DOCSLIB.ORG

Director Beatty's Bulworth

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Director Beatty's Bulworth Page 4 Thursday, June 4, 1998 The Westfield Leader and THE TIMES of Scotch Plains – Fanwood A WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICATION POPCORN The Westfield Leader Director Beatty’s Bulworth: Truth Be Told The Official Newspaper of the Town of Westfield and the County of Union — Established 1890 — By Michael S. Goldberger IMPECCABLE Member of the New Jersey Press Association • Member of the National Newspaper Association • One Popcorn, Poor • Two Popcorns, Fair • Three Popcorns, Good • Four Popcorns, Excellent Periodicals – Postage Paid at Westfield, New Jersey We work very diligently to assure that 3 & 1/2 popcorns final weekend, does a double-take. But the facts upon which our research is based Excerpt from a textbook, Recent the tough black crowd takes notice, are impeccable. We certainly do not want THE TIMES American History, circa 2076: “In the especially Halle Berry as Nina. The to sin on the side of doing peccable re- Official Newspaper of the Township of Scotch Plains and the Borough of Fanwood early years of the 21st century, a Senator’s rap-delivered jeremiad is ob- search. As you might have suspected, — Established 1959 — Bulworthian (i) movement embracing viously liberating. The rejuvenated peccable did, in fact, precede its suffixiated (sic) offspring. Periodicals – Postage Paid at Scotch Plains, New Jersey many of the ideals of the late 1960s Bulworth also notices Nina, the dan- once again gained momentum in gerous love interest. He embraces her, Join us as we travel back in time to the POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the offices of the newspapers at America, ultimately leading to most of as well as the ghetto. Latin word from which impeccable P. O. Box 250, Westfield, New Jersey 07091 the enlightened political reforms we After a wild night in a black after- stemmed, and on the way we shall tell you enjoy today.” — (i.) In general, any hours club, the next stop is a wealthy about two interesting, though derogatory, brave reformist philosophy or move- film producer’s manse. There, the born words. THE LEADER THE TIMES The source of peccable is the Latin P.O. Box 250 P. O. Box 368 ment. again liberal proves he is an equal From Bulworth, the title character in opportunity offender, no less forthcom- word peccare, meaning “to sin.” Impec- 50 Elm Street, Westfield, N.J. 07091 Scotch Plains, N.J. 07076 cable, while it is the negative of peccable, (908) 232-4407 • Fax: (908) 232-0473 (908) 232-4407 • Fax: (908) 232-0473 a highly controversial motion picture ing with wealthy Jews than he was with released just before the turn-of-the- poor blacks. He engages in insult, the is actually a very positive word and means E-mail: [email protected] century. painful kind that emanates from the “without a flaw.” Peccable produced two PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. Having a fit of conscience, J. mouths of babes, and lets the stereo- naughty offsprings, namely: peccadillo, Billington Bulworth, Democratic Sena- types fall where they may. His hosts “a little sin”; and peccant (not to be Horace R. Corbin Gail S. Corbin tor from California, reacts to the sti- are abashed. confused with its homonym, pecan, a PUBLISHER GENERAL MANAGER fling “political correctness” of the era. But now, the same fickle press that variety of American nut), defined as vio- Suddenly, he cannot tell a lie and single- was ready to paint the ho-hum politi- lating “a rule or acceptable practice.” Paul J. Peyton Suzette F. Stalker Joanna B. Marsh handedly takes on the post World War cian as yesterday’s news, suddenly Make certain that you are not peccant MANAGING EDITOR ASSISTANT EDITOR MARKETING DIRECTOR II military-industrial complex which decides to jump aboard Bulworth’s in terms of your use of words by always has come to compromise American loony bandwagon. Seeing the possi- reading Take My Word For It. Karen M. Hinds democratic freedoms and perpetuate bilities confirmed by the media, the OFFICE MANAGER racism. Senator’s beleaguered top aide, Murphy Pardon the fantasy. But how many (splendidly played to worry wart per- Trip Out of Town Proves SUBSCRIPTION PRICE movies sharpen their daggers and fection by Oliver Platt), does an about THE WESTFIELD LEADER & THE TIMES plunge them directly into the very gut face and begins touting his boss’ new No Escape From the One-year subscription in county $20 of corruption that feeds them? Yep, persona. Monthly Bundle of Bills One-year subscription out-of-county $24 even the fat cats back at the film studio Concurrently, the