Flags of Our Fathers
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- GreedoLives0
is that why they made the 'indian' true to the character and made him an alcoholic who hated the fact of being on display?
and 'shaped to fit the political aims of the flimmaker/studio'. i like that.
it works well in these movies.
blood diamond
the queen
all the king's men
hollywoodland
man of the year
conversations with god
al franken: god spoke
jesus camp
the ground truthand lets not forget the epic
an unconvenient truth
farenheit 911so.......... what were you saying again cause out of all of those movies with an agenda i only see you yappin your gums at one from wwII that captures a story not mentioned much before.
k0na_an0k
(Oct 17 06, 09:12)i try to stay out of the political threads cause they're annoying and always always always descend to namecalling. i haven't seen any of those movies and i haven't seen this one either, but i probably will, even. It just seems really obvious to me that since we're 'at war' in iraq, a war which was sold to you through massive propaganda (i doubt even the most conservative people on here could argue with that at this point) , out comes a movie about how propaganda sold you WW2. There was a lot of reticence of going into this war, which is why it took Japan attacking the US to get this thing going. Then you pull out these random guys that erected a flag and make them heroes, parade them around the country. Jessica Lynch anyone?
It's nothing new that movies make political points, and it's nothing new that 'historical' movies make these points, they all usually carry some sort of message we're supposed to take away.
And there's not enough hours in a day for me to complain about everything i'd like to.