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MAROONED (1969) was playing in theatres in the USA when the Apollo 13 near-disaster took place. The movie mirrored the news headlines dramatically, and the film's boxoffice take was increased because of it.
THE CHINA SYNDROME (1979) was also playing in theatres in the USA when the Three Mile Island nuclear incident occurred. This one is close to home for me, since I live a short drive from that nuclear plant. In the film, one of the nuclear experts describes a potential meltdown, saying it could "...render an area the size of Pennsylvania permanently uninhabitable!" Chilling.
Are there any other "prophetic" films that you can think of?
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Please note, I'm wiping political comments to spare the thread, but if people can't control themselves, the thread will be locked.
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Allardyce, you have my permission to close this thread.
RoryR is doing his utmost to force it to be closed.
Go ahead and shut it down.
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Has nothing to do with opinion or mindset. The rules were written by the owner of FSM. I am merely enforcing them.
From Community Rules:
2) No political or religious discussion. There are countless places online to discuss religion and politics but only a few to discuss film music. Even in the non-film music discussion side of our board, we do not allow religious or political talk. We have found that such threads always (regardless of which “side” you are on) degenerate into fights and acrimony. Obviously there are topics that border on these areas; please use your judgment. If you want to discuss your favorite scores to religious films, that’s fine, just don’t use it to sermonize—and if somebody else does so, report it to us, and don’t take the bait. (These are sensitive topics; please respect that other people may not only have different views, but different sensibilities towards discussing them.)
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All my choices would probably be labeled "political" so I'll just add this one...
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
I am living through the prophetic nature of this film right now:
"You don't sell the dream of a lifetime".
"Other Morton's will be along, and they'll kill it off".
- Harmonica (Charles Bronson)
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TWILIGHT ZONE had a couple of eerily prophetic eps;
'Number Nine (13?) Looks Just Like Me"
about every one undergoing cosmetic surgery to eliminate physical "flaws'
The one about automation destroying all the jobs in a factory including the manager (Richard Deacon)
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Unfortunately, what violates the rules is a matter of the opinion of the moderator, and I just don't get this guy's mindset. So, all I can do is test the waters.
Therefore,
Seven Days in May. I think it could happen.
It did happen>
November 22, 1963
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"So, all I can do is test the waters."
RoryR, you were the very first to post here in my new thread.
You were not interested in "testing" anything.
You made a political (and to some here, insulting) remark, which you full well know is considered to be illegal.
When our moderator erased that post, you responded by insulting him.
I don't call that sort of behavior "testing," RoryR.
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I suppose 'Shoes of the Fisherman' doesn't count, since it was the original novel that was prophetic.
Some of the above examples are not 'prophetic' but film writers' warnings on outcomes of the state of things, or even commentary on what's already there.
Since dreams and creativity and screenwriting are all linked from the same psychic and imaginative sources, it's not surprising that a movie could be a crystallised image of what we unconsciously know will happen though.
I found 'Titanic' an indulgent film, cashing in on, and revelling in, a tragic disaster (mind you I've narrated no less than four Titanic based bits, so who am I to complain?) and couldn't help linking the September 11th images of people falling to their deaths from tall buildings with the ship up-ending scene. You wonder what it is in the modern psyche that gets a thrill from apocalyptic disasters, especially real ones.
Then again do terrorists take their cues for their monstrous art from images they know the public already fear and anticipate in movies? 'Chicken and egg.
A crappy UK soap-opera had a plane crash on top of a village broadcast the week after the Lockerbie bomb disaster. They swore the episode was months in production, and this was a coincidence. Knowing how UK crappy soaps try to be 'relevant' to claim credibility, I'd be sceptical, and most people were appalled and accused them of cashing in.
But art is a form of dream product and collective unconscious contents can manifest that way.
Sir Kenneth made 'Henry V', and made it brooding and dark. Sir Larry made 'Henry V' at a time when the world was coming OUT of a bad war period, deliberately, with bright colours and alchemical 'new birth' imagery. I felt almost irrationally superstitious that Sir Ken (who, let's face it, has been emulating Sir Larry in his choice of film projects ...) was 'reversing' the older film, and, in the name of modernity, magically plunging the world back into chaos. Maybe he was, unconsciously, tapping in to that? Read the seasons.
It's worth pointing out that 'prophecy' as understood by theologians and psychologists is not predicting the future: it's picking up the unrecognised elements of how things are going and warning. And 'psychic' is a scientific word to describe the ENTIRE umbrella of conscious and unconscious processes. That's what art is for, so don't be surprised.
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