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Article: Who's pulling the strings?(Now Playing)
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- The American Enterprise
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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Forget rocking the vote. The movies, not MTV, may have normally disinterested voters going to the polls this November.
On the heels of such issue-minded summer fare as The Day After Tomorrow and Fahrenheit 9/11 comes nothing less than a remake of the 1962 political thriller, The Manchurian Candidate. The original was a work of unnerving paranoia for paranoid times. Can the same be said of this new version?
The basic premise, taken from Richard Condon's novel, remains the same: Raymond Shaw, a brainwashed war hero, is the key to a plot to gain control of the Presidency. When Bennett Marco, another member of the hero's combat unit--played by Frank Sinatra ...