“The soul of a great nation is expressed in the life of its humblest people.”
The Good Earth (1937)
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All the King's Men
This 2006 remake of a 1949 classic examines the lies and deception that defined mid-century Louisiana politics. Willie Stark (Sean Penn) rises from relative obscurity to become the state governor, stepping on virtually everyone along the way. Jude Law plays a naive journalist whose backroom research takes him places he'd rather not have gone.
“Rumor has a thousand tongues.”
“Sometime ain’t never now.”
“The friend of your youth is the only friend you’ll ever have for he doesn’t really see you. He sees in his mind a face which doesn’t exist anymore.”
“To find something, anything, a great truth or a lost pair of glasses, you must first believe there will be some advantage in finding it.”
“What is politics but a matter of choices? You make a choice knowing there’s always a chance it’s the wrong one.”
“If you don’t vote, you don’t matter.”
“Time brings all things to life.”
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