tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51906273340566035002024-03-21T14:39:17.270-07:00"Let's Not Talk About Movies"If Film is 24 Lies a Second, Is Digital 30 Lies per Second?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1648125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-40594389094365401672013-12-31T20:00:00.000-08:002013-12-31T20:00:04.781-08:00Saving Mr. Banks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mary Poppins was a bitch. That's been my joke for a long time, especially given the reputation that Disney's film of <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058331/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Mary Poppins</span></a></i> (<a href="http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2013/13-216.html"><span style="color: #cccccc;">this year voted to the National Film Registry</span></a>) has of being just as sugar-gooey as cotton candy in an Orange County heat wave. It isn't. And I've gotten several startled looks from adults who then see the film and, yes, they do see that aspect of it, despite the step-in-timing chimney-sweeps, the dancing penguins, and the moments of larkiness. It's not all a jolly 'oliday with Mary. In the end, it's a little bittersweet, and she ascends into a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ellenshaw"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Peter Ellenshaw</span></a> matte painting of London that isn't dabbled in sunlight, but is a melancholy smearing of smoke and darkening skies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's probably due more to Travers' own stipulations to the Disney crew than to anything. Disney could be dark—dinosaurs died and there was "Night on Bald Mountain" in <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032455/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Fantasia</span></a></i>, <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/?ref_=nv_sr_1"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Pinocchio</span></a></i> had its moments jack-assery and Monstro swallowing, <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034492/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Bambi</span></a></i>'s mother died, and <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055254/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">101 Dalmations</span></a></i> almost got skinned—and provided moments of terror and threat in its films, as long as everything turned out all right as the final song paraded people up the aisles. But, Mary Poppins would have been a slightly different movie if it hadn't been for Travers' nannying the scripters and Disney with her chalk-lines drawn in the sand. For that, we should be grateful.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Maybe less so for</span> <b><i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2140373/"><span style="color: white;">Saving Mr. Banks</span></a></i></b><span style="color: #cccccc;">, the Disneyfication of the Disneyfication of "Mary Poppins." It's "based on a true story," which means (as <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001175/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Blake Edwards</span></a> coined the phrase) it's "true except for a lie or two," and in the western parlance of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000406/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">John Ford</span></a>, "when the truth becomes legend, print the legend." </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">They couldn't have made this movie without Disney and "the Disney version," so, obviously the filmmakers are going to take a charitable stand on the studio's side of things (for example, Richard Sherman, who's played by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005403/?ref_=tt_cl_t9"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Jason Schwartzman</span></a> in the film, says that, rather than, as in the film, taking a personal approach when Travers came to work with the film-makers, Disney took off for Palm Springs and didn't come back until she left). But, the more you find out about P.L. Travers (her nom de plume), the more you realize that they're taking the edges off her, as well. Travers was a fantasist, and her largest work was the construction of her life, ever-changing, malleable, inconsistent and to her specifications as the mood and the myth suited her. "Mary Poppins" suited her just fine, and her demands for what was and was not acceptable are well documented in the many scripts versions filled with the word "No" in the margins, and the audio tape of the back-and-forth's between her and the scripters and song-writing team (which she insisted on, and which is played as coda over the end-credits). <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000668/?ref_=tt_cl_t1"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Emma Thompson</span></a>, who listened to them all in her preparation for the role, called her "vile."</span><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">**</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fascinating, complicated, but vile in the instance. And understandable in her concerns for what she considered "family," and that is where the film is at its most charitable and lovely. Where <i>Saving Mr. Banks</i> shines is in the film's presentation of Travers' carefully hidden back-story, of her growing up in Australia to a charming, but erratic alcoholic father (played by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0268199/?ref_=tt_cl_t4"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Colin Farrell</span></a>...think about that, Colin Farrell in a Disney movie), a frail mother (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2235721/?ref_=tt_cl_t5"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Ruth Wilson</span></a>), and a precariousness to the family that, until her father is demoted from his bank managership, she had not previously known existed. The movie goes back and forth between the disappointing assaults on her stipulations at Disney and her memories, some of which inspired the work she fights so egregiously to defend. Meanwhile, Disney (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000158/?ref_=tt_cl_t2"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Tom Hanks</span></a>, who pushes "folksy" mighty hard to play a role almost too familiar to play), with theme parks to build and other movies in the pipeline, is left vexed and perplexed that the "Disney magic" isn't working at all well on "Pamela."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How could it? I remember one writer describing the movie adaptation business for one of his works as "holding the coat for the man who's assaulting your child." Disdainful of animation and films in general and Disney's work in particular, the movie's Travers reluctantly comes to Hollywood, where she is inundated by welcoming gifts in the form of "all things Mickey" in her hotel room to the point where she feels under siege. Any pleasantries are seen with suspicion for agendas, hidden. And for the Disney dwarves, the task is mining anthracite because they're playing to a vision of Travers from her books, but not from her history and will always come up short until they know the origin story...which she'll never tell. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The process, by which the movie-makers back-and-forth to keep the starched corners of the character, and the tone from being perpetually giddy, would be long and tedious to sit in a movie, and so compromises have to be made. Let's just say things didn't happen the way they happen in the movie—there was no meeting of the minds and no sharing of histories; Disney was a businessman and entrepreneur who knew a good thing when his daughters saw it and Travers wanted to keep her house. Battles were chosen; compromises were made...in <i>Mary Poppins</i> and <i>Saving Mr. Banks</i>. That same give and take, that same grace under fire, to produce the best work regardless of the truth, permeates both films in their way. The truth is just one more hurdle to a good story.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, one can gripe—although Thompson is the very definition of "practically perfect in every way" here and should cause no consternation—but if one does, they're being a little bit intransigent and dealing with their own "issues," reflecting, again, the issues of the film. It's a film that ultimately charms. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyone immune to it can, as everyone on both sides of the conundrum seemed to agree, "go fly a kite."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: x-small;">** In one of those perfect symmetry moments, Thompson, in her satiric acceptance speech winning the Golden Globe for her adaptation of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" imagined Austen's own disregard for her just-awarded work: "P.S. Managed to avoid the hoiden, Emily Thompkinson, who has purloined my creation and added things of her own. Nefarious creature."</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-small;">*** <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsrSrWMnIFc"><span style="color: #f1c232;">Thompson, in an interview, describing why she was drawn to the script and the story</span></a>. </span><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: x-small;"> </span></b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-67505595976343289352013-12-25T09:00:00.000-08:002014-09-13T21:07:34.662-07:00Don't Make a Scene (Christmas Edition): It's A Wonderful Life<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The Story: </b>First of all, <span style="color: #cc0000;">Merry</span> <span style="color: #6aa84f;">Christmas</span>. Or, as I like to call it Judaic Film Festivus—the best day of the year for going to movies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Second of all, remember that it is Old Man Potter who steals the money, and causes all the troubles that compound in George Bailey's life in <b><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_a_Wonderful_Life"><span style="color: white;">It's a Wonderful Life</span></a></i></b>, and makes him contemplate suicide. He even suggests that George is better off dead from a practical point of view (given the parameter that he lives in a world where Potter exists and is such a massive A-hole). This makes Potter 1) a thief; 2) guilty of fraud; and 3) one sadistically sick exponent for the values of capitalism. Flash forward 60 years (or to 2015 when they're threatening to release a sequel) and he could follow it up with "I drink your milkshake!" (a phrase I still find more pathetic than threatening). Anyway, just to drive home the point what a vile human being Potter is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Third, despite its latter-day reputation as a Christmas classic, it was an under-performer for RKO losing half a million dollars in its first run, competing for Holiday dollars with <i>The Best Years of of Their Lives</i> and <i>Miracle on 34th Street. </i>Its reputation was so lackluster it was allowed to slip into the public domain, where in the 1960's, small "art" theaters would show it for Christmas, and it became a Christmas annual in the 1970's. Capra was surprised by that. I see references to a Wall Street Journal interview where he talks about the phenomenon, but I haven't laid eyes on it, so I won't repeat anything that it "supposedly" says. But, every film has its "season"—upon its first release, and with wonderful second and third lives in the video market.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fourth, this is my favorite scene—the aftermath of George Bailey being confronted, nightmarishly, with the world without him, and of how his insignificance proves to be a lynch-pin in so many lives beyond his—his begging of a suddenly vanished Clarence to return him to his life, after the vision of "Potterville" and the dire consequences on his friends and family. Dare I throw out the opinion that somewhere a "George" has died and Capra's bucolic America has turned into "Potterville," for real? Would I get any arguments?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, a reprieve this Christmas, as George Bailey comes back to life—his life—and even his enemy gives him the best news he could ever hear: "Go on home. They're waiting for you."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The Set-Up: </b>George Bailey (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000071/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t1">James Stewart</a>) has had all sorts of dreams of travelling the world and leading a romantic life, but when his father dies, it's up to him to run the Bailey Brothers Building and Loan Association in the little town of Bedford Falls. Working with his Uncle Billy (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0593775/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t4">Thomas Mitchell</a>), he's able to keep it afloat and help out a lot of people, whose alternative is to do business with the craven Henry Potter (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000859/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t3">Lionel Barrymore</a>). George's dreams die. But, he marries Mary (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001656/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t2">Donna Reed</a>), have four kids, scraping by, until just before Christmas, Billy loses some money (it's lifted by Potter, who's trying to squeeze out the Bailey B&L), and George's world starts to fall apart. As Potter tells him when George goes to him for a little leniency: "You're worth more dead than alive!" George wishes he was dead, and it's up to the angel Clarence (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0871287/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t5">Henry Travers</a>) to grant him a cautionary wish; he shows him what the world would be like without him, and it's a horror story. at the last, he clobbers his cop-pal, Bert (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000955/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t8">Ward Bond</a>) and runs out of town, back to the bridge where he first made his wish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>GEORGE</b> Clarence! Clarence! </span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">GEORGE</b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Help me, Clarence. Get me back. Get me back.
