A Face in Crowd

[Flopper]

This is an excellent movie for watching in the election season. The movie follows Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes (Andy Griffith) from a drunk tank in an Arkansas jail to stardom and political power. IMHO, Andy Griffin gave the performance of his life. He is backed up by a great cast, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick, and Anthony Facnciosa. Bud Schulberg wrote the script and it was produced and directed by Eli Kazan.



The film's message is a warning to the American people about the dangers of demagoguery and media manipulation. Some say that the film's predictions have become reality, and that it foreshadows figures we've seen come to life However, It is not just a morality lesson. it is high entertaining film.

Like many other films considered classics today, “A Face in the Crowd” was not very well received upon its first release. Despite its magnificent script, directing, and performances, it didn't receive a single Academy Award nomination. However, critics have changed their mind today. Rotten Tomatoes gave it 89% with an audience score of 95%. It is now include in AFI 100 movies in 100 years and the National Film Achieve.

You can watch it for free on Tubi, if you don't mind the commercials. It is also available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Youtube, Fandango at Home, and Google Play Movies for about $3.

 

[rampart]

This is an excellent movie for watching in the election season. The movie follows Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes (Andy Griffith) from a drunk tank in an Arkansas jail to stardom and political power. IMHO, Andy Griffin gave the performance of his life. He is backed up by a great cast, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick, and Anthony Facnciosa. Bud Schulberg wrote the script and it was produced and directed by Eli Kazan.



The film's message is a warning to the American people about the dangers of demagoguery and media manipulation. Some say that the film's predictions have become reality, and that it foreshadows figures we've seen come to life However, It is not just a morality lesson. it is high entertaining film.

Like many other films considered classics today, “A Face in the Crowd” was not very well received upon its first release. Despite its magnificent script, directing, and performances, it didn't receive a single Academy Award nomination. However, critics have changed their mind today. Rotten Tomatoes gave it 89% with an audience score of 95%. It is now include in AFI 100 movies in 100 years and the National Film Achieve.

You can watch it for free on Tubi, if you don't mind the commercials. I it also available on Amazon Prime Videio, Apple TV, Youtube, Fandango at Home, and Google Play Movies for about $3.

andy griffith is spectacular as the proto limbaugh character, and patricia neal is, of course, perfect.

 

[Flopper]

andy griffith is spectacular as the proto limbaugh character, and patricia neal is, of course, perfect.

This was Andy Griffin's first major role. According Elia Kazan, Director of A Face in the Crowd it was almost his undoing.

“The transformation of a sweet Carolina country clown into a monster [for his role in “A Face in the Crowd” (1957)] was almost too much for Andy Griffith….[Director Elia] Kazan set out to turn his unsuspecting actor into the movie’s angry, dangerous hillbilly predator, to find the mean core in the vulnerable Griffith and expose that to the larger world, all of which caused great damage to Griffith’s marriage and to his view of himself as a human being….

“Kazan began with intimate, probing conversations; by revealing his own poor immigrant past, he got Griffith to reveal his poor hillbilly past in Mount Airy, North Carolina. Kazan learned that as a boy the actor had been labeled ‘white trash’ because of where he lived and who his people were. Bingo! Kazan had his key to Griffin's vulnerability….

What Kazan did to Griffin to get the performance he wanted was pretty horrible. I read that after Griffin finished the movie, he said he would never do anything like this again. And thus Andy Taylor of Mayberry was born. Never again would Andy Griffin tackle such a difficult and gut-wrenching role. It was probably best for Griffin but audiences will always wonder what great drama performances by Griffin did we miss.

Doing ‘A Face in the Crowd’ almost undid Andy Griffith – NC Miscellany

 

[1srelluc]

I saw it (again) on TCM the other day.....Great movie.

 

[Flopper]

I saw it (again) on TCM the other day.....Great movie.

There are several themes in the movie that are very relevant today.

• The seductive nature of fame and power, and how the need for power can make truth irrelevant.
• How the public can be easily manipulated by someone who plays by their own rules and has no regard for the people.
• The power of the media and how it can be used to create a demigod.

