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.
Forest Gump. Film was so lib the author hated it. There was a great thread the other day on here about it
Tbf reading the book summary it sounds like basically the exact same type of shit happens, except even more cartoonish and I guess Jenny doesnt die until the second book.
Not sure what specifically the author hated but I cant imagine it would be the overall lib great man stuff.
Edit: Also apparently in the sequel Forrest is responsible for breaking the Berlin wall, is involved in Iran-Contra and capturing Saddam Hussein during the gulf war then releasing him.
im so high, is this real?
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Great Man Theory: The Movie, except where the Great Man is just powered by so much destiny that he fails upwards without even trying. :my-hero:
LMAOO the sequel sounds like it could actually be good if it was written by the right person, just a guy goofing around and accidentally ending up being apart of several major historical events
Kind of reminds me of Polish film "How I Unleashed World War II"
The biggest difference if I recall correctly, is that in the book Forest ends up homeless with Lt. Dan. Thats why hes on the bench talking to people. He's not a millionaire "great man" boot straps guy.
Just looking at the events of the plot is not enough. The point is that the book was a satire and the movie producers went "this, unironically".