I don't care what happens to me. </span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">GEORGE</b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Only get me back to my wife and
kids. Help
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<b style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">GEORGE</b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I want to live again! </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I want to live again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>GEORGE </b>I want to live again. Please, God, let me
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">George sobs. Suddenly, toward the end of the above, the wind dies
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">George sobbing at the railing. The police car pulls
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Hey, George! </span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">BERT</b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">George! You all right? </span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">BERT</b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">(cont'd)
Hey, what's the matter? </span><br />
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Now get out of here, Bert, or I'll hit you again! </span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">GEORGE</b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> <span style="color: #6aa84f;">Go on.</span> </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Get out<span style="color: #6aa84f;">ta here</span>!
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<b style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">BERT</b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> What the Sam Hill you yelling for, George? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>GEORGE</b>
Don't . . . George? </span><br />
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Bert, do you know me?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>BERT</b>
Know you? Are you kiddin'? I've been looking all over town trying
to find you. I saw your car piled into that tree down there, and
I thought maybe . . . Hey,
your mouth's bleeding; are you sure you're all right? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>GEORGE</b>
What did . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">George touches his lips with his tongue, wipes his mouth with his
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>GEORGE </b>(cont'd)
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My mouth's bleeding, Bert! My mouth's bleed . . . </span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">GEORGE </b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">(feeling in watch pocket)
Zuzu's petals! Zuzu's . . . they're . . . </span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">GEORGE </b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">they're here, Bert! </span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">GEORGE</b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> What do you know about that? </span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">GEORGE </b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Merry Christmas! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He practically embraces the astonished Bert, then runs at top
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<b style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">BERT</b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> <span style="color: #6aa84f;">...Merry Christmas.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">LONG SHOT –– </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">George runs away from camera yelling: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>GEORGE</b>
Mary! </span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">GEORGE </b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Mary! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">WIPE TO:
EXTERIOR RESIDENTIAL STREET –– </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">NIGHT
CLOSE SHOT –– </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">George's wrecked car is smashed against the tree.
He comes running into shot, sees the car, lets out a triumphant
yell, pats the car, and
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">EXTERIOR MAIN STREET BEDFORD FALLS –– </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">NIGHT
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">George sees that the POTTERSVILLE sign is now
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<b style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">GEORGE</b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> Yaaaay! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>GEORGE</b>
Hello, Bedford Falls! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He turns and runs through the falling snow up the main street of
the town. As he runs, he notices that the town is back in its
original appearance. He
passes some late shoppers on the street:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>GEORGE</b> (cont'd)
Merry Christmas! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>PEOPLE </b>(ad lib)
Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas, George!
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">EXTERIOR THEATRE –– </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">NIGHT
PAN SHOT –– </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>GEORGE</b>
Merry Christmas, movie house! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">EXTERIOR BEDFORD FALLS EMPORIUM –– </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">NIGHT
PAN SHOT –– </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>GEORGE</b>
Merry Christmas, emporium! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">EXTERIOR BUILDING AND LOAN OFICES –– </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">NIGHT
PAN SHOT –– </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>GEORGE
</b>Merry Christmas, you wonderful old... </span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">GEORGE</b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> ...</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Building and Loan!
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">EXTERIOR BANK –– </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">NIGHT
CLOSE SHOT –– </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">George notices a light in Potter's office window,
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">NIGHT
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>GEORGE</b> (from outside)
Merry Christmas, Mr. Potter! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>POTTER</b>
Happy New Year to you –– in jail! </span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">POTTER</b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Go on home –– they're waiting
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038650/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt">It's a Wonderful Life</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Words by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0329304/?ref_=tt_ov_wr">Frances Goodrich</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0352443/?ref_=tt_ov_wr">Albert Hackett</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0842485/?ref_=ttfc_fc_wr4">Jo Swerling</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0933858/?ref_=ttfc_fc_wr6">Michael Wilson</a>. and Frank Capra</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pictures by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005657/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr4">Joseph Biroc</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0907900/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr5">Joseph Walker</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005800/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr6">Victor Milner</a>, and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001008/?ref_=ttfc_fc_wr3">Frank Capra</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>It's a Wonderful Life</i> is available on DVD and Blu-Ray on Republic Entertainment, Inc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://letsnottalkaboutmovies.blogspot.com/2012/03/hunger-games.html"><span style="color: #cccccc;">I mocked <i>The Hunger Games</i> rather mercilessly</span></a> when it came out (as if it would prevent a single sou from entering its coffers) , because even though it was a hot publishing phenom' and a breathlessly anticipated movie, the original concept was a bit derivative without being very divergent (yeah, that's a snark for a future film there). So now, the second of <i>The Hunger Games</i> films (of four total)</span> <i><b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951264/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt"><span style="color: white;">Catching Fire</span></a></b></i> <span style="color: #cccccc;">has come out (with a new director, Francis Lawrence, of <i><a href="http://letsnottalkaboutmovies.blogspot.com/2011/05/water-for-elephants.html"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Water for Elephants</span></a></i> and <i><a href="http://letsnottalkaboutmovies.blogspot.com/2008/01/i-am-legend.html"><span style="color: #cccccc;">I Am Legend</span></a> </i>as a bit of an improvement over <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002657/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Gary Ross</span></a>, even with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001752/?ref_=nv_sr_1"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Steve Soderbergh</span></a> assisting) and this one's a better film. For one thing. "this time it's political," and the easy targets of reality TV and <a href="http://img2-1.timeinc.net/ew/i/2013/01/08/catching-fire-haymitch.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">the excesses of the rich</span></a> (with an eye towards the Roman Empire and its parallels of bread and circuses) are a bit less strident, although they haven't disappeared. They're just presented a little better this time. And the politico's of the Capitol are being a bit more cagey than they were previously.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Katniss Everdeen (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2225369/?ref_=tt_cl_t1"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Jennifer Lawrence</span></a>) now finds herself the most watched human in Panem. Her victory in the 74th Hunger Games along with Peeta Mellark (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1242688/?ref_=tt_cl_t7"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Josh Hutcherson</span></a>) has earned her and her family a cushy residence in Victor's Village and the vulture-like scrutiny of Panem's leader, President Snow (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000661/?ref_=tt_cl_t10"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Donald Sutherland</span></a>, as creepily confident as if he were selling you orange juice). He sees the way that Katniss has reached out to Panem's people and now she's the centerpiece of a swelling revolutionary movement. A personal presidential visit amounts to a threat that she'd better be convincing in her devotion to the State. "I'll convince them." assures Katniss. "No." replies Snow slowly. "Convince <u>me</u>."