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The 'Assassinate Wall Street' Movie
By Brent Bozell
Townhall
Friday, May 24, 2013
Usually movie makers strive to stay ahead of the cultural
curve. It makes them "visionaries" who are "cutting edge"
because they "push the envelope." Two years ago, "Occupy
Wall Street" was the hot fad, stoking the usual left-wing
outrage at bankers and the finance industry. They were
the ones portrayed as greed-heads never held accountable
for their crimes. Businessmen just twirl their mustaches
and laugh evil laughs.
But that was two years ago. Time for something fresh --
and edgy. A new movie suggests that movement was for
sissies. It's time for someone to start a new campaign:
Assassinate Wall Street.
Trashy German director Uwe Boll -- best known for
adapting video games into movies, like Postal -- has made
a movie called Assault on Wall Street, starring Dominic
Purcell, who played the innocent Death Row prisoner on
the Fox drama Prison Break. This time, he's a mass
murderer...but also the hero. It's like a mashup of a
criminal John Rambo going after Gordon Gekko.
The plot is as stilted as you can make it. Jim is an ex-
military man living a blue-collar life in New York, but
his charming and lovely wife has cancer, and the
insurance company won't pay for her experimental gene-
therapy shots. So Jim puts all his money on the stock
market...and then the crash of 2008 arrives. The
financiers get bailed out. Jim doesn't. The wife gets
depressed and commits suicide.
Apparently, it's time for a lot of people to die in a
rampage.
As one film critic put it, "The good guys punch a clock.
The bad guys wear ties, painting an extremely one-
dimensional portrait of the conflict. ...Jim has no
flaws, and his blind faith in a disturbing system of risk
is all the screenplay needs to issue him a license to
kill."
The speeches made by the financial villains are pure
garbage. After Jim has slaughtered hundreds to get to
Stancroft, the man running his failed fund, the film
stoops to stilted dialogue. First, Jim accuses. "The
problem with guys like you is that you're always
bragging, so when the rest of the world is suffering,
you're making sure that every magazine in the country
knows all about your triumphs."
Then Stancroft defines for Jim what capitalism supposedly
is. "It's the bankers and the owners and the advisers who
get rich. And it's the little people who buy their stock
that always lose in the end, people like you. That's
capitalism."
One trip to this movie's Facebook page is all you need to
know that some people think it's deeply satisfying to
watch a real class war. It's a "great and inspirational
film. It's a PAYDAY for you and I!" Another wrote: "I
loved the movie from the beginning to the end, in real
life, the corrupt have more luck."
Continues at:
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By Brent Bozell
Townhall
Friday, May 24, 2013
Usually movie makers strive to stay ahead of the cultural
curve. It makes them "visionaries" who are "cutting edge"
because they "push the envelope." Two years ago, "Occupy
Wall Street" was the hot fad, stoking the usual left-wing
outrage at bankers and the finance industry. They were
the ones portrayed as greed-heads never held accountable
for their crimes. Businessmen just twirl their mustaches
and laugh evil laughs.
But that was two years ago. Time for something fresh --
and edgy. A new movie suggests that movement was for
sissies. It's time for someone to start a new campaign:
Assassinate Wall Street.
Trashy German director Uwe Boll -- best known for
adapting video games into movies, like Postal -- has made
a movie called Assault on Wall Street, starring Dominic
Purcell, who played the innocent Death Row prisoner on
the Fox drama Prison Break. This time, he's a mass
murderer...but also the hero. It's like a mashup of a
criminal John Rambo going after Gordon Gekko.
The plot is as stilted as you can make it. Jim is an ex-
military man living a blue-collar life in New York, but
his charming and lovely wife has cancer, and the
insurance company won't pay for her experimental gene-
therapy shots. So Jim puts all his money on the stock
market...and then the crash of 2008 arrives. The
financiers get bailed out. Jim doesn't. The wife gets
depressed and commits suicide.
Apparently, it's time for a lot of people to die in a
rampage.
As one film critic put it, "The good guys punch a clock.
The bad guys wear ties, painting an extremely one-
dimensional portrait of the conflict. ...Jim has no
flaws, and his blind faith in a disturbing system of risk
is all the screenplay needs to issue him a license to
kill."
The speeches made by the financial villains are pure
garbage. After Jim has slaughtered hundreds to get to
Stancroft, the man running his failed fund, the film
stoops to stilted dialogue. First, Jim accuses. "The
problem with guys like you is that you're always
bragging, so when the rest of the world is suffering,
you're making sure that every magazine in the country
knows all about your triumphs."
Then Stancroft defines for Jim what capitalism supposedly
is. "It's the bankers and the owners and the advisers who
get rich. And it's the little people who buy their stock
that always lose in the end, people like you. That's
capitalism."
One trip to this movie's Facebook page is all you need to
know that some people think it's deeply satisfying to
watch a real class war. It's a "great and inspirational
film. It's a PAYDAY for you and I!" Another wrote: "I
loved the movie from the beginning to the end, in real
life, the corrupt have more luck."
Continues at:
http://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozell/2013/05/24/the-assassinate-wall-street-movie-n1605148/page/full
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj
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o Not for commercial use. Solely to be fairly used
for the educational purposes of research and open
discussion. The contents of this post may not have been
authored by, and do not necessarily represent the opinion
of the poster. The contents are protected by copyright
law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
o If you send private e-mail to me, it will likely
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contain your full legal name, current e-mail and postal
addresses, and live-voice telephone number.
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expressed by others are not necessarily those of the
poster who may or may not have read the article.
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material the use of which may or may not have been
specifically authorized by the copyright owner. This
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the understanding of environmental, political, human
rights, economic, democratic, scientific, social, and
cultural, etc., issues. It is believed that this
constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material
as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the
material on this site is distributed without profit to
those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving
the included information for research, comment,
discussion and educational purposes by subscribing to
USENET newsgroups or visiting web sites. For more
information go to:
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If you wish to use copyrighted material from this article
for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you
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On Sat, 25 May 2013 02:17:54 GMT, use...@mantra.com and/or
www.mantra.com/jai (Dr. Jai Maharaj) wrote:
>The 'Assassinate Wall Street' Movie
They'll surely wonder what happened to their 'welfare' checks
www.mantra.com/jai (Dr. Jai Maharaj) wrote:
>The 'Assassinate Wall Street' Movie
after they've assassinated Wall Street ........... probably blame
it on some vast Republican konspiracy ..............
NEVER kill the golden goose.
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