ACF Middlebrow #32 Harold Ramis by American Cinema Foundation published on 2019-01-04T18:56:08Z Titus & Pete Spiliakos discuss Harold Ramis's attack on institutional authority in his 80s comedies: Caddyshack, Back To School, & Ghostbusters. Pete calls Ramis a prophet of Trump: A comic writer whose reprehensible protagonists nevertheless triumph over hypocritical & complacent elites. Genre Entertainment Comment by American Cinema Foundation @thomas-parker-165693354: Very well put! 2019-01-05T20:36:12Z Comment by Thomas Parker Another "prophetic comedy" of this era that supports these arguments is Robert Zemeckis's 1980 film, Used Cars. For years I hoped that there would be a sequel that would Follow the sleazy Rudy Russo's career in politics - and then I realized that there was no need for it. I could see it on the evening news every night during the Clinton years. 2019-01-05T19:59:56Z
