Can you identify political leanings of movie characters?

Example:

I was watching Ferris Bueller's Day Off the other day and it was easy to do it.

Ferris: BIG time liberal, he realizes life is to be lived and his life won't be dramatically altered for the worst by missing one day of school. He encourages other people to live life. He's spontaneous and fun, has a sense of daring and is obviously intelligent.

His girlfriend, Sloan: liberal, come on, look how laid back she is and willing to go along with Ferris. Also, great sense of humor.

His best friend: A liberal inside, but in dire danger of becoming a freeper later on in life if Ferris doesn't continue this intervention.

Ferris' sister, Jeannie Bueller: BIG TIME future republican voter. She can't STAND that her brother is having a good time. She got a car, he didn't, but she STILL isn't happy. Generally not a nice person to be around. Scorns the 911 operator for not being able to speak English well, lies about having an STD (or IS she lying?), ironically ends up making out with a street criminal after being brought in for making phony 911 calls. There is hope for her, as she does side with her brother against the principal in the end, but who knows what she told their parents after going inside?

Ed Rooney, the principal: SERIOUS republican voter. Gets a BIT obsessed over this ONE student possibly pulling the wool over his eyes and goes to great lengths, including breaking and entering and assaulting a family pet, in order to bust him and STILL isn't successful.

Ferris' parents: liberal to moderate, even though his dad seems to be a buttoned-up type and his mother is a realtor. They both seem to be pretty relaxed and trusting. And his dad seems a bit annoyed by the corporate life in what glimpses we get. Loving, nurturing parents. (How'd they get Jeannie?)

The principal's secretary probably doesn't vote and the US Government instructor ("Bueller? Bueller?") is definitely a republican (and that actor is in real life).

BTW, did anyone know the guy who played Ed Rooney was recently convicted of child molestation?

Now, you pick a movie and try it!

ID the political leanings of the characters in The Breakfast Club or.....some other movie.....Die Hard?

Debby Doody the star of ' Hollywood Hot Tub Hooters " 1-19 is a pieces working for scale in this legal porn send up of " Bed time for Bushkin ".D.D. plays a slimey superiour court judge with a mandate and works pro boner. shit i tryed sorry .

Dorothy - Democrat: Conservative, yes, but with a heart for diversity and a flair for populism. Dorothy, after all, delegated leadership to her friends based on their best qualities. Besides, who else but a Dem would apologize for killing her enemy?

Wizard - Republican: Duh!

Scarecrow - Green: But voted for Kerry after he got his brain.

Tin Man - Republican: No heart.

Cowardly Lion - Republican turned Dem: Originally a bully, he finally gained the courage to fight back against the bad guys after he saw the truth about who the oppressor really was.

Toto - Dog: I have no clue.

Glenda - ???: Should she have told Dorothy at the beginning that she had the power to go home, or did Dorothy need to learn the lesson herself? And is that a Republican or Democratic trait?

Bad Witch Sisters - Republican: Forerunners of Ann Coulter.

Witch's Monkeys - Republican: Another duh!

ROFL!

The Wizard of Oz was an Allegory for the presidential race resulting with William McKinley. Dorothy represented a populist party of farmers and factory workers helmed by William Jennings Bryan. The slippers were silver, representing a platform of moving to the silver standard and the followed the "money" (yellow-brick road) to the Emerald City - white in the book, only looked green through special glasses.

I think Andy was definitely a Republican before he was incarcerated. He was probably a moderate Republican, definitely not a neocon. This isn't to say he was a bad person, just he had different priorities. His main concern in life was money and he lived a sheltered kind of life (country clubs, etc.). He was book smart but not real world smart. When he got sent to Shawshank, he learned how "the other half" lived and he learned that they were basically good people.

Red probably is liberal. He's a crook, but nobody ever said all liberals were honest. He's obviously not willing to put up with any shit even though it is 1940s America and he is a black man. He also sees the circumstances that led to Brooks' death and Brooks' attack on Heywood. Also Red doesn't care what people want, reefer, smokes, booze. He gets what they ask for and doesn't play nanny.

Heywood would be like the average American, whatever that means. He doesn't really care too much about what's going on around him, as long as he makes it through.

Warden Norton is definitely a Cheney-esque Conservative. MOney is the main concern and let's hide that with fake notions of being devout. Hell, he had a safe full of dirty money hidden behind a psalm!

Hadley is probably one of those sicko right wing extremists that gets off on hurting people. I don't know if that falls in a political party, but there it is. Also he complains about taxes even though he just got a huge chunk of money.

Boggs is another sadistic bastard. He uses rape to establish his dominance over others. He'd probably be right with the right wing extremists. Further, he doesn't consider himself to be gay. THis just smacks of those neocons who hide their own feelings they find "questionable" with abuse against others.

That's my attempt...sorry if it's lame.

I only saw that movie once, but I could see what you said just from the one viewing.

The Dude: Big time liberal. Doesn't work, he's a non violent and smokes dope.
Walter Sobcheck: DLC liberal;carries guns and loves to start conflicts.
Donny: Liberal; surfer, bowler and overall slacker.
Maude Lebowski: Lynn Cheney republican; no morals to speak of but her greed probably trumps all other beliefs.
Jefferey Lebowski: Huge republican; obvious tendacy to support Franco of Spain.
Jackie Treehorn: Larry Flynt democrat; normally he would vote republican but his buisness interest keep him voting for democrats.
Nialist: Obvious fascist; no explanation needed.