</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And with that, the stakes are raised. A "<a href="http://thebrotherhoodofevilgeeks.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/catching-fire-movie-katniss-peeta-photo.jpg?w=604"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Victory Tour</span></a>" is planned for the remaining districts (the ones that haven't been nuked), but <a href="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1316944!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/catchingfire16f-6-web.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">at each appearance of Katniss and Peeta something happens that brings out the riot police</span></a>. <a href="http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-philip-seymour-hoffman-donald-sutherland.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">At the suggestion of the Capitol's new gamesmaster (check out <i>this</i> name) Plutarch Heavensbee</span></a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000450/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t22"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Philip Seymour Hoffman</span></a>, keeping a straight face), who comes up with a plan to put more pressure on Katniss and speeding the inevitable moment <a href="http://cinemavine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/catching-fire-final-trailer-hd-stills-movie-15.png"><span style="color: #cccccc;">when the public turns against her</span></a>. Then, with the next Hunger Games competition occurring (the 75th), it is decided that, rather than having a "Reaping" lottery among the populace, the competition will be between past Victors, considered by the State now to be potential inspirations and inciters to riot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So now, the Games are between past champions (including <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0942482/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t30"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Jeffrey Wright</span></a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0540441/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t37"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Jena Malone</span></a>, and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001625/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t31"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Amanda Plummer</span></a>), some of whom are just as determined to win, while others are angry at being targeted again, but there will be only one survivor. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's a better film with more tricks up its sleeve, and the media manipulation is played by all sides—it may be an illusion but <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001804/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t15"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Stanley Tucci</span></a>'s teeth actually look whiter this time—with a terrific set-up for the next films that comes out of left field...if you haven't read the books. It's an entertaining change-up from the situations of the original, and promises to be even more intersting next time out.</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_v6el9NmavSJHctTDrpCOQuwbybjAi2Nt8cLwijjpr2rFnj_mrbA0AoBwAxcgXs1GLF99i05N0t5nDOjRxajtRiOKUBgAOL4EpGcSp5NtdFMEZfwDs6LKIJKZtl9BwvSk1fAsiBo5s20m/s1600/stunt_man.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182984719769321314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_v6el9NmavSJHctTDrpCOQuwbybjAi2Nt8cLwijjpr2rFnj_mrbA0AoBwAxcgXs1GLF99i05N0t5nDOjRxajtRiOKUBgAOL4EpGcSp5NtdFMEZfwDs6LKIJKZtl9BwvSk1fAsiBo5s20m/s200/stunt_man.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px;" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>The Story:</strong> Someone asked me recently what the first "Don't Make a Scene" was—what inspired it. It was this scene, from an unfairly forgotten movie called <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stunt_Man"><i>The Stunt Man</i></a></strong>, an early indie film that had trouble finding a distributor—the major studios didn't know how to sell it, and it was tested and run, to great acclaim, in Seattle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For me, it's what the movies are all about—make-believe, with the illusion of reality. There is nothing "really" real, not even in documentaries. They are all presentations, manipulations of reality, to present a point of view, a story, "Pieces of Time" in Jimmy Stewart's phrase. It's all magic, sleight-of-hand, subterfuge, legerdemain. We are told where to look and to accept it as reality. Don't look behind the curtain, because you'll see the film-crew, usually with a doughnut in their hands. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, that's the magic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><strong>The Set-up:</strong> Cameron (<a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm0706883/">Steve Railsback</a>) is a fugitive on the run. In his flight, he is nearly run down by Bert—a stuntman on a movie—performing a reckless stunt that ends up killing him. Subsequently, Cameron is taken under the wing of the film's director, Eli Cross (<a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm0000564/">Peter O'Toole</a>), who, when the authorities make inquiries about the accident, insists that the new-comer, Cameron, <u>is</u> actually Bert, the late stuntman. Cameron, fearing arrest, plays along. And, when the police leave, they have this conversation.</span><br />
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<strong style="font-family: 'courier new';">CAMERON:</strong><span style="font-family: 'courier new';"> </span><span style="font-family: courier new;">What? What are you talking about? What part?</span><strong style="font-family: 'courier new';">CROSS:</strong><span style="font-family: 'courier new';"> </span><span style="font-family: courier new;">Stuntman. </span><br />
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<strong style="font-family: 'courier new';">CAMERON:</strong><span style="font-family: 'courier new';"> </span><span style="font-family: courier new;">What about the people who work for you? They gonna look at me and go, "Hi, Bert?"</span><br />
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<strong style="font-family: 'courier new';">CROSS:</strong><span style="font-family: 'courier new';"> </span><span style="font-family: courier new;">Prefer "Hi, Alice?" Don't worry about the people who work for me, my crew. They'll call you anything I wish them to. And I'm not being callous merely. Bert is a bloody tragedy, but there's nothing we can do about it. Nothing. I must have this location for three days and you need a place to hide.</span></div>
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<strong style="font-family: 'courier new';">CROSS:</strong><span style="font-family: 'courier new';"> </span><span style="font-family: courier new;"><em>[Down to the A.D.]</em> The hand! Close-up of the hand! With you in a minute!</span><br />
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<strong style="font-family: 'courier new';">CAMERON:</strong><span style="font-family: 'courier new';"> </span><span style="font-family: courier new;">By tomorrow the cops are gonna know exactly what I look like.</span><br />
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<strong style="font-family: 'courier new';">CROSS:</strong><span style="font-family: 'courier new';"> </span><span style="font-family: courier new;">Oh, Bert, do stop this worrying. You must have heard of "movie magic?"</span><br />
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<strong style="font-family: 'courier new';">CROSS:</strong><span style="font-family: 'courier new';"> </span><span style="font-family: courier new;">You shall be a stuntman. Who is an actor. Who is a character in a movie. Who is an enemy soldier.</span><br />
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<strong style="font-family: 'courier new';">CROSS:</strong><span style="font-family: 'courier new';"> </span><span style="font-family: courier new;">Who'll look for you amongst all those? People like to believe in things and policemen are just people. Or so I'm told.</span><br />
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<strong style="font-family: 'courier new';">CROSS:</strong><span style="font-family: 'courier new';"> </span><span style="font-family: courier new;">Frankly, our problem is so simple it's almost beneath us. </span><span style="font-family: courier new;">Now, listen to me.</span><br />
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<strong style="font-family: 'courier new';">CROSS:</strong><span style="font-family: 'courier new';"> </span><span style="font-family: courier new;"><em>[Indicating the door of the hotel where the cast and crew are staying]</em> That door is the looking glass. And inside it is Wonderland.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Disney's latest animated feature—not in the flat 2-D classic animation, but in the 3-D pixilated version ala <i><a href="http://letsnottalkaboutmovies.blogspot.com/2010/12/tangled.html"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Tangled</span></a></i>—is "inspired" by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Christian_Andersen"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Hans Christian Anderson</span></a>'s "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snow_Queen"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The Snow Queen</span></a>," according to the credits. That's a whole new interpretation of the word "inspired" because </span><b><i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2294629/"><span style="color: white;">Frozen</span></a></i></b> <span style="color: #cccccc;">has next to nothing to do with "The Snow Queen" other than...<a href="http://www.skwigly.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/disney-frozen_elsa-wide.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">there's a Queen</span></a>...and she makes snow. But <i>Tangled</i> wasn't exactly "Rapunzel," either.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Disney, who just put the first female (albeit co-director) on one of their female-dominated animated films. Based on a screenplay by, and co-directed by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1601644/?ref_=tt_ov_wr"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Jennifer Lee</span></a> (with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0118333/?ref_=tt_ov_wr"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Chris Buck</span></a>), it's another "Princess" movie that will expand the Disney marketing franchise (with two of them), but as with <a href="http://letsnottalkaboutmovies.blogspot.com/2012/06/brave.html"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Pixar's </span></a><i><a href="http://letsnottalkaboutmovies.blogspot.com/2012/06/brave.html"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Brave</span></a> </i>it dares to up-end some story-book conventions, making <a href="http://25.media.tumblr.com/d6964147f9534acb81983fbe72b5896c/tumblr_mxhl7sQizA1t4csr4o1_500.png"><span style="color: #cccccc;">the royal sisters</span></a> Elsa (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0579953/?ref_=tt_ov_st"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Idina Menzel</span></a>) and Anna (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0068338/?ref_=tt_ov_st"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Kristen Bell</span></a>) the emotional hub the story revolves around, and relegating the two hunky guys that are standard love interests pretty much transportation tools. This is a good thing. And especially when the movie sets up "the guys" (one prince/one working stiff) as the solution to the problems and then very briskly pulls the <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/23/researchers-create-near-exhaustive-ultra-realistic-cloth-simulation/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">cloth-simulated</span></a> tapestry out from underneath that cliché. I like that. And I like how the solution to "the problems" is bundled very tightly in one unexpected moment that, frankly, shocks, and takes one aback emotionally. I like that even better.