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Ara Rubyan <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:
Fri, 8 Jul 1994 06:27:01 EDT
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Recently, Edmond Chibeau wrote:
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IT SEEMS TO ME THAT TOM HANKS ISN'T TRYING TO SPEAK TO THE HARD-CORE QUEER
COMMUNITY IN PHILADELPHIA, OR TO SPARTICIST REVOLUTIONARIES IN GUMP
BUT HE IS TRYING TO ADDRESS THE MIDDLE OR AVERAGE MIDDLE CLASS MOVIEGOER
WHO GETS MOST OF HIS/HER INFORMATION ABOUT SOCIAL JUSTICE FROM RAMBO MOVIES
I THINK THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WHO WATCH AND ARE INFLUENCED BY
HOLLYWOOD MOVIES
AND WHO TEND TO BE FAIRLY CONSERVATIVE IN THEIR SOCIAL VIEWS
 
I THINK HANKS IS TRYING TO GENTLY INFLUENCE THAT MIDDLE GROUND TOWARD A
SLIGHTLY MORE OPEN-MINDED ATTITUDE
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On first blush this sounds good. But somehow I think that the people that you
are describing would have skipped this movie in the first place.  They would
have gone to see that Rambo movie you mention.  Wouldn't you agree?

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