The Pursuit of Happyness is really bad. Will Smith's inspirational moment is going to the New York Stock Exchange and seeing all the happy rich guys in suits walking around, and wanting to be like them. Having to do stuff like brown-nose executives, sleep in train station bathrooms and pull his son out of daycare due to lack of money are presented not as flaws of the system but evidence of Smith's smart bootstraps-oriented thinking. This movie is the Mein Kampf of liberalism.

  • wombat [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    And then there's Anastasia (1997), where the message is literally “communism is bad because it got in the way of the Romanovs having fancy parties and wearing expensive clothes”. The Bolsheviks literally enter the Winter Palace through a magic portal created by Rasputin.

    • newmou [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Are they like named as the Bolsheviks in the movie? Or is just implied

      • LeninsRage [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        No they're not named. But what it does explicitly state is that the discontent against the noble Romanovs was literally fermented by demons, and the male lead in one of the palace servants and helps her and her mother escape. Then in the next scene the opening musical number is the people of St Petersburg Petrograd Leningrad singing and dancing in the streets at the rumor that a Romanov princess survived, and they quickly shut up when a commissar (hammer and sickle on his cap) looks at them angrily.

        I also have to say, it's a really strange choice that the two leads (and members of the royal family) are the only characters designed to look like real uncanny people, and everyone else looks like a caricature.

        • blobjim [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          it’s a really strange choice that the two leads (and members of the royal family) are the only characters designed to look like real uncanny people, and everyone else looks like a caricature.

          White (coded) people are the main characters of human history. Only white people can be good and free and intelligent and adventurous.

          • LeninsRage [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            I mean real talk I suspect the two leads are animated using some measure of rotoscoping or motion capture and that's the main reason for it

            Also funny thing about this, the real message of the film is about why all forms of public transportation are bad, so yes this is one of the most lib films ever

            • blobjim [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              Interesting. I haven't actually seen the movie :P

        • newmou [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          That is fucking WILD lmao who the fuck were these animators

    • ChestRockwell [comrade/them, any]
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      2 years ago

      Oh super lib, but it's Bluth Company and it has this banger COME MY MINIONS

      Also, the film is 100x less Lib/reactionary than the musical, which makes the anti-communism that's kind of dream-like in the film pretty much explicit through some KGB agent as the bad guy instead of undead Rasputin.

      • bananon [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I saw the musical in London which just added to the liberalism :chefs-kiss:

        I clapped when the romanovs died

        • Neckbeard_Prime [they/them,he/him]
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          2 years ago

          This gave me the mental image of someone cheering, hooting, taking off their shirt, and flailing it in circles over their head while shouting "Encore! Encore! Again! Again!" as the Romanovs are gunned down in a musical, and I am all for it :owned:

      • Vncredleader
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        2 years ago

        Do they literally call them KGB? god libs are historically illiterate