I paid my monthly premium for ten years
without so much as a cold and now that
I’m actually sick you’re gonna deny my
coverage
Wow that movie was a lot deeper than we
thought welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10
masked political messages in movies I’m
taking him out of here he’s vicious
doctor for this list we’re looking at
films that appear to be fun or
light-hearted treats but actually pack a
nutritional political punch through
strange or thinly veiled messages one
chattels dividend shares bankruptcy I’ll
say Oh
number 10 the war on terror The Dark
Knight go in this beloved superhero
flick Batman has to stop the Joker from
terrorizing Gotham
that may sound like your typical popcorn
superhero blockbuster but this movie can
also be seen as an analogy for the war
on terror as well as the Bush
administration I killed those people
that’s what I could be no no you can’t
you’re not how so well first there’s the
Joker who’s like a terrorist that’s
willing to blow anything up and kill
anyone including himself to get his
message across
I believe whatever doesn’t kill you
simply makes you
stranger then there’s Batman who’s
willing to cross the line to use a
citywide tracking device that can tap
into everyone’s cell phones in the name
of security sounds a bit like the
Patriot Act doesn’t it I’ll help you
this one time but consider this my
resignation as long as this machine is
at Wayne Enterprises I won’t be number
nine anti-colonialism avatar grace well
who’d you expect numbnuts this James
Cameron sci-fi epic takes place in a
future where humans are colonizing the
world of Pandora a celestial body that
is home to an alien race called the Navi
break for mission engage all hostiles
naturally the story holds many parallels
to the devastation inflicted on Native
American and other indigenous cultures
during the colonial era
leave shake
both the Navi and Native Americans had
strong connections to nature and had
their land destroyed by a stronger
foreign force that failed to accept the
indigenous people’s culture instead only
caring about how much power they could
gain and making a profit this is a place
for prayers to be heard
and sometimes answered overall avatar
appears to be similar to many movies
about Native Americans except that it’s
set in space if you want to share this
world with them you need to understand
I’d say we understand them just fine
number 8 McCarthyism invasion of the
body snatchers
I can’t wait for Jackie any longer stay
here Jin okay happy I’ve got a stop to a
story about an alien invasion in a small
town in California where the aliens use
emotionless human clones to infiltrate
the town
sounds more like a campy b-movie than a
thought-provoking film whatever it is
whatever intelligence our instinct is it
and govern the forming of human flesh
and blood out of thin air is
fantastically powerful beyond any
comprehension believe it or not though
the aliens in this black-and-white
sci-fi flick might actually be a symbol
for communism not unlike the alien
amoeba in another classic horror film
called the blob okay
an invasion of the body snatchers the
fear and paranoia the characters exhibit
about the possibility that their friends
and family could be aliens is similar to
how Americans felt during the Red Scare
and Republican US Senator Joseph
McCarthy’s witch-hunt for communists we
had to take a much mother the most
peculiar things I ever saw what things I
don’t know what they are never saw them
before it looked like a great big seed
pods no wonder your grandpa hates commie
so much number seven anti copyright law
the lego movie oh my gosh I love this
song
this fun film takes place in a world
made of Legos and is about a clash
between a group called the
master-builders who believe that people
should create whatever they want in the
evil Lord business who frowns upon
creativity people everywhere are always
messing with my stuff considering it’s a
movie about Legos you wouldn’t think
this would have any political undertones
so good right now
I can sing this song for our however Fox
News which described the movie as
anti-capitalist would disagree after all
with a villain named Lord business the
filmmakers are hardly being subtle
Vitruvius Lord business taking things
further is the reading that the lego
movie is actually a thinly veiled
critique of copyright laws with Lord
business representing a force that
restricts characters artistic freedom
similar to arguments in the debates
surrounding copyright and intellectual
property can you feel me I can feel you
Wow number 6 anti capitalism Robocop ah
robocop isn’t just an over-the-top
violent action flick about a cop who’s
resurrected as an unstoppable
crime-fighting machine it’s also a
critique of capitalism you are under
arrest you have the right to remain
silent you the movie takes place in a
corrupt crime ridden and bankrupt
Detroit the titular Robocop discovers
that the reason Detroit is so down on
its luck is due to corporate greed as
Omni consumer products runs everything
down to the police department take a
close look at the track record of this
company the film also takes every
opportunity to throw in parodies of
product commercials showcasing the
ridiculousness of it all yes we’d all
buy that for a dollar and remember we
care
number five equality the x-men franchise
I will bring you home old friend this
comic book series is about a group of
mutants who are despised by society but
still use their superpowers to kick butt
and fight for justice two superpowers
facing off and he wants to start World
War three in this franchise the x-men
represent any minority that has been
oppressed and ostracized the leader of
the heroes Professor Xavier with his
goal of mutants coexisting with humans
was modeled after Martin Luther King jr.