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, it's not "The Snow Queen." What is it? Elsa and Anna are princesses in the kingdom of Arendelle and they're by no means twins—Elsa is older by a couple years, and she has the telekinetic power to freeze things and project snow and ice from thin air. This delights Anna, but a childhood accident forces the King and Queen to seek the assistance of trolls who save Anna's life, but take away her memory of Elsa's power to prevent such a tragedy from ever happening again. The Royals also lock up Elsa, keeping her from her sister...and everyone, until she learns how to suppress her powers, usually brought on by her emotions.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The two sisters grow up apart under the same roof, even after tragedy strikes the household. The two don't see each other until Elsa's coronation day as Queen of Arendelle, but the two are distant even when inches apart, and when the scattered Anna becomes enamored of a visiting prince (Santino Fontana), upsetting Elsa and exposing her powers to the Kingdom. Elsa flees, now that her frightening powers are out there for all to see. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You couldn't miss it. She's dropped Arendelle into a permanent winter, with no way to get it out. It's up to the plucky Anna to go after her and try and mend fences and thaw her relationship with her sister and the town.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prince Hans is a love interest, but so is an ice-cutter that Anna finds on her journey (voiced by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2676147/?ref_=tt_cl_t3"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Jonathan Goff</span></a>), whose best pal is <a href="http://images.contactmusic.com/images/feature-images/frozen-600-07.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">an anthropomorphized reindeer named Sven. There's also a walking, talking snowman</span></a> (created by Elsa) named Olaf. The revelation of a goofy snowman in the movie was enough to give me a brain-freeze, but, as voiced by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1265802/?ref_=tt_cl_t4"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Josh Gad</span></a> (he of "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mormon_(musical)"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The Book of Mormon</span></a>"), <a href="http://m5.paperblog.com/i/66/661076/watch-walt-disney-animation-studioss-frozen-o-L-WEOjeq.jpeg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">he's pretty danged funny</span></a>. The songs have the same show-connection, as well, as they're a collaboration between <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0520188/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr250"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Robert Lopez</span></a> (who co-composed both "Mormon" and "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenue_Q"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Avenue Q</span></a>") and wife <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2844448/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr236"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Kristen Anderson</span></a>. That's very much in the tradition of bringing the song-writing team of "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Shop_of_Horrors_(musical)"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The Little Shop of Horrors</span></a>," Ashman and Menken, to Disney. The songs are decidedly less Broadway, however, and more "pop" oriented—and will be appearing on the many reality-talent shows on the air in the not-too-distant future—and geared more for a cartoon audience than a theater one.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Again, quibbles. And if <i>Frozen</i> didn't exactly warm my heart, my brain had some warm thoughts towards it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The second of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001392/?ref_=ttfc_fc_dr1"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Peter Jackson</span></a>'s three "Hobbit" films,</span> <i><b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1170358/"><span style="color: white;">The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug</span></a></b></i><span style="color: #cccccc;"> is, predictably, more of the same. It's a three hour ramble, a complication and a darkening of the tone of the first film—as usually happens with the second of a trilogy, so that we, the audience, can climb out of our emotional valley in time for the resolution of conflicts in the third. Standard Operating Procedure. We are given a quick recap of the first film—going back in time to when Gandalf the Gray (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005212/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t1"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Ian McKellan</span></a>) first put the idea into the head of Thorin Oakenshield (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005212/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t1"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Richard Armitage</span></a>) and getting the dwarf crusade rolling. Once the summary is done (in brief: Gold, Mountain, Dragon, Dead King, Arkenstone, New King, No Elves Allowed), they skip over <i><a href="http://letsnottalkaboutmovies.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-hobbit-unexpected-journey.html"><span style="color: #cccccc;">An Unexpected Journey</span></a></i> and head back to the Gandalf, Bilbo and <a href="http://cdn1-www.craveonline.com/assets/uploads/2013/12/The-Hobbit-The-Desolation-of-Smaug-Dwarves.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">the dwarves</span></a> on the path to Lonely Mountain (Sindarin Erebor), orcs still snapping at their behinds and making their way to the entrance of Mirkwood.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A quick visit to the skin-changer Beorn (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0675409/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t21"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Mikael Persbrandt</span></a>), who usually appears in the form of a bear—not much is made of him, even though he got <a href="http://static3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130129132805/lotr/images/thumb/9/9c/Beorn5.jpg/800px-Beorn5.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">his own poster with Gandalf last time</span></a>—and they get to Mirkwood (by pony), at which point Gandalf goes "walkabout"—he does this every movie and they probably split the story to accommodate a "Gandalf disappearance"—so the wee folk must enter the spooky forest alone, with a promise from the wizard that he'll meet them at "the Lookout."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyone familiar with the book knows that you don't find out where G.theG. goes until the last chapter, and that was after Tolkien had written "The Lord of the Rings" and got continuity-conscious. But, here, we do get to see where (hint: he went there LAST movie), and Jackson's <i>The Lord of the Rings</i> gets set up all good and proper (except <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1212722/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t20"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Benedict Cumberbatch</span></a> is voicing the character now—wonder if Jackson will Lucasize everything to make it all match up). The dwarves and hobbit are concerned with icky things and splendors that one would associate with a place called Mirkwood, and the ring that Bilbo snatched from Gollum is starting to exert its unholy influence turning the peaceful little guy into a berserker bad-ass. Travel packages with unruly companions and nasty accommodations with large pests and diffident natives will do that to anyone. But, Bilbo proves his worth on more than one occasion and eventually they do make it to the Halls of Lonely Mountain, a few shy of a full dwarve-deck and make their way to a meeting with the titular character that's been hoarding all the gold and keeping it for himself—the ultimate one percenter of Middle Earth.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Smaug is the dragon, living in the massive storage caves of the Mountain, and he spends his time, far from desolate, sleeping among the gold and treasures of the dwarves like a big scaled, fire-breathing Scrooge McDuck. <a href="http://static4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121222103603/lotr/images/f/fb/Bilbo_in_Smaug's_treasure.PNG"><span style="color: #cccccc;">When Bilbo's attempts to find the Arkenstone awaken him</span></a>, there is quite an extensive cat-and-mouse game as <a href="http://wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com/blogs/tinseltalk/files/2013/12/the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug-critics-tv-spot.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">the small hobbit scurrie</span></a>s around the cumbersome dragon. Or I should say Cumberbatch, as the ubiquitous actor provides a nicely arch resonant voice to Smaug, which is accompanied by a lip-curling animation to enhance it. This is where the film shines, as the territory is new, the imagineering of the dragon is fresh, and the surprises are many. After the previous two hours, that's a bit refreshing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For if there's a problem with Peter Jackson's version of <i>The Hobbit</i>, it's that, by now, we are so familiar with the way he does things that nothing much really resonates anymore. The heavily belabored ripostes by the actors seem a bit too predictable—when Bilbo changes his story to gandalf that he found his courage in the goblin caves last movie (rather than The Ring), there's a close-up of Gandalf as he says what half the audience is expecting: "You'll need it." Really, that one and "You should be" are certain candidates for Screenwriting 101 "easy irony" along with "You just don't get it, do you?" and "They're standing behind me, aren't they?" </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the action sequences, this time assistant-directed by actor Andy Serkis. go on and on, in ever-increasing silliness. If last movie set a more rollicking, silly tone than The Lord of the Rings (in part by the influence of Guillermo del Toro), now the joke's wearing a little thin. Extended fights between orcs and elves are no longer thrilling, <a href="https://static.squarespace.com/static/51b3dc8ee4b051b96ceb10de/51ce6099e4b0d911b4489b79/51ce61a9e4b0d911b449be5f/1370971830064/1000w/header-first-trailer-for-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">they're a demonstration of every possible way you can kill something with an arrow</span></a>. <a href="http://www.digitaltrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/The-Hobbit-The-Desolation-of-Smaug-19.