Senator does some One-year college (September to May) $16 — the ones who sign the checks. Co- fancy footwork in attempting to avoid By Louis H. Clark writing the satirical epiphany with Jer- the efforts of a contract killer. It seems I hate doing bills. emy Pikser, Warren Beatty directs and that, among the handful of subtexts It’s not because I’m cheap. The kids say stars in one of the best political docu- that keep this fast-paced, superbly ed- it is, just because I won’t buy them indi- Welfare Recipients Will Get Second ments set to film in many a moon. ited film bubbling along, in his gloomi- vidual computers. I think I hate it because Given its mainstream movie origi- est hour the Senator had hired the hit- I am tied to a desk for two hours at a time. nation, Bulworth catches you off guard. man; in his own little variation of Iran- Luckily, my wife hates to do bills, too, Look Through Federal Grant Program Its reeling, take-no-prisoners indict- Contra, Bulworth arranged for $10 though she’s much better at it than I am. ment of the American sociopolitical million in life insurance in return for So we have made an arrangement. I do the While Westfield, Scotch Plains, Fanwood and beyond that of others. We all should pitch in and help; scene proves a scintillating outrage. his stance on a bill favoring the haves bills one month, she does them the next Mountainside do not face a large amount of welfare if not materially, then at least intellectually in our areas But while delivered with the jaunty over the have-nots. month. meter of a fast-paced farce, its revolu- But with meaning reintroduced into Of course, I am always accused of being recipients, these towns lie within the County of Union, of strength. We’re fortunate in our immediate region to tionary message is as serious as a heart his life, he’d now like to call off the out of town on purpose when the eighth a county which has the fifth highest welfare rolls in the have many good minds, talented people and a strong attack. killer. You know how that goes, but comes around. That’s the day we do all the state. Thus, reducing this figure will only enhance the infrastructure. We are giving and motivated to share In the opening scene, on the eve of watch for a twist. And a no cop-out bills at once. Anyone who comes in with the 1996 primaries, a severely disillu- ending that seals the movie’s profound a bill after that is out of luck until next regional economy. with others. sioned Senator Bulworth (Warren importance. month’s eighth. As part of national welfare reform, a program called Certainly, it is first necessary to help those on welfare Beatty) is about to come undone. He Warren Beatty, hip-hopping and rap- My wife accuses me of being out of Welfare-to-Work has been created. Out of this program get on their feet so that their everyday burdens are sobs as lackeys feed him the latest ping to a deliriously entertaining pitch, town on purpose. But as I point out, I don’t upbeat poll numbers. fashions a profoundly stylish outrage, get away with anything, because if she has come competitive grants in the amount of $184 alleviated. Then, they have some breathing room to be They don’t care that the political an outlandish, heroic icon who quickly does them when I’m supposed to, she million. Of this total, $5 million will be coming back here helped to grow on a permanent and continuing basis. pundits have labeled their man an old wins our empathy. Others who contrib- marks it on our calendar and I am stuck to Union County. When one considers that only 49 Secondly, they need self-esteem, a belief and desire to be liberal trying to pour himself into a ute substantially to his modern day with doing two months worth of bills. conservative bottle. That’s show biz. morality play include, Don Cheadle I also point out that she does all the grants, chosen from 600 applications, were issued by the self-reliant and contributory. Fear and doubt need to be As for the Senator himself, every pre- (Devil In A Blue Dress) in a fine turn as purchasing, so that she can understand Department of Labor, this is a significant achievement erased. They need to believe that they can continue to pared speech he reads sounds like the the main ghetto gangsta, Paul Sorvino what the bills are all about, but that’s by the county. grow and to achieve on their own as their lives progress. same disingenuous baloney (“Today, as big business incarnate, and Jack never got me anywhere. we embark on...blah, blah, blah, and Warden doing his Runyonesque right- My method of doing the bills is simple. The Department of Human Services staff submitted Creativity and ingenuity are required for the syner- more blah”).