while the villain Magneto
was modeled after Malcolm X thanks to
his more hard-hitting approach to
attaining civil rights and his desire
for vengeance against those who
terrorized him they say you the bad guy
is that what this said further
supporting the search for a quality
message magneto is a Holocaust survivor
in many incarnations
unfortunately you killed my mother huh
and you thought this was just a comic
book ride take off your blinders
brothers and sisters the real enemy is
out there number for animal rights
Planet of the Apes
on a surface planet of the apes appears
to be a cheesy movie about a group of
astronauts that crash land on a planet
where humans are the chained up
subservient species to Apes to suggest
that we can learn anything about the
simian native of a study of man it’s
your nonsense
despite its cheesiness the movies role
reversal plot does make a strong point
about how we treat animals that the ape
evolved from a lower order of primate
possibly man interestingly enough the
movie came out around the same time that
Jane Goodall was making her studies and
would publish her landmark monograph
about how chimpanzee society was more
sophisticated than we thought
take your stinking paws off me you damn
dirty ape maybe they aren’t really damn
dirty Apes after all
tell us why are always created equal
some Apes it seems are more equal than
others ridiculous number three
vegetarianism The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre
they bash them in the head for the big
sledgehammer oh that’s awful a movie
about a group of teenagers who get lost
and become victims of a cannibalistic
family sounds like it would appeal to
those who love blood and violence
however some of the slasher flicks
biggest fans are in PETA
the methods that the family uses to
murder the teens are reminiscent of the
ones used to butcher and dismembered
cattle in a slaughterhouse mission
Township wouldn’t kill him I mean it’s
kimchi before they people shouldn’t kill
animals for food
the results are disgusting and
disturbing to say the least
Myrtle County Sheriff’s Office began an
investigation early this morning after
watching The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
with this reading in mind you’ll likely
never look at your Big Mac the same way
again
number two anti feminism Mary Poppins
it’s compassion she’s answered I’d
practice my rosy cheeks and everything
the charming Disney classic about a
nanny who teaches a family to love and
appreciate each other is really about
how families shouldn’t need nannies
because mothers should stay at home
what’s the name of his other Lake what
well if you recall the banks family
needed Mary Poppins to take care of
their spoiled and neglected kids because
the father is out earning a living and
the mother is well out fighting for
women’s suffrage I must hurry a gallant
lady’s in prison awaiting for me to lead
a new song and by the end of the movie
spoiler alert
mrs. banks gives up her cause to be a
housewife so what we’re supposed to take
away from this is women should know
their place at least that’s what author
P L Travers whose book was the basis of
the musical fantasy believed after she
attended the premiere and if you think
I’m gonna keep my mouth shut
any longer before we unveil our number
one pick here are some honorable
mentions you don’t understand I could
have had class I could have been a
contender I could have been somebody
it says here you had oral surgery to
remove a cyst from your jaw
this is absurd I have heart disease it
has nothing to do with some oral surgery
I had 30 years ago why do you have to
burn them to ashes to get them to
finally stop why do they move like a
plague why is Israel winning how is
Israel winning they sealed off their
entire country days before the undead
attacked man an end to almost 70 years
of unremitting hostility which the
Klingons can no longer afford the
animals Jim there is an historic
opportunity here don’t believe don’t
trust them they are dying let them die
it’s one thing other speakers number one
consumerism Dawn of the Dead
what the hell isn’t
shopping center when I was big into our
malls George a Romero’s cult classic is
a lot more than your standard horror
film oh my god no chance forget it let’s
get out of you wait a minute they can’t
get up here yeah and we can’t go down
there I could check it out
in fact all of his zombie tales focus on
different aspects of real life such as
the racism and Vietnam War parallels
found in Night of the Living Dead now
get the hell down in the cellar you can
be the boss down there I’m boss up here
in Dawn of the Dead the premise focuses
on a group of survivors barricading
themselves in a mall during a zombie
apocalypse
this is bay doors open there’s gonna be
a thousand zombies in here I don’t take
the heat off us by using the mall as the
setting the horror film appears to be
taking a stab at consumer culture for
instance the characters use the free
merchandise as a distraction while the
zombies mindlessly shambled to the
shopping center just like they did when
they were still alive
do you agree with our list you might see
a mess exactly and a bunch of weird
dorky stuff that ruined by perfectly
good stuff what movie do you think has
the strongest mass political message I’d
buy that for a dollar for more
interesting top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
you forty seconds to comply
I think you’d better do what he says mr.
