Film History and Meaning : Name a movie where the villian is on the left of the political spectrum

Name a movie where the villian is on the left of the political spectrum

And you'll be naming a movie that's either satire, or wants you to sympathize with the antagonist.

Can you think of any?

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Re: Name a movie where the villian is on the left of the political spectrum

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Rocky IV
From Russia with Love
Air Force One



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Kingsman? The villain was a climate change alarmist who wanted to save the environment by culling the human population.

Speaking of Samuel L Jackson, he also played the villain who was harassing a white neighbor for marrying a black woman (and "diluting" the black race). He was portrayed as unhinged and died in the end. Can't remember the name of it, but it was set in LA.

Edit: It's called Lakeview Terrace

Law Abiding Citizen could be considered another one if you view the vigilante fighting against the soft, left, liberal court system that opposes more conservative views on punishing crime?

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God damnit I was going to say LAC

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Kingsman - the villian hides behind climate change. He isn't left wing, only pretending to be.

Lakeview Terrace - racism is considered a right wing crime, no matter who commits it. Yes, he's black, but the reason he's a villain is because he's "as bad as white people".

Law Abiding Citizen - I'm inclined to agree, but I'd like to watch it again to determine if it was a liberal judicial system or a corrupt one. If it was simply a corrupt one, it's arguably left wing. Interestingly, the reviews for it were scathing, which suggests it may well have been right wing. Check this one out: "Unnecessarily violent and unflinchingly absurd, Law Abiding Citizen is plagued by subpar acting and a story that defies reason."

R. I. P. FFS (1975-2021)
Murdered by a Teutonic catfish

Re: Name a movie where the villian is on the left of the political spectrum

The reviews for that movie are absurd. It’s easily a 7.5-8/10

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Which only makes me suspect it's right wing and I just didn't notice because it felt so legit and sensible.

Let's be honest, somebody fucks with your family and the system does nothing, what are you going to do? They take one of my eyes, I'm taking both of theirs.

R. I. P. FFS (1975-2021)
Murdered by a Teutonic catfish

Re: Name a movie where the villian is on the left of the political spectrum

I agree on all points but it seemed the most fitting answer to your question. I won’t argue it being perceived either way.

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Good. You just saved yourself from total annihilation.

R. I. P. FFS (1975-2021)
Murdered by a Teutonic catfish

Re: Name a movie where the villian is on the left of the political spectrum

Don’t make me bust out of my mothers basement and furiously type away at my local library trying to win the thread!

I’m nearly out of Wi-Fi man.

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Your plea has been heard, my passionate brethren.

Let's just drink and rank Filmboards women using various objectification categories.

R. I. P. FFS (1975-2021)
Murdered by a Teutonic catfish

Re: Name a movie where the villian is on the left of the political spectrum

I find that the best way to judge them. There is nothing better than drinking an ipa in my man cave, watching The Masters and making lists about the women here.

I’ll start another thread. Thank you.

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Thanks. Can you find out who has the hottest ankles please?

R. I. P. FFS (1975-2021)
Murdered by a Teutonic catfish

Re: Name a movie where the villian is on the left of the political spectrum

Lakeview Terrace - racism is considered a right wing crime, no matter who commits it. Yes, he's black, but the reason he's a villain is because he's "as bad as white people".

Oh, I have to disagree with that. A defining point in liberal race theory is that only whites can be racist, and not a victim of racism, because they haven't experienced systemic oppression (their POV, not mine).

Jackson's "white hate" and disgust with Wilson's appropriation of black culture (black wife, listening to hip hop) would be fully endorsed by the left.

Instead it was portrayed as it should have been.

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Oh, you have to disagree do you? Well I have to disagree right back.

He's the villain, the internal logic of the story tells us he's doing wrong. I mean, we can fucking see he's doing wrong, but that's besides the point. So, what is he doing that's so wrong?

Misogyny. Abuse of power. Racism. Violence.


Therefore, even using your Critical Race Theory argument, where he may be justified in his treatment of the white husband, he cannot be justifed in his treatment of the black wife.

