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\n\tTom Cruise<\/a>\u2019s next movie is a comedy about the world\u2019s most powerful man who decides to become humanity\u2019s savior. Even Cruise\u2019s admirers might wonder how this character will be welcomed by Trumped-out filmgoers who might prefer more conventional \u201crevenge\u201d movies.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Top Gun star has often made unexpected choices (remember Magnolia or Valkyrie?). But, with the U.S. trapped in a K-shaped economic morass, wouldn\u2019t an angry underdog hero earn quicker support?<\/p>\n \n\tTo what extent does \u201cthe mood of the moment\u201d determine the fate of Hollywood product? That topic was debated at CinemaCon<\/a> last week, where Cruise described his new venture Digger<\/a> <\/a>to a worshipful audience.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThe growing gulf between rich and poor is stirring anger and movies don\u2019t reflect it,\u201d comments one veteran distributor, who believes Hollywood once was adept at exploiting that mood.<\/p>\n \n\tMarquees in the 1960s pitched violent revenge movies like Bonnie and Clyde but also hedged with Mary Poppins.<\/p>\n \n\tDuring the Great Depression of the 1930s, film audiences were flocking to gangster fare like Public Enemy, Little Caesar or Scarface \u2013 the bad guys bashing the establishment.<\/p>\n \n\tProduced before enactment of the Motion Picture Code, these gripping films dominated both the box office and the Oscars. While the economy later healed, \u201cproblem films\u201d about social discord (The Grapes of Wrath) shared box office returns with MGM musicals.<\/p>\n \n\tTheater owners cut prices and dispensed prizes to ticket buyers as the gangsters effectively cross-pollinated with the studio dance numbers.<\/p>\n \n\tBy the early \u201860s, however, Hollywood was discovering that their bland, non-genre movies were fading before the onslaught of TV. The 1966 Best Picture Oscar went to the popular if pedestrian Sound of Music over ambitious fare like Dr. Zhivago and Ship of Fools. Symbolically, even Elvis Presley had to turn to cheesy Westerns to keep working.<\/p>\n \n\tMeanwhile, the shrewdly eclectic Cruise has chosen a range of film roles that jump between genres \u2014 also between success and failure. The heroic Cruise of eight Mission: Impossibles scored more consistently than the flaky Cruise of Cocktail or Collateral.<\/p>\n \n\tWinning three Oscar nominations, Cruise understandably took pride in his work in Born on the Fourth of July or even Lions for Lambs, but his career didn\u2019t become became celestial until Top Gun.<\/p>\n \n\tDigger announces itself as \u201ca comedy of catastrophic proportions.\u201d Its edginess seems guaranteed given the history of director Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu, whose iconoclasm was on display in Birdman and The Revenant.<\/p>\n \n\tWill Digger resonate amid the challenging beggar-vs.-billionaire tides of a K-economy? Would Digger himself be a welcome intruder in two weeks at a Prada reunion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise\u2019s next movie is a comedy about the world\u2019s most powerful man who decides to become humanity\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,163362,133507,146,85,46,19742,459],"class_list":{"0":"post-407927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-cinemacon","10":"tag-digger","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-peter-bart","15":"tag-tom-cruise"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}