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.

Comments

[filthy-habit.livejournal.com]

I'd probably whack The Rookie off the list and use The Natural as the representative sports/baseball movie, or possibly Eight Men Out.

You also left off an obvious one: The Godfather (saga). Nothing more American than the immigrant experience.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I thought about that but i left The Rookie because of the second chance-major longshot theme, plus it's Disney and what's more American than Disney?

[filthy-habit.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but The Natural aspires to be a myth while The Rookie is just a true story. You know how Americans love to build myths.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Hey, any true story turns into a myth when filtered through Disney.

Just down the block from Disney Land

[venividi.livejournal.com]

What's more american than disney?

The Crystal Cathedral, of course:
http://www.seeing-stars.com/Churches/CrystalCathedral.shtml

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

PRE-CISELY.

They should really sell Robert Schuller wigs.