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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust watched High Noon
And though it was made in response to McCarthyism the townspeople are a perfect portrait of the GOP Congress showing both cowardice in the face of a criminal coming to town, or outright support for the bad guy.
They have forsaked our country.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)Which Donald Trump has done to this country.
msongs
(67,413 posts)edhopper
(33,580 posts)the Blacklist. "Great American".
VOX
(22,976 posts)Well worth the read, about all the politics (figurative and literal) surrounding the film.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/02/high-noons-secret-backstory
In this adaptation from his new book, High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic (Bloomsbury), Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter Glenn Frankel reveals how power and politics shapedand almost scuttleda cinematic landmark.
VANITY FAIR by GLENN FRANKEL
FEBRUARY 22, 2017
It is one of Hollywoods most iconic images: a lawman walking down a deserted Western street toward a showdown with four armed killers. For more than 60 years, High Noon, starring Gary Cooper, has embedded itself in our culture and our national memory. Its title itself has become legendary, connoting a moment of truth when a good man must confront evil.
Shot in 32 days on a shoestringwith its famous star working for a fraction of his normal wageHigh Noon was an afterthought for those who made it, a rush job to fulfill the tail end of an old contract. Yet it vaulted almost immediately to critical acclaim and box-office success. Its taut narrative, powerful performances, evocative theme song, and climactic shootout made it an instant classic. It won four Academy Awards, including best actor for Cooper. Even today it is considered one of the most enduring films of Hollywoods golden age.
Each generation has imposed its own politics and values onto High Noon. Yet what has largely been forgotten is that the man who had written the script had set out with a very specific goal: to make an allegory about the Hollywood blacklist, the men who sought to enforce it, and the cowardly community that stood by silently and allowed it to happen.
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edhopper
(33,580 posts)HUAC. I don't think that is forgotten at all.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Think of everyone born later, many of whom don't even know what HUAC was.
But hey, the way things are going, the milliniels can relive it.