WhiteAlert
August 3rd, 2004, 04:21 PM
The Manchurian Candidate
reviewed August 3, 2004
The 1962 “Manchurian Candidate” is a classic, even though it was taken entirely out of distribution for 25 years, ostensibly because of the film’s eerie foreshadowing of the assassination of President Kennedy. Made in black-and-white, John Frankenheimer’s tense thriller about Chinese Communist brainwashing has even become a part of our political vocabulary. While it was a superbly crafted film, it was not only ludicrous in its premise, but leftist in its message. It showed some evil, nasty right-wing Republicans and cast them as secret Communist agents, obviously trying to make the political point that Joseph McCarthy and other commie hunters were really doing the work of the reds. Silly, of course, but don’t forget that Frankenheimer was a jew and McCarthy was really targeting jews in the 1950s. Ideology aside, I would still recommend seeing it if you never have.
We now have a remake of “The Manchurian Candidate” that has just opened in theaters. I called it the “niggerized version” the other day, and that was only because the new film stars Denzel Washington in the part originally played by Frank Sinatra. After seeing the movie, however, I now know there is even more reason to call it “niggerized,” because it is loaded with niggers in just about every scene. Aside from race, however, there are numerous other differences between the two versions. In fact the only real similarity seems to be in the names of the characters, so we now have a black “Major Marco” in spite of the fact that blacks don’t usually have Italian surnames.
The original version featured Korean War veterans, and the brainwashing has now been updated to take place during the Gulf War of 1991. The brainwashing techniques have also been updated to include computer chip technology unknown in the 1950s. Fair enough, because I think that’s a legitimate exercise of artistic license. After all, it’s being done to Shakespeare all the time.
Most of the action takes place in the present, and we begin with Major Marco addressing a meeting of Boy Scouts and speaking about the bravery of Congressional Medal of Honor winner Sgt. Raymond Shaw (Leiv Schreiber), who was under his command during the first Gulf War. He was a captain at that time, with a distinguished record commanding elite forces, something niggers do only in Hymiewood. The Scouts and the adults in the audience are multicultural, naturally, with only a small sprinkling of Whites to be seen. Not a very good start for me.
There are numerous differences in plot and story line from the original, but I’m not going to try to detail them. Notable, however, is Meryl Streep playing the Angela Lansbury part as Sgt. Shaw’s icy-cold, domineering mother and secret “controller.” Here she is a U.S. Senator rather than a senator’s wife, and Streep seems to have taken her inspiration from Hillary Rodham Clinton. This is one performance that was enjoyable to watch, because she has Clinton’s mannerisms down cold and it is easy to imagine real-life Witch Hillary behaving exactly like Streep’s character.
It is no longer Communists who are the bad guys now, but the screenwriter has to somehow work in the title “Manchurian,” so we have the sinister international conglomerate “Manchurian Global Systems” as the power now trying to manipulate the political system. They are attempting a bloodless coup by brainwashing their own candidate who they will be able to completely control once he is elected. Sound familiar? Trouble is, I found myself empathizing with the villains, because one of their biggest operatives is a (White) South African geneticist (read “nazi”) and I like the idea of a bloodless coup against ZOG.
This new version does not have the suspense, the tension, or the film noir quality of the tightly-written original, but it is not really a bad political thriller taken on its own terms. Jonathan Demme, who made “Silence of the Lambs,” does a competent job of directing, and a generation which has neither seen nor remembers the 1962 original will probably like it. I would have liked it much more myself if there hadn’t been so many niggers in it.
RICH BROOKS
©2004 Rich Brooks. All rights reserved.
here: http://www.whitealert.com/manchurian_candidate.htm
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reviewed August 3, 2004
The 1962 “Manchurian Candidate” is a classic, even though it was taken entirely out of distribution for 25 years, ostensibly because of the film’s eerie foreshadowing of the assassination of President Kennedy. Made in black-and-white, John Frankenheimer’s tense thriller about Chinese Communist brainwashing has even become a part of our political vocabulary. While it was a superbly crafted film, it was not only ludicrous in its premise, but leftist in its message. It showed some evil, nasty right-wing Republicans and cast them as secret Communist agents, obviously trying to make the political point that Joseph McCarthy and other commie hunters were really doing the work of the reds. Silly, of course, but don’t forget that Frankenheimer was a jew and McCarthy was really targeting jews in the 1950s. Ideology aside, I would still recommend seeing it if you never have.
We now have a remake of “The Manchurian Candidate” that has just opened in theaters. I called it the “niggerized version” the other day, and that was only because the new film stars Denzel Washington in the part originally played by Frank Sinatra. After seeing the movie, however, I now know there is even more reason to call it “niggerized,” because it is loaded with niggers in just about every scene. Aside from race, however, there are numerous other differences between the two versions. In fact the only real similarity seems to be in the names of the characters, so we now have a black “Major Marco” in spite of the fact that blacks don’t usually have Italian surnames.
The original version featured Korean War veterans, and the brainwashing has now been updated to take place during the Gulf War of 1991. The brainwashing techniques have also been updated to include computer chip technology unknown in the 1950s. Fair enough, because I think that’s a legitimate exercise of artistic license. After all, it’s being done to Shakespeare all the time.
Most of the action takes place in the present, and we begin with Major Marco addressing a meeting of Boy Scouts and speaking about the bravery of Congressional Medal of Honor winner Sgt. Raymond Shaw (Leiv Schreiber), who was under his command during the first Gulf War. He was a captain at that time, with a distinguished record commanding elite forces, something niggers do only in Hymiewood. The Scouts and the adults in the audience are multicultural, naturally, with only a small sprinkling of Whites to be seen. Not a very good start for me.
There are numerous differences in plot and story line from the original, but I’m not going to try to detail them. Notable, however, is Meryl Streep playing the Angela Lansbury part as Sgt. Shaw’s icy-cold, domineering mother and secret “controller.” Here she is a U.S. Senator rather than a senator’s wife, and Streep seems to have taken her inspiration from Hillary Rodham Clinton. This is one performance that was enjoyable to watch, because she has Clinton’s mannerisms down cold and it is easy to imagine real-life Witch Hillary behaving exactly like Streep’s character.
It is no longer Communists who are the bad guys now, but the screenwriter has to somehow work in the title “Manchurian,” so we have the sinister international conglomerate “Manchurian Global Systems” as the power now trying to manipulate the political system. They are attempting a bloodless coup by brainwashing their own candidate who they will be able to completely control once he is elected. Sound familiar? Trouble is, I found myself empathizing with the villains, because one of their biggest operatives is a (White) South African geneticist (read “nazi”) and I like the idea of a bloodless coup against ZOG.
This new version does not have the suspense, the tension, or the film noir quality of the tightly-written original, but it is not really a bad political thriller taken on its own terms. Jonathan Demme, who made “Silence of the Lambs,” does a competent job of directing, and a generation which has neither seen nor remembers the 1962 original will probably like it. I would have liked it much more myself if there hadn’t been so many niggers in it.
RICH BROOKS
©2004 Rich Brooks. All rights reserved.
here: http://www.whitealert.com/manchurian_candidate.htm
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