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Pro-Liberty, Pro-Market Movies: Your Recommendations
On Tuesday, the Foundation for Economic Education posted a column about the Bollywood movie Guru. Interested by their claim that it was “The Best Pro-Market Film You’ve Never Seen,” I decided to give it a viewing. I was very pleased. Guru has some hurdles to clear, but its story is right out of a Rand novel.
After viewing the movie, I started to compile in my head a list of other pro-market, pro-liberty movies. I’m interested in what yours are as well. Maybe the list we compile can be used as a “Ricochet Recommended Viewing” list.
Here are the movies on my list (so far):
- The Atlas Shrugged Trilogy: Pt1, Pt2, Pt3
- Chuck Norris vs. Communism
- 1776
- The Lost City
- To Live
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
- Harry Potter: Pt5, Pt6, P7.1, P7.2
- Guru
- Comes a Bright Day
So, what are yours?
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I finished off TNG (loved it during it’s first run, watching with my wife every week), and quit midway through DS9. Everything was getting boring, and this was about the time I really started resenting the whole Space Commie theme. As good as it was, after seeing the First Contact movie, I just got tired of being hit in the face with “We’re so much better than you, we don’t use money”. Adding insult to injury, the next movie was about the fountain of &*^%$#! youth, for Kirk’s sake. I just washed my hands of it all after that. Roddenberry’s nonsense was bad enough. Berman finished it off.
1776 is great fun, but how on earth does being “right out of a Rand novel” qualify as a recommendation? Whittaker Chambers got this about right. Now if there were a movie right out of a Hayek monograph, sure.
But Ayn Rand? Please.
The author’s asking for movies that are pro-market and/or pro-liberty. Are you suggesting that Rand novels are neither?
I did qualify this list as including Pro-Market movies, right?
I wish I could vote this up multiple times.
I work in IT. Thinking that both Star Wars and Star Trek are crap puts me way in the minority. Thankfully, there’s Firefly/Serenity.
Beautiful.
I got called out on Ayn Rand, but I’m more surprised that I haven’t been called out on Harry Potter.
The similarities between the bureaucrats in The Order of the Phoenix and those in Atlas Shrugged are unmistakable.
Absolutely. I often tell people that Harry Potter 5 is one of the best books for young adults on the theme of Individual vs State.
The Jedi (and the Republic, for that matter) were what happens when a group confuses order with good. The ultimate lesson of Star Wars is that Lawful Good (Jedi) vs. Chaotic Evil (Sith) is futile, and only Chaotic Good (Luke) can save the galaxy.