5. Barton Fink: about a Popular Front dramatist co-opted, humiliated, and finally squashed by Hollywood studios.
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@BenjySarlin "Your revolution is over, Mr. Lebowski! The bums lost!" -- The Big Lebowski to his namesake, the Dude.5 replies 4 retweets 10 likes -
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7. "Inside Llewyn Davis": like Barton Fink, the marginalized artist but working in an even more aridly post-political world.
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8. What's notable about "Inside Llewyn Davis" is the folk scene is strangely de-politicized, at variance with the actual history.
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9. Davis's depoliticized or post-political folk explains why the seaman's query about if he's a Shachtmanite flies over Davis' head.
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10. Also, in "Inside Llewyn Davis" other great pillar of left solidarity--trade union movement--taken over by labor bureaucrats.
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11. In "Oh Brother.." we see folk music being co-opted by rightwing populism ("friend of the little man" -- a midget).
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12. The less overtly ideological films show the idealist facing grim reality .
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13. Tom Regan in Miller's Crossing not much of an idealist but even he has to abandon minimal commitment to avoiding violence. "What heart?"
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@NickRiccardi I've had that thought.
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