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">An extended rush down a rapids in barrels</span></a> is accompanied by additional orc-elf fighting, where the barrels are used for any other purpose besides transport, as every tree-limb and branch over-hanging is used as a foot-hold. Some of this criticism isn't fair, because if this had been the first film in a trilogy of Tolkien adaptations, the marvels of the film would send people off a CGI cliff in amazement. It might take at least forty-five minutes to tumble down it, though.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One should, however, point out that the "we've been down this glade before" problem didn't occur with Jackson's earlier Tolkien trilogy, where there was enough material to keep things seeming fresh each film, and Jackson and his screenwriters did enough juggling of the narrative to keep things seeming new from film to film. Their attempts here amount to trying to add a romantic element between the elf warrior Tauriel (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1431940/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t17"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Evangeline Lily</span></a>) and the dwarf Kili (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2636108/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t10"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Aidan Turner</span></a>), much to the consternation of Legolas (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0089217/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t16"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Orlando Bloom</span></a>, back in action). And while it provides a reprieve from tumbling and shooting and other too-frantic sequences, it does take away from the basic focus on the titular Bilbo Baggins (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0293509/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t2"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Martin Freeman</span></a>) whose story this is. Freeman's performance is, again, terrific, bringing all sorts of fretting elements to play, and making the transformation of his hobbit into a killer more than a little disturbing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The vistas are staggeringly rendered, but some short-changing has been done with the characters in action sequences—<a href="http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/34600000/The-Hobbit-Desolation-of-Smaug-First-Trailer-Screencaps-the-hobbit-34695921-849-349.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Orlando Bloom seems to be the chief character robbed of some pixels</span></a>, here and there, <a href="http://www.iam-architect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/orlando-bloom-the-hobbit-desolation-of-smaug-01-4869x2792.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">and the attempt to de-age him to a younger self doesn't really work</span></a> (I've never seen it done convincingly, so far). the only real surprises come in snatches of casting with Lee Pace, disappearing into the role of the elf Thronduil, Lily's elven warrior, and Stephen Fry's Master of Laketown. Be on the lookout for some Laketown spies and you might even find Stephen Colbert for a brief second. Oh, and Jackson gets his own "Hitchcock moment" out of the way very quickly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Oh. And</span> <b><span style="color: red;">SPOILER ALERT </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">there's another movie coming, so this one ends at a rather inopportune time. You only have to wait another year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000564/?ref_=tt_ov_st">Peter Seamus O'Toole</a> died Saturday at the age of 81 years of living life to the full and relishing a career as an actor, communicating that joy with every part. He was always an "active" actor, investing even moments of thought with a commitment of 110%, making you believe that the brain behind the haunted blue eyes was percolating at a boil, making each moment on stage or on film an event and a master-class in acting at its highest register. "Magnificent" was never too strong a word for a Peter O'Toole performance. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And daring. I remember seeing him perform Henry Higgins in an HBO taping of "Pygmalion" and he had the audacity to perform some of it while chomping exquisitely through an apple. That's my favorite version of the character, revealing an ego so large and so confident in a class system (that he claimed to despise) that even acting like a slob did not diminish his own confidence in his standing or elocution. It takes a great deal of invention to come up with a way to convey those dichotomies in so simple an act.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are going to be many, many tributes to the man over the next few days full of the actor's generosity and examples of how he lived his life with a great theatricality.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000422/?ref_=tt_ov_st">John Goodman</a> had a good O'Toole story on "Inside the Actor's Studio." The two were doing a movie together (<i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102216/">King Ralph</a></i>, written and directed by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0911486/?ref_=tt_ov_wr">David S. Ward</a>, after the novel by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0930539/?ref_=tt_ov_wr">Emlyn Williams</a>) and during a smoke-break, Goodman started looking around for something to put his ashes in. O'Toole responded with a flourish of arms (I suppose) and a loud, royal air (imitated by Goodman): "Boy, make the WORLD your ash-tray!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lovely. And he had the perfect answer to what he wanted on his tombstone.</span><br />
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"Many years ago I had a beloved leather jacket... and I never wanted to throw it away. I sent it to the cleaners because it was covered in blood and Guinness and scotch and Corn Flakes, the usual. It went off to the Sycamore Cleaners and it came back with a thing pinned on it:<span style="color: #a64d79;"> 'It distresses us to return work which is not perfect'</span> - so I want that on my tombstone." </b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've had this scene from <i><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_of_Arabia_(film)"><span style="color: white;">Lawrence of Arabia</span></a></b></i> planned for awhile, as it contains some fine writing and the single greatest movie edit in the medium's history. I had no idea what I was going to write about it, but it was sitting there on my hard-drive, waiting for meaning and relevance. And with the news of his passing, his career ended but ever-present to be enjoyed for ages to come. That edit perfectly conveys the moment of loss (the blowing out of the match) at his passing, and the eternal legacy of his work (the light of a new day emerging, strong and powerful and in perpetuity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Goodbye, Mr. O'Toole. "It won't really be...good-bye."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The Set-Up:</b> The film is just beginning, but, at this point, T. E. Lawrence (O'Toole) has been summoned to the office of General Murray (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0938372/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t10">Donald Wolfit</a>) in Cairo, at the request of Mr. Dryden (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001647/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t8">Claude Rains</a>) of the Arab Bureau.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">CLOSE SHOT. GENERAL MURRAY is one of those regulation officers whose pride is to appear more regulation than anyone can be. His face is hard and shrewd, his expression exasperated. He is seated at his desk. On the wall behind him is an “Illustrated London News” type pen and ink sketch of heavy artillery on the Western front. On a ledge under the picture is a collection of empty shell cases of varying sizes. GENERAL MURRAY is addressing DRYDEN, a donnish man with a pale, lined, lively face, wearing civilian clothes, who at this moment has his back to us as he stands looking out of a window overlooking the gardens of the Headquarters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b> MURRAY:</b> I smell an intrigue! An intrigue between the Arab Bureau and a junior officer of my staff! A
very junior officer, an insubordinate junior officer, an officer who, so far as I can gather, has proved markedly incompetent in a very junior post!</span><br />
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DRYDEN turns from the window, smiling a little at the reference to LAWRENCE’s incompetence, and offers a smiling explanation of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>DRYDEN: </b>He wants to go to Arabia, sir. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He strolls away from the window towards a chair in front of MURRAY’s desk, the CAMERA TRACKING BACKWARDS with him into a medium shot of the two of them. We now see that DRYDEN is carrying a copy of the Arabic newspaper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>MURRAY:</b> I’m aware of that. He’s made application for a posting to Arabia once a month ever since he got here. Very well then, the Arab Bureau comes along and says, “We want an Intelligence man in Arabia. We want you to second us a man in Arabia. We think it should be Mr. Lawrence.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>MURRAY:</b> It’s an intrigue, Dryden, and I don’t propose to let an over-weening, finicking, crass Lieutenant... </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>MURRAY:</b> ...thumb his nose at his General Officer Commanding,...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>MURRAY:</b> ... and get away with it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>DRYDEN:</b>(calmly quizzical) It doesn’t sound as though he’d be any great loss, sir.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>MURRAY:</b> Now don’t try that, Dryden. There’s a principle involved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>DRYDEN:</b>(suddenly quite sharp—but still calm) There is indeed. He’s no use here in Cairo and he might be in Arabia. He knows his stuff, sir.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">28 CLOSE UP. MURRAY.</span>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He is a little put out by the moral tone of this, which though a shade spinsterish is not less authentic for that. He grumbles:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>MURRAY:</b> Knows the books you mean.
