Frank Capra (Wonderful Life For Who?) was Anti-commie/Anti-choice

[Ripley]

Can't link to the kpete thread for some reason.

The thread was about how the FBI had investigated him and his film "It's a Wonderful Life" as "communist sympathy."

If you believe the Wiki info on Capra:

Capra was a Republican who was active in the anti-Communist cause and also donated funds to the Human Life Amendment PAC.

Heres what the HLA is: The Human Life Amendment is the name for any amendment to the United States Constitution that would have the effect of overturning Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that denied states the authority to prohibit abortion. Although all of these amendments are intended to overturn Roe v. Wade, most of them go further, by forbidding both the federal government and the states from making abortion legal.

So, why does everyone ignore the elephant in the room?

Why would the FBI be monitoring a (former military) person known to be "active in anti-communism" and then file a report that he is sending out a "commie movie?"

Okay I'll answer that!

It's a distraction from the current real world of banking thievery and it's a way to rewrite history! Every freaking year!

Oh, and btw fu FC.

[RandomThoughts]

1. Becuase Christian teachings are communist.

And the good will of community in that film is communist.

However not totalitarianism, nor Stalinism. that leaders, and those ideas steel the communism balanced idea.


However the word communism is not correct either, since it depends what is in your macro for that.

Since when I say communism, people only see years of macro loading, and that has nothing to do with community ideas and removal of consolidations.

And many ideas of communism can create problems also.



For those that don't know, much of communist ideas were moved to ruling class in the USA, the excuse was to fight the cold war, but really it was for setting up oligarchy.

Ever wonder why Reagan and Gorbachev got along so well, Russia was freed from communism, and the US was freed from Capitalism, as both moved to Oligarchy. And many USSR methods are used in the USA, and vice versa.

Guess they did make some deals in those negotiations.


It is not about communism or capitalism, but about totalitarianism, even by something like money or monarch.

[Ripley]

2. Yes, Good Will is good

I was pointing out the strange thing about the FBI report thread. Can you link it here?

[RandomThoughts]

6. I think so also.

Although it is a story of a soldier getting out. Also the formula he solved uses some writings from some texts on the supernatural.

Starts with being tortured, and treated wrong, then isolation only learning from books, never having seen anything in any of those books.

Then transitions to 'going to California to follow love, as he learned from the sharing of the love from the teacher Williams and the Girlfriend.

It is a story of a healing.


Going to California by Led Zeppelin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpVLlnQ08OA



Funny thing is the line. "Completely other peoples formulas." and "why did you clean the floor of a prestigious institution" I think about that.


Then much of my internet at times was controlled info that would label trap back to MIT also, with many errors in construct of false pages. Or to make it simpler. Although that was label trap. Even know the exact times of shifts between shards. You can feel the shifts by trends.

There was a false game set up that was free, I would join what would seem to be a random placement on some free internet game, then the group around me contained what they thought of as people like me to see how we would interact. Also the situation matched 'bad situation' to create concepts of hopelessness or feelings of powerlessness, and label trap was used in many places.

So I know many people that think they are on the Internet are on managed servers at some institutes. However MIT was a label, probably not there, just easier to use that, most likely some Internet defense system from NSA or military does that. Or could be a private funded research group to gather information on people.

[freshwest]

4. That's heavy. I copied it and am going to think about it. I believe you're correct about it all.

[MrModerate]

3. Wait a minute. Didn't they look at the movie 'round about when it came out (1946) ? . . .

And didn't Capra die in 1991? And isn't this a recently released report of a very old story? And so doesn't this have not even a scintilla of a diddly to do with "current real world banking thievery"?

Just askin'.

[Ripley]

5. Ah. Someone who doesn't think the banksters CHEAT

LIE AND STEAL. Would that be you, MrModerate?

Someone not addressing the realities in the OP but instead obfuscating.

[blogslut]

8. Wow

You accuse a fellow DUer of supporting liars and thieves because they point out a couple of flaws in your OP?

Not cool.

[MrModerate]

13. My momma taught me never to argue with crazy people . . .

So I'll just wipe your spittle off my glasses and move on. Is anyone reminding you to take your meds?

[Hannah Bell]

7. um, because it all happened during the witch-hunting HUAC era?

Capra was investigated by HUAC under suspicion of being a communist circa 1948-50.

His films Mr Smith, Mr Deeds, Wonderful Life, Meet John Doe were all "populist" and you will notice that after 1951 his career kind of tanked, though he was just in his early 50s. He spent 8 years making SCHOOL FILMS before he directed in Hollywood again; i.e. he was effectively blacklisted.

Any right-to-live stuff he was involved in happened long after that.

Capra's self-admitted political views during the Depression/War era were not right wing.

[Ripley]

9. And yet no one can link to the kpete thread

where everyone loves this guy.

Now, I would think that you of all posters would have understood my point, Hannah.

FC was not a liberal man.

[Hannah Bell]

10. Actually, he WAS a liberal man: his films & public statements of the era demonstrate it.

The McCarthyite attack on him ruined his career (he was kept out of the industry for 10 years & after that made a few light non-political comedies).

His "right-wing" politics date from after the black-list & resulted from it -- his attempt to be "more american than thou" in reaction.

Another instance in which witch-hunters & liars have ruined art, artists & men.

Your post is not historically accurate, nor true to the man.

A shameful episode in American life & we are near to rerunning it.


Frank Capra had a sad, scared existence. That’s a pretty brutal statement for me to make from my comfy couch, isn’t it? Allow me to explain.

Frank Capra is best known for being the director of such films as It Happened One Night, It’s a Wonderful Life or The Mister’s favorite, Arsenic and Old Lace. Terms such as Capraesque and Capricorn were coined to to describe how Capra loved to tie on a happy, America the Beautiful ending on most films. The little guy triumphs in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and the madding crowd shuts up and listens in Mr. Deeds. As an Italian immigrant, Capra puts a shine on his adopted country that it kinda didn’t deserve. And as thanks?

Yeah, he gets McCarthyism.

The look at red hunting I got in this book has never scared me more.

As a director, decisions are your trade.

Once the fear of blacklisting of any kind set in, Capra’s movies suffered as his tail became firmly planted between his legs. Yes, it was valid to be worried. Those suspected of being red or even slightly pink became scapegoats for every evil under the sun.

At the beginning of this book Joseph McBride does a brilliant job of saying “Okay, guys. This is gonna suck!” He starts in foreshadowing right away things will get truly terrible and never recover.

So when the proverbial shit starts hitting the fan around mid-book it is hard to suck it up and keep trucking. McBride details every rethink and every reconsidered step Capra makes out of concern that he will be anything but a flag-waving American.

I literally winced as time after time Capra stepped away from the plate and chose not to make any real movies, just lollipops. Part of this self-consciousness is also, as the title says, tension over being a hit-maker. That’s just as frustrating to read about as Capra’s blacklist-inspired wishy washiness but somehow not as depressing. This guy loved America and it made his life a horror.

http://thatendup.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/frank-capra-the-catastrophe-of-success/

[Ripley]

11. So, denying women the right

to have control over their own physical bodies is just well, something that he admitted he spent money to change the fucking laws made by the Supreme Court of the the USA, to say "NO."

Still no answer as to why the FBI would investigate one they know.

[Hannah Bell]

12. Human Life Amendment = 23 years or more after the period in question.

At which time Capra was 76.

So it's irrelevant to the period in question.

Capra isn't the first person to grow increasingly right-wing with age.

Not even the first Hollywood person to do so.

The fact is that the letter & FBI file exists, the HUAC investigation happened, & the 10 years in the wilderness happened, and the films -- which are *not* right-wing -- exist.