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Critiques / Bulworth / Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas / Feux D’Artifices / the Last Days of Disco / Le Septième Ciel / Wild Man Blues]
    Document generated on 09/27/2021 9:20 p.m. Ciné-Bulles Le cinéma d’auteur avant tout Critiques Bulworth Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Feux d’artifices The Last Days of Disco le Septième Ciel Wild Man Blues Paul Beaucage, Charles-Stéphane Roy and Jean Beaulieu Volume 17, Number 2, Summer 1998 URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/34365ac See table of contents Publisher(s) Association des cinémas parallèles du Québec ISSN 0820-8921 (print) 1923-3221 (digital) Explore this journal Cite this review Beaucage, P., Roy, C.-S. & Beaulieu, J. (1998). Review of [Critiques / Bulworth / Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas / Feux d’artifices / The Last Days of Disco / le Septième Ciel / Wild Man Blues]. Ciné-Bulles, 17(2), 48–56. Tous droits réservés © Association des cinémas parallèles du Québec, 1998 This document is protected by copyright law. Use of the services of Érudit (including reproduction) is subject to its terms and conditions, which can be viewed online. https://apropos.erudit.org/en/users/policy-on-use/ This article is disseminated and preserved by Érudit. Érudit is a non-profit inter-university consortium of the Université de Montréal, Université Laval, and the Université du Québec à Montréal. Its mission is to promote and disseminate research. https://www.erudit.org/en/ Critiques BULWORTH de Jay Bulworth (Warren Beatty), un sénateur dé­ de Warren Beatty mocrate qui, las des mensonges et de la corruption politiques, décide d'avouer la vérité (si âpre soit- elle) à ses électeurs. À quoi doit-on attribuer sa sou­ par Paul Beaucage daine volte-face? Mystère.
    [Show full text]
  • Bulworth: the Hip-Hop Nation Confronts Corporate Capitalism a Review Essay
    Journal of American Studies of Turkey 8 (1998) : 73-80. Bulworth: The Hip-Hop Nation Confronts Corporate Capitalism A Review Essay James Allen and Lawrence Goodheart Co-written, directed by, and starring Warren Beatty, Bulworth (1998) is a scathing political satire that ranks with Stanley Kubrick’s Doctor Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963). While Kubrick skewered assumptions about nuclear strategy at the height of the Cold War, Beatty indicts the current corporate manipulation of American politics. Bulworth challenges the reigning capitalist mystique through a tragi- comedy that blends manifesto with farce and the serious with slapstick, in a format that is as enlightening as it is entertaining. The film is a mix of genres and stereotypes, common to mass-marketed movies, that Beatty nonetheless recasts into a radical message. He calls for democratic socialism and heralds the black urban underclass as its vanguard in a manner reminiscent of Herbert Marcuse’s formulation of a generation ago. The opening scene of Bulworth establishes what Beatty sees as the fundamental malaise of American politics today—that the rich rule the republic. The eponymous protagonist, Senator Jay Billington Bulworth, played by Beatty himself, is the case in point. The incumbent Democratic senator from California has cynically abandoned his former liberal principals in the wake of the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s that marked the demise of the New Deal legacy. Even his pompous three-part name suggests not only a prominent pedigree but also a pandering politician, one full of “bull.” During the last days of the 1996 primary campaign, Bulworth suffers a crisis of faith in his bid for renomination.
