Manchurian Candidate
Medium Cool
Wag the Dog
Z
In no particular order:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Election
All the King's Men
Dave
Selma (yes, that fits other genres as well, but politics plays a big part in its story so it counts for me)
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