As Americans have become more polarized, Hollywood appears to have shied away from telling overtly political stories. But some political messages fly under the radar.
Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' … Frank Sinatra in 'The Manchurian Candidate' … Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in 'All the President's Men.' Big political movies with big stars have long been part of the Hollywood playbook.Playing the chief of staff to President Michael Douglas, Martin Sheen got his first taste of a fictional White House in 1995 in 'The American President.
' Mankiewicz asked, 'So, does that leave us in a bad place, where we are absent Hollywood churning out films?''The relationship between Hollywood and Washington is not a static one; it swings, back and forth,' Insdorf said. Michael Schulman, who writes about culture and the arts for The New Yorker, said, 'I think most of the time, politics comes through in movies through metaphor. Movies refract more than they reflect.
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