What movie(s) does the latest White House scandal bring to mind?

high on amphetamines and giggling manically as he chops off his finger on the cigar cutter just when they tell him Clouseau is back on the case!

Cato rocks!

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On several levels.
They keep suffering self-inflicted foot wounds that they completely ignore.
They are not "straight shooters' about anything.

The Professor

Cheney as leatherface
the dead grandpa as Bush I
Rumsfeld as the brother who hitchikes at the beginning
Bush as the town sherrif

Although Bush is dumber.

Symbolically … Key Largo

A power ploy of the good ol’boys is to hold people hostage … whether figuratively, physically or mentally … to maintain power and control over things …



John Huston directed this smart thriller about a gangster (Edward G. Robinson) who holds a number of people hostage in a hotel in the Florida Keys during a tropical storm. Humphrey Bogart is the returning war veteran who takes on the villains, and Lauren Bacall is on hand as one of the people on the wrong end of Robinson's gun. Somewhat similar in tone to Howard Hawks's To Have and Have Not (which also featured Bogart and Bacall), this moody movie captures a certain despair offset by the bond between individuals united by common purpose.

QUOTES:
Johnny Rocco: “After living in the USA for more than thirty-five years they called me an undesirable alien. Me. Johnny Rocco. Like I was a dirty Red or something!”

Frank McCloud: “You don't like it, do you Rocco, the storm? Show it your gun, why don't you? If it doesn't stop, shoot it.”


Frank: “When your head says one thing and your whole life says another, your head always loses.”

Frank McCloud: One Rocco more or less isn't worth dying for!

Ralphie: Hey Curly, what all happens in a hurricane?
Curly: The wind blows so hard the ocean gets up on its hind legs and walks right across the land.


James Temple: Are you thieves or what? You want money, is this a robbery?

Edward G. Robinson (as gangster Johnny Rocco) taunts John Rodney (as Deputy Clyde Sawyer) in front of a roomful of people by proclaiming that he is the real power behind the local government:

"You hick! I'll be back pulling strings to get guys elected mayor and governor before you ever get a 10-buck raise. Yeah, how many of those guys in office owe everything to me. I made them. Yeah, I made 'em, just like a -- like a tailor makes a suit of clothes. I take a nobody, see? Teach him what to say. Get his name in the papers and pay for his campaign expenses. Dish out a lotta groceries and coal. Get my boys to bring the voters out. And then count the votes over and over again till they added up right and he was elected. Yeah -- then what happens? Did he remember when the going got tough, when the heat was on? No, he didn't wanna. All he wanted was to save his own dirty neck . . . Yeah, 'Public Enemy,' he calls me. Me, who gave him his 'Public' all wrapped up with a fancy bow on it."

......

the similarities to this story are remarkable...

"He'll bring them death, and they'll love him for it."

Seems to sum up the freeper mentality of "kill 'em all" that's running rampant in this country today.

I've been posting that for 2 years now. The similarities ARE remarkable indeed.

GRACCHUS :
He knows who Rome is. Rome is the
mob. He will conjure magic for them
and they will be distracted. And he
will takes their lives. And he will
take their freedom. And still they
will roar. The beating heart of
Rome isn't the marble of the Senate.
It's the sand of the Colosseum. He
will give them death. And they will
love him for it.

Who could deny this?

Maybe Jim Crow, but not the other.

...Dumb and Dumberer?

;-)

No way. Those two guys were just dumb; they weren't brain dead!

Maybe a movie like Awakenings, well, the first half.

who will wind up in the wood chipper :evilgrin:

... just switch the names. :P

Others:

Brainman 1988 with Dustin

Bizarre Face 1983 with Pacino

Duct Soup 1932 with the Marx Brothers

Freeper Madness 193? with ?

:silly:

Seriously, I don't care what anyone thinks. If someone in the White House is placed under arrest, this turns out to be just as big of a scandal.

All The Resident's Men

But there's no Woodward & Bernstein.

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playing the fiddle.