![]() However, you may express your appreciation for my labor of love by dropping a token of your appreciation in the hat. How may followers show appreciation? As I mentioned before, I am not employed by anyone nor being paid for my time maintaining tweets and blog. With so many followers I became committed to maintaining the twitter schedule and finding fun stuff for upcoming TCM movies. I have had the opportunity to share fun stuff with some incredible fellow classic movie lovers and bloggers. I was totally overwhelmed by the number of fellow TCM maniacs that became my following. During the 31 days Oscar I decided to dedicate a twitter just to share my TCM obsession by tweeting about every movie every day of February. At the beginning of 2009 I decided to check out twitter and lucked up on some fellow TCM fans to friend. My entire day and night became defined by the TCM line-up. I soon developed an obsessive habit of keeping a browser tab open for the TCM schedule and beating Robert Osbourne's introductions to finding out facts for upcoming movies. ![]() As I lay flat on my back recovering from a disabling health crisis unable to do little more than watch TV and surf the internet, I found refuge watching TCM round the clock. How I got started? Well, I've been a fan of TCM since its inception. I created the TCManiacs twitter as a result of my sincere passion for watching Turner Classic Movies. I really do keep my TV tuned to TCM 24-7. I am not being paid by TCM or anyone else to dedicate my time to tweeting. I am not some superbot created by software developers. Demme's depiction of mother-son incest is more explicit.ĭemme's rewritten and reworked version of The Manchurian Candidate was less critically successful than the original.įirst, I'll tell you who I am not. The social conventions of American cinema in 1962 limited Frankenheimer's depiction to a salacious adult kiss between mother and son. The novel explicitly depicts incest between Raymond and his mother. Raymond is the brainwashed Manchurian candidate and Marco the brainwashed assassin. The American soldiers are also shown being captured in Kuwait during the Gulf War between Iraqi and UN forces. This contemporary adaptation made substantial changes to the source material by dropping the Cold War background for an anti- corporation story of private and business control of the U.S. Jonathan Demme directed an up-to-date version of The Manchurian Candidate in 2004, starring Denzel Washington as Major Marco, Liev Schreiber as Congressman Raymond Shaw, and Meryl Streep as Senator Eleanor Shaw (her husband is not included). The Manchurian Candidate was nationally released on Wednesday, October 24, 1962, at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The central concept of the film is that the son of a prominent, right-wing political family has been brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy. It was directed by John Frankenheimer and stars Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Angela Lansbury and features Janet Leigh, Henry Silva, James Gregory, Leslie Parrish and John McGiver. The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 Cold War political thriller film adapted by George Axelrod from the 1959 novel by Richard Condon.
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