Perhaps another way of looking at it is that liberals would (rightly in my view!) say that this is a movie about men thinking they have the right to decide who a woman can and cannot sleep with, and that people in power abuse it to get an outcome they want, no matter how unethical.

The only reason Jackson is black and the wife is black is to subvert expectations (racism is a white crime), thereby driving home the message at a deeper level.

R. I. P. FFS (1975-2021)
Murdered by a Teutonic catfish

Re: Name a movie where the villian is on the left of the political spectrum

I have to disagree with your disagreement!

He's the villain

Yes, as asked for in your OP. Racism against whites is deemed acceptable and even noble by the radical left. Jackson wasn't portrayed as noble or sympathetic. So, a pretty good example in answer to the original question.

…he cannot be justifed in his treatment of the black wife.

The black wife would be seen as an advocate to the white man, though. The liberal left utterly attacks minority conservative women like Candace Owens. The black wife in the movie would be another adversary to the left's expectation of minority woman due to the fact she loved and married a caucasian.

Perhaps another way of looking at it is that liberals would (rightly in my view!) say that this is a movie about men thinking they have the right to decide who a woman can and cannot sleep with

Yes, except for the fact that wasn't a background theme in the film anymore than the California wildfires were a nod to climate change.

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I have to disagree with your disagreement!
Yeah? Well, I have to declare you retarded and walk away.

It's not solely about the racism, as I already stated. There are numerous issues, all of which point to a left wing agenda.

ETA the race of the antagonist is simply to subvert expectations and to enable white people to 'feel' the effects of racism.

*Scurries off*

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Murdered by a Teutonic catfish

Re: Name a movie where the villian is on the left of the political spectrum

weak

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Re: Name a movie where the villian is on the left of the political spectrum

OK, but this is a fair thread that asks a good question.

The fact one of my examples sparked such a debate is evidence that a villain that even marginally encompasses liberal ideals could be interpreted as not representing them at all.

The point in your OP is incredibly clear. A right wing villain is portrayed as blatantly right wing, but a left wing villain is open to interpretation.

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Thank you for noticing that I am indeed correct.

R. I. P. FFS (1975-2021)
Murdered by a Teutonic catfish

Re: Name a movie where the villian is on the left of the political spectrum

Lakeview Terrace is a good example. In fact the film got negative reviews from liberal film critics.

Jackson wasn't a sympathetic villain - he was just pure bad. There was no social commentary about race theory the film was trying to address. He was a bad guy you wanted to die.

Monster, how should I feel? Creatures lie here, looking through the window.

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racism is considered a right wing crime

Leftists are just as racist. Pushing for segregation even now.

Beware the sound of one hand clapping.

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Child 44

TSP, can u tell this movie to OP? the loser claims to have me blocked and ignores me on purpose now.

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its obvious he's reading everything u say

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i know it's so immature. and that dude is almost 50 or is already i havent kept up with his age. 😂

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The Baader Meinhof Complex

Just because I'm not on THEIR side, doesn't mean I'm on YOURS.

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Thank you. I haven't seen it, but I just read the plot and found a Christopher Hitchens review.

If the Hitch says it, it must be so:

Anglo-American author and journalist Christopher Hitchens lavishly praised The Baader-Meinhof Complex in a review for Vanity Fair. He singled out what he considered "the filmmakers' decision to strike against Hollywood's usual practice of glamorizing Marxist insurgents" by making an explicit connection between revolutionary and criminal violence. By slowly erasing the difference between the two, Hitchens wrote that the film exposed the "uneasy relationship between sexuality and cruelty, and between casual or cynical attitudes to both," as well as the RAF's tendency to offer unquestioning support to the most extreme factions of the Marxist and Islamist underground. Relating his own memories of West Germany during the era, Hitchens further described the RAF as "a form of psychosis" that swept through the former Axis powers of Germany, Japan, and Italy a generation after the end of the Second World War. Comparing the RAF to the Japanese Red Army and the Italian Red Brigades, Hitchens wrote, "The propaganda of the terrorists showed an almost neurotic need to 'resist authority' in a way that their parents' generation had so terribly failed to do." In conclusion, Hitchens praised the film's depiction of an escalating cycle of violence and paranoia in "which mania feeds upon itself and becomes hysterical."

