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Offering a Hollywood analogy on the Democratic primary race, Sen. Barack Obama told a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania crowd earlier today that running against Sen. Hillary Clinton has been like "a good movie that lasted about a half hour too long." He and Clinton have been running in the Democratic primary so long, he explained, that they could reverse roles and recite each others' lines without missing a beat. He added, "I think there are some people who felt like, God, when will this be over?"
What other movie analogies are apt? N.Y. Times columnist Maureen Dowd has written that Hillary bears at least a passing resemblance to (a) Arnold Schwarzenegger's unkillable Terminator monster (in the original '84 version), (b) the 1930s criminal Ma Barker (who was played by Shelly Winters in Bloody Mama) and (c) Glenn Close's clinging-psycho-bitch character in Fatal Attraction who "won't be ignored," etc.
The only movie character who remind me even vaguely of Barack Obama (or vice versa) is Cleavon Little's sheriff in Blazing Saddles. Because he never blew his cool or lost his dignity. I'm trying to think of some white guy characters (guys from any tribe or culture...anyone) who've had his personality and temperament and smarts, and I can't seem to think of any. There must be dozens.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on March 28, 2008 at 2:24 PM
comment #1
Josh Massey
says ...
D.A.R.Y.L.
Posted by Josh Massey
at March 28, 2008 2:53 PM
comment #2
Mark
says ...
He's Hugh Grant in About a Boy. Cool, reseaonable, never really been tested, thinks he's an island.
When he finally realizes that he's not untouchable, his speech on race is the 3rd act guitar concert; A for effort, but went on beyond its welcome.
Posted by Mark
at March 28, 2008 3:26 PM
comment #3
MoroccoMole
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Is it too obvious to note that the entire presidential campaign is starting to feel like GROUNDHOG DAY?
Posted by MoroccoMole
at March 28, 2008 3:33 PM
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christian
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This is more like DESTROY ALL MONSTERS.
Posted by christian
at March 28, 2008 3:34 PM
comment #5
George Prager
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More like THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL
synopsis from allmovie.com:
"A group of people in formal dress arrives at an elegantly appointed home for a dinner party. However, once dinner is over and the guests retire to the drawing room, they discover that the servants have gone away, and for some reason they cannot leave. There is no explanation why -- there are no locked doors or barred windows preventing them from going home -- but the guests are convinced that they're stranded. Left to their own devices, they slowly but gradually degenerate into genteel savagery, taking an axe to a water pipe for drinking water, killing and eating a sheep that was to be part of the post-dinner entertainment, hiding the bodies of dead guests in the closet, dabbling in witchcraft, and burning the furniture."
Posted by George Prager
at March 28, 2008 4:01 PM
comment #6
sutter kane
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Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey.
Posted by sutter kane
at March 28, 2008 4:33 PM
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MichaelC
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Obama reminds me of Jimmy Stewart's soft-spoken sheriff who cleans up the town of baddies in Destry Rides Again despite being mocked as too green and naive.
In ten years Hillary will probably be Norma Desmond. She'll be lurking in the shadows of her estate, preparing for her grand political comeback, giving speeches into a mirror, while Bill is downstairs in a butler's outfit forging donation checks.
Posted by MichaelC
at March 28, 2008 5:43 PM
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T. S. Idiot
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Putney Swope.
Posted by T. S. Idiot
at March 28, 2008 7:20 PM
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UnChien
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Rocky! Barack Obama is Rocky Balboa. Hillary Clinton is Apollo Creed.
Posted by UnChien
at March 28, 2008 8:18 PM
comment #10
p.Vice
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Mercedes McCambridge in Johnny Guitar comes to mind.
Posted by p.Vice
at March 28, 2008 8:38 PM
comment #11
Nate West
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Hillary is Hank Quinlan in "Touch of Evil." Obama, Vargas.
Posted by Nate West
at March 28, 2008 10:46 PM
comment #12
Geoff
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Those votes have been had. Nothing you can do about it. It's gone. It's had. You lose.
But if you could just take this VP offer and.....
DRAAAAAAAIIIINNNNNNNNAAAAAGGGE!
==
yeah so what, I love the film.
Posted by Geoff
at March 29, 2008 12:43 AM
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gansibele
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Hillary is Mr. Blonde. Obama is Mr. Pink.
Posted by gansibele
at March 29, 2008 5:52 AM
comment #14
Chicago48
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I have a friend who's working on Obama's campaign and she is TIRED! and wants it to end. But she's devoted until the end. Somebody needs to cry Uncle.
Posted by Chicago48
at March 29, 2008 7:58 AM
comment #15
alan
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"Obama reminds me of Jimmy Stewart's soft-spoken sheriff who cleans up the town of baddies in Destry Rides Again despite being mocked as too green and naive.
In ten years Hillary will probably be Norma Desmond. She'll be lurking in the shadows of her estate, preparing for her grand political comeback, giving speeches into a mirror, while Bill is downstairs in a butler's outfit forging donation checks."
Best comment ever. End of discussion.
Posted by alan
at March 29, 2008 10:10 AM
comment #16
Wrecktum
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"Mercedes McCambridge in Johnny Guitar comes to mind"
Yes! Yes! Yes! A million times yes!!
Posted by Wrecktum
at March 29, 2008 12:12 PM
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