6. "Hail, Caesar!" is both a tribute to splendour of Golden Age Hollywood films & a critique of the studio system that created those films
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7. Film is built around a series of suggestive parallels between film industry, Catholic church & Marxist-Leninism.
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8. All three systems (Hollywood, Church, Marxist-Leninism) provide a utopian vision that helps characters find solace in troubled world.
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9. Herbert Marcuse shows up in movie, caricatured (unfairly) as dialectic-spouting sage & Soviet lackey. But his presence goes deeper.
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10. Despite caricature of Marcuse, film uses Frankfurt School analysis of centrality of mass culture in legitimating capitalism
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11. Eddie Mannix, studio fixer & main character, is Catholic but his compulsive confession going undermined by failure to admit to real sins
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12. In confession booth, Mannix penitent for smoking but not for the rough-shot, amoral behaviour he has to do to keep studio going.
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13. Mannix's true salvation comes not from participation in sacrament but making of films, a sinful act which results in visions of paradise
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14. It's only in the movies within movies -- absurd as they sometimes are -- that characters can express hidden longings & desires.
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15. A few of the characters are closeted gays but their sublimated sexuality finds expression in Channing Tatum dance number.
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16. Here's the Tatum dance number: key example of what is repressed by society finding expression on screenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3JM6DQOiKI …
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@DouthatNYT saw film as offering appreciation of Catholicism & Studio System. This is subtly wrong.1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes -
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18. It's true that both Catholicism and Mannix as Studio System manager are treated with respect & empathy. But.
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