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Re: Pro capitalism main characters

phrizek — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:44:11 GMT

Alex the Amused:

Conza88:

The Fountainhead ?

We the Living was also made into a movie. A better one from what I've heard.

I was just about to recommend this one. Noi vivi: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035130/

It is fantastic.

Re: Pro capitalism main characters

Alex the Amused — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:06:17 GMT

Conza88:

The Fountainhead ?

We the Living was also made into a movie. A better one from what I've heard.

Re: Pro capitalism main characters

Caley McKibbin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:42:50 GMT

I have a screenplay in early stages with such a character. Whether it ever sees a big screen is not yet certain.

Re: Pro capitalism main characters

Conza88 — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:52:42 GMT

The Fountainhead ?

Re: Pro capitalism main characters

The Late Andrew Ryan — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:24:00 GMT

Wow, the number of answers is absolutly appauling.... Oh well, at the very least there have been plenty of movies where government has been the bad guy...Both sides lose.

Re: Pro capitalism main characters

DanielMuff — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:08:26 GMT

J. Grayson Lilburne:

The Pursuit of Happyness: the film with perhaps the most truly heroic protagonist ever.

What's funny is that he slept in the bathrooms of the BART stations, which are now closed because of potential terr'ism.

Re: Pro capitalism main characters

Daniel James Sanchez — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:48:56 GMT

The Pursuit of Happyness: the film with perhaps the most truly heroic protagonist ever.

Re: Pro capitalism main characters

Conza88 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:35:04 GMT

Porco Rosso: Anarcho-Capitalist Pig?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/shaffer-br5.html

The Man in the White Suit (1951)

In this hilarious film Alec Guinness plays Sidney Stratton, a brilliant scientist who is struggling to complete his research on a new kind of fabric that will not only be nearly indestructible but even repel dirt. He is booted out of one industrial lab after another each time his personal project is discovered until he finally gets the formal backing of a cloth manufacturer. His experiments are a success and filled with pride and joy about his invention that will benefit so many, he prepares to go to the press conference. That's when a big business cartel and a labor union attack ("capital and labor are hand in hand in this") fearing that Stratton's invention will put them all out of work since people won't need replacement clothes once they get clothes made from Stratton's cloth. First the businessmen try to trick Stratton into signing a contract that will give them full control of his invention, but he asks "To suppress it?" and they respond "Yes". When trickery doesn't work the businessmen and labor union turn to violence.

The movie strangely leaves out any government role as the union and the cartel unabashedly use violence to put down their competitor. But only a little imagination is required to see this movie as a critique of real world big government/big business/big union fascism. This is a great and funny film about entrepreneurial innovation and the "vested interests, the dead hand of monopoly" who try to suppress it by force.

Tucker: A Man and His Dream (1988)

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by George Lucas, this is a love letter from these two great film entrepeneurs to the American entrepeneur. Preston Tucker was an actual inventor who designed a car in the 1940s to challenge the big three automakers. This film dramatizes his struggle to bring his product to market and the political/big business combination that puts a stop to his efforts. Many of his innovations werelater (much later) adopted by the big three automakers. At his trial, Tucker summarizes the terrible change in the U.S.: "We invented the free enterprise system where anybody, no matter who he was, where he came from, what class he belonged to, if he came up with a better idea, about anything, there's no limit to how far he could go. I grew up a generation too late, I guess, because now the way the system works, the crackpot who comes up with some crazy idea that everybody laughs at, that later turns out to revolutionize the world, he's squashed from above." Though Tucker's efforts were frustrated, the accent in the film is not on the tragedy but on the joy and genius of the innovative entrepeneur. Coppola tried to match Tucker's spirit with fun and inventive film techniques. It hard to imagine the Austrian emphasis on the heroic entrepeneur being better represented in film.

These are close...

Re: Pro capitalism main characters

Andrew Cain — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:51:03 GMT

JackSkylark:

However, Sam Spade seems to be a pro-capitalist character.

Sam Spade is the lone detective, wooing women and chain smoking himself to an early grave...that is of course if those petty two bit criminals don't get to him first. Capitalist..maybe...and I say that because of his loner in it for the money mentality.

Re: Pro capitalism main characters

JackSkylark — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:47:20 GMT

Laughing Man:

Humphrey Bogart is my favorite actor. I don't know if I would label Casablanca and Maltese a pro-capitalist movie though.

However, Sam Spade seems to be a pro-capitalist character.

There Will Be Blood is a great movie. I don't think it is necessarry for a movie to glorify capitalism in order to be greatly enjoyed.

Re: Pro capitalism main characters

Physiocrat — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:35:38 GMT

Well Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood is a capitalist but is portrayed as a throroughly evil man yet the benefits of his capitalistic investments are clearly shown.

It's a great film anyway.

Re: Pro capitalism main characters

Andrew Cain — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:34:13 GMT

Humphrey Bogart is my favorite actor. I don't know if I would label Casablanca and Maltese a pro-capitalist movie though.

Re: Pro capitalism main characters

JackSkylark — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:27:36 GMT

The Maltese Falcon (1941) - Sam Spade

Casablanca?

Brazil - No real pro-capitalist character, but a great movie.

Pro capitalism main characters

you12 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:21:04 GMT

Need some movies with pro capitalist characters as protagonists. I have had enough of Mr. Potters . Need a change, I am excited for Avatar and I have already seen apocalypto . Any movie will do but preferably hollywood classics .