10 Films President Trump Needs To Watch
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Arguably the most high-profile, media-savvy President elect since Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump may lack Reagan’s political experience, but when it comes to cultural impact, he scores more highly than the star of Bedtime For Bonzo. Even in 1992, when he made a (some might say self-serving) cameo in Home Alone 2, Trump was already a familiar face to millions of viewers.
His larger than life personality also inspired several fictional characters, although it was a given that liberal Hollywood was never going to go easy on the eccentric tycoon. Characters based on Trump are usually obscenely wealthy, vulgar and so distant from the Common Man that they live on the top floor of a tower named in their honour (doesn’t Hillary seem dull by comparison?)
If you believe Hollywood, he’ll also be responsible for mankind biting the big one in the not too distant future. Here, then, are 10 films Mr Trump needs to watch to make sure that doesn’t happen.
10. The Intruder
William Shatner gives the performance of his career as Adam Cramer, a racist whose fiery rhetoric brings to mind W.B. Yeats’ line that “the worst are full of passionate intensity.” Arriving in the (fictional) Southern town of Caxton in the early 60s, he proceeds to incite the white townspeople to violence in order to resist the recent court ordered desegregation of schools.
It’s difficult to say if Cramer genuinely believes his message or whether he’s delivering it because he enjoys putting on an act for those he knows will listen, but his supporters believe him and it’s not long before the situation spirals out of control.
“You’ve got no room in your head for intelligence,” a character tells him. “If you were intelligent, you would see you’ve started something you can’t control. You think you’re the boss now? Wake up, boy, that mob is the boss.”