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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBeen watching the movie V for Vendetta.
The High Chancellor is freakishly similar to Trump.
TXCritter
(344 posts)Calista241
(5,586 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)a 74 episode Colombian production about Pablo Escobar and I'm just amazed how often the words coming out of Escobar are the same as Trump's.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)The original is a classic.
The second one turns up the paranoia level until the knob breaks off. Then it keeps going.
The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 American black-and-white Cold War neo-noir suspense thriller, produced by George Axelrod and John Frankenheimer, directed by John Frankenheimer, and starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Janet Leigh; co-starring are Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva, and James Gregory. The screenplay by George Axelrod is based on the 1959 novel The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon.
The Manchurian Candidate concerns the brainwashing of the son of a prominent right-wing political family, who becomes an unwitting assassin in an international communist conspiracy. The film was released in the United States on October 24, 1962, at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was well-received and was nominated for two Academy Awards.
The Manchurian Candidate is a 2004 American science fiction political-thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme.[3] The film, based on Richard Condon's 1959 novel of the same name and a re-imagining of the previous 1962 film, stars Denzel Washington as Bennett Marco, a tenacious, virtuous soldier; Liev Schreiber as Raymond Shaw, a U.S. Representative from New York, manipulated into becoming a vice-presidential candidate; Jon Voight as U.S. Senator Tom Jordan, a challenger for vice president; and Meryl Streep as Eleanor Prentiss Shaw, also a U.S. Senator and the manipulative, ruthless mother of Raymond Shaw.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)That's exactly who Trump would have been, but for a few very minor changes. Worth a watch.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Leader elected out of media-fueled economic and immigrant fear.
Leader has private security force.
Leader has media in his pocket.
Leader wants to quash net neutrality in the name of protecting corporate America.
Leader has a rogue's gallery of billionaires, climate deniers, crank magnets and various other evil corporatistas in his cabinet.
Leader relies on national symbols and slogans.
Leader is incredibly thin skinned and autocratic.
. . . who's going to be OUR V? It might need to be all of us.
"You need only look in a mirror", indeed.