Should be Reissued: Trump personifies Chance
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Being There
awrobel — 9 years ago(July 20, 2016 10:16 PM)
Film should be reissued before the Election of 2016. The public should see it and realize that Trump personifies the nonsense that would emerge as pearls of wisdom from Chance's mouth. It would truly be a public service.
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Edward_de_Vere — 9 years ago(July 26, 2016 07:14 AM)
unlike the current President, who campaigned on detailed policy proposals and deep philosophical discourses like "Hope" and "Change."
In case you haven't noticed, both parties have been running Chauncey Gardiners for decades. People find technocrats who actually know how to do things boring, so they don't stand a chance. -
Mamabadger56 — 9 years ago(December 14, 2016 04:31 PM)
It's not an exact parallel, but I do see one important similarity. It seems to me that Donald Trump gained as much popularity and success as he did because almost anything he said or did was immediately re-interpreted by his listeners. Early in his campaign, his supporters stopped cheering for what he promised to do, and began cheering for what they felt it meant. White supremacists saw him as an opportunity to have one of their own in power. Working class people saw him as someone who championed their neglected concerns. Americans who felt the government was out of touch with them, saw Trump as an outsider who would clean up political corruption. And so forth, every faction seeing and hearing what they wanted to.
I've heard interviews with some of his supporters who raved about his promise to expel certain racial groups from the U.S., and how that would logically lead to cracking down on minorities; and with other supporters, who laughed and said that of course he would
never
do such an awful thing, and didn't intend to. They listened to the same speech, but heard completely different messages. It seemed to be the same all around.
Just like Chance, Donald Trump was a blank canvas on which everyone applied what they expected, or what they wanted. He would say outrageous things sometimes, or ridiculous things, or even patently untrue things, and voters would hear something seemingly unrelated to his actual words. It worked, but what happens next? He's been elected now, and even his supporters still don't agree on what he can be expected to do. What would happen if Chance were elected president?
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SealedCargo — 5 years ago(August 05, 2020 07:25 AM)
it's OBAMA who is Chance
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