Watch this movie with a "2016" point-of-view and you'll see what I'm talking about..
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Lucky_Man — 9 years ago(April 22, 2016 06:29 PM)
The people depicted in this film are the ones who vote at all.
I watched this movie with a "2016" point of view and I saw that nothing much has changed in 40 years.
People are animals. People are dumb. That's pretty much it. -
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Mamabadger56 — 9 years ago(January 04, 2017 01:16 PM)
Trump is Beale, an escape valve for people that have had enough.
That's exactly the way I see it. Like Beale, Trump could say almost anything; it could make sense or not. He represented something people wanted in place of the government they felt didn't represent them, and they were prepared to follow him regardless of whether he was mad, dangerous, stupid, or incompetent. They were voting that they were angry, and Trump somehow became the personification of their anger.
The reaction is perfectly understandable in a way, although what happens when someone like this is actually in charge in the real world, God only knows. We'll soon see.
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SloppyJ30 — 9 years ago(January 10, 2017 07:49 AM)
Aimless, xenophobic, aggressively anti-intellectual, petty anger as a solution to the country's problems? Oh, boy! Sign me up!
After voting GOP from 1992-2012, I've always chided people who openly root for any POTUS to fail. Now, I find myself doing exactly that. For the first time in 45 years, I'm genuinely embarrassed to be American.
As for the Beale/Trump comparison, there's one
YUUUUUUGE
difference . . Beale's speeches were fantastically evocative. Chayefsky gave the character some of the most potent monologues in movie history. Trump? Urrrrrrm . . less so. Have you ever tried reading any of his speeches, debate responses, etc? To call him an inarticulate boob would be to understate the problem. This man is supposed to be a statesman, representing a proud nation with a history of electing charismatic orators. Instead, we get the proverbial drunk uncle who has a hard time keeping a train of thought on track for more than 30 seconds.
And can we imagine Howard Beale picking Twitter wars with third-rate celebrities or reacting to every public slight? He's a made-up dude, so who knows, but I cannot.I have meddled with the primal forces of nature and I will atone.