The American Dream at the Movies

Removed pointless insult. This isn't worth my time.

😏

ATY's superficiality once again revealed. Tsk tsk tsk.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
The American Dream must be a powerful thing for the criticism to be so incredibly weak!

The American Dream must be not quite as powerful as you think if anyone looking sideways at it immediately draws incredibly hackneyed mention of Iran and China.

Ssshhh, take it easy, ATY, you'll pop a vain or sumthin', dude.

Ssshhh, shhh, don't worry, everything will be fine... at least
you're not living in Iran nor China and henceforth you can google
freely, right?

Look, if you want to find the knowledge for yourself, I'll give you a
hint: what does Taylor tell his grandma in his letters?

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I promised not to give you fishes but to teach you how to fish 🙂

Originally posted by Seitse
Ssshhh, take it easy, ATY, you'll pop a vain or sumthin', dude.

Ssshhh, shhh, don't worry, everything will be fine... at least
you're not living in Iran nor China and henceforth you can google
freely, right?

Look, if you want to find the knowledge for yourself, I'll give you a
hint: what does Taylor tell his grandma in his letters?

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I promised not to give you fishes but to teach you how to fish 🙂

What's that? You promise not to have a point, but that you will make implications that you know what you're talking about so you seem like you have a point? Oh, ok 🙂

Nacho Libre and the Three Amigos show Mexican culture perfectly.

Originally posted by mtthw
Given that you seem to have found that quote in an essay called "The American Dream as Presented on Film / Movies" that has a big paragraph on Vietnam films, perhaps the link isn't all that tangential. What Bickford said isn't really the point, more the fact that someone thought it worth commenting on.

Here's another review in a similar vein: http://www.oscarworld.net/ostone/default.asp?PageId=10

I already addressed that essay - the second one, that is. The first one makes no mention of the American Dream.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Nacho Libre and the Three Amigos show Mexican culture perfectly.

...but did 'Born in East L.A." ?

The post that was quoted here has been removed

Cut ATY some slack.

Originally posted by FMF
Sorry if we did this before, but what are RHPers' five or so favourite films dealing with the so called American Dream?

My suggestions...

Glengarry Glen Ross
Born On The 4th Of July
There Will Be Blood
The Big Night
Jimmy Hollywood

American Ninja I, II, III
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Smoky & the Bandit I, II, II
Conan the Barbarian
Moonwalker

Screw it, I guess we don't have to defend our choices here:

Independence Day
Star Wars
Out of Africa
What's Love Got to Do With It
Notorious
Patton
Freaks
People Under the Stairs
Saturday Night Live
The Ring
The Shining
Lord of the Rings
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
The Last Emporer
The Mummy
Transformers
Life is Beautiful

Originally posted by expuddlepirate
Cut ATY some slack.

But he's such a douche! 😠