Anyway these two play the most screwed up mother and son I’ve ever seen Eleanor Shaw Iselin and Raymond Shaw now if you don’t like the sound of that last name then seriously don’t watch this film because it is repeated constantly over and over Raymond this Raymond that I mean he’s not even the main character the film focuses mainly on Marco, it's like these people will literally forget Shaw’s name if they don’t keep saying it. Raymond was part of captain Marcos Company and because he was such a stick in the mud he was not very popular however when they return home all the soldiers agree that Shaw was extremely brave and single handedly rescued the whole company from an enemy assault. What we later find out is that all the men in the company were being brainwashed by united communist forces hence the name the Manchurian candidate when Shaw arrives home his mother an overbearing manipulating women and her idiotic no-necked husband(Raymond’s step father) senator john yerkes Iselin offer Raymond a job where they can keep an eye on him but not wishing to be controlled by his mother any longer Raymond refuses we later find out that Eleanor ruined Raymond’s only true shot at happiness because she didn't approve of his choice of girlfriend and little do we know that she is not going to stop there for she is the link to America from Manchuria she is the component that will take the brainwashing to a whole new level getting her carefully molded new son to kill off certain individuals in order for her and foolish obnoxious husband into the White house. The remake is slightly different it stars Liev Schreiber as Raymond and Denzel Washington as Marco yeah notice how they change the skin color of the main character they do this with a lot of the characters I don't see why its necessary to put loads of black people into a film which had an original cast with no black people maybe it was just to bring it in to modern day society and to be politically correct. They change quite a lot of stuff in the remake not just to bring it into the modern day but to make it generally more interesting because sadly people just aren't interested in politics today. Raymond is the one being pushed into the White house by his mother as vice president and not his step father which makes for some good scenes of Marco going crazy and attacking Raymond before being restrained, the remake has Raymond still commit the same acts and murders but the playing card initiation is completely ignored by some just saying his full name, HOW STUPID IS THAT! I mean the guy is running for vice president did they not think at all that there was a possibility of someone saying his name. What about someone announcing him on a talk show or something is he just going to start killing everyone there wouldn't that liven up the one show on a Wednesday afternoon. they also change who it is controlling Raymond as I said before in the original it is the communist party from china but in this its a national weapons manufacturing corporation called Manchurian global I suppose they called it that so they could keep the name "the Manchurian candidate" rather than big evil brainwashing conglomerate candidate although I think they did do well at sticking to the original storyline whilst showing a modern day interpretation by showing what society is fearful of now rather than something we've long since dismissed. Denzel Washington's performance is very good as you would expect but I honestly think Live Schreiber out shines him he plays the soulless robotic outer exterior of Raymond Shaw extremely well but he also makes you believe that he fells strongly for the senator's daughter and that he's fighting against this hypnotism he has been put under the film leads to a suspenseful climax where Raymond has one the vice presidential election and at the celebrations Marco is set up with a sniper also being controlled by Manchurian global to kill shows running mate the newly elected president so that Raymond will then fill his seat as president and complete Eleanor Shaw’s plan but Raymond fights against his hypnotism and moves in to the presidents mark taking his mother with him as Marco shoots he kills them both with the one shot, Marco is about to commit suicide as part of the plan before Eugenie "Rosie" Rose (yeah remember her from the original ) shoots him in the shoulder disarming him. It doesn’t tell us how it ends up for the characters but we can assume that the FBI took down Manchurian global for their nefarious misdeeds. The final scene just shows Marco finding the place where he was kidnapped and brainwashed and walks to the coast near by and throws a picture of his platoon along with his major medal in a poetic and fitting ending.
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