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Essay:Greatest Conservative Movies (view source)
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|This fantastic film from (albeit, very liberal) director Quentin Tarantino, set in 1969 Los Angeles, is a love letter to the older and more conservative film industry. It portrays the main character's alcoholism as the main thing holding him back in his later years. It also shows that hard work always pays off in how successful the main character's career was. In addition to all this, the film's villains, real-life cult leader/criminal [[Charles Manson]] (who masterminded the Tate-LaBianca murders) and his "Family" (who carried out the murders), are [[hippie]]s. The movie shows hippies as they really are - brain-damaged from drug use and really gross in both appearance and personal habits - and it makes no attempt to humanize them. Despite all of this, it does contain historic revisionism, graphic violence (a hallmark of Tarantino movies), and gratuitous drug use (the latter of which is played for laughs and shown as fun and consequence-free, contrary to real life). This was the first film to be made by Tarantino after he broke ties with Bob and [[Harvey Weinstein]] following the latter's convictions for sexual assault, and was also the last film to feature actor Luke Perry prior to his death from a stroke in March 2019.
|This fantastic film from (albeit, very liberal) director Quentin Tarantino, set in 1969 Los Angeles, is a love letter to the older and more conservative film industry. It portrays the main character's alcoholism as the main thing holding him back in his later years. It also shows that hard work always pays off in how successful the main character's career was. In addition to all this, the film's villains, real-life cult leader/criminal [[Charles Manson]] (who masterminded the Tate-LaBianca murders) and his "Family" (who carried out the murders), are [[hippie]]s. The movie shows hippies as they really are - brain-damaged from drug use and really gross in both appearance and personal habits - and it makes no attempt to humanize them. Despite all of this, it does contain historic revisionism, graphic violence (a hallmark of Tarantino movies), and gratuitous drug use (the latter of which is played for laughs and shown as fun and consequence-free, contrary to real life). This was the first film to be made by Tarantino after he broke ties with Bob and [[Harvey Weinstein]] following the latter's convictions for sexual assault, and was also the last film to feature actor Luke Perry prior to his death from a stroke in March 2019.
|$374,341,301
|$374,341,301
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|''Overlord''
|2018
|R
|An action horror movie set during World War II, ''Overlord'' follows several American soldiers who are dropped behind enemy lines into France on the eve of D-Day in 1944 and discovery terrifying Nazi experiments. It's told as a war movie first and foremost, with a fantastical black tar that's used to create immortal soldiers being secondary to the overall realistic tone of the movie. ''Overlord'' features brutal combat and high stakes stealth action, with death coming in swift and without mercy. Furthermore, the Americans are portrayed as the clear heroes of the story, with no attempt to "deconstruct" America or make them look bad, and the Nazis are portrayed as classic villains without any modern socio-political angle of equating them to conservatives. The one prominent female character in the story, a French civilian living under German occupation (played by Mathilde Ollivier), is portrayed as competent and useful, but is still largely a non-combatant, realistic to her overall role, unlike many modern movies that portray women as unstoppable Mary Sues in any setting.
However, one key aspect where modern [[Hollywood values]] ''did'' affect the film was its politically correct casting of integrated black soldiers alongside their white counterparts, and the overall main character himself being a black man (played by Jovan Adepo). In reality, the US troops were racially segregated into different regiments, and the majority of people opposed integration back then. This in defiance of historical accuracy, in an otherwise mostly authentic film. That being said, the black characters aren't given special treatment by the narrative, with one of the first major deaths also being a black soldier who steps on a landmine out of nowhere. Likewise, the white characters are shown to be just as competent and without belittling them or artificially putting them down as is common in woke Hollywood, in particular being the deuteragonist played by Wyatt Russell, portrayed as the stern but noble leader of the squad.
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