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>MURRAY:</b> </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">What mored’you want? </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>DRYDEN:</b> </span><span style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">There would be no question of Lieutenant Lawrence </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">giving </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">military advice, sir— </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>MURRAY:</b> —My God I should hope not! </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>DRYDEN:</b> It’s just that the Arab Bureau wants its own man on the </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">spot sir, to ... </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>MURRAY:</b>(suspicious) To what? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>DRYDEN:</b> To make our own appraisal of the situation. </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">DRYDEN spreads his hands deprecatingly as he says this, as </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">one who makes an almost childishly small request. But his </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">eyes are ready for conflict—he speaks for the Bureau—and </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">MURRAY is uneasy.This is a conflict which has been brewing </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">for some time. </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">30 CLOSE UP. MURRAY. </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">He looks away, fiddles with a ruler. Blurts out: </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">that of my staff that any time spent on the Bedouin will be </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>MURRAY:</b> </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">They’re a nation of sheep stealers! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>DRYDEN:</b> They did attack Medina. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>DRYDEN:</b> We don’t know that, sir. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>MURRAY: </b>We know they didn’t take it. A storm in a tea-cup, </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">Dryden, a side-show—
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>MURRAY:</b></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">If you want my own opinion, </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">this whole theatre of </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">MURRAY:</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">The
real war’s </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">being fought against </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">the Germans not </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">the Turks. Not here, but </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">on the Western Front </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">... in the </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">(his eyes glow and we see for a moment how he longs to be there,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">organising mass attacks through mud) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>MURRAY:</b></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">If they rise against the Turks, does the Bureau think </span></span></span><br />
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the </span></span><br />
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Don’t tell me my </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">35 CLOSE SHOT. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">The door is opened by a STAFF MAJOR. Behind him we see LAWRENCE</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>MAJOR: </b>Lawrence, sir.</span></span><br />
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Send him in.</span></span><br />
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Good morning, sir.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">LAWRENCE comes to a halt near DRYDEN and salutes, very badly, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">his legs not quite together, and throws a side-long glance at </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">DRYDEN expecting approbation, but DRYDEN shakes his head </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">quickly, somewhat to LAWRENCE’s surprise.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">MURRAY has been looking at LAWRENCE, ready to be enraged, but </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>MURRAY: </b>If you’re insubordinate with me, Lawrence, I’ll put you </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">under arrest!</span></span><br />
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</b>(apparently crestfallen)
It’s my manner, sir.</span></span><br />
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What?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>LAWRENCE: </b>My manner, sir. It looks insubordinate, but it isn’t </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">MURRAY is again baffled by his own lack of imagination and </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">LAWRENCE’s apparent innocence. He moves uneasily.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>MURRAY:</b> I can’t make out whether you’re bloody bad-mannered or </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>LAWRENCE:</b>
(confidentially)
I have the same trouble, sir.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>MURRAY:</b>
(thumping the table)
Shut up!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>MURRAY: </b>The Arab Bureau seems to think you could be some use </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">to them in Arabia. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1;">Why, I can’t imagine. You don’t seem able </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">to perform </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">your present duties properly.</span></span><br />
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</b>(smiling, he quotes—not mockingly, but as dons do </span></span><br />
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“I cannot fiddle but I can make a great </span></span><br />
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What?</span> </span><br />
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(delicately helpful)
Themistocles, sir. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">LAWRENCE:</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">A Greek </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">philosopher.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>MURRAY: </b>I know you’ve been well educated, Lawrence; it says so </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">in your dossier.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">He pushes back his chair, rises, and walks to a window.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">39 CLOSE SHOT. LAWRENCE and DRYDEN. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">40 CLOSE SHOT.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">blows by outside. MURRAY’s face is dark with all the extrovert’s </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">loathing of the sensitive and introspective. He says, slowly </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">and with great sincerity:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>MURRAY:</b> You’re the kind of creature I can’t stand, Lawrence ...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>MURRAY:</b> ...</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">but I suppose I could be wrong. All right, Dryden.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">41 CLOSE UP. LAWRENCE</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>MURRAY:
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You can have him for six weeks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">LAWRENCE’s face lights up, but almost immediately he composes </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">42 CLOSE SHOT. MURRAY has turned around eyeing LAWRENCE heavily.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>MURRAY:</b> Who knows! It might even make a man of him. (in answer </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>MURRAY: </b></span><span style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">Come in!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>MURRAY: </b>What is it, Hawthorn?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>MAJOR: </b>Yes sir ... there doesn’t seem to be any artillery.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>MURRAY: </b>There
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It’s something of an expedition, sir. He has </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">got to get to Yenbo, find transport, find the Arabs, and then </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">get back. He can’t do that in six weeks.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>MURRAY:</b> Two months then.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>LAWRENCE:</b> I’d like to say, sir, that I
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>LAWRENCE:</b> Sir! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">47 CLOSE SHOT. MURRAY and the MAJOR.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">Even before the door has closed MURRAY is searching rapidly </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">He comes to the end and starts </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">again, more and more frantically.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">Suddenly he cries out in </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">real distress.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>MURRAY:</b> Oh, how can I fight a bloody war without bloody </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">artillery?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">INT. CORRIDOR</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">48 CLOSE TRACKING SHOT. DRYDEN and LAWRENCE. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">THE CAMERA IS TRACKING on a CLOSE SHOT of DRYDEN. LAWRENCE </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">runs up behind him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><strike><b>LAWRENCE:</b> Oh, Shabash, Dryden!</strike></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">DRYDEN avoids him and continues walking.</span></strike></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>DRYDEN:
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He’s not a bad chap, Lawrence.</span></strike></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>LAWRENCE: </b>No he’s not a bad chap, he’s a fool. </span></strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><strike>(grins in anticipation) </strike></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>LAWRENCE:</b> </span><span style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">How did you do it?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">DRYDEN again avoids him and goes on walking.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>DRYDEN:</b> You might better ask me why I bothered to. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">At this LAWRENCE falls into step beside him, and although </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">his words are still flippant his face begins to assume its </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>LAWRENCE:</b> Because I’m the man for the job.</span><br />
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I just wonder about that.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>LAWRENCE: </b>Of course I’m the man for the job. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>LAWRENCE: </b></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">What is the job, </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">by the way?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>DRYDEN:
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Find Prince Feisal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">DRYDEN opens the door and they enter.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">INT. DRYDEN’S OFFICE</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">49 MED. SHOT. This is a room at once similar to but utterly </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">carpeted, the room of a cultivated xenophile. There are </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>LAWRENCE: </b>Good. And when I’ve found him?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>DRYDEN: </b>Find out what kind of man he is. Find out— </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>DRYDEN:</b> </span><span style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">—what his intentions are. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>DRYDEN: </b></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">I don’t mean his immediate </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">intentions—that’s Colonel </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">Brighton’s business, not yours. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>DRYDEN: </b></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">I mean </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">his intentions in Arabia </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">altogether. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>LAWRENCE:</b> Where are they now?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">DRYDEN:</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">They’re Hashemite </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">Bedouins, </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">they can cross 60 miles </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>DRYDEN:</b> Lawrence, only two kinds of creature get ‘fun’ in the </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">(his gaze wanders round the photographs of silent sun-scorched </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">DRYDEN:</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">Take it from me, for ordinary </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">men it’s a burning </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">fiery furnace.</span><br />
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No, Dryden, it’s going to be fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">50 CLOSE UP. DRYDEN. </span></span><br />
