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Title: Conservative/Religious Right/Fascist Wet Dream
Review: This movie, despite its often hilarious moments (that are usually unintentional), serves well as a serious fantasy about what the consequences would be of having a President who was fundamentalist, born-again, and power hungry, and who would not stop at his attempts to seize total authority until he was running the country the way he wanted to. Wait, no, sorry, this isn't about the current president, this movie is from 1933.But, how prophetic! One of the many ironies in the film is that the horn motif that shows up during the moments of "divine intervention" was lifted from the last movement of Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 1 in C Minor. Brahms himself lifted it from a Swiss alphorn player. It's from a piece called "High on the Mountain" and is an alphorn melody that Brahms heard while hiking in the Rigi area of Switzerland. The irony here is that Brahms was a noted agnostic.In sum a mixed bag, fun to watch, but also a little scary.[...]
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