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FILM -- "WILD, WILD EAST" -- PLANNED
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(CNNS, 02/21/99) -- Many films have been made showing a sort of
history of the U.S. between about 1865 through 1900. In fact a
whole video category exists: the "Western" genre.
There is, unfortunately, no similar genre for the eastern U.S.
circa 1865 through 1900.
The "Western" gives a sort of U.S. history, 1865-1900, for the
area west of the Mississippi. Not much happened, according to
these mythological history films. It all boiled down to who was
fastest on the draw. As the "Western" genre of film has
"developed" over the years, the astounding gunfighting expertise
of certain mysterious strangers has been fetishized beyond
belief.
A blueprint for an "Eastern" genre of film is intuited in a short
book by Murray N. Rothbard, "Wall Street, Banks, and American
Foreign Policy" (Center for Libertarian Studies, 1995). Here is
a sketch for a movie, based on some of the material in Rothbard's
book; the movie could be titled
The Wild, Wild East
In Philadelphia, around 1870, lives Jay Cooke. Instead of at
saloons, he hangs out at banks. Out west, desperados rob the
banks. But in the wild, wild east, the banks rob the desperate.
But into Philadelphia one day rides a mysterious stranger. He is
a more cunning banker than even Jay Cooke. We learn that the
mysterious stranger had begun his rise by selling defective
rifles to the Union army during the Civil War. The mysterious
stranger is "quick on the draw" in financial matters; through the
lightning-fast cunning of his monetary mind, the mysterious
stranger helps bankrupt Jay Cooke in the Panic of 1874.
The mysterious stranger gathers a gang of financial
sharp-shooters around him. He infiltrates members of his gang
into the administration of U.S. president Grover Cleveland. But
the mysterious stranger has a rival economic wheeler dealer who
also wants control over the Cleveland administration: August
Belmont, who is the "fast draw" man for the European banking
house of the Rothschilds.
The denouement is reached after extremely complex financial
shoot-outs have occurred, shoot-outs which, unlike in the West,
occur where few can witness them, at "High Midnight." It is
learned that the name of the mysterious stranger is J.P. Morgan.
By the 1890s, several rival gangs are on the scene, all of which
have gained tremendous control over the U.S. government. A new
young gunhand, John D. Rockefeller, has launched his own gang.
In the final scene, we see that the situation is unsettled. The
rival money-gangs are transforming into an eerie parallel of Cosa
Nostra-type "families": they have periodic truces, where they
stick to their own "territories," but from time to time there are
"wars" between them.
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