I was watching the movie Bad Day at Black Rock.
Spencer Tracy plays John J. Macreedy, a World War II veteran who pays
a visit to an isolated town in the West. Robert Ryan is Reno Smith,
the informal leader of the town, and it's pretty clear that he's a
bad guy.
Macreedy is puzzled by the
townspeople's secretive behavior, and early in the film Smith
confronts him at a filling station and tries to bully him into
leaving town. That's when the resemblance hit me: Smith (Ryan) looked
exactly like George W. Bush! And his pugnacious attitude solidified
the likeness.
Then a few weeks ago it happened again.
This time I was viewing Water for
Elephants, in which Christoph Waltz plays August, a handsome,
hard-nosed circus owner. Early on I saw that August was the spitting
image of Mitt Romney! And there were several character elements that
also linked the two: August enriched himself by taking over the
assets of other circuses; he enjoyed firing people; and he didn't
always have his animals' best interests at heart.
Chilling.
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