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7/22 NY Times critic to write Manchurian Candidate more partisan than Fahrenheit 9/11 - http://www.drudgereport.com/flash7.htm I really can't stop laughing. :D \_ The movie is a remake, so... \_ Not really. They're just stealing the name and *very* basic plot outline. \_ DAMN ... YOU ... LIBERAL ... MEDIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! \_ Does the movie have anything to do with Manchuria? Thx. \_ The original did, but I might give it away if I say too much. \_ Evil and devious Chinese tries to fool honest but simple-minded Americans and take over the country. |
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www.drudgereport.com/flash7.htm RICH: 'MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE' MORE PARTISAN THAN 'FAHRENHEIT 911' Thu Jul 22 2004 20:56:59 ET "I cannot recall when Hollywood last released a big-budget mainstream feature film as partisan as this one at the height of a presidential campaign." So believes NY TIMES's Frank Rich about the upcoming PARAMOUNT thriller MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE. "Freed from any obligations to fact, MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE can play far dirtier than FAHRENHEIT 911," writes Rich in a column set for release this Sunday, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE. MORE "The American people are terrified," says Streep's villainous senator early on as, John Ashcroft-style, she wields a national security report promising "another cataclysm, probably nuclear." And so we watch her and the rest of the Manchurian Global cabal exploit that fear in any way possible, using the mass media as a brainwashing tool, manipulating patriotic iconography for political ends. A televised election night rally features a Mount Rushmore backdrop (as in a signature Bush photo op) and a chorus line of heroic cops and firemen (reminiscent of the early Bush-Cheney ads exploiting the carnage at ground zero)." |