Photo Credit: Image: Youtube Attendees at last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference ( CPAC) were reportedly thrilled by a short sci-fi video depicting a dictatorial near-future government and the underground Movement on Fire that springs up to resist it. The video, a thinly veiled advertisement for violent insurrection from the “ Tea Party Patriots group, boasts professional acting and Hollywood production values. But underneath its bright, professional sheen lurk dark overtones of End Times paranoia that will resonate with millions of American fundamentalists. Its apocalyptic imagery is as ancient as Revelations, its glossy look as modern as a Revlon ad, and its near-subliminal barrage of rapid-cut imagery rings with the terror-fueled sermons of 1,000 preachers. Here's the video: It stands on its own as agitprop-cum-entertainment for the far right, which is filled with armchair revolutionaries whose favorite fantasies involve the same elements used in this video: attractive people, video-game-like locations, nightmarish bureaucracies and the world-changing power of their own oratory. “ Let our lives be the spark that ignites the fire of liberty,” the protagonist shouts at one point. His words resonate with memories of historical heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice rather than yield to tyranny. I would so totally do that, a right-wing fantasy rebel might mutter in response. “ We are a movement on fire!” the video’s hero shouts as a crowd cheers. “ Will you take up the torch?” Absolutely, our viewer mumbles to himself Hey, I hear they’re serving free hors d’ouevres at the Pajamas Media booth. But this video’s imagery will have special resonance for American evangelicals who believe the End Times are near. “ Movement on Fire” draws heavily on the so-called “ Tribulation” films of the 1970s and 1980s. Among the earliest and best-known of these films are A Thief.
VIDEO GAMES WANTED = GAMES NOT YET RELEASED - Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens ( PS3) ( WAIT UNTIL ALL DLC IS RELEASED) ( RELEASE DATE: ) = - 007 Legends ( PS3) ( MAYBE) - 187 Ride Or Die ( PS2) - 24: The Game ( PS2) - 25 To Life ( PS2) - Aeon Flux ( PS2) - Alien Hominid ( PS2) - Alien Isolation ( PS3) ( MAYBE - ONE TROPHY REQUIRES NEVER DYING!) - Aliens Vs. Predator ( PS3) ( MAYBE) - Alone In The Dark ( PS2) ( HORROR) ( SAME AS X360?) - Alone In The Dark: One- Eyed Jack's Revenge ( PS1) ( HORROR) - Alone In The Dark: The New Nightmare ( PS1) ( HORROR) - Amazing Spider- Man, The ( PS3 or X360) - Amazing Spider- Man 2, The ( PS3 or X360) - Angry Birds Star Wars ( PS3) ( MAYBE) - Ape Escape 3 ( PS2) - Ape Escape: Pumped CAN GET ALL 5 IN 5 MINUTES!) - Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II ( PS2) - Bard's Tale, The ( PS2) - Barnyard ( PS2) - Batman thoroughly search the compound. Fallen Angel: Find Zhao's secret meeting intel / Harper's face is burned. Karma: Karma dies. Suffer With Me: Menendez is able to manipulate Woods / Woods dies / SDC left vulnerable. Achilles' Veil: Attempt to shoot Menendez / Farid dies. Odysseus: Admiral Briggs dies / USS Obama has no defenses to counter assault / USS Obama's crew killed. Cordis Die: Rescue the President. Judgment Day: Capture Menendez. Ending 3 Pyrrhic Victory: Rescue Woods. Celerium: Recover the.
Download Now