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Taxi Driver 1976
“The archetypal American is a displaced person– arrived from a rejected past, breaking into glorious future, on the move, fearless himself, feared by others, killing but cleansing the world of things that ‘need killing,’ loving but not bound by love, rootless but carrying the Center in himself, a gyroscopic direction-setter, a traveling norm.”
-Gary Wilson in John Wayne’s AmericaThough the era when John Wayne and Western films dominated the film industry has long passed, the legacy of the lonesome…
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Johnny Got His Gun 1971
Famed French filmmaker François Truffaut famously argued, “There is no such thing as an anti-war film.” The argument supposes that all war films, even those that intend to condemn war, inescapably will promote and glorify warfare through their portrayal of the thrilling nature of combat and producing an overall atmosphere of patriotic fervor. In Truffaut’s view, “to show something is to ennoble it.” Films like American Sniper, Saving Private Ryan, and even Full Metal Jacket intend to depict the horrors…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible." -Frank Herbert
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