tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873059253261642303.post2736052088946912253..comments2023-11-02T10:50:42.128-05:00Comments on CLOSED: Set aside your politics and consider the cultural insightTLF+http://www.blogger.com/profile/01650010433581488888noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873059253261642303.post-5476079960564319372011-02-25T07:48:25.444-06:002011-02-25T07:48:25.444-06:00I would also think it would be extremely hard, if ...I would also think it would be extremely hard, if not impossible, to apply post-modern "conservative" and "liberal" labels to films from over two generation ago. What those labels connote in modern parlance had not yet evolved in the popular parlance in the late 1930's and early 1940's. <br /><br />"Conservatives" in the 1930's were more like non-interventionist, Hoover-ites, that thought things like Social Security and FEMA were Red commie plots. Even the most conservative folks today were asking "Where was FEMA during the Katrina disaster." Conservatives in the 30's would have been horrified at the idea of the Federal government intervening in a "local" event like, say a Mississippi flood or a Hurricane. That was the local community/state's job.The Archer of the Foresthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03075768526819990250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873059253261642303.post-66099363128208443962011-02-25T06:08:40.544-06:002011-02-25T06:08:40.544-06:00Ironically, even the producers didn't know wha...Ironically, even the producers didn't know what Casablanca was about until the very final cut. They were filming and had about 4 completely different operative scripts. They finally hodgepodged it all together and somehow it became a classic. The Studio bosses were about to pull the plug on it like 10 times because the filming process was total chaos.The Archer of the Foresthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03075768526819990250noreply@blogger.com