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It is recognized that you have a funny </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;">54 LONG SHOT. A brilliantly lit desert vista of sand and rock. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 1px;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056172/">Lawrence of Arabia</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: white;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033627/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3"><span style="color: white;">49th Parallel</span></a> (aka The Invaders)</span></b> <span style="color: #cccccc;">(<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003836/?ref_=tt_ov_dr"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Michael Powell</span></a>, 1941)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Interesting propaganda film to promote the war effort by the British government, made by "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell_and_Pressburger"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The Archers</span></a>" (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0696247/?ref_=tt_ov_wr"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Emeric Pressburger</span></a> and Michael Powell) before they became "The Archers" and combining the writer-director credits together. More than anything, it was designed to influence isolationist American minds about the threat of the Nazis, by presenting a story where they arrive on our shores.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is 1941 and <a href="http://stagevu.com/img/thumbnail/litwbrarrbvubig.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">a German sub is prowling Canadian waters</span></a>, sinking any transport they can. Detected, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWfmUu4KpmCzTHwjyZ598p9GMapyx1sak0TeCjjlIMM2xYzZpiwYhAP_l7-di00iDMx_TAj1chMZj9N1n0bmYypq6tu686ExUg2B7jGDzQ0IAaW_CnZXzOPWDOjidRg1hOEAZPEHq5gZhd/s1600/Picture+1.png"><span style="color: #cccccc;">they make a run for Hudson's Bay</span></a> and the sub commander <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8wXWsmhidzUZxovv3lQ4HjLbTPhRupUVxm7v3G_kJkDA3EIXKSySG2FgMnVEveWr4Cl385rF2yOhzZ6bBdqxTgwyQo1zicrewHVu-WLCzTd6huvQT32G9I1_MqKpsD4cWcnU88rxqQY1e/s1600/Picture+2.png"><span style="color: #cccccc;">orders a landing party to capture an outpost in the area</span></a>. But, soon after leaving the sub, the men see it attacked and sunk by a bomber, sent by the Canadian air force, alerted to their presence. <a href="http://www.movie-film-review.com/files/images/filmimages/49thparallel.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The Commander, Hirth</span></a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0692439/?ref_=tt_cl_t2"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Eric Portman</span></a>) continues to land to complete the mission, hoping that they can make their way eventually to the United States which is (gulp!) famously neutral in order to get back to Germany.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But, first they have to get through Canada. First stop, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0nX2Taark0HgTQ3ufYUV44RwbgRffDkQtyvG4DFYmUGOWbWrJjBtFS6XwF2Q_wyE5u2Nv6DigiFXIXCz-Dfcx_hn5L5Swq6Mrprip810rf32w4Pah5ZfrsG4iYp4ZSd7WG25VF5vyJwQ/s1600/canadians.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">a trading post</span></a>, where <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0192958/?ref_=tt_cl_t9"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Finley Currie</span></a> and Eskimo guide <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0648504/?ref_=tt_cl_t10"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Ley On</span></a> are welcoming back <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRkrIXtkYGfBwO6qOMe6ybkhRQ_JpWNfPQ-_VCLwzjBg1xWm0cZJYl3uJykYwgNo6FEJyByJvQrpiZjZeFxHAvTRrSqsSjGsayYVpjfOR_xKdS5XJfFpmmh-pso0b1jfq1cb-ql6SrOKUt/s1600/49thParallel+2.png"><span style="color: #cccccc;">French trapper Johnnie</span></a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000059/?ref_=tt_cl_t8"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Laurence Olivier</span></a>—<a href="http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/5100000/49th-Parallel-laurence-olivier-5111615-434-574.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">with the wildest accent you've ever heard, eh?</span></a>) after being up north for eleven months. <a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513qO2KcueL.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The Nazi's take over the trading post, hoping to entice and hijack a plane to get them across the border</span></a>. But, it goes badly <a href="http://pixhost.me/avaxhome/97/45/001d4597_medium.jpeg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">leading to a skirmish</span></a>, which barely has the Nazis escaping with their lives. They then make their way to a German Hutterite community led by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0906932/?ref_=tt_cl_t11"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Anton Walbrook</span></a>, who first welcomes the visitors to their peaceful enclave, then when <a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/images/844-8ff1d6c8de6391542d532f8c99de3c88/49th_large.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">the Nazis' arrogance get the better of them and try to teach the community about their "better" way</span></a>, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg5VGtSf5nimH0Quo-L_eI4M1UmCOLlVTZRsL6BHIwg5bqogG72n7Vxd12sKEHH_v_ayNp2WQTK3micnZISHWhTg2RR4uSGfXPVO9VHbCFvZVERDytHc91R2PXVSlzdF045WFQ3PRpoTU/s1600/49th_parallel_2%5B1%5D.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Hirth and the community leader engage in a lively debate</span></a> over the merits of each other's systems. The Germans are kicked out, making their way to the wilderness where they are captured by the RCMP, but make their escape <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0BqPBFqRSS3omugaVg5cMzbk3Pi2eR4Vm6Y_YcIQNDpN8N2rr94LwSh9uprI8RvpZrMf7p1kAq3IL3_pJC4KEY92odMMOmBGcamd5wXA8cvJExIaVlBZUDMaqwb4FLGAShXcHXvU5FhI/s1600/armstrongscott.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">using an eccentric writer</span></a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001366/?ref_=tt_ov_st"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Leslie Howard</span></a>) as a hostage, but even that plan does not go as planned. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each encounter has reduced their numbers, and, at the last, only Hirth remains free and on the run. He hops a freight to try and make it across the 49th parallel into the States, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho6oq1nV0Rx5EICrFwwy27-haKEUNUCw-Uj8my_vZeGW2sQSyX0S7PGT2I7refuRNHycHEVBKeQwd-LJLmIhGTIW3sqbfy7GX5S-mi9qtfxOq2XvA_ar0qRyEGTNGp6hru_59wuudllFc/s1600/49th2.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">but riding the car with him is AWOL soldier Andy Brock</span></a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0557339/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t19"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Raymond Massey</span></a>), whose sympathies are still with Canada, despite being reluctant to fight, and he makes things very complicated.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is a propaganda piece, after all, and if the various episodes seem a bit far-fetched and feel like a tortured demonstration on the length and breadth of Canadian diversity ("Meet the Canadians! Even OUR Germans don't like THEIR Germans"), it is with the intent of contrasting that diversity with the sameness of the Aryan lineage and autocratic group-think of the sub crew. If the thing gets a little pedantic, it was to educate reluctant Americans about Nazi philosophy in a dramatic fashion and inspire a feeling of "It CAN happen to YOU" to the "American Firster's." It's a bit clumsy and the fisticuffs are a might ham-fisted, but it's positively sub-tle when you put it up against the thousand goose-stepping hosers of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025913/"><i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Triumph des Willens</span></i></a>. And Powell and Pressburger were just getting started.</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-6763908957644509552013-12-12T23:50:00.000-08:002013-12-12T23:50:00.226-08:00The Talk of the Town<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035417/"><span style="color: white;">The Talk of the Town</span></a></b> <span style="color: #cccccc;">(<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0828419/?ref_=tt_ov_dr"><span style="color: #cccccc;">George Stevens</span></a>, 1942) One could almost look at <i>The Talk of the Town</i> as being a sequel of sorts to <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031679/?ref_=nm_knf_i1"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Mr. Smith Goes to Washington</span></a></i>, focusing on the judicial branch, rather than the legislative, and with more of a divided heart as to what kind of movie it should be. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Part of that may be the number of screenwriters involved. Not only is <i>Mr. Smith</i>'s scripter <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0118227/?ref_=tt_ov_wr"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Sidney Buchman</span></a> present, but also <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0789758/?ref_=tt_ov_wr"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Irwin Shaw</span></a> (both men would feel the lash of the blacklist in the 1950's) and Dale Van Every for story adaptation. That many cooks typing away may explain the sometimes lurching tone from comedy to romance to high-mindedness to, uh, the underlying plot-line that once-in-awhile gets attended to.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The "main" interest is: who will Nora Shelley (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000795/?ref_=tt_ov_st"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Jean Arthur</span></a>) <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC6O6t85_3f4kXzpuBw_-ELBWo2hAd5Y0YwyRLL33iQXJWpQqAcks4PBM4QvRYAXQnlAtWLvYrxgv2fP7TKMI5m53D9U6A_s7pUWJ1ocd6b7QoC7VovdqJ4WNWAGBd7rStbvn59wZeI5I/s1600-h/talkofthetown2.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">end up with, romantically?</span></a> Stevens shot two endings and let preview audiences decide. Case closed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's the least material aspect to the film in the first place. The plot involves the burning of a local mill and the framing of mill worker and "activist" (one assumes a unionist) Leopold Dilg (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000026/?ref_=tt_ov_st"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Cary Grant</span></a>) for arson and the murder of the plant foreman. Everything is stacked against Dilg from the mill owner calling for his blood in the sympathetic press, to the trial judge being in Holmes' hip-pocket. Dilg escapes from prison (in a dramatic opening sequence that's a bit out of sync with the rest of the movie) and hides out in "Sweetbrook," the rental house run by his high-school acquaintance Nora, who's trying to get the place in shape for the impending arrival of a temporary lodger, law dean Michael Lightcap (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0172903/?ref_=tt_ov_st"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Ronald Colman</span></a>) who's taking the Summer off to write a book. This being a comedy, Lightcap arrives early—the night Dilg has stumbled his way in—and Nora has to hide the runaway in the attic, while the police comb the area looking for him.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After a restless first night for all—nervous Nora has spent the night in another room and Dilg snores in his attic roost leading Lightcap to advise Nora she needs to do something about her adenoids—the complications begin: Dilg is too restless a spirit and cranky an agitator to to stay cooped in the attic; Lightcap needs a secretary and to keep Dilg under wraps and separated from Lightcap, Nora takes the job; and then, to raise the stakes, a local Senator stops by to tell Lightcap he's being nominated for the Supreme Court. So, politics being what they are (the same as always), if there's any hint of scandal, oh, like, say, harboring a wanted fugitive in your house, it could hurt the professor's chances of being one of the Supremes (depending on who's in The White House, of course).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdreviews20/a%20Cary%20Grant%20Box%20set%20dvd%20review/a%20George%20Stevens%20The%20Talk%20of%20the%20Town%20Cary%20Grant%20Box%20DVD%20Review%20%20PDVD_006.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Dilg being Dilg, he can't stay under wraps for long</span></a>, and he's soon hiding in plain sight as "the gardener," and his views of the law leads to some sparring over the letter of the law and how it can conflict with the intent, especially when those intentions are not honorable to the spirit of the law, and Lightcap finds himself embroiled in a conflict of interest, where his cloistered view from his ivory tower looks pretty good in theory, but bares only a conversational similarity to its practical applications in the world of dog-eat-dog. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's the meat of <i>The Talk of the Town</i>, but the screenwriters and Stevens must gild it with a "who gets the girl" storyline that will satisfy the jury of the audience. Stevens let the answer to the question be decided by a preview audience of peers—with nothing decided until the very last second. With <a href="http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Arthur,%20Jean/Annex/Annex%20-%20Arthur,%20Jean%20(Talk%20of%20the%20Town,%20The)_01.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Colman as a sophisticated book-smart professional with a lot of learning to do</span></a>, and Grant as am earnest dreamer, it's hard to choose, <a href="http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/2/Open/Sony%20Pictures/Talk%20of%20the%20Town/_derived_jpg_q90_600x800_m0/tkott_stl_2_l.jpg?partner=allmovie_soap"><span style="color: #cccccc;">but Arthur is, as always, a delight</span></a>, finding ways to make the quick-witted Nora flustered, but with the best of intentions and the most charming of choices. Like the movie, she's a bit of a mess, but an enjoyable one.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">It's always been "The Coen Brothers" as a writing-directing team, although Joel is more often the guy calling the camera shots and both Ethan and he write the screenplays, and Ethan produces. The sensibilities that intertwine the two make the creative decisions that make or break these movies, so it's a little hard to be able to discern exactly who does what. The fact of the matter is, they both do (and </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/Joel%20Coen"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Roderick</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001053/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Jaymes</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">, their regular editor is actually a psuedonym for the two).<br />
