ten movies about america

[rone]

dr_strych9 lists 10 films he'd use to explain America.  Here's mine:

• The Blues Brothers
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Network
• The Apostle
• Nobody's Fool
• Bob Roberts
• Fargo
• The Rookie
• X
• Deliverance

Nota bene: i haven't seen "The Rookie" or "Deliverance", but i'm acquainted enough with the stories that i'm confident about their appearance here.

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ten movies

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

The week before Katrina I had a Professor from Germany visit. When it came up in conversation that he was unfamiliar with Betty Boop, I showed the Fleischer Bros shorts "Ha Ha Ha" and "Snow White", after which I said he now knew everything important he needed to know about Betty Boop and the United States.

Catch me in another mood, I might give a completely different list, but for now I'll say:

King Kong (1933)
Citizen Kane
It's A Wonderful Life
The President's Analyist
Liquid Sky
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Red Dawn
Apollo 13
Bulworth
Good Night and Good Luck

Re: ten movies

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

I guess the themes being our amazing national senses of ambition, humor, paranoia, and self contemplation.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Mmm, Bulworth. Totally.

Re: ten movies

[drieuxster.livejournal.com]

Props for adding Liquid Sky!!!

Clearly one of the more important films of the era!!!

Clearly revealed more about the Space Alient Threat than any other film!

Re: ten movies

[venividi.livejournal.com]

Now if you switched to 10 animated films it would be a bigger challenge.

Obviously the list would have to include Fleisher's original clown cartoon, steamboat willy, What's Opera Doc, The Line and The Point, Gerald McBoingBoing and Fritz the Cat, but what else?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Hmm, i'll say The Incredibles.

Re: ten movies, animated

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

Good picks all, but to be contrary, here's a list using none of them:

1)Gertie the Dinosaur
2)Koko's Earth Control (not the first of the series, but an example of the silent Flesher toons at their height)
3)Skeleton Dance (example of early Disney soundie)
4)Snow White (Betty Boop)
5)Snow White (Disney)
6)Peace on Earth
7)One Froggy Evening (For a list of one, this would be it)
8)How the Grinch Stole Christmas
9)Luxo Jr.
10)The Incredibles

Re: ten movies, animated

[venividi.livejournal.com]

Not exactly using "none" of them, as "Koko's Earth Control" is the one I was trying to think of when I wrote "original clown..."

Not sure I place Peace on Earth, but I definitely applaud the others. I picked Point/Line because it's a bit of Jones that most people are not familiar with and deserves to be as well known as Grinch.