The Rocketeer
Unclear and Present Danger
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Star Wars Is a Cult Movie
The movie sort of shows the god the good guys all coming together to defeat the Nazis as we all know that we can. Star Wars is a pestice of Flash Gordon of Wilbur two pictures of all these things clearly just like the the ephemera of George Lucas's childhood same within the end of Jones. As we are leaving a decade of unbridled individualism there is this burst of nostalgia for the 1930s for aesthetic and this movie I think makes clear maybe some of its politics a sense of unity among the country with clear lines of right and wrong and good and evil and heroes and villains yes absolutely.
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