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Mycroft

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I read an article on it, and I really want to see it. I am glad that you like, I don't have too much faith in the local critics. It hasn't come out down here in many theaters, just the big ones.
 

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It's finally playing in Utah now, but it's still too far for me to afford to drive there. Hopefully, someplace local will pick it up.

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I have to second that this was a GREAT MOVIE!
The suits in this movie were unbelievable! Nice wide peaked lapels, lots of pinstripes and plenty of shirt cuffs showing. Clooney and the gang really nailed the feel of that time period. Lots of people smoking. It was funny to see some of those old cig. ads. You can't advertise like that anymore. Shooting the movie in B&W was a nice touch.

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Here's one of those suits:

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Big Joe. welcome! I haven't met you yet/ and yes that is a spitting image. I am convinced to now go see that movie.

If you notices, in my post here in the Movies section, the OSCARS films this year are realitavely unknown. I am appalled a the Brokeback Mountain from what some people have graphically described to me, ie. a cowboy doing it to another cowboy in the tent..again I didn't see it. BUT..I'd rather see this one.
 

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Well done by George.

It's the year of Clooney. Well-deserved and wish him well. This was a very good film, very prescient considering what's going on in the world right now. George's vision and statement ring through loud and clear. As this film was done on a relative shoe string I didn't think the wardrobe was particularly great but adequate (except for Robert Downey's hat - awful.) Great use of McCarthy - he should have been nominated.

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Good night, good luck (and good riddence)

Another piece of anti-American propaganda. Made that heroic Senator from Wisconsin look like the bad guy. McCarthy was flushing all the rats out of the sewer. This movie is like that other slick piece of lies; "Guilt by Association" that DeNiro did in 1991. The communists and fellow travelers had infiltrated Hollywood and were making films to glorify the Soviets and put Americans in bad light. McCarthy exposed these liars and the left still hates him. Don't waste your money.
 

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Any see this "movie" that is up for an Oscar? This movie is a Leftist propaganda film to hide the true evil that the Left was trying to accomplish in the 1950's.
 

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How is this film Anti-American propaganda? Please explain..
If being an American is about bullying witch-hunts and anyone supports this Un-American behavior, then we are headed towards heck faster than Paris Hilton will supposedly escort us.

Did McCarthy ever provide any evidence for all the accusations he spewed? Or is it enough that out of everyone he tried to destroy, some were probably Communists? McCarthy certainly seemed like an overzealous person.

I know Clooney is not as well liked because he tends to speak his mind and question things in a time that might not be very sensative or appropriate. When is the right time to speak up? A person walks a fine line when their conscience tells them something is wrong and everyone around them is saying to keep quite.

What ever happened to not agreeing with someone but defending their right to say it? The old hero McCarthy seemed not so gracious.
 

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I haven't seen it either, but probably will.

Being not around during those times, what true evil was the left doing?

Who was the "left" during the 50's? Who was the "Right?"

and how did the filmmakers use propaganda to do it?

How exciting that hollywood is back to making propaganda films again like they did during WWII....
 

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The movie is well made. I am not so concerned about what the left of the fifties were doing as much as what message the current left was trying to make with this film. Clooney is trying to associate Bush with Joe McCarthy because of the President's commitment on cracking down on terrorists.

I didn't fall for Clooney's cheap trick and just tried to watch it for what it was....which was well done.
 

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I liked the quality of the B&W. Gritty. Grainy. 5 o'clock shadows.
They didnt just go with glamour B&W that you see in a movie like Pleasantville.
I liked Capote as well. The colors were so muted, that it almost felt like a B&W.
 

Lincsong

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Definition of Left and Right in the Economic Sense

shamus said:
I haven't seen it either, but probably will.

Being not around during those times, what true evil was the left doing?

Who was the "left" during the 50's? Who was the "Right?"

and how did the filmmakers use propaganda to do it

Political ideology is split between the "left" and the "right". A "left" leaning ideology is one that advocates the public ownership or public/private ownership of major industries, if not public/private ownership then bureaucratic regulation of industies. An example in the 1950's would be the British, French, Spanish and Argentine economies where the government owned all or part of key industries like rail, coal, telephone etc. A "far left" ideology advocates the total public ownership of all means of commerce, all property and all decisions regarding commerce and the replacement of God with the state. The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe of the 1950's is the example of "far left" ideology.

A "right" leaning ideology believes in the private ownership of capital and industries with minimal government regulation over commerce. It places trust in the individual person to make his own decisions concerning what to buy, where to invest, what to create. A "far right" ideology beleives in the absolute free flow of capital and goods with no government regulation, no taxation of capital and the supremacy of private property. An example of a "right" leaning ideology was America in the 1950's (although we had a taxation rate top out at 90%) and a "far right" ideology would be Hong Kong.

The true evil that the "far Left" was doing in the 1940's and 1950's was attempting to use the economic model of U.S. capitalism to portray the U.S. system in a negative light while highlighting the Soviet system as superior through the medium of film. For instance the film "Song of Russia" was about an American who falls in love with a Russian. It showed people in Russia singing opera and dancing and growing wheat and being happy. It didn't show the gulags, mass starvations etc. that Stalin was inflicting on his people at the time. While the film "The Best Years of Our Lives" showed a returning vet being looked down upon, a double amputee vet being maladjusted, another aged beyond his years, housing shortages, high unemployment etc. It really did make people question whether post World War II America really was the "best years of our lives". That movie was made in 1946.
 
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