The suspenseful thriller, The Manchurian Candidate, was directed by John Frankenheimer, and written by George Axelrod. The movie is based on a 1959 novel written by Richard Condon. It was released in 1962 but was pulled after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, only to be re-released in 1987 and remade in 2004. The Manchurian Candidate is a movie about a government conspiracy mainly involving a former Korean Prisoner Of War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw, played by Laurence Harvey who was thought to have been brainwashed by the Communists to be an assassin. A battle to find out exactly what is going on is fought by another former Prisoner Of War, Captain Ben Marco, played by Frank Sinatra.
At the time of the first release of the movie in 1962, the United States had been engaged in the Cold War with the Soviet Union and American morale was low. The United States was on a mission to contain the communist government of Russia and any Hollywood release that may pose questions or raise anti-American thoughts was against "national policy" and forbidden. This is why the Manchurian Candidate was pulled for many years, and in this lies one of the sociopolitical messages of the movie; Americans support America and hate Communists. From the movie we also learn that during that time period there were obviously questions about the validity of government and politicians as there still are today.
The filmmaker portrays the topical time period well. The beginning of the movie showed the American Prisoners Of War being captured in a war like setting, which would make the topical time period somewhere between 1950-1953, which are the dates of the Korean War. It also showed a saloon with jazzy music and soldiers who were drinking and being aroused...
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... film together before the actual ending. The artistic disciplines flowed together well, but I think the most dominating one was not necessarily the actor performance, but the characterizations of the actors and the roles each of them played.
There really is not much of a historical time lag considering that the Cold War has only been over for about a decade after having been going on for four decades. Anyone who has had US history should understand that time period and therefore get the underlying point of the movie. The target audience in my opinion would probably be an older American public because of the violence and the historical references in the film. I stayed interested during this movie, but due to all the violence, especially when Sergeant Shaw killed the love of his life, Jocelyn, I would not be interested in having it in my own collection of films.
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I would say the target audience for this film would be people who enjoy musicals, no matter their age. The time lag would only have much of an effect for younger generations who do not remember the 1960's and the discrimination and the political actions that were being taken during that time period. The film is still a classic I would say because of all of the wonderful costumes, dancing, singing, acting, and clever story telling through songs. I can definitely see why this film was a popular success then as it still is today.