Twilight's Last Gleaming & Wag The Dog: Politics In Films

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two movies there is an act of War created. In Aldrieh’s it was the political actions behind entering Vietnam. In “Wag The Dog” it was only an imaginary war and creating a fake conflict in order to distract people and to make political change legitimate.
I found in both movies a strong present of forces that pulls into some real decisions to it’s favor and probably doing things that doesn’t come out with some standards. We use to think about some hierarchy on presidential environment. This is very hard to find in both movies.
Take for example in Aldrich’s movie, two cases that the chief-general was taking some decisions for a military act against the colonel inside a nuclear base. One of them he “thought” that there is no way the colonel has the two keys to operate nuclear missiles. Second was when the president went out with his kidnapers and he gave an order to the snipers to shoot when there is no clear target. He is doing things on his own opinion when the president has to be ...

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to publish with excuses like, “public is not mature enough to take the bad news” or “this is not the right time”. Trying to tell the truth to the American people why so many young soldier were sacrifice is an impossible mission.
In Barry Levinson’s movie, he took the truth out of it’s context and broadcast the events in a very systematic way. It was a lie after lie. I didn’t know what’s his next move will be and how creative someone can be to make things appear, when they are not. He broke every roll of ethic, It didn’t make any sense, and probably to show how far can any government will go to maintain its sits.

Characters

If I analyze the characters on Aldrich’s movie, he succeeded ...

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