Kenney
without so much as a cold and now that
I’m actually sick you’re gonna deny my
coverage
Wow that movie was a lot deeper than we
thought welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10
masked political messages in movies I’m
taking him out of here he’s vicious
doctor for this list we’re looking at
films that appear to be fun or
light-hearted treats but actually pack a
nutritional political punch through
strange or thinly veiled messages one
chattels dividend shares bankruptcy I’ll
say Oh
number 10 the war on terror The Dark
Knight go in this beloved superhero
flick Batman has to stop the Joker from
terrorizing Gotham
that may sound like your typical popcorn
superhero blockbuster but this movie can
also be seen as an analogy for the war
on terror as well as the Bush
administration I killed those people
that’s what I could be no no you can’t
you’re not how so well first there’s the
Joker who’s like a terrorist that’s
willing to blow anything up and kill
anyone including himself to get his
message across
I believe whatever doesn’t kill you
simply makes you
stranger then there’s Batman who’s
willing to cross the line to use a
citywide tracking device that can tap
into everyone’s cell phones in the name
of security sounds a bit like the
Patriot Act doesn’t it I’ll help you
this one time but consider this my
resignation as long as this machine is
at Wayne Enterprises I won’t be number
nine anti-colonialism avatar grace well
who’d you expect numbnuts this James
Cameron sci-fi epic takes place in a
future where humans are colonizing the
world of Pandora a celestial body that
is home to an alien race called the Navi
break for mission engage all hostiles
naturally the story holds many parallels
to the devastation inflicted on Native
American and other indigenous cultures
during the colonial era
leave shake
both the Navi and Native Americans had
strong connections to nature and had
their land destroyed by a stronger
foreign force that failed to accept the
indigenous people’s culture instead only
caring about how much power they could
gain and making a profit this is a place
for prayers to be heard
and sometimes answered overall avatar
appears to be similar to many movies
about Native Americans except that it’s
set in space if you want to share this
world with them you need to understand
I’d say we understand them just fine
number 8 McCarthyism invasion of the
body snatchers
I can’t wait for Jackie any longer stay
here Jin okay happy I’ve got a stop to a
story about an alien invasion in a small
town in California where the aliens use
emotionless human clones to infiltrate
the town
sounds more like a campy b-movie than a
thought-provoking film whatever it is
whatever intelligence our instinct is it
and govern the forming of human flesh
and blood out of thin air is
fantastically powerful beyond any
comprehension believe it or not though
the aliens in this black-and-white
sci-fi flick might actually be a symbol
for communism not unlike the alien
amoeba in another classic horror film
called the blob okay
an invasion of the body snatchers the
fear and paranoia the characters exhibit
about the possibility that their friends
and family could be aliens is similar to
how Americans felt during the Red Scare
and Republican US Senator Joseph
McCarthy’s witch-hunt for communists we
had to take a much mother the most
peculiar things I ever saw what things I
don’t know what they are never saw them
before it looked like a great big seed
pods no wonder your grandpa hates commie
so much number seven anti copyright law
the lego movie oh my gosh I love this
song
this fun film takes place in a world
made of Legos and is about a clash
between a group called the
master-builders who believe that people
should create whatever they want in the
evil Lord business who frowns upon
creativity people everywhere are always
messing with my stuff considering it’s a
movie about Legos you wouldn’t think
this would have any political undertones
so good right now
I can sing this song for our however Fox
News which described the movie as
anti-capitalist would disagree after all
with a villain named Lord business the
filmmakers are hardly being subtle
Vitruvius Lord business taking things
further is the reading that the lego
movie is actually a thinly veiled
critique of copyright laws with Lord
business representing a force that
restricts characters artistic freedom
similar to arguments in the debates
surrounding copyright and intellectual
property can you feel me I can feel you
Wow number 6 anti capitalism Robocop ah
robocop isn’t just an over-the-top
violent action flick about a cop who’s
resurrected as an unstoppable
crime-fighting machine it’s also a
critique of capitalism you are under
arrest you have the right to remain
silent you the movie takes place in a
corrupt crime ridden and bankrupt
Detroit the titular Robocop discovers
that the reason Detroit is so down on
its luck is due to corporate greed as
Omni consumer products runs everything
down to the police department take a
close look at the track record of this
company the film also takes every
opportunity to throw in parodies of
product commercials showcasing the
ridiculousness of it all yes we’d all
buy that for a dollar and remember we
care
number five equality the x-men franchise
I will bring you home old friend this
comic book series is about a group of
mutants who are despised by society but
still use their superpowers to kick butt
and fight for justice two superpowers
facing off and he wants to start World
War three in this franchise the x-men
represent any minority that has been
oppressed and ostracized the leader of
the heroes Professor Xavier with his
goal of mutants coexisting with humans
was modeled after Martin Luther King jr.
