Manchurian Candidate Looks Like * IMO

[goclark]

I just got home from seeing The Manchurian Candidate. I would highly recommend it.

Shaw(Schreiber) sure does look like the Chimp to me. The smile makes them look like twins.

When I closed my eyes and just listened to the dialogue,Meryl Streep reminded me of Poppy. Today the group that wants to control our government would be The Carlyle Group.

Is my tin hat on too tight or is truth stranger than fiction?

http://www.sharf.com/jennie/lansbury/manchur/ebert.html

[question everything]

1. From the review in the WSJ:

As for the villains of the title, they are now shadowy executives of Manchurian Global, a vast multinational corporation that wants to install, in the words of an opponent, "the first privately owned and operated president of the United States." And that corporation, which reaps vast profits from America's wars, bears an unmistakable resemblance to Halliburton, the multinational formerly run by Vice President Dick Cheney.

[physioex]

2. I have not seen the movie...

But from what I see they use technology to control the candidate. And in my opinion a low technology would work fine. Get some psychologists and profile several people. Take control of his doctor and prescribe him mind control medication. Have his administration that is really in your pocket. The candidate wouldn't even have to know he is a puppet, which would make him even more believeable.......

[RodneyCK2]

3. Jon Voight said on Regis and, Whatever her name is, that...

he does not condone people attacking our president or our troops.

I met him in person several years ago. I was standing with my co-workers, about twelve of us, and he joined us for a press meeting/signing for one of his movies. He asked us all for our names which we gave. He then, one by one, went around and shook our hands and repeated each of our names back to us with a friendly greeting.

I thought that was pretty impressive, given the fact I can't remember just one persons name when I first meet them. However, I now have a different view of him. Obviously he dipped into the Kool-aid.

[goclark]

5. Voight's daughter Angelena doesn't like him

Maybe their politics differ.

[RodneyCK2]

6. I would imagine so...

they have a very sorted relationship and not sure they are talking at the moment. If she were on the right, I would probably eat my shorts. Come on, tattoos, adopted a Korean(I think) baby and is just to hot for words. Say it isn't so... LOL.

[Zynx]

11. AJ's kid is Cambodian.

Plus you have the whole bit of wearing a vial of one's lovers's blood around your neck.

[AlCzervik]

4. I watched the original this weekend

and i thought that * was Isiltin and Cheney was Shaws mom.

[antigone382]

7. Must disagree

I've always found Liev Shreiber attractive, in an unusual sort of way. Can't say that for *. But then, it's very likely that * was an inspiration for his performance.

[Jack_DeLeon]

8. I just saw the movie...

I thought it was pretty damn good.

[Lisa]

9. another parallel -- W's family was so hostile that his girlfriend left him

He was engaged to a girl, Cathryn Wolfman, when he was at Andover, but apparently Bar (and Grandma Bush) made her feel so uncomfortable that it ruined their relationship. The girl was Jewish, which may have had something to do with it. I've heard accounts that Bush wept when they broke up. As soon as I saw the love story in the original "Manchurian Candidate" movie, I thought of this. Particularly when Raymond states that he hadn't had any deep relationships with any other woman after the breakup. (Bush remained unattached until he met Laura back in Midland, after Harvard ... and apparently he was considered a bit of a loser when it came to getting dates. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/bush072999.htm)


"Bush said the parting was mutual, and Barbara Bush said the couple "sort of panicked.""
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/bush072799.htm


In the film, Angela Lansbury's character bullies her son until he finally cracks and writes "a hateful letter" to the girl (who still carries a torch for him, years after). In the book, it seems that the mother forges the letter herself.

In the remake, the girl was a bit of a *itch and didn't want to have anything more to do with him ... I can see why they played it that way, but I actually liked the first version better. Her genuine affection for Raymond made the ending that much more tragic.

[goclark]

10. I didn't know that @the Chimp's early romance

The first Manchurian was written in 1962 and its truths still live on!

Thanks for the info.