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From ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ to ‘The Day of the Jackal’: Why Hollywood Has an Appetite for Assassination Tales
‘Day of the Jackal' and 'Manchurian Candidate' make one wonder, are there shadowy forces directing the hands of today’s political assassins?
The second attempt on Trump’s life, in Florida, produced another high-powered rifle and a living suspect with a record of strange political and commercial activities, including a stint as a volunteer fighter in the current Ukraine-Russian conflict. Like the classic John Frankenheimer thriller “The Manchurian Candidate ” before it, which scored a Golden Globe for Angela Lansbury and two Oscar noms, “Parallax View” is fueled by American suspicions that our government and our news media might not be telling us everything they know. “View” depicted a contemporary America where a school for assassins was operating with impunity, nefariously recruiting and brainwashing vulnerable young men who were trained to do their deadly, secret bidding.
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