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Kuba Powiertowski

MAGA vs THE BEAST -

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... for a brief explanation of what the title beast is:

"(...) Eric Hamburg, former speechwriter and staff member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, got the idea of a film about Nixon after having dinner with Oliver Stone.

In 1993, Hamburg mentioned the idea of a Nixon film to writer Stephen J. Rivele, with the concept being that they would incorporate all of the politician's misdeeds, both known and speculative.[3] Rivele liked the idea and had previously thought about writing a play exploring the same themes. Hamburg encouraged Rivele to write a film instead and with his screenwriting partner, Christopher Wilkinson, they wrote a treatment in November 1993.[3] They conceived of a concept referred to as "the Beast", which Wilkinson describes as "a headless monster that lurches through postwar history," a metaphor for a system of dark forces that resulted in the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr., the Vietnam War, and helped Nixon's rise to power and his fall from it as well.[7] Stone said in an interview that Nixon realizes that "the Beast "is more powerful than he is. We can't get into it that much, but we hint at it so many times—the military-industrial complex, the forces of money".[8] In another interview, the director elaborates,

I see the Beast in its essence as a System ... which grinds the individual down ... it's a System of checks and balances that drives itself off: 1) the power of money and markets; 2) State power, Government power; 3) corporate power, which is probably greater than state power; 4) the political process, or election through money, which is therefore in tow to the System; and 5) the media, which mostly protects the status quo and their ownership's interests."

...that's some real shit you have there in the United States of America. United around what? - I've always wondered that, just like I'm wondering about my tribal identity.
Nothing super serious;), have fun.

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