Wall Street, remember Frank Capra?

Roberto 2021-11-14 08:01:24

If you look at this classic commercial warfare from the perspective of a family melodrama, Bud was initially seeking a spiritual father like Geiger, a financial crocodile who overwhelmed Wall Street in New York, and his real father was a blue-collar worker. In the end, Bud shook his biological father's hand and said that you were the most upright person I know, although Geiger also said that looking at Bud was like seeing himself in the past. For the American spirit, this is actually the choice between eastern fathers and southern fathers.

Although Bard's biological father also lives in New York, his behavior is an out-and-out Southerner, and he prefers to live in New York's Queens instead of Manhattan. At the end of the film, he patted Bard's hand and said, "My child, you should do some "creative" work. In the film, Geiger’s rival, a British gentleman who also stocks, can retreat under the director’s arrangement at the end of the film is also because he is investing in industry after all. He does not control steel companies and Bluestar Airlines to make money by changing hands. A fortune, but sincerely wanting to invigorate the company (although he may not behave as beautifully as he himself said under Geiger's accusation).

I always think Oliver Stone is a bit contemporary Frank Capra. They are all keen on making films related to political and economic oligarchs. But Stone obviously no longer has Capra's relaxed and humorous attitude. I often wonder if Capra lives today, can he make simple, honest and exciting movies like "A Dream", "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", and "It's a Wonderful Life"?

The United States is no longer the country that Frank Capra was obsessed with. The legendary country that relied on its own hands to develop a great material civilization from scratch in the Western Wasteland is long gone. return. In essence, I support the American people's conquest of Wall Street. As a common man, I really don't know what financiers are "creating" except for turning the wealth produced by others upside down and tossing them to nothing.

Capra’s lifelong great movies are all kindly mocking the politicians and financial oligarchs in the east, and then use the mental temperament of the young men from the south to influence them, and call them back to the right path and the original United States. In the spirit of founding a country. Such a naive and honest temperament, except in Capra's movies, only Hollywood westerns can be seen (unfortunately not every Chinese audience likes watching westerns).

The financiers on Wall Street today will not be like the monopoly in "A Dream". I can't forget the "Floating Life" At the end, this rich old man sat down with the old man in the strange house, and the two played the organ. The old man said, don't wait until you are about to die to regret it. At the end of "Wall Street", the blue-collar father also told Bud, do something to make his life worthwhile. But today's financiers on Wall Street will not talk like that. Bud asked Geiger, how much do you have to make? The problem is not money, they just want to satisfy their own greed, greed is everything.

In Oliver Stone's movies, the young man from the South is no longer the incarnation of the American spirit. They are full of doubts about the values ​​of their more upright blue-collar fathers, and are obsessed with the values ​​of the new fathers of the eastern and financial oligarchs. This is a world created by nothing but a game of money and numbers. Under the flickering and changing numbers, countless factories and industries have closed down and been dismantled, but they have only become rich.

Steven Zelian’s "The King's Group" filmed in 2006 also reminded me of Frank Capra's "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", but the southern town youth in "The King's Group" After getting involved in politics, he could only plunge himself into a dark abyss, unable to extricate himself from it, and was finally killed. He can't save anyone, and no more northern politicians will be so ashamed to cry when Mr. Smith reads a few sentences of the US Constitution.

In Hollywood movies, even the Superman played by Christopher Reeve has to be a child raised by a Southern farmer. In "Superman 4", when a northern politician asked him if he would sell his father's farm to a real estate agent to open a supermarket, Superman replied that he only wanted to sell the farm to people who were willing to run the farm.

The southern spirit of the United States is being eroded by eastern finance and politicians, but as Frank Capra pointed out, the southern spirit is the foundation of the American spirit. If Capra is still alive, he will definitely participate in the Occupy Wall Street movement. Maybe he will really play the tone organ for these financiers like the weird old man in "A Dream of Life" and teach them something. That is the essence of life.

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