I am watching A Face in the Crowd, this is a movie ahead of its time.

The actors are Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal.

This movie reminds me of Sarah Palin.

A singer is found in jail, and is but on a radio show.

He becomes very famous and becomes a politcal figure.

I haven't seen this movie for years, but it is worth watching.

The end of the movie was really great, I won't spoil it for anyone.

It is a great one. Prophetic.

This a must see movie for everyone.

playing a raging asshole like Rhodes, but the end of the movie is so incredibly satisfying.

I just wish there could be someone at Pox News with the kind of courage and conscience to do what Neal's character did.

I always did liked Neal as a actor, she was great in this movie.

jk about that. but you guys are making it interesting and now i am going to want to see it. will have to check it out. wonder if it is available on netflix. prob not streaming.... hmm. might have to start dvds again.

They are nearly as good as the movie itself.

And Andy Griffith says FUCK. I nearly fell off the couch.

That whole interview was great.

And the movie, of course. What a cast!

Thanks to Budd Schulberg's writing, today it comes across as a dead-on prophecy about the mixing of politics, right-wing money and hi-powered Madison Avenue sales pitches. There's not much doubt about the right-wing part - the Sen. running for President is called "the last of the Isolationists."

Truly amazing because this was made just a couple of years after the downfall of Joe McCarthy.

This bit of dialogue, with very minor changes, today could come right out of the mouth of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, etc.:

Lonesome Rhodes: This whole country's just like my flock of sheep!
Marcia Jeffries: Sheep?
Lonesome Rhodes: Rednecks, crackers, hillbillies, hausfraus, shut-ins, pea-pickers - everybody that's got to jump when somebody else blows the whistle. They don't know it yet, but they're all gonna be 'Fighters for Fuller'. They're mine! I own 'em! They think like I do. Only they're even more stupid than I am, so I gotta think for 'em.

The tea party crowd.

Yes.

Neither one believes the bull they're spewing. They'll chameleon. They're sociopaths. Able to mimic and manipulate human emotions for personal benefit when they have NO empathy to a human emotion.

Good old fashioned megalomania.

What a name for a show.

You can see where the talking points came from.

Andy owned this role.

and goes to show that some truths are timeless.

I guess it was too prophetic for it to be popular, even now, and should have been promoted to the hilt.

Also should be required viewing for all DUers!

Network is also a movie everyone should see.

then over the years. The story is just as powerful today as it was back then. Andy Griffith did such a good job as sleaze bag Lonesome Rhodes that I had a hard time accepting him as clean cut Sheriff Andy years later.

:rofl:

Not as bad a character as in the movie but not a good guy either.

Maybe they were going for a Rapture theme...heh...

One of the best Creepy-Preacher movies ever made - Night of the Hunter. The only movie Charles Laughton ever directed, for trivia fans.

Long before I became a Gnu Atheist, I was raised a Southern Baptist. So I had sung "Leaning On The Everlasting Arms" in church all my life.

Well, N.O.T.H. certainly put a whole different spin on that song, I can tell you.

After that, the song would always be linked in my mind with Robert Mitchum, "Love/Hate" tattooed on his knuckles and dressed all in black, roaming the countryside looking for 2 little kids to kill.

I was a little kid when I first saw it on TV. I think I probably ran and hid under my bed.

But the ultimate Creepy-Preacher movie, IMO, has to be John Huston's adaptation of the Flannery O' Connor novel Wise Blood. So obscure that many people have never even heard of it, let alone seen it.

"I'm gonna start me a new church. Where the blind don't see, the crippled don't walk, and what's dead stays that way."

This is the movie that launched her career. Unfortunately, she died in 1991.

However, my repuke sisters will no longer watch ANYTHING with Andy Griffith after he endorsed Obama.

The world would be a better place.