Anastasia (1997) has to be a contender. The message is literally "communism is bad because it got in the way of the Romanovs having fancy parties and wearing expensive clothes"

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    It's not a movie but the show Homeland has done so much fucking damage to the liberal brain. Any initial negative connotations to the CIA were erased by that show. I've seen them say that the CIA is a progressive institution filled with liberals lmao.

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    Not to mention in Anastasia, IIRC the revolutionaries are like crazy and demon-possesed. Because otherwise how could you explain that they don't love the royal family?

    I'll throw The Help in there. Woke white woman savior, and treats racism as something strictly about individual attitudes and not structural and institutional issues. The world would be free of racism if we were all just colorblind, that sort of bullshit.

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    Honorable mention: The Blind Side. Rich white woman sees a black kid walking down the road, "adopts him" and sets him on the path of greatness. No amount of white savoirness can save our hero though! Since he's such a bumbling black guy, he cripples someone for life and needs to be rescued again by white savior.

    Based on a true story

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    From relatively recent times: Green Book, Black Panther, any latest Marvel movie which will have a progressive marketing gimmick, and also Crash is 2004 but its liberalness echoes strongly.

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      the fact that Black Panther is basically “yeah, you’re rooting for the monarch and not the guy whose father was murdered” is hilarious

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          I have argued this to so many people and I fully believe it. Killmonger randomly goes from "I want control of this wealthy nation to help the oppressed" to switching to "actually I just want to oppress everyone else Muhahaha!" It's pretty clear they realized that Killmonger was in the right, so they needed to attach some BS "oppressed becomes the oppressor."

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            They actually always do this. They did this in Korra too. Many of the villains had extremely good points, the writers just had to make them cartoonishly evil and violent to justify them as villains.

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        That movie sincerely holds my all-time favorite Marvel scene -- I don't have many -- where Kilmonger meets his dead father and doesn't show a single emotion. "What, no tears for your father?" My friend summarized it as, "He's more attached to his ideology than he is to his loved ones," and I didn't understand why that necessarily has to be a villainous quality to have.

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          what do you mean you reject tribalism and want to improve the quality of living for our fellow man? this is evil!

          blackpanther is a villain that chooses not to drive imperialist powers from all of africa, and i dont understand how anyone sees it otherwise

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            blackpanther is a villain that chooses not to drive imperialist powers from all of africa, and i dont understand how anyone sees it otherwise

            He didn't even do the embarrassing lib shit in Africa, he opened a charter school in the USA lol

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              Wait, he didn't open more schools and crap in all of Africa? I kind of remember him sending aid to a lot of different countries, not just Western ones. That's actually funny in a bad way, even the most generous Marvel hero only cares about helping Amerikkka.

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      the hero-cop worship of crash is truly a disturbing look into liberal brain.

      guy literally goes around forcibly penetrating minorities at gun point.

      :dem: libs gonna lib i guess :dem:

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        If we're not having leftist infighting about which harry potter book is the most lib what are we even doing?

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          i dont know

          my vote is for deathly hollows, because harry becomes a cop and hermione gives up on ending slavery, and thats treated as a wholesome and good thing

          edit; if not for the epilogue, you maybe couldve believed they went on to push for systemic change. maybe. i guess

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          prisoner of azerbaijan has a prison break tho

          edit: and the escaped convict is the good guy

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              he doesnt create it, he ostensibly joins it. and even then he kinda doesnt because "too young!"

              i dont disagree that the order itself is anti fascist, i just think from the narrative perspective, presenting an escaped convict as good is less lib than denying teenagers the right to fight fascists that specifically want to murder the fuck out of them specifically

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                I'm refering to DA, which goes on to provide mutual aid in classes, and even directly oppose both Umbridge and Voldemort.

                Order of the Pheonix is full of libs who spent 15 years doing fuck all to combat the rise of fascism

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                  but he doesnt create dumbledors army as an anti fascist org though

                  he explicitly is making it as a study group, and it is part of the later narrative that the study group is misinterpreted to be an antifa supersoldier program.

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    And then there's The Post (2017), which is all about a fabulously wealthy, heroic girlboss newspaper executive taking on a crooked president threatening our democracy (take THAT drumpf)

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      I watched The Post on a long return flight to America. I forgot I did until I read this comment.

      I just remember thinking it was absolutely BORING. One of Spielberg’s worst movies. I believe it was the same flight I also watched Vice and that was pretty good.

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        Spielbergs only good movies were close encounters and ET. Every time I rewatch one of his films I’m throughly let down

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          In addition to those I really like Jaws, Schindler’s List, Jurassic Park, Minority Report, and perhaps a few more I’m missing. I even think War Horse is entertaining, unlike The Post

          I guess I’m a Spielberg fan

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      I discussed with my friend that The Post released in an alternate universe where HRC won would actually be an indictment of the incestuous relationship between the media, politicians and the lib elite , but in a Trump world it stands up for basic principles like 'don't lie' and 'free press'.

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    The Green Mile (1999): Takes the "magic negro" trope to what may very well be the record height (dude literally uses telepathy and healing miracles to solve white people's problems), and encourages the audience to feel bad for a death row corrections officer named Paul as he spends three hours of screen time standing by and doing nothing to halt the execution of an innocent black man. This experience ultimately troubles Paul enough for him to resign from death row and take up a new, noble career in juvenile corrections.

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    Irresistible (2020), the Jon Stewart movie that felt like it was from 2006

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        Yes. I love the show, but it's so grating that the Avatar's role to "restore balance" always just means "maintain status quo". They missed the opportunity for an actually interesting storyline when they had Wu step down as king. Like if you just let the right king come into power they'll voluntarily cede.

        I was really hoping for an arc where I got to see Wu killed by revolutionaries, but alas, the show was written by liberals.

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            Yeah but the monarch was assassinated by a villain. It should've been Korra or an Earth kingdom rebellion army, but "killing people is wrong" even if the target is actively killing/torturing, so we can only justify this plot point by having the villain do it.

            I hate this trope in every medium that does it.

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    Probably that new one Tom Stewart wrote and directed with Steve Carrell where they do Liberals vs Conservatives in a Wisconsin mayoral race. Or anything written by Aaron Sorkin.

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    Eye in the Sky

    A drone strike apologia movie in where you get to see Snape be an even bigger chud than when he uploaded his spank bank to a high schooler.

    Edit: omg, the more I think of it the more this answer makes sense. Essentially Snape was one of the only chud characters in a sea of libs, and in perfect fashion the libs kow tow to the chuds, but they feel a sad so it's all good

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    Sorkin is low-hanging fruit here but The American President is lib as fuck in the exact same way West Wing is.