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‘Progressive’ Nonprofit Urges Politically Themed Movies

July 27, 2010
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‘Progressive’ Nonprofit Urges Politically Themed Movies

A public policy focused nonprofit is getting into the movie business. It wants Hollywood to produce more social and politically themed products selling the George Soros worldview. From the New York Times: The Harmony Institute wants to change your mind — at the movies. In the last few weeks, a little-noticed nonprofit with big ideas about the persuasive power of movies and television shows quietly began an initiative aimed at getting filmmakers and others to use the insights and techniques of behavioral psychology in delivering social and political messages through their work. John S. Johnson III, a descendant of Robert Wood Johnson – founder of Johnson & Johnson, doesn’t want more movies like An Inconvenient Truth, Bowling for Columbine, or Capitalism: A Love Story. He wants more movies like The Day After Tomorrow or The Day the Earth Stood Still remake: Mr. Johnson made a study of what his group calls “the science of influence,” with the help of friends like Kenneth Broad, a director of Columbia’s Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, and Eric Johnson, a professor of business and marketing at Columbia, both of whom are now on the institute’s advisory committee. Michael Douglas, the actor, who according

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Michael Caine Delivers Old Testament Justice in “Harry Brown”

June 1, 2010
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Michael Caine Delivers Old Testament Justice in “Harry Brown”

Let me make this perfectly clear: Harry Brown is not for the faint of heart. Although the film’s British origins ensure that the body count is lower than what you’d see in an American production, the violence is graphic and deeply disturbing. This is most certainly not a movie to take the kids to. However, for those who can handle it, Harry Brown may be the most deliciously un-PC vigilante thriller…ever. The story follows the titular Brown (Caine in one of his finest performances) as he blasts his way through a swath of thugs, drug dealers, and other lowlifes on a bloody trail of vengeance, seeking retribution for the senseless murder of his elderly friend. We’ve seen this sort of thing before, but it is usually accompanied by moral handwringing and a perfunctory monologue that includes the phrases “The world is not black and white,” “You can’t take the law into your own hands,” etc. etc. Typically, the protagonist must die or at least repent, because, well, it would be irresponsible to just let a character get away with it. Wouldn’t it? The popular mid-1990′s Michael Douglas vehicle Falling Down contained all of those elements. Moviegoers could get that visceral

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