while the villain Magneto
was modeled after Malcolm X thanks to
his more hard-hitting approach to
attaining civil rights and his desire
for vengeance against those who
terrorized him they say you the bad guy
is that what this said further
supporting the search for a quality
message magneto is a Holocaust survivor
in many incarnations
unfortunately you killed my mother huh
and you thought this was just a comic
book ride take off your blinders
brothers and sisters the real enemy is
out there number for animal rights
Planet of the Apes
on a surface planet of the apes appears
to be a cheesy movie about a group of
astronauts that crash land on a planet
where humans are the chained up
subservient species to Apes to suggest
that we can learn anything about the
simian native of a study of man it’s
your nonsense
despite its cheesiness the movies role
reversal plot does make a strong point
about how we treat animals that the ape
evolved from a lower order of primate
possibly man interestingly enough the
movie came out around the same time that
Jane Goodall was making her studies and
would publish her landmark monograph
about how chimpanzee society was more
sophisticated than we thought
take your stinking paws off me you damn
dirty ape maybe they aren’t really damn
dirty Apes after all
tell us why are always created equal
some Apes it seems are more equal than
others ridiculous number three
vegetarianism The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre
they bash them in the head for the big
sledgehammer oh that’s awful a movie
about a group of teenagers who get lost
and become victims of a cannibalistic
family sounds like it would appeal to
those who love blood and violence
however some of the slasher flicks
biggest fans are in PETA
the methods that the family uses to
murder the teens are reminiscent of the
ones used to butcher and dismembered
cattle in a slaughterhouse mission
Township wouldn’t kill him I mean it’s
kimchi before they people shouldn’t kill
animals for food
the results are disgusting and
disturbing to say the least
Myrtle County Sheriff’s Office began an
investigation early this morning after
watching The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
with this reading in mind you’ll likely
never look at your Big Mac the same way
again
number two anti feminism Mary Poppins
it’s compassion she’s answered I’d
practice my rosy cheeks and everything
the charming Disney classic about a
nanny who teaches a family to love and
appreciate each other is really about
how families shouldn’t need nannies
because mothers should stay at home
what’s the name of his other Lake what
well if you recall the banks family
needed Mary Poppins to take care of
their spoiled and neglected kids because
the father is out earning a living and
the mother is well out fighting for
women’s suffrage I must hurry a gallant
lady’s in prison awaiting for me to lead
a new song and by the end of the movie
spoiler alert
mrs. banks gives up her cause to be a
housewife so what we’re supposed to take
away from this is women should know
their place at least that’s what author
P L Travers whose book was the basis of
the musical fantasy believed after she
attended the premiere and if you think
I’m gonna keep my mouth shut
any longer before we unveil our number
one pick here are some honorable
mentions you don’t understand I could
have had class I could have been a
contender I could have been somebody
it says here you had oral surgery to
remove a cyst from your jaw
this is absurd I have heart disease it
has nothing to do with some oral surgery
I had 30 years ago why do you have to
burn them to ashes to get them to
finally stop why do they move like a
plague why is Israel winning how is
Israel winning they sealed off their
entire country days before the undead
attacked man an end to almost 70 years
of unremitting hostility which the
Klingons can no longer afford the
animals Jim there is an historic
opportunity here don’t believe don’t
trust them they are dying let them die
it’s one thing other speakers number one
consumerism Dawn of the Dead
what the hell isn’t
shopping center when I was big into our
malls George a Romero’s cult classic is
a lot more than your standard horror
film oh my god no chance forget it let’s
get out of you wait a minute they can’t
get up here yeah and we can’t go down
there I could check it out
in fact all of his zombie tales focus on
different aspects of real life such as
the racism and Vietnam War parallels
found in Night of the Living Dead now
get the hell down in the cellar you can
be the boss down there I’m boss up here
in Dawn of the Dead the premise focuses
on a group of survivors barricading
themselves in a mall during a zombie
apocalypse
this is bay doors open there’s gonna be
a thousand zombies in here I don’t take
the heat off us by using the mall as the
setting the horror film appears to be
taking a stab at consumer culture for
instance the characters use the free
merchandise as a distraction while the
zombies mindlessly shambled to the
shopping center just like they did when
they were still alive
do you agree with our list you might see
a mess exactly and a bunch of weird
dorky stuff that ruined by perfectly
good stuff what movie do you think has
the strongest mass political message I’d
buy that for a dollar for more
interesting top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
you forty seconds to comply
I think you’d better do what he says mr.
Kenney
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