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The Gilligan Manifesto
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At the height of the Cold War, Gilligan's Island depicted seven Americans living in an analogue of a post-apocalyptic world where the survivors have to rebuild civilization. Remarkably, the society they create is pure communist. Interviews with the show's creator and some of the surviving actors, as well from professors from Harvard, reveal that Gilligan's Island was deliberately designed to be dismissed as low brow comedy in order to celebrate Marxism and lampoon Western democratic constructs.
At the height of the Cold War, Gilligan's Island depicted seven Americans living in an analogue of a post-apocalyptic world where the survivors have to rebuild civilization. Remarkably, the society they create is pure communist. Interviews with the show's creator and some of the surviving actors, as well from professors from Harvard, reveal that Gilligan's Island was deliberately designed to be dismissed as low brow comedy in order to celebrate Marxism and lampoon Western democratic constructs.
Actors:
Natalie Schafer,
Sherwood Schwartz,
Tina Louise,
Alan Hale Jr.,
Dawn Wells,
Jim Backus,
Russell Johnson
Natalie Schafer
5 November 1900, New York City, New York, USA
Sherwood Schwartz
14 November 1916, Passaic, New Jersey, USA
Tina Louise
11 February 1934, New York City, New York, USA
Alan Hale Jr.
8 March 1921, Los Angeles, California, USA
Dawn Wells
18 October 1938, Reno, Nevada, USA
Jim Backus
25 February 1913, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Russell Johnson
10 November 1924, Ashley, Pennsylvania, USA
Genre:
Documentary
Director:
Cevin Soling
Country:
United States
Keywords:
#Cevin Soling #Dawn Wells #Rennie Davis #Russell Johnson #Sherwood Schwartz #The Gilligan Manifesto #The Gilligan Manifesto (2018)
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Tina Louise
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Dawn Wells
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Jim Backus
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November 16, 2018
[A] quirky, whip-smart documentary.
November 16, 2018
The Gilligan Manifesto never quite feels compelling or insightful enough to exploit its radical revelations to its fullest sensationalism. Unfortunately, Soling's clunky documentary never delves into this colorful notion with tongue-lashing vibrancy
November 21, 2018
While its pseudo-academic subject matter might have made for a reasonably amusing short, the documentary wears out its welcome long before reaching its final arguments.
November 15, 2018
"The Gilligan Manifesto," is conceptually shipwrecked well before completing its one-and-a-half-hour tour.