    [Show full text]
  • American Auteur Cinema: the Last – Or First – Great Picture Show 37 Thomas Elsaesser
    For many lovers of film, American cinema of the late 1960s and early 1970s – dubbed the New Hollywood – has remained a Golden Age. AND KING HORWATH PICTURE SHOW ELSAESSER, AMERICAN GREAT THE LAST As the old studio system gave way to a new gen- FILMFILM FFILMILM eration of American auteurs, directors such as Monte Hellman, Peter Bogdanovich, Bob Rafel- CULTURE CULTURE son, Martin Scorsese, but also Robert Altman, IN TRANSITION IN TRANSITION James Toback, Terrence Malick and Barbara Loden helped create an independent cinema that gave America a different voice in the world and a dif- ferent vision to itself. The protests against the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights movement and feminism saw the emergence of an entirely dif- ferent political culture, reflected in movies that may not always have been successful with the mass public, but were soon recognized as audacious, creative and off-beat by the critics. Many of the films TheThe have subsequently become classics. The Last Great Picture Show brings together essays by scholars and writers who chart the changing evaluations of this American cinema of the 1970s, some- LaLastst Great Great times referred to as the decade of the lost generation, but now more and more also recognised as the first of several ‘New Hollywoods’, without which the cin- American ema of Francis Coppola, Steven Spiel- American berg, Robert Zemeckis, Tim Burton or Quentin Tarantino could not have come into being. PPictureicture NEWNEW HOLLYWOODHOLLYWOOD ISBN 90-5356-631-7 CINEMACINEMA ININ ShowShow EDITEDEDITED BY BY THETHE
    [Show full text]
  • UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA Los Angeles
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Neoliberalism, Citizenship, and the Spectacle of Democracy in American Film and Television, 1973-2016 A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Film and Television by Alice Elizabeth Royer 2018 © Copyright by Alice Elizabeth Royer 2018 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Neoliberalism, Citizenship, and the Spectacle of Democracy in American Film and Television, 1973-2016 by Alice Elizabeth Royer Doctor of Philosophy in Film and Television University of California, Los Angeles, 2018 Professor William McDonald, Co-Chair Professor Johanna R Drucker, Co-Chair This dissertation examines American films, miniseries, and television shows that center on the democratic process, mobilizing it in the service of stories that both provide intense narrative and visual pleasures, and offer satisfaction in the form of apparent knowledge gained about the inner workings of electoral politics in the United States; these media texts are here theorized as “democracy porn.” Significantly, democracy porn emerges alongside neoliberalism, and its proliferation mirrors that ideology’s meteoric rise to prominence. As such, the dissertation considers texts made since the advent of neoliberalism in 1973, and up to the US presidential election of 2016, which marks a major shift in the meanings and values associated with democracy porn. Through historical, textual, and discourse analysis drawing on critical theories of affect, citizenship, and neoliberalism, the dissertation interrogates the complex ways in which democracy porn is constructed and functions within and surrounding moving image ii texts. The project thus tracks the ways neoliberal ideology manifests in the media texts in question, as well as how the consumption of these texts impacts viewers’ understandings of their own citizenship within a democracy increasingly steered by neoliberal principles.
    [Show full text]
  • 6/2/2016 Dvdjan03 Page 1
