Hollywood POlitical Films

[groucho070]

(Thread triggered from discussion with Kid in CC)

Considering that they are mostly left or liberal, it's a wonder why Hollywood does not produce many political films. The few I saw are all awesome. I simply love them, even if some have predictable storylines. I lump them with espionage stories that in a way deals with the government.

Arasiyale ithelam satharanamappa

The Candidate
Charlie Wilson War
City Hall
Wag The Dog
Absolute Power
Capricone One
All The President's Men.
The China Syndrome
The Insider

(Government) Kossu Tollai tanggamudiyalapaa

The Anderson Tapes
The Conversation
The Manchurian Candidate (original)
Good Night & Good Luck
Guilty By Suspician


Tensan tensan tensan adadadada orey tensanappa
JFK
The Day of The Jackal
The Eagle has landed
The Fourth Protocol
Harry Palmer films
Marathon Man
Three Days of Condor
Thirteen Days.

That's what I can think of right now.

[ajithfederer]

Biographical??

W.
Frost and Nixon



Satire/Dark Comedy

Dr. Strangelove :bow: all philums move 10 steps that side.

[groucho070]

Yeah, give a Annan line for Biographical :smile: Add Stone's Nixon to that list. I haven't watched Frost & Nixon. Dr. Strangelove-um political tane, then yes it belongs there. I yam also :bow:ing

[kid-glove]

Excellent thread.

Off top of my head: The West Wing, The Manchurian Candidate (original), The Conversation, BlowOut, Dr.Strangelove, The Insider, State of Play (the British series is infinitely better), Nashville, Syriana, Traffic, Paranoia trilogy (Klute, ATP'sMen, TPView), Reds, Thick of it (British series is much more funny, but the full length feature film is about the norm too), Chinatown, Lord of War, The International, The Ghost Writer (Is this counted as Hollywood?).

Does Taxi Driver count?

How do we absolve of the overwhelming political underpinnings in films like "Revenge of the Sith" or The Dark Knight? Just as difficult to keep off the decidedly war-based films like Shoah, etc.

Bond and Bourne Series are extremely political too. Or Hitch's films for that matter?!

[groucho070]

Taxi Driver, more of psychological thriller, I'd say, though the political sub-plot is strong, and not to forget the film itself inspired an attempted political assasination. To include Brits, and TV series, you have to bring in Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister. Brilliant series. The West Wing oru episode kooda parthathilla. War based films? Path's of Glory? Casualties of War?

[kid-glove]

Taxi Driver, more of psychological thriller, I'd say, though the political sub-plot is strong, and not to forget the film itself inspired an attempted political assasination. To include Brits, and TV series, you have to bring in Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister. Brilliant series. The West Wing oru episode kooda parthathilla. War based films? Path's of Glory? Casualties of War?

Thanks for the reco Bro. Even if I plug in the british originals, the American feature film equivalents (both State of Play and Thick of it) are pretty good too.

Path's of Glory is French, isn't it? That's the problem we surface in Hollywood. It's well and truly a global industry.

[groucho070]

PoG, made in Hollywood, and yes about the French. Seriously, you got to watch the "Minister" series. Even Tatcher liked it.Of the Paranoia trilogy, I haven't watched TPV, and Klute. Soon...soon...More on war based, how about Fat Man and Little Boy?

[kid-glove]

PoG, made in Hollywood, and yes about the French. Seriously, you got to watch the "Minister" series. Even Tatcher liked it.Of the Paranoia trilogy, I haven't watched TPV, and Klute. Soon...soon...More on war based, how about Fat Man and Little Boy?

Yes. That apart, your opinion on The Odessa File, assuming you have seen it.

Moreover, Nicholson got two classics in "The Last Detail" and "A Few Good Men" (but that would qualify more as a 'legal drama' I suppose!)

[groucho070]

TOF, nope. Haven't seen it. Hey, how about that Warren Beatty film....mindla varamattengguthu...

[kid-glove]

TOF, nope. Haven't seen it. Hey, how about that Warren Beatty film....mindla varamattengguthu...

Shampoo? :lol:

[kid-glove]

TOF, nope. Haven't seen it. Hey, how about that Warren Beatty film....mindla varamattengguthu...

Shampoo? :lol:

[groucho070]

Bulworth.

Shampoo political-a? :lol:

[kid-glove]

Shampoo political-a? :lol:

Almost all Hal Ashby films are socio-political satires. Even "Coming Home" (which forms a quirky trilogy of sorts with Shampoo and The Last Detail)

:lol: was for his appearance.

[groucho070]

By the way, have you read this book called, "Raging Bulls and Easy Riders"? I must have mentioned it before.

[groucho070]

Crap, its Easy Riders Raging Bulls. Title maranthupochu ithula recommendation vera.

[P_R]

enna pEsikkireengannE puriyalai :oops:

Of the films listed I have only seen Good Night & Good Luck and Marathon Man.

[Stiglitz]

The Odessa File - A Thrilling Story of a Journalist in Hamburg Germany 20+ years after the Toppling of the Nazi Regime, who is hell bent on Finding Kommandant Edward Roshman, a Rabid anti-semetic who served as a Kommandant at a fictional Concentration Camp at Riga. At first it seems that the young Journalist is after him because of the death of 70k Jews at Camp Riga, but things change as the movie goes on... I love this movie partly because its A movie on the Nazies and the Holocaust which isn't preachy...

I'm surpriced no one has mentioned Casino Jack... Kevin Spacey plays the role of Lobbyist Jack Abermoff.

[Stiglitz]

Name a few obvious ones to get them out of the way:

American History X

An Inconvenient Truth
Fahrenheit 9/11
Bowling for Columbine

I'm guessing Documentaries count as Hollywood. :huh:

One of the Best Political satires ever made : Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator." :rotfl:

[kid-glove]

Documentaries ! Jeez, how did we miss the boat! Krovucho bro will take care of it.

But I'd still, still suggest films that are decidedly put in to other genres that would qualify with strong political allegories and commentary. The Mist, for example. Or the obscenely worse 300 for that matter?

[V_S]

I have not see many, but my all time favorite is 'Mr. Smith goes to Washington', starring James Stewart as Senator, directed by Frank Capra. Wonderful film. Jimmy's tremendous performance, and for just that climax, I can watch any number of times.