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Here's a list of tons of leftist movies.
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Does playing Kojima games count as watching movies?
Every kojima game is a grey goo of like 400 movies, so it's even better than watching movies.
It's movie nanomachines! 
you will watch the MGS4 cutscene, you will consume the slop
I think I've seen 3 movies this year. How much time do I have to cram?
according to letterboxd I've seen 183 movies this year... not to brag but that means I'm 60x the leftist you are
I be watching documentaries about prehistory archeology most nights tbh
Stalin liked cowboy movies and Mao Martial arts movies, They all enjoy treats
Remember some of the best westerns were initially hated on because Ameribrains were racist against Italians lol
Neither did anything wrong.
everyone, including yourself.
Mao was a fucking connessuier 
Stalin literally watched John Wayne movies
everyone, including yourself.
You can't punish the Marshal for enjoying the Duke 
The Duke really fucking sucked off-camera, that said.
Obviously, lmao. He helped make "The Conqueror"
THIS IS MY HOLE! IT WAS MADE FOR ME!
@UlyssesT@hexbear.net We need your expert treatbrain analysis here to determine if Mao is cancelled or not.
"Bruce Lee is a hero!"
That's a very concerning, maybe even unserious thing to say after already establishing the whole "no gods, no masters" thing. 
Mao dissolved in tears
That said, I've done that before, like decades ago when I saw the very first Land Before Time movie in theaters, so if he should have went to the treat gulag, so should I. 
EDIT: There's a very good reason for Mao to love the moment that put him in tears mentioned in the article. Looking back, I think my shitposting here was in bad taste.
That's a very concerning, maybe even unserious thing to say after already establishing the whole "no gods, no masters" thing
Nah dog, Heroic realism was a real agitprop tactic and as far as Mao's concerned, Bruce Lee was a living example of positive heroism for the proletarian masses.
We should be following Mao's stance on enjoying martial arts movies to a T
Nah dog, Heroic realism was a real agitprop tactic and as far as Mao's concerned, Bruce Lee was a living example of positive heroism for the proletarian masses.
But it's very, very easy for that agitprop to become counterrevolutionary, both for actual people and for fictional entities, especially when such proletariat heroes shift from examples of what the masses can do to being seen as superior to them instead, like the decay of Superman from a working class hero to a Nolanesque Randian Ubermensch jackoff.
The masses can have a little jojos as a treat
I am a JoJo enjoyer, but that dynasty itself (and its affluent origins) is kind of sus, says Comrade Amogus. 
Let a hundred new Jojo families blossom!
From each according to their stands, to each according to their life energy. 
heroism SHOULD be seen as directly correlated with one's solidarity and self-conception as a member of the proletariat
Yes, agreed! And as soon as someone ceases to do that (or in fiction, if they cease to be portrayed that way) it all goes to Great Person Theory shit. Again. 
Ironically, the more people in actual history seem to consider themselves part of that history rather than exempt from it, the more those people tend to be the ones that are the most influential for wide spread social changes. So-called great men wouldn't be great if they thought of themselves as great men... Because you need to understand you just didn't fall from a coconut tree 
if you are going to make change.
You can do as much evil as you want and think of yourself as special though, that seems very doable
Did you not read the article? The scene that Mao was reacting to was one where Lee's character 'kicked and smashed a wooden panel bearing the words: "Chinese and dogs not allowed".' It was a scene of fighting very explicitly not just for yourself or as yourself but fighting for and as the oppressed.
I went off into the weeds there when I should have first established that I was wholeheartedly sympathetic of that particular contextual moment of Mao loving that moment and wanting to see it again and again. Sorry.
This is why I love you lol
I cried during Guardians Of The Galaxy, Vol 3
While watching Army of Darkness for the first time, Maduro dissolved in tears, Villegas recalled, and said "Bruce Campbell is a hero!" Maduro watched the film twice more. Villegas said he did not know of any other movie that Maduro viewed three times.
Random fun fact Mao's favourite song was either Aawara Hoon (I am a vagabond) or Mera Joota Hai Japani (My shoe is Japanese), both from films made by legendary Indian actor/director Raj Kapoor. Listen to either of these songs on a streaming platform, they are honestly amazing, and try the translated lyrics, you'll see why he liked them
this is a bit btw
I had the same reaction to Equilibrium (2002)
The revolution will have our own Grammaton clerics
Except ours will use hammers and sickles and the muzzle flash will be a big star instead of a cross
Hell yeah
"Through analysis of thousands of recorded transactions, the Marxist has determined that the geometric distribution of linen in any economic system is a dialectically predictable element"
Mao would've loved REDLINE
actually, 
genuinely being moved by a silly movie is less treatbrained than doing it as a consumption ritual.
"I watched that movie ironically because it was a popcorn movie. Heh, nothing matters and nothing ever emotionally affects me." 
"I cried when Atreyu's horse sank in the Swamp of Sadness." 
me watching Tyler Durden get beat up by an italian mob character while doing a joker laugh Brad Pitt is a hero 🥺
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can_Dialectics_Break_Bricks%3F
The Fr*nch dubbed Maoist theory over a Kung Fu movie:
"The film utilizes footage from the 1972 martial arts film Crush by Tu Guangqi, which tells the story of anti-colonialist revolt in occupied Korea, which was dubbed over by the filmmakers in an example of détournement. Viénet's intention was to adapt a "spectacular" film typical of the film industry to the purposes of a radical critique of cultural hegemony and thus an expression of subversive revolutionary ideals.
The narrative focuses on a conflict between proletarians and bureaucrats within state capitalism. The proletarians enlist their grasp of dialectics in the fight against their oppressors, while the bureaucrats defend themselves using a combination of co-optation....."
I'm assuming without checking that that's the one where Lee plays a Chinese man who fights back against Japanese occupiers in the runup to WW2, not surprising it would really speak to Mao.