19 Jan 2017 9:30 pm
To anyone who has never seen this movie it would be worth your while to watch it.
It was made in 1957, but is so relevant to current events.
It was made in 1957, but is so relevant to current events.
This Friday, viewers across the country will have the opportunity to flip on their televisions to watch a power-hungry, media-savvy celebrity rise to megalomaniacal heights.
We’re referring of course to Elia Kazan’s 1957 film A Face in the Crowd, which TCM will air in the hours after President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.
A Face in the Crowd is Elia Kazan’s mass-media parable about a humble man of the people, Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes — Andy Griffith in his most un-Mayberryish performance — a grifty drifter whose skill with a guitar and a populist message turns him into a radio and television phenom, a reg’lar fellow who gets a taste of influence and sets his sights on pursuing money and power for their own sake.
As he becomes richer and more influential, it becomes clearer he’s a hypocrite who’s only in the populist demagogue game for his own enrichment, the good of the public be damned.
In what feels in the Age of Trump like a wonderfully naïve climax, Rhodes is undone when an open microphone catches him ranting about his utter contempt for the ordinary folks, which is where the movie proves itself an old-fashioned, simplistic fiction.
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