    DVDjan03 6/2/2016 MOVIE_NAME WIDE_STDRD STAR1 STAR2 02june2016 BuRay Disney remove group 5198 should add Dig Copies DOC was pbs now most donate Point Break (1991) Bray + dvd + DigHD BluR Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves gary busey / lori petty RR for railroad: SURF-separate ; DG (SAVEdv TRAV MUSIC ELVIS (500) day of summer BluRay Joseph Gordon-Levitt zooey deschanel 10 first time on BluRay (Blake Edwards) Dudley Moore / Julie Andrews Bo Derek 10 (blake edwards) 1st on BR BluR dudney moore / julie andrews bo derek / robert webber 10 items of less (netF) 101 one hundred one dalm (toon) Bray dvd dig disney studios diamond edition 101 one hundred one dalmations ws glenn close jeff daniels 12 monkeys ws bruce willis / brad pitt madelaeine stowe / christopher 127 hours BluR james franco 13 going on 30 (sp. Ed.) - bad ws jennifer garner / mark ruffalo judy greer / andy serkis 13 rue madeleine (war classic) james cagney / annabella richard conte / frank latimore 15 minutes robert deniro edward burns 16 Blocks B ray Bruce Willis / David Morse Mos Def 1776 ws william daniels / howard da silv ken howard / donald madden 1941 john belushi 1984 (vhs->dvd) richard burton john hurt 20 feet from stardom DVD + Bluray best doc oscar 2014 20,000 leagues under the sea (disney) kirk douglas / james mason paul anka / peter lorre 2001 a space odyssey ws keir dullea gary lockwood 2001 A Space Odyssey (S Kubrik) top 10 BluR keir dullea / gary lockwood play: Stanley Kubrick / Arthur C 2001:A Space Odyssey Best WarnerBros 50 B 1968 2010 the year make contct wd roy scheider
    [Show full text]
  • “Process Stories” Guest: Joanna Gleason [Intro Music] HRISHI
    The West Wing Weekly 4.08: “Process Stories” Guest: Joanna Gleason [Intro Music] HRISHI: You’re listening to The West Wing Weekly. My name is Hrishikesh Hirway. JOSH: And mine is Joshua Malina. HRISHI: And the name of this episode is "Process Stories." It's Season 4 Episode 8. JOSH: It aired first on November 13th, 2002. The teleplay is by Aaron Sorkin. The story by Paula Yoo and Lauren Schmidt; Lauren, a name that will be revisited in the series. And this episode was directed by Chris Misiano. HRISHI: "Process Stories" follows directly after the previous episode, "Election Night." In this episode we see Jack Reese moving in to his office in the White House and we learn that Andy Wyatt is actually hoping for a fight over her pregnancy with Conservative factions of the country. Plus, there's a coup in Venezuela and Sam Seaborn decides what he's gonna do in the race for the California 47th. Later on in the episode we'll be joined by the delightful Joanna Gleason, who played Jordon Kendall. This is her last episode as Jordon Kendall. JOSH: She's the best. I'm very sorry to see her character go. HRISHI: Yeah. JOSH: What did you think? Did you like this episode? HRISHI: I do like this episode. I really love episodes that work like this, where they follow directly on the heels of the last episode; where one episode ends, the next episode starts and it's just continuous. JOSH: I like that too. Especially today in the era of Netflix when you can just watch it as essentially one episode.
    [Show full text]
  • Years of Living Dangerously Jessica
    YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY JESSICA ALBA Correspondent Jessica Alba is an actress, activist, New York Times bestselling author, and entrepreneur. Although known throughout the world for her acting career, it is her role as a mom of two girls that inspired the launch of The Honest Company in January 2012. With an all-natural, non-toxic product line that offers diapers, personal care and childcare products, nutritional supplements and household cleaners, The Honest Company (Honest.com) is a mission-driven company and certified B Corporation focused on giving children the best possible start, ensuring families’ and communities’ well-being, and safeguarding the planet through sustainable business practices. In the first year alone, Honest products were listed on the Environmental Working Group’s Sunscreen Guide and recognized by top parenting and eco-friendly awards, including the National Parenting Publication Awards, the Natural Child World Eco-Excellence Awards, Parent Tested Parent Approved, SheKnows Parenting Awards, and The Red Tricycle Totally Awesome Awards. Jessica’s activism endeavors are extensive. In 2010, she was the global ambassador and co-chair for 1Goal, an international campaign tied to the World Cup to expand global education, alongside Queen Rania Abdullah of Jordan and Bono. She has been an avid supporter of several non-profits, including V-Day, Healthy Child Healthy World, Step Up Women’s Network, The Children’s Defense Fund, Declare Yourself and VotoLatino. Her passion for social justice, particularly for women and children, has led to several trips to Capitol Hill. Currently, she is the spokesperson for the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families Coalition, joining leading public health experts to demand government leadership increase protections against toxic chemicals.
