Videos Spendulus Suggests
NOTE FROM SPENDULUS:
These videos are related to the subjects which Glenn Beck focuses on. They are great movies, and cheap, because none are the BlueRay new releases.
I prefer watching in the native language. Most people don’t. Before ordering DVDs, check that you’ve got the region code, language, aspect ratio, and black or white vs. colorized correct per your needs. Some of these are classic, some are black and white, some are foreign films.
The nature of politics and the media.
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – with James Stewart there’s a scene where after 23 hours of filibustering, Smith is confronted with 50,000 telegrams against his position from his home state. Phony….telegrams.
- Network – with Faye Dunaway, William Holden Howard Beale, the newscaster that cracked and told it like it was. Like it really was. As he saw it. Go to the window right now and shout….
- Citizen Kane – by Orson Welles
Con and comedy
- The Sting – with Paul Newman, Robert Redford. In fact, to fully understand politics it helps to watch the entire list of 44 con artist movies. Recognize the long and short cons when someone pulls them. Politicians do that pretty often.
- Kung Fu Hustle – with Stephen Chow. What is amazing about this movie is that it came out of mainland China. We see, then, the freedom of artistic expression previously chained, in a first class film.
- Napoleon Dynamite
Political correctness.
Dystopian visions
- Office Space – by Mike Judge
- The Man Without a Past
- Gattaca – Xander Berkeley
- They Live – starring Roddy Piper
- Blade Runner – with Harrison Ford
- Idiocracy – with Luke Wilson, directed by Mike Judge If “Brawndo has got Electrolytes” makes no sense to you, this movie is required training material in the University of RealWorld. That’s where you either lead, follow or get out of the way.
- 1984. If you have read the book, you will appreciate the movie.
- The Man Without A Past. A Finnish film, roughly the European equivalent of Office Space. From the review in Wikipedia here is the plot summary: The film begins with an unnamed man arriving by train to Helsinki. After falling asleep in a park, he is mugged and beaten by hoodlums and is severely injured in the head, losing consciousness. He awakes and wanders back to the train station and collapses in its bathroom. He awakes the second time in a hospital and finds that he has lost his memory. He starts his life from scratch, living in container dwellings, finding clothes with help from the Salvation Army and making friends with the poor.
Individualism, inner strength instead of the collective.
- Amores Perros
- The Virgin Spring – with Max von Sydow
- The Fountainhead – with Gary Cooper
- King of the Hill with Jesse Bradford
- La Misma Luna/Under the Same Moon
Regarding La Misma Luna, don’t let this one fool you. At first glance it looks as if it is likely to be a bleeding heart documentary of illegal aliens. It’s not. It’s the story of a ten year old kid from Mexico that has to find his way from Mexico to his mother in Los Angeles, on his own.
And in a class all it’s own.
All seasons are equally good. There’s always a subject you can show a friend and thus your friends can be training in recognizing bullsh… Some language/nudity may offend.