One thing I will point out though, having read the plot, is that I get the sense the filmmaker wasn't criticizing the cause, only the means by which the protagonists were trying to realize it.

If that's true, they're anti-heroes, and the movie kind of falls into the second category I called out above. We're supposed to sympathize with them.

If that's not the case, it's a poorly written story that seems to have no protagonist. A story without a protagonist is not a story at all. It's an account.

R. I. P. FFS (1975-2021)
Murdered by a Teutonic catfish

Re: Name a movie where the villian is on the left of the political spectrum

Didn't Martin Sheen play a lefty villain in "The Dead Zone"?

"My life is over. I might as well dance with Johnny Slash!"

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What were his left wing policies? Were they part of the plot?

In the film, killing him preemptively is likened to the infanticide of Hitler, and how it would be justified. So, I should imagine the reason for him needing to be killed is because he would go on to be genocidal.

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Sheen played a politician and it just felt like he would have been on the left.

Maybe I am getting his character mixed up with Sheen's politics in real life!

"My life is over. I might as well dance with Johnny Slash!"

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Yes, I think so.

If I understand the OP correctly, the fact that we're all struggling find examples of the left being demonized in movies proves their point. Hollywood has indoctrinated us and shifted the center of the political spectrum way over to the left.

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Yes, the character of Smith has a psychic episode where he sees a future Stillson (Sheen's character) creating nuclear war. In a career ending move Stillson uses a child as a human shield from an assassination attempt.

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Thanks.

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You're welcome.

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The Hunt

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Die Hard: Hans gruber

die hard 3: hans gruber's brother

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Unplanned


It ain't satire so good luck sypathizing

Beware the sound of one hand clapping.

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God's Not Dead - the antagonist is Kevin Sorbo, liberal college professor who fails students if they are Christian and makes fun of his Christian girlfriend, and the vegan environmentalist hippie is the damsels-in-distress in search of manly bearded Christian Duck Dynasty man to sweep her off her feet. Can't possible argue this one!

Unplanned - the antagonists are Planned Parenthood and its sadistic, indifferent at best, employees who perform abortions.

Passion of the Christ - the antagonist is SATAN, and who could be more liberal than Satan?

The Mule - the antagonists are immigrant drug lords.

Get Out - You could argue this one, but The Armatage family are white liberal racist family.

Rosemary's Baby - Satanic cult who wants to steal children.


Batman & Robin - The antagonists Mr. Freeze wanted to cool the planet, Poison Ivy wanted to fill the ecosystem with plants, and the protagonist is the trust fund billionaire.

I would gather most Chuck Norris, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone action movies: they often play the protagonist who works for the law and represents law and order (eg, Judge Dredd, The Running Man) against liberal policies (anti-freedom, terrorism, etc.)

Monster, how should I feel? Creatures lie here, looking through the window.

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Yeah, if you get into any of the Pureflix kinds of movies, the villains are all on the left, and one of the central points of the movie is to defame them and confirm the viewers' hatred of them.

"The Dig"
http://cinemarchaeologist.blogspot.com/

Re: Name a movie where the villian is on the left of the political spectrum

Movies reflect reality.

That's why there's so few lefty villains in film.

In reality, the bad guys are always right wing and the heroes are always on the left.

We are accountable to reality. To truth and goodness and beauty.

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No, there are all kinds of movies with right-wing heroes. They don't necessarily battle lefty villains though.

"The Dig"
http://cinemarchaeologist.blogspot.com/

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If you consider capital-c Communists–Bolsheviks–to be "on the left" (admittedly, a very dubious proposition within socialism), they're endless.

Perhaps you had something else in mind though?

"The Dig"
http://cinemarchaeologist.blogspot.com/

Re: Name a movie where the villian is on the left of the political spectrum

How many of these movies have a whore in it?
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