The lost of innocence

A Face in the Crowd is a 1957 classic movie portraying the corruption of the mass media’s over an innocent person. Grammy Award winning singer, writer and producer, Andy Griffith plays Larry Rhodes, a character who captures the audience heart with his charm with the help of Patricia Neal (Elia Kazan) , an independent journalist, who exposes him into the media when she realizes he's a potential superstar after her interview at the local jail.
Andy Griffith rapidly becomes a success, an icon and sex symbol and is well known as “Lonesome Rhodes.” He goes from TV shows to the whole political scene. He raises to the national fame and power, but when his real goals and wealth are realized by the local journalist, she tries to disrupt the monster she created and loved.
The audience will be grateful for the moral of the story. Elia Kazan, a well respected Academy Award winning director, played her role tremendously well by expressing the power that the mass media can have on its audience. A Face in the Crowd receives 3 out of five stars for the quality of the movie anf how productive the producer distribute the moral of the story though the movie.