Sauron : Solid Republican Voter, not the typical flag waving type, but the blood thirsty evil CEO trips cripples for fun type.

Saruman: Turn coat party hopper, the Zell Miller of Middle Earth.

Pippin : Thinks politics are boring and isn't registered to vote, would rather get hammered in the Green dragon.

Merry : Solid blue democrat. Royally pissed off that Pipp still wont register to vote.

Sam : A registered independent, votes for whomever master Frodo votes for.

Frodo : Bleeding heart liberal. He volunteered to save the world after all, and was able to withstand the evil of the ring almost until the end.

Gandalf : Wants to save the world from evil, loves nature, and I have a sneaking suspicion that he might be gay: definite democrat.

The Balrog: rank and file Republican.

Gimli: The only registered republican in the Fellowship. Is annoyed with environmental standards on mining, and is wary of those crazy Elvish liberals.

Aaragorn: I'm not sure a prospective King can really belong to a political party or a democracy, but if they could he would be a democrat.

All the Elves(sorry I'm getting tired): Bleeding heart liberals all of them, so goddamn sick of the Republicans they are leaving and sailing west.

He just has....a particular thing for....hobbits!

The Matrix. :crazy:

I'd love to read it! Neo is a Democrat, right?

"Unplugged" humans, Le Resistance, People of Zion, whatever: HAAAHDCOAH DEMS!!

Machines: Evil, GOP overlords. Karl Rove types.

"Plugged" humans: The mindless teeming sheeple.

The film was shot through with negative takes on
hippies, the anti-war movement, radicals, etc. And
their violent, loud, boorish, selfish cartoon-like
portrayal clashed with sweet, loving, patriotic Forrest.

as is Sally Field I think too.

about Hanks. But there's no way around it for me--
that movie was determined to contrast the good, lovable
Gump with the obnoxious, vile anti-war movement. I dont
know the politics of the producer or director, but I
was just thinking, what the hell is Hanks doing? I
guess maybe the character opportunity for him outweighed
the politics, or somehow he saw what he was doing very
differently than I saw it. He didnt ask me about it before
he took the part, for some reason.

either way.

Remember it is Forrest who is excited about meeting Kennedy and who calls in the report that busts Watergate.

They included every important event at the time to try to connect Forrest to it in some goofy way. I just don't think the director's intent was to give it any political leaning whatsoever.

Rp

pro-war & anti-war groups, it IS taking a political stand
as far as I'M concerned. Oh, those wacky kids, for and against
war and bigotry and all that, theyre so cute. I couldnt stand
that film. I spit in the parking lot to get the taste out of
my mouth. I'm the only one I know who felt so strongly about
the sloppy biases of that film. Plus, it was about three days long.

The army loves Forrest because he doesn't think for himself and just does as he is told. Even the fact that they took a guy with questionable intelligence, armed him and sent him into battle is disturbing.

...that film pretty much makes fun of everyone involved in the 60s or 70s, whatever their side. The one thing Forrest has over them is that he's too dumb to have an "agenda" or even notice the agendas of everyone else around him. (The only "Republican" thing I could find in it is the message that you can live a better life if you're not too smart and just follow your instincts -- which is probably what Boy George would hold as his filosof...phillahsof...strong beliefs about life.)

Given that, it isn't a film that holds up well to repeated viewings. The second time I saw it, all I could think of was how over-the-top Hanks's accent was.

Most clearly shown (IMHO) in the integration scene. You've got people shouting for it, people shouting against it and Forrest doesn't even get it. He just picks up the dropped book and hands it to her as though it were any other person on any other day.

...but I've always thought of Ferris as future life-of-the-fraternity Republican. He may be "rebellious," but only in ways that tweak the status quo (for being "no fun") without really challenging it. (Besides, he sings Wayne Newton songs!)

Of course, it didn't help that Dan Quayle said that this was his favorite film of all time.

:puke:

turn into a repuke later, but I don't know......I don't see much caring for money in him. And he says, when trying to borrow his friend's dad's Ferrari, "anyone with priorities that far out of whack..." etc.

:shrug:

I can see him blowing off the fraternity scene.

...as a future Republican, too. In fact, he might have "matured" into a Republican campaign manager, dirty tricks and all.

Luke Skywalker: Liberal as a green young man, but his idealism wears off and he tends to vote for authoritarian figures later in life.

Han Solo: Talks like a liberal, secretly votes republican. Believes that most people need a strongman to tell them what to do. No coincidence that he makes his illegal living evading the laws of people he supports politically.

Princess Leia: hardcore liberal activist. Takes on the empire and wins.

Cee Threepio: Voted for Nader.

Darth Vader: Neocon cutthroat. Could hold his own against Dick Cheney.

Obi-wan: Socially progressive, fiscally conservative. Would almost vote libertarian, but he's not a prick.

Charlie Sheen definitely a democrat :D

The kids taking up a collection for Ferris they were future democrats :D

Damn, Ed Rooney was arrested for child molestation. What other movies was he in? It just came to me he was in Howard the Duck.

Michael Douglas' character is a HARD-LINE Republican. The Nazi shop owner Army/Navy shop owner is beyond a Republican. :)