Six mainstream conservative films.
Rio Bravo (1959):
Once upon a time, conservatives were the majority in Hollywood. Most of your favorite golden age actors and directors voted Republican and if they didn't they were either blacklisted or Henry Fonda. And while there are plenty of liberal weepie classics, the conservative analog was, then, far more subtle in its message-mongering. Take Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo. Designed as a response to High Noon's HUAC metaphor, it nonetheless is so stealthy in its intent that anyone can think the film's awesome.
The Green Berets(1968):
The tide turned dramatically during the '50s and '60s, but that didn't stop John Wayne, at the height of the Vietnam War, from directing and starring in this stiff and blindly patriotic pro-'Nam action flick. At the premiere the Duke even promised to personally cold-cock any protester who came within punching distance.
Red Dawn (1984):
Of the maverick filmmakers who took over Hollywood in the '70s, John Milius was the anomaly: a tubby, gun-packing, feminist-hating, staunchly right-wing man's man who unleashed Conan the Barbarian and, with Reagan in office, imagined WWIII as a preposterous confluence of Cuba and Russia fought by the Brat Pack.
The Hanoi Hilton (1987): During the revisionist history of 'Nam that briefly soared in the '80s emerged this dull, laughably unsubtle depiction of American POWs in North Vietnam's notorious Hoa Lo Prison (where dwelt John McCain). Does it feature a not-so-veiled knock on Jane Fonda? Natch.
Rambo III (1988):
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3. Chris said... on Oct 11, 2008 at 01:27PM
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4. steven Wells said... on Oct 13, 2008 at 01:45PM
“Chris, you are talking nonsense. How can you have right wing satire? Total oxymoron. Satire speaks truth to power. Right wing satire does what? Lies to the powerless? Hey, kinda makes sense. Matt, honeybunch, did you consider Forrest Gump for this list? Dreadfully reactionary pile of shite that was. ”