Film
Several Alfred Hitchcock films already contain elements of the political thriller. In The Man Who Knew Too Much a political assault has to be prevented. In 1962 John Frankenheimer made a film adaptation of The Manchurian Candidate. All the President's Men is based on the Watergate Scandal. other examples of political thrillers are Z, Three Days of the Condor, JFK and City Hall. Several post-9/11 political thriller films refer to the September 11 attacks or terrorism in general. Producer Kevin Feige described the film Captain America: The Winter Soldier as a political thriller, and V For Vendetta.
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“The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half- piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be intrigued. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large. The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It’s another part of the twentieth-century mind. It’s the world seen from inside. We’ve come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself. This is where we are. The twentieth century is on film.... You have to ask yourself if there’s anything about us more important than the fact that we’re constantly on film, constantly watching ourselves.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)