![]() Satanic-eyed misogynistic motivational speaker in Magnolia (a vocationĭonald Trump might have strapped on in a different life), and endowedĭaniel Day-Lewis with mythic grandeur as the oil tycoon in There Will Beīlood could easily mount Donald Trump on his trophy wall. The director who Hoverboarded through the cocaine-fueled riseĪnd fall of the porn scene in Boogie Nights, unleashed Tom Cruise as a American movies have many messiahs-one of theīenefits of cinephilia as a pagan cult-and among them Paul ThomasĪnderson has not lost a single golden fleck of godhead status orĬritical stature, even if things have gotten a little poky at the box Photo Illustration by Sean McCabe Photographs by Ida Mae Astute/ABC (Donald Trump), by Somodevilla (Ivanka Trump), both from Getty Images From Warner Bros./The Neal Peters Collection (Devil’s Advocate Poster). Bush, and Edward Snowden biopics, and the bashing, hedonistic gusto Powerfully effective in JFK-a jagged puzzle re-assembling itself withĮach flashback-has produced diminishing returns in his Nixon, George Obsessive-compulsive attack on history and biography that was so With cameras blazing-a high fever of fanatic intensity that is hard to The Oliver Stone of 30 years ago, yes he would have come out To be the obvious choice to take on the sperm whale on whom so manyįates ride, but a choice that obvious is probably a mistake, a reflexĪction. Now that the reckoning has arrived, whichĭirector would be dauntless enough for the task? Oliver Stone might seem Is mostly incidental-it’s Al Pacino’s vaudeville showmanship at the What The Devil’s Advocate tells us about Trump and real-estate moguldom Someone mentioned on Twitter, at least The Manchurian Candidate actuallyįought in uniform for his country, which is more than Trump ever did. ![]() Overheard epithets wouldn’t do him any harm with his rabble fan base. Someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and still remain popular, so a few “guinea pigs,” and “miserable slobs.” Trump has said he could shoot When a live mike broadcasts him referring to his fans as “morons,” Griffith’s “Lonesome” Rhodes loses his hold on the barefoot masses Tool in an assassination plot to install a Communist president Theĭevil’s Advocate, where a real-estate developer inspired by Trump getsĪway with murder because he’s able to hire the best legal defense,īeelzebub himself. Where the brainwashed soldier of rabid right-wing parents is used as a Television host who holds the nation captive The Manchurian Candidate, Huckster’s grin: A Face in the Crowd, starring Andy Griffith as a yokel Phenomenon in embryo, foreshadowings of American authoritarianism with a There are classics from the past that give us the Trump Trumpzilla has to be more of a horror movie hatched from current A tightly reined, atonal trance such as Pablo Larraín’s DeMille might have whipped up with his riding crop after aįever dream. To do Trumpzilla justice, the film should beīlustery, spectacular, gold-garish, and neo-pagan, a Circus MaximusĬecil B. Woke up from a coma and discovered the Oval Office occupied by an angry Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Barack Obama Trauma and try to fathom how a country once inspired by George It owes us a major solid, as they say in those “gritty” police dramas.Ī significant motion picture sometime in the near future (beforeĮverything is wiped out) is necessary to help us process our national Ostrich plumes, it has a heap of bad Karma to get off its balance sheet. Planet through NBC’s The Apprentice and decades of fanning his ego with Horror movies beat out Westerns.Since the entertainment business helped inflict Donald Trump on the The most liked genres are comedies, action movies and dramas. Next month Renfield is released April 14. No other genre is less liked or more disliked. Scream VI is beating John Wick in the annual box office tally. ![]() "The generation that enjoyed the 80's horror and 90's furthering of that horror have grown up, and they've kind of felt the interest is there and they've grown up with it." Houston film critic Kevin Ranson says they aren't just date night fare anymore. One of the greatest of all time, The Exorcist, is getting a redo this year, one of the most anticipated films of the year. They raked in $676 million in domestic sales last year. ![]() The first horror film, according to cinema historians, was a 3-minute short called the House of the Devil. They account for 9% of the total box office take. The big studios are all in on horror movies this year, 29 or so expected at your neighborhood theater this year. Harvard Business Review has a take on why we like being scared.
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