Twilight's Last Gleaming & Wag the Dog: Politics In Films The two film's I'm going to compare are Twilight's Last Gleaming (Robert Aldrich's) and Wag the Dog (Barry Levinson), Although these two movies are different types, first is represented as “Drama” and the second is a Comedy. They share some similarities in their political messages. Perhaps to send these messages across, many people are going to see it as a Comedy movie. Robert Aldrich’s movie refers to the Cold War between Russia and the United States. The background is the Vietnam War where there existed a s