Another 335 essay: Bob Roberts is A Face in Every Crowd
Compare the character of Lonesome Rhodes from A Face In The Crowd with the title character in Bob Roberts. What do these characters say about each filmmaker’s view of the common man in America? What do these characters tell us about corruption in the American political system (and the...
Pols335, A Face In The Crowd: Wherein Foghorn Leghorn is acknowledged for the bastard bird he is.
God, I hated this movie. That’s all I remember about it; how irritating it was to watch. Still liking my writing though. A Pulp Fiction joke, ‘noble civil savages’, there’s some good stuff in here. A Face in the Crowd How does the film end? In the final scene...
More Pols 335, another film I don’t remember watching. Bob Roberts? Hey, if you say so.
I was reading through for a last edit, and through question after question, I couldn’t for the life of me remember watching the movie, or anything about it. I remember writing this, but not watching what I was writing about. Still I enjoyed the reading. Some legit future-predicting commentary...
Captain America, The Falcon, and The Whiter Soldier
I’m just a few eps into Falcon & Winter Soldier, so you know all this already. When this show started, there were a few special writers online who were giving them shit for failing to solve racism in a six-episode run. The introduction of politics was ham-fisted, it wasn’t...
Pols335 essay: The political integrity of a celluloid fantasy.
There were three movies in this module- All the President’s Men, Good Night/Good Luck, and Shattered Glass. There were no question sets for Shattered Glass, which was good because I didn’t actually watch it. I sat through maybe the first half-hour and then had to walk away. Hayden Christensen...
Avengers, Assembled, and Packaged for Consumption
Dinner theater tonight is the first Avengers team-up. So much toxic masculinity being ejaculated all over the screen! Anyway, I want to see the Infinity War that’s all about Thanos trying to double the amount of food in the universe, and the Avengers dying to stop him because their...
The Hunt for Red October and The Art of Modern War
In my head, Red October is still the best Clancy picture, by far. Harrison Ford was too Mr America, and Ben Affleck was too jock. There’s no way around it, Jack Ryan is a Baldwin. The movie was so good it inspired me to read the book, the book...
Good Night and Good Luck Having a Good Night if This is What You’re Reading
The second film from the second module, Politics & Film. I’d seen this one before, so each of these questions got some background processing not afforded to most of the other movies in the course. Reading through this today, I’m still pretty solid on the answers written. Good Night,...
In Space, No One Can Hear You Wonder Why David Fincher Is So Weird About Jesus
WordPress has a plugin that scores each post title per some algorithm of clickability. On a hundred-point scale, that one got a 69. Nice. Anyway, I burned through the Alien movies the other day. Which is to say, the Ripley films. I skipped the first one entirely, because honestly...
All the President’s Horses and All the President’s Men
My writing style has become reasonably casual, parsed with a pompous vocabulary in pursuit of legitimacy (ha). I’ll construct essays like stories, and there’s nothing wrong with a joke every now and again. I like to think it conveys a comfortable confidence with the material, a “yeah I know...