    [Show full text]
  • Warren Beatty at BFI Southbank in June 2012
    PRESS RELEASE: May 2012 12/25 Warren Beatty at BFI Southbank in June 2012 Throughout June 2012, BFI Southbank dedicates a season to the acting and directing achievements of Warren Beatty, one of cinema’s most charismatic and legendary actors, and brother of Shirley MacLaine (who also enjoys a companion season of her film work throughout the month). Beatty is almost as famous for his love life as he was for his acting, producing and directing films, having been connected with an array of leading ladies over the years. Beatty’s first major film role was starring alongside Natalie Wood as Bud in the romantic drama Splendor in the Grass (Dir Elia Kazan 1961) based on an original screenplay by American playwright William Inge. Critics refused to take the handsome young Beatty seriously, and he strove for more serious roles which lead to performances in All Fall Down (Dir John Frankenheimer 1962), Robert Rossen’s masterpiece Lilith (1964) and a tour de force turn as a stand-up comic who flees Detroit for Chicago after incurring the wrath of the mob in Arthur Penn’s Mickey One (1964). It was the next film directed by Penn, the classic Bonnie and Clyde (1967), which elevated Beatty’s status in Hollywood. Beatty and co-star Faye Dunaway played the outlaws Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker in a landmark in new American cinema. Over the next ten years, Beatty starred in, produced and occasionally directed some of the most important films in Hollywood. The critically acclaimed McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Dir Robert Altman 1971) considered Beatty’s finest film; Shampoo (Dir Hal Ashby 1975) in which Beatty stars as a womanising hairdresser alongside Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn and a young Carrie Fisher; and the massive box office hit Heaven Can Wait (Dir Warren Beatty 1978) which was nominated for nine Oscars.
    [Show full text]
  • 20Apr2012 Movies
    DVDjan03 4/20/2012 MOVIE_NAME WIDE_STDRD STAR1 STAR2 20apr2012 trying to fix up finally - resolve w 4808 was 4779 was 4482 movies BluRay double counted RR for railroad: SURF-separate ; DG (SAVE park; hula; pbs; clapton disney toons; ELVIS 10 BluR 10 (vhs->dvd) (blake edwards) dudley moore / julie andrews bo derek 10 items of less (netF) 10,000 black men named george aug0 true story of a railroad revolution Ca state RR museum 101 dalmations 12 monkeys ws bruce willis / brad pitt madelaeine stowe / christopher plum 127 hours BluR james franco 13 going on 30 (sp. Ed.) - bad ws jennifer garner / mark ruffalo judy greer / andy serkis 13 rue madeleine (war classic) james cagney / annabella richard conte / frank latimore 15 minutes robert deniro edward burns 1776 ws william daniels / howard da silva ken howard / donald madden 1941 john belushi 1984 (vhs->dvd) richard burton john hurt 2 days in paris (netF) bad julie delpy / adam goldberg 2 days in paris (netf) 2007 weird julie delpy / adam goldberg 2001 space odyssey ws keir dullea gary lockwood 2001: A Space Odyssey (S Kubrik) top 10 BluR keir dullea / gary lockwood play: Stanley Kubrick / Arthur C. Clar 2010 The Year we make contact BluR 2010:year make contct wd roy scheider john lithgow 21 grams sean penn / benico del turo naomi watson? 24 redemption (2 hour special event) kiefer sutherland / cherry jones bob gunton / jon voight 24 season one kiefer sutherland 24 season two kiefer sutherland 3 godfathers (john ford) orig john wayne / pedro armendariz harry carey jr (intro) / ward bond 3 men
    [Show full text]
  • Beatty Beats the System
    # 1999/28 webredaktion https://jungle.world/artikel/1999/28/beatty-beats-system Beatty Beats the System Von tobias nagl Hollywoods Leftist und Reform-Macho Warren Beatty gibt sich in seinem HipHop-Lehrstück "Bulworth" nicht mit Identitätspolitik zufrieden. "Warren Beatty kann nicht rappen", schreibt der afro-amerikanische Literaturprofessor Henry Louis Gates Jr. im New Yorker. Das ist natürlich richtig, aber es ist nicht das Problem. An Warren Beattys hinreißend kluger Komödie "Bulworth", die eine noch nicht in den Strudel der Partikularismen geratene Gesellschaftskritik der sechziger Jahre durch die Hiphop-Kultur der neunziger Jahre revitalisiert, wird man sich vielmehr als an einen der wenigen Hollywood-Filme mit einem tatsächlich politisch radikalen Anliegen erinnern. Bereits vor seinem Kinostart ist der Film zum Politikum geworden. Unzählige Male verschoben, startet er nun in Deutschland über ein Jahr nach seiner US-Premiere mit nicht mal 20 Kopien - und wird es auch hierzulande schwer haben, auf dem segmentierten Kinomarkt ein Publikum zu finden. Zwar wurde "Bulworth" mit einem HipHopSoundtrack, der die ganz Großen des Genres vereint, beworben, einschließlich der MTV-Heavy- Rotation des letztjährigen Sommerhits "Ghetto Supastar" von Praz, Ol' Dirty Bastard und Mya. Dennoch dürfte sich der Film für die jugendlichen Konsumenten von Rap-CDs und neueren schwarzen Komödien als viel zu dialoglastig und zu sehr auf spezifische Fragen der amerikanischen Innenpolitik ausgelegt erweisen. Umgekehrt ist diese lärmige Twentieth Century Fox-Produktion viel zu schmucklos inszeniert - trotz Cameo-Auftritt der afro-amerikanischen Beat-Poetry-Koryphäe Amiri Baraka - und viel zu sehr an issues denn an manieriertem Kunstwollen interessiert, als daß er dem Programmkino-Publikum einen besinnlichen Abend voll schöner Bilder bescheren könnte.
