Fancy Movie Time #2: The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Added 2022-11-26 19:48:25 +0000 UTCOn this month's Fancy Movie Time with Brian and A.J., we play a high-stakes game of solitaire looking for that dastardly Red Queen as we make our way through the labyrinthine and meandering plot of John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate (1962)! Is Angela Lansbury's chilling portrayal of Eleanor Iselin enough to make this movie a fancy feast? Or do its dated politics and terrible Frank Sinatra fight scene make it a failure to fancy? Either way, we think you'll agree that Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being we've ever known in our lives!
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A little context for the Epileptic child, and the claims that Julius was epileptic; the word Epilepsy comes from the Greek Epilepsia, which means "to be taken hold of," or more specifically "possessed." *Because,* as the Greeks diagnosed the condition, the sufferer was being afflicted with the experience of some kind of divine visitation: a God or lesser divinity was alighting on the person and in response, their body is wracked by spasms as the material flesh cannot integrate the visiting spirit. As a result, epilepsy became associated with being favored by the gods, which may be why Caesar's diagnosis has survived to be reported: it was an attempt to leverage folklore to help legitimate his claim to rulership.
Em Gravesong
2025-04-14 17:23:58 +0000 UTCFully a year late to this but did y’all pick up that Fran Sinatra’s character is meant to be read as gay fitting the whole themes of masculine panic and spies and secrets and sexual confusion? Like the Janet Leigh scene reads perfectly if she’s a man cruising him
John Leavitt
2023-09-28 21:57:50 +0000 UTCHere’s some criterion suggestions: Speedy, The Parallax View, A Face in the Crowd, Charade, Blow Out, All About Eve, The Player, The Night of the Hunter, and Pickup on South Street
Nate Netzley
2022-12-03 00:33:13 +0000 UTCHow about some David Lynch? Mulholland Dr, Blue Velvet, Inland Empire if you wanna go full Lynch
Yura
2022-11-30 16:12:14 +0000 UTC
