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Question: Manchurian Candidate?

What is the role of manipulation in the film and how can you compare this to Julius Caesar

Answer: "The Manchurian Candidate" - excellent movie, better with the Frank Sinatra version than the Denzel Washington version, but I digress.

The main characters were all brainwashed as POWs, in effect reprogramming them to perform behaviors foreign to them.

When the programming started to intrude on their subconscious minds, causing the nightmares, the protagonist (Frank/Denzel's character) realizes he's being manipulated to say and do things that aren't true.

The assassin in the movie, programmed to a greater extent, is being manipulated into killing the party nominee, and can be controlled through the use of a deck of playing cards.

(First movie is set in the Korean War aftermath.)

Julius Caesar manipulated the Senate to support various activities of his, and, when the manipulation eventually failed, caused his death by assassination (Et tu, Brute? - even the man who he thought of as his best friend was in on the plot.)

In the following scene in the play, Marc Anthony goes on to manipulate the crowd into accepting the assassination, with all of the "honorable man" statements about Brutus, raising the anger level in the crown at the funeral to a frenzy.

Angelina Jolie draws criticism for being 'too white' to play Cleopatra in upcoming Scott Rudin film

Angelina Jolie is one of the most beautiful women in the world, but her "perfect" looks have some critics complaining she's all wrong for her latest role.

Marc Antony funeral oration from "Julius Caesar"