Wow I never heard of this movie but gave it a shot and was impressed with the acting of andy griffith. We're so bowled over by the tv show we don't realize what a great actor he could have been in a more dramatic and free medium like film vs tv. Don't get me wrong I love classic tv, it's so refreshing and clean compared to the garbage we've been fed for 30 years and more. I get that he had to cash in and a tv show with your name in the title is stumbling onto a gold mine.
So yeah the idea that the low end drifter transients are easy to use as clowns to sell all sorts of products and ideas is used all the time IRL. We still get the propaganda of a lenin-steinberg and associates as bottom feeders who were just awakening the organic rage of the crowd, totally false of course but the story sells to this day.
And don't think it's not true in some places, similar to the tribesters other version shown in Being There. Some simple minded fool is nominated as der Leader as a useful puppet of the hermetic-kabbalistic cults political wing. In this instance another cliche is shown of the puppet becoming a megalomaniac who gets drunk with the addulation which is really vapor smoke thin.
This is even complete with the standard set of characters the handler who pushes him to stardom with the Vitajex stuff, the quiet female supporter in media who mixes romance/sex into it for her own purposes and then becomes a self righteous seeming do gooder but really is just revenge jealous ridden hag, the "princeton" tribester in matthau who plays the "knowing" handler from afar and is a sort of faust whispering in patricias ear etc
But the idea that an entertaining and engaging circus clown becomes more due to the ptb's vision of using this mirage as a vehicle of control. The funny name too Lonesome Roads evokes a country setting of a drifter. Then we find out that rhodes is just like other men who are addicted to the drug of addulation and then become monsters. The pride that comes from this is easily seen in much smaller places like fancy cars and smug wealthy types really monsters in miniature, easily manipulated human weakness.
It is fun to watch and well acted all around though. A much more memorable film than you'd think, a hidden gem.
So yeah the idea that the low end drifter transients are easy to use as clowns to sell all sorts of products and ideas is used all the time IRL. We still get the propaganda of a lenin-steinberg and associates as bottom feeders who were just awakening the organic rage of the crowd, totally false of course but the story sells to this day.
And don't think it's not true in some places, similar to the tribesters other version shown in Being There. Some simple minded fool is nominated as der Leader as a useful puppet of the hermetic-kabbalistic cults political wing. In this instance another cliche is shown of the puppet becoming a megalomaniac who gets drunk with the addulation which is really vapor smoke thin.
This is even complete with the standard set of characters the handler who pushes him to stardom with the Vitajex stuff, the quiet female supporter in media who mixes romance/sex into it for her own purposes and then becomes a self righteous seeming do gooder but really is just revenge jealous ridden hag, the "princeton" tribester in matthau who plays the "knowing" handler from afar and is a sort of faust whispering in patricias ear etc
But the idea that an entertaining and engaging circus clown becomes more due to the ptb's vision of using this mirage as a vehicle of control. The funny name too Lonesome Roads evokes a country setting of a drifter. Then we find out that rhodes is just like other men who are addicted to the drug of addulation and then become monsters. The pride that comes from this is easily seen in much smaller places like fancy cars and smug wealthy types really monsters in miniature, easily manipulated human weakness.
It is fun to watch and well acted all around though. A much more memorable film than you'd think, a hidden gem.