And, on the honorable mention list: Juno?There's a shockingly common right-wing reading of Juno that says that it's a pro-life movie because it shows that pregnant teenagers can have a baby, give it up for adoption, and suffer no ill-effects at all. Since teen pregnancy is no biggie for Juno, being forced to have a baby is just groovy and abortion doesn't need to be available.
A comment on a triumph of conservatism over socialism. Super heroes, who use what makes them special for the benefit of society, are made to go into hiding by the resentful, less talented masses. For years they have to hide their natural born skills, in the name of equality, and mediocrity.See, this guy gets it. Equality is progress' greatest enemy. DEATH TO SOCIALISM
Then along comes the uber-norm who is super resentful. He wants to force everyone to be “Super” by the use of technology. He reasons when everyone is “Super”, then noone will be.
The Incredibles work as a family, using their talents together, to defeat the uber-norm (you will note that the villain dies by being dragged through the engine of his plane).
The tips it offers to conservatives: use your individual talents cooperatively, and have a proper family.
Together, we will defeat socialism.
So what is the intended message?Inasmuch as the creators intended to have a message, I think it was basically about families: that good enough families are defined by whether they're loving and supportive, not by whether they're conventional. Juno's family is a good family. Vanessa and the baby are going to be a good family. Vanessa, Mark and the baby would not have been a good family, even though they looked good in the Pennysaver.
8. The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies.So even though America has the largest military in the world, the Americanists must persuade themselves that they stand alone against an overwhelming tide, and that every story that contains that element is really their story.
When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers of Ur-Fascism must also be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.
How the fuck is Master & Commander a conservative movie?Come on: A plump leader pushing around topless, buff dudes. Lash, rum, sodomy. What goes on below deck, stays below deck. It's modern Republicanism incarnate.
So even though America has the largest military in the world, the Americanists must persuade themselves that they stand alone against an overwhelming tide, and that every story that contains that element is really their story.you've just described any political group. both the left and the right in america have huge persecution complexes even though both of them get a decent run.
he doesn't see the irony in defending a movie where a small group of insurgents take down a big powerful empire trying to expand?
the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak
I liked a lot of these films and felt they reflected my values, and I am a liberal minded person
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