    [Show full text]
  • ACLU Themes in Movies Free Speech
    ACLU themes in movies (most synopses taken from moviesunlimited.com) Free Speech: • “Inherit the Wind” – (1960) Explosive courtroom drama, based on the famed Scopes "Monkey Trial" of the '20s that pitted Creationists against Evolutionists and Clarence Darrow against William Jennings Bryan. The magnificent cast, directed by Stanley Kramer, includes Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Donna Anderson and Claude Akins. • “The People vs. Larry Flynt” – 1996 movie about porn king Larry Flynt’s battles against censorship, in which a young ACLU attorney (played by Edward Norton) defends Flynt’s First Amendment right to publish offensive material. Synopsis: Milos Forman expertly directs the viewer's sympathy toward Larry Flynt (Woody Harrelson in a superb performance): smut peddler, misogynist, and Editor in Chief of the infamous Hustler magazine. Born in the back woods of Appalachia, the young Flynt--in an opening scene that immediately grabs and amuses--is seen selling moonshine as a child to alcoholic hermits. Flash forward to the 1960s, and he's running a go-go club where he meets the wild (and strangely loveable) Althea Leasure (Courtney Love) who becomes his soul mate and wife. Life is not as sweet as it first seems for the porn king who finds a massive readership for his magazine (the first to show crotch shots). He soon finds himself in the middle of several Supreme Court law suits, and also as an assassin's target. While Flynt's various outrageous meetings with self-righteous Reverend Jerry Falwell (Richard Paul) and devout Christian Ruth Carter Stapleton (President Jimmy Carter's sister, played by Rudolph Giuliani's ex-wife Donna Hanover) are hilarious and smartly pointed, it is perhaps the touching, and ultimately tragic, love story between him and Althea that make him very human, and very interesting to watch.
    [Show full text]
  • Shooting the President
    SHOOTING THE PRESIDENT: THE DEPICTION OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY ON FILM AND TELEVISION FROM JOHN F. KENNEDY TO JOSIAH BARTLET Submitted by Matthew David Barber, to the University of Exeter as a thesis for a degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English, September 2009. This thesis is available for Library use on the understanding that it is copyright material and that no quotation from the thesis may be published without proper acknowledgement. I certify that all material in this thesis which is not my own work has been identified and that no material has previously been submitted and approved for the award of a degree by this or any other University. .................................... Abstract This thesis – Shooting the President: Screen Depictions of the American Presidency from John F. Kennedy to Josiah Bartlet – examines the depiction of the presidency in American film and television from 1960 until the present day. In this study I explore the relationships between the presidency and Hollywood, particularly in the context of genre structures. I examine the constructions of specific presidential mythologies based on the real presidencies of Kennedy, Nixon and Clinton and the construction of fictional presidencies in the television series The West Wing. In four sets of case studies, I will chart the changing significance of each president through different genres, looking particularly at how each presidential mythology is affected by the anxieties and fashions of the contemporary political and social world. I also examine the ways in which the appearance of presidentiality is created within each text by various means including set design, the choice of actor, the use of dialogue and the framing of particular characters.
    [Show full text]