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Gumba of Liberty
05-06-2012, 12:17 PM
If we are going to have a full intellectual Revolution we need to invade the silver screen. Their is no other way. People love cinematic adventures. They can relate to them. Also, I just wanted to come up with a list of movies I want to see because I hate the whole, "Well the reason Hollywood movies suck is because they have run out of ideas." While it is true that (banker controlled) Hollywood has lost all creative juice, I reject the fact that there are no new movies to be made. We need a Renaissance in movie industry to change hearts and minds. Full disclosure: I am a social studies teacher and these would make my job easier. :D


The following are in no particular order...

1. Lafayette - This great Frenchmen and liberty lover deserves to have his story told.
2. The Civil War - Showing the atrocities of and general disregard for the Constitution by Lincoln is vitally important. Probably would be best set in three parts: 1. Showcase the evil and greed of the U.S. Government, Lincoln's true beliefs, and Lincoln's true actions during the war. 2. Contrast that with the evil and greed of the Confederate Government, they were no angels either. 3. Contrast the evils of both States with a farmer in one of the boarder states who wants nothing to do with the war nor either government and only wants to protect his property.
3. The Creature from Jekyll Island
4. Joshua Glover - Fugitive Slave Laws and Northern nullification must be understood.
5. Shay's Rebellion
6. Jackson and the 2nd National Bank
7. Robin Hood - Reclaiming property from the State and returning it to the people.
8. The French Revolution - The transition from the Early Revolution when Thomas Jefferson was involved to the Reign of Terror.
9. Thomas Jefferson
10. Alexis de Tocqueville - His warnings of despotic democracy and the rise of the modern State were incredible, be it logical, predictions.

Thoughts?

pochy1776
09-06-2012, 07:55 AM
BUMP!
Its a good list, i would add a movie about:

Taft vs Eisenhower in 1952

The Republican opposition to the New Deal

Goldwater vs Johnson

Milton Friedman Biography

DGambler
09-06-2012, 08:01 AM
I'd,like to see a movie about Elisha Gray and Nikola Tesla.

helmuth_hubener
09-06-2012, 11:18 AM
2. The Civil War - Showing the atrocities of and general disregard for the Constitution by Lincoln is vitally important. Probably would be best set in three parts: 1. Showcase the evil and greed of the U.S. Government, Lincoln's true beliefs, and Lincoln's true actions during the war. 2. Contrast that with the evil and greed of the Confederate Government, they were no angels either. 3. Contrast the evils of both States with a farmer in one of the boarder states who wants nothing to do with the war nor either government and only wants to protect his property.
I'm pretty sure this movie has already been made. :D

As for other worthy stories:

Richard Cobden and John Bright
John Locke
John Lilburne
Benjamin Constant
Turgot the Great
Murray Rothbard
Ludwig von Mises
Roger MacBride and Rose Wilder Lane
Edward Atkinson
Henry David Thoreau
Cato the Younger
Julian Assange and Bradley Manning
Lew Rockwell
Lord Acton
Henry Hazlitt
Lysander Spooner

All of these were not only great champions for the libertarian cause, I can think of one or more conflicts or stories in their lives which could make for a good movie -- something other than them sitting down and writing every day. Turgot's tragically-doomed quest to convert the king and become finance minister. Spooner's fight against the post office. Etc.

Also, great men of the market, who made their fortunes with industry not with politics, especially when their stories can be cast as conflicts between them on the side of freedom versus the state and state-crony businesses on the side of oppression. The movie Tucker was made in such a way, for instance.
James J. Hill (and for that matter many other rail men, such as Cornelius Vanderbilt, and A. J. Cassatt)
Peter Thiel
Jeff Bezos
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs in general
John Mackey
I second Tesla
No Edison movies have come out since many decades ago! What's going on?
Gary Hudson
Burt Rutan
Space entrepreneurs in general

Really inventors and entrepreneurs in general are prime fodder for libertarian movies. Gutenburg, Archimedes, Da Vinci; Henry Ford, and Dutch herring moguls -- these men's stories could all be told in a way that glorifies the individual and freedom and vilifies collectivism and the state.

Elwar
09-06-2012, 11:34 AM
Ron Paul
Aristotle (the left right paradigm tends to center around Locke vs Hobbes, leaving Aristotle's natural law out of the picture).
A good story could be told of the AT&T monopoly and how government control gave us 50 years of the same technology.

helmuth_hubener
09-08-2012, 12:01 PM
Here's another libertarian(or at least libertarian in her recent comments and how she's lived her life) businessman that I didn't know about:

Gina Rinehart (http://lewrockwell.com/akers/akers192.html)

A heroic woman vs. a socialist state and thuggish unions: it would be a great movie.

AuH20
09-08-2012, 12:03 PM
I'd kill to see a properly made Goldwater flick. It could chronicle his pilot career in the military. He lived a very interesting life.

libertygrl
09-08-2012, 01:38 PM
Sibel Edmonds

http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/sibel-edmonds-press.jpg


Edmonds gained public attention following her firing from her position as a language specialist at the FBI's Washington Field Office in March 2002, after she accused a colleague of covering up illicit activity involving foreign nationals, alleging serious acts of security breaches, cover-ups, and intentional blocking of intelligence which, she contended, presented a danger to the United States' security. Her later claims have gained her awards and fame as a whistleblower.

In March 2012, she published a memoir, titled Classified Woman-The Sibel Edmonds Story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibel_Edmonds





Major General Smedley Butler USMC

http://www.rationalrevolution.net/images/butler.jpg


In 1934, Marine Major General Smedley Butler told Congress, according to Wikipedia, that a group of wealthy industrialists had plotted a military coup known as the Business Plot to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

From his book "War Is A Racket":

“War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket."

libertygrl
09-08-2012, 01:51 PM
While it's fun to do this, let's be realistic. There's NO WAY any of these would make it to the big screen! However, it would be kind of cool if a group of creative & skilled Liberty minded people could go the indie route and form a production company where WE could make these films ourselves! Even if it's direct to dvd. I'd certainly be interested . :)

GeorgiaAvenger
09-08-2012, 01:54 PM
I'd definitely like a Jackson-2nd National Bank story. A Jekyl Island one would be great too.

erowe1
09-08-2012, 01:55 PM
Great ideas.

Another great movie would be one with Lincoln in it where he's the bad guy.

helmuth_hubener
09-08-2012, 02:00 PM
Well, that would mean that they'd made it to the big screen! That's how Napoleon Dynamite made it to the big screen. Along with a lot of other recent movies. Indie is huge. Look at the aisles in the video rental store. Look at a list of recent popular movies. Yes, the way to do it, is to do it.

An Atlas Shrugged trilogy is being made, with one already completed
The Silver Circle is set to be released this fall
Alongside Night is being made

The libertarian community is stepping up to the plate and seizing the film opportunity in a big way. We just need to continue to do so, in an ever-bigger way.

madengr
09-08-2012, 04:39 PM
There is a Tesla movie. It's good. I have it on DVD.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079985/?mode=desktop