Ed Driscoll has a fascinating post featuring a video that discusses a movie made in 1933, Gabriel Over the White House. The movie describes the miraculous transformation of a mediocre president into a dynamo of activism, and is an interesting cinematic treatment of a cult-like leader.
The troubling thing about the film, however, is that it is a celebration of what is, in fact, a dictatorship; it is probably no coincidence that it was released in the months after FDR's election to a first term. Watch the video.
Of course, this is just a matter involving film history, of no relevance to our contemporary political world.
Update: Of no relevance whatsoever.
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It's a Dictatorship of Funk, beeotch.
ReplyDeleteA cult, indeed. And O!bama is lapping it up -- he loves it.
ReplyDeleteYou 'Murricans may not realise the scope of the dictatorship.
ReplyDeleteI live about 9000 miles from Washington DC.
But this propaganda arrived in the mail with my power bill a few days ago.
Skeeter: Honestly, we had no idea he wanted to take over the world. We apologize.
ReplyDeleteYou might check Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism" for another treatment of this.
ReplyDeleteCheers