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...American Democracy has no hero, only a villain-the American businessman. He is not, says Laski comfortingly, any more villainous than his European counterpart (whose predatory impulses are merely concealed under "greater elegance of form"). But he has, Laski believes, unknowingly "adapted . . . the main doctrines of Machiavelli's Prince." He regards the world primarily as "a market which the combined power of high-pressure salesmanship and cheap mass production will open to him . . . Massively energetic in action," skeptical of theories, he considers most politics as "a wanton interference with the natural laws by which businessmen govern society...
Respected Villain. Laski insists that he has written this book "out of deep love of America." He admits that the businessman's energy, skill and audacious vitality are (like the qualities of the best U.S. newsmen) "unsurpassed." He even concedes that the big businessman's faith in free enterprise is shared by such a large number of lesser U.S. citizens that labor has not even been able to build a political party worth the name. Therefore a successful anti-capitalist revolt is impossible unless the U.S. businessman is willing to lend a hand in arranging his own execution...
With his mincing ways, his curls and his 88 fancy bathrobes, George is plainly a ring villain. His "secret weapon": bobby-pins (he calls them Georgie-pins) which he sometimes pulls from his golden hair and pretends to poke into his opponent's impervious thighs...
...morality plays, serials unvaryingly make everything black & white. Hero & heroine are Good; villain and assistant villain (brain & brawn) are Evil. Love finds its strongest expression in a frank, manly smile. Sex never, never rears its snuggly head. (One serial director recalls that when Carole Landis first reared her chest in serials, it was sternly taped flat by the make-up department...
...Change of Hat. Serials now cost so much to make (four times as much as they used to) that the whole trick is speed and economy. Stock shots of escapes and chases are lifted from old films. All horses except the hero's and the villain's are picked for their nondescriptness; wheeled back & forth in front of the camera, five of them do the work of 50. In the same way, extras are multiplied by frequent changes of hat. Serial units frequently shoot 125 scenes, up to 18 minutes of finished film, in one day. Average...