This reminds me of an incident that occur just a few days ago.
I was walking home from my daily walk and a neighbor stopped to chat. Out of the blue, she says, "You shouldn't be saying such bad things about Donald Trump. He really is going to make America great again." I replied, "How so?" and she said, "I don't know but I just know he is going to do it." Then her husband joined in and said, "I don't believe a damn word of what that man says, but I just love the way he says it." And I thought about this movie and how the media can be used to create an idol out of someone who is totally lacking in character or morals.

 

[22lcidw]

There are several themes in the movie that are very relevant today.

• The seductive nature of fame and power, and how the need for power can make truth irrelevant.
• How the public can be easily manipulated by someone who plays by their own rules and has no regard for the people.
• The power of the media and how it can be used to create a demigod.

This reminds me of an incident that occur just a few days ago.
I was walking home from my daily walk and a neighbor stopped to chat. Out of the blue, she says, "You shouldn't be saying such bad things about Donald Trump. He really is going to make America great again." I replied, "How so?" and she said, "I don't know but I just know he is going to do it." Then her husband joined in and said, "I don't believe a damn world of what that man says, but I just love the way he says it." And I thought about this movie and how the media can used to create an idol out of someone who is totally lacking in character or morals.

And then the Progs and their inflation. That we know is the truth.

 

[1srelluc]

There are several themes in the movie that are very relevant today.

• The seductive nature of fame and power, and how the need for power can make truth irrelevant.
• How the public can be easily manipulated by someone who plays by their own rules and has no regard for the people.
• The power of the media and how it can be used to create a demigod.

This reminds me of an incident that occur just a few days ago.
I was walking home from my daily walk and a neighbor stopped to chat. Out of the blue, she says, "You shouldn't be saying such bad things about Donald Trump. He really is going to make America great again." I replied, "How so?" and she said, "I don't know but I just know he is going to do it." Then her husband joined in and said, "I don't believe a damn word of what that man says, but I just love the way he says it." And I thought about this movie and how the media can be used to create an idol out of someone who is totally lacking in character or morals.

I just enjoyed the movie for what it was.....Intertainment....I don't burden myself with analogies.

Why the blue fuck people can't just enjoy a well-made classic movie for what it is is beyond me.

BUT....If you want to go there I can't think of a person so falsely lifted up by the media than Obama.....A Nobel Peace prize for just existing.

 

[Flopper]

I just enjoyed the movie for what it was.....Intertainment....I don't burden myself with analogies.

Why the blue fuck people can't just enjoy a well-made classic movie for what it is is beyond me.

BUT....If you want to go there I can't think of a person so falsely lifted up by the media than Obama.....A Nobel Peace prize for just existing.

Bud Schulberg wrote this as a teleplay in a 1955. It was a warning of things to come. In those days the primary news media was newspapers. TV news was mostly local and national news was read off the AP wire service. The two events that would change the news media forever was the presidential election of 1960 and David Sarnoff's decision that NBC News would become a profit center on equal footing with the Entertainment Division. For the first time the evening news was to become entertainment. These two events, use of television as a primary method of campaigning and changing the news to a become entertaining and profitable would turn the TV news media into a propaganda tool where truth became incidental.

 

[22lcidw]

I just enjoyed the movie for what it was.....Intertainment....I don't burden myself with analogies.

Why the blue fuck people can't just enjoy a well-made classic movie for what it is is beyond me.

BUT....If you want to go there I can't think of a person so falsely lifted up by the media than Obama.....A Nobel Peace prize for just existing.

That was a head scratcher the Nobel Prize. It is almost like the people in any form of power whether politicians elected and unelected, media and entertainers and elites give each other awards like it is from a cracker jack carton. And Trump deserved one. Obama seems to be something more than what we are told. He does not leave. He's just there.

 

[Flopper]

That was a head scratcher the Nobel Prize. It is almost like the people in any form of power whether politicians elected and unelected, media and entertainers and elites give each other awards like it is from a cracker jack carton. And Trump deserved one. Obama seems to be something more than what we are told. He does not leave. He's just there.

The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to United StatesPresident Barack Obama for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples" The Nobel Committee announced the award on October 9, 2009, citing Obama's promotion of nuclear nonproliferation and a "new climate" in international relations fostered by Obama, especially in reaching out to the Muslim world.