Oliver Stone is to directing movies what a croquet mallet is to carving a turkey. Platoon is yet another movie – the most heavy-handed to date – that proves war is hell. War is hell. I get it, Hollywood. I get it. In fact, I’ve been getting it since All Quiet on the Western Front […]
Entries Tagged as 'Left-Leaning Politics'
Platoon
October 17th, 2009 · No Comments · 1986, Color, Drama, F-Word, Left-Leaning Politics, Oliver Stone, Original Screenplay, Orion Pictures Corporation, Platoon, War
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How Green Was My Valley
September 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · 1941, Adaptation, Black and White, Composer: Alfred Newman, Donald Crisp, Drama, Earl Hamner Jr., Fox Film Corporation, How Green Was My Valley, John Ford, Left-Leaning Politics, Roddy McDowell
How Green Was My Valley opens with a first-person, voice-over narrator describing the beauty and bounty of his childhood home, a verdant valley in South Wales in a poor, turn-of-the-century coal-mining town. In the movie, the narrator is represented by Huw, a very young Roddy McDowell, another of my favorite character actors. I fondly remember […]
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Life of Emile Zola, The
August 29th, 2009 · No Comments · 1937, Adaptation, Biopic, Black and White, Composer: Max Steiner, Donald Crisp, Drama, Left-Leaning Politics, Life of Emile Zola, Paul Muni, Warner Bros. Pictures
I approached this movie with three primary questions at the forefront of my mind: 1. Who was Emile Zola? 2. Who was Paul Muni? 3. What is this movie about? To the first, I turn to an entry on Wikipedia: Émile François Zola (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, […]
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