Hey, wanna watch a movie about politics?We know, we know. The real world is stressful enough right now, and you'd be within your rights to want to tune out. But we've got some picks that will hopefully help you see the worldwide political situation from a new angle, or maybe laugh at it—plus some lessons from these filmmakers and how they tackle the subject matter.Let's dive in.The Ides of March - YouTube www.youtube.com George Clooney directed, co-wrote, and starred in this adaptation of Beau Willimon's play about a campaign staffer (Ryan Gosling) who discovers his idealistic presidential candidate isn't quite what he seems. It came out of a particularly rich time in cinema (2011), where dark dramas like this had some real steam.But Clooney originally planned to make the film earlier. He told USA Today he felt that time, closer to the early Obama era, wasn't right "for a cynical political movie. Now the cynicism seems to have come back."Clooney and co-writer Grant Heslov took the play and focused on its characters. Heslov explained their approach to NPR: "For us, the film was sort of less about politics than it is about moral dilemmas that people face when they're in those kinds of situations, where they have to make moral choices. And that's what we wanted to do with Ryan Gosling's character. We really wanted to chase him up a tree and force that character to make some very difficult decisions."Remember, it always comes back to character.Mr. Smith Goes to...
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