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The Coens have always had an eye to bringing out the best of their material, be it original work or adaptation, with edgy actors who can produce drama and comedy equally well. They successfully tread from the independent film circuit to mainstream cinema in a very short period of time, and their work is of such an obviously high caliber that audiences connected with them not long after critics did, and not even that blind industry ogre, Oscar, could delay giving them top honors. Their acting company contains A-listers and up-and-coming character actors on their way to the A-list. Their biggest-budgeted film was also their biggest failure. And they have such a peculiar sensibility that confounds and even tweaks expectations that their most devoted fans have Coen movies that they can't explain or fathom...and sometimes simply disregard.<br />
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But each film is a complicated moebius strip of cruel fate and clueless human failings, reflecting and refracting the rich vein of material from both the cinematic and literary past. It may start as inspiration, but it becomes increasingly Coen to the final frame. </span></span>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QqvfSFxx5rI/R6aNs4NSkyI/AAAAAAAABxM/qRlvcf3vbH8/s1600-h/big_lebowski_ver1.jpg" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162969824968741666" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QqvfSFxx5rI/R6aNs4NSkyI/AAAAAAAABxM/qRlvcf3vbH8/s200/big_lebowski_ver1.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></strong></span></a><strong style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: white;"></span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/" name="writer1990"><span style="color: white;">The Big Lebowski</span></a><span style="color: white;"></span></strong> <span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;">(1998) It's a little inside: an L.A. mystery story that recalls the imagery and style of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Chandler" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Raymond Chandler</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;">'s </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Marlowe" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Philip Marlowe</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;">, but in the guise of "The Dude."<strong><span style="color: #cc33cc;">*</span></strong> Through no fault of his own, the perpetually half-mast Dude (</span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000313/" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Jeff Bridges</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;">) is assaulted in his home, and his favorite rug urinated on, which ignites a long-dormant desire for justice and payback. That he gets pulled into a kidnapping plot by another Lebowski, a well-heeled California family, with a crippled father-figure and a collection of entitlement-addled kids, is just gravy to getting a rug out of the deal. Narrated by a laconic </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000385/" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Sam Elliott</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;"> in the first-person, and with frequent drug-and-movie-influenced fantasy sequences when The Dude is knocked unconscious (a Marlowe specialty!), <i>The Big Lebowski</i> is a brilliant flash-forward to the seamy side of The City of Angels that Chandler documented during the '40's and '50's. Another stellar cast (great work by </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000422/" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">John Goodman</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;">, </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000114/" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Steve Buscemi</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;">, </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001806/" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">John Turturro</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;">, </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000194/" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Julianne Moore</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;">, </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0399663/" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">David Huddleston</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;">, and an early turn by </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000450/" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Philip Seymour Hoffman</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;">) headed by Bridges tells a great detective story that doesn't feel like a detective story, but works more like an indictment of society, which is Chandler to a finely-crafted metaphor, proving that not only does the Dude abide, but Chandler's neon-flashed mean streets do, as well.</span><br />
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Of all the Coen's films, this one seems to have struck the cultural nerve with the deepest roots. If you're making plans, this year's </span><a href="http://www.lebowskifest.com/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">LebowskiFest</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> ("A Celebration of All Things Lebowski") is in Tampa January 31st and February 1st. Here's the poster:</span></span><br />
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Miles Massey (</span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000123/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">George Clooney</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">, in an archly comic performance) is at the top of his game and beset by ennui. Legendary in his trade for the unbreakable, iron-clad "Massey Pre-nup," he has climbed the top of the pyramid only to find...nothing there. Dissatisfied with his mansion built on sand, he's looking for something to believe in—a challenge to his game, and he finds it in Marilyn Rexroth (</span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001876/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Catherine Zeta-Jones</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">, oozing danger), the soon-to-be-ex-wife of his current client. Opposing her in court, he becomes gob-smacked and follows her gold-digging career with a combination of fascination and hero-worship, only to watch her re-marry to Texas oilman </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000671/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Billy Bob Thornton</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">, who, to display his unquestioning devotion eats his Pre-nup (with barbecue sauce) at the wedding reception. A lot of sharp dialogue delivered at a fast pace; imagine a </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000075/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Tracy</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">-</span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000031/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Hepburn</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> movie with a really rancid sense of humor and you've got this movie. Excellent supporting work by </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0011882/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Paul Adelstein</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">, </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0420955/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Richard Jenkins</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">, and </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0240564/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Julia Duffy</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">. Favorite joke: the matrimonial attorney organization that holds its convention in Las Vegas is called N.O.M.A.N. and their slogan is "Let N.O.M.A.N. put asunder."<br />
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When things go wrong... Unfortunately, the same can be said of the film as well.<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One would think, looking back over their history, that<i> </i></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Country_for_Old_Men"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>No Country for Old Men</i></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> could have been written just for them, as so many elements of their past films and the structure of it (not to mention the outlandishness of the deeds and the obliqueness of the dialog) are contained in it. However it happened—by devious planning or the serendipity of coincidence—story and directors appear to be made for each other.<br />
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Full review here:</span> </span><a href="http://letsnottalkaboutmovies.blogspot.com/2008/02/no-country-for-old-men.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No Country for Old Men</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Full review here: <a href="http://letsnottalkaboutmovies.blogspot.com/2008/09/burn-after-reading.html">Burn After Reading</a><br />
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I thought this was the best movie of 2009 for what it said about life and the observation of it (who said "an unexamined life is not worth living?"), but also how it mixed myth, reality and perception (even as we watch the movie unfold in a theater) in a literate, apt way. Some critics just looked at the Coen's faith (or lack of it in practical terms) and judged it "anti-semitic." Schmucks. Here are better observations from some wildly disparate view-points:<br />
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<a href="http://toddalcott.livejournal.com/287862.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://toddalcott.livejournal.com/287862.html</span></a><br />
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2010/03/magical_thinking.php"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2010/03/magical_thinking.php</span></a><br />
<a href="http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/2010/03/01/a_serious_man_26_righteous_men_theory/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/2010/03/01/a_serious_man_26_righteous_men_theory/</span></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Full review here: </span><a href="http://letsnottalkaboutmovies.blogspot.com/2009/10/serious-man.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A Serious Man</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1403865/"><span style="color: white;">True Grit</span></a></b> <span style="color: #cccccc;">(2010) Those familiar with the 1969 version starring John Wayne probably thought "why bother?" The answer to that is—to make it less a "<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1"><span style="color: #cccccc;">John Wayne</span></a>" movie, and more in keeping with Charles Portis' original novel. At the time the first was made, there was a "youth movement" going on and the movie very slightly pandered to that audience. The other is that Wayne is such a powerful screen presence, he blows everybody else right off the screen, good (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0200981/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Kim Darby</span></a>) and bad (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004794/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Glen Campbell</span></a>, who still seemed to hold his own). The Coens went back to the original, cast someone (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2794962/?ref_=tt_cl_t2"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Hailee Stansfield</span></a>) more the age of the novel's Mattie Ross, emphasized her spiritual spine, more than pluck, and included Portis' coda to show that the faith that sustained her through the struggle, also marked her for life to remain that stubborn fourteen year old, always.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc9933;">** "O, Brother, Where Art Thou?" is the title of the film director John Sullivan wants to make in "</span></span></strong></span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034240/" onclick="(new Image()).src='/rg/find-title-1/title_exact/images/b.gif?link=/title/tt0034240/';"><span style="color: #cc9933; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Sullivan's Travels</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">."<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">*** This was particularly on their minds during its construction, referring to the story as a "duelling idiots" movie. Reportedly, after shooting his last scene, Clooney remarked: "OK, I've played my last idiot!" ("I guess that's the last time he works for us," says Joel) When told they'd written his part specifically for him, Pitt mentioned he didn't know whether to be flattered or insulted, and added he wasn't sure how to play the part—"There was a pause and Joel said 'You'll be fine.'"</span></span></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's always been "The Coen Brothers" as a writing-directing team, although Joel is more often the guy calling the camera shots and both Ethan and he write the screenplays, and Ethan produces. The sensibilities that intertwine the two make the creative decisions that make or break these movies, so it's a little hard to be able to discern exactly who does what. The Fact of the matter is, they both do (and Roderick Jaymes, their regular editor is actually a pseudonym for the two).<br />
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The Coens have always had an eye to bringing out the best of their material, be it original work or adaptation, with edgy actors who can produce drama and comedy equally well. They successfully tread from the independent film circuit to mainstream cinema in a very short period of time, and their work is of such an obviously high caliber that audiences connected with them not long after critics did, and not even that blind industry ogre, Oscar, could delay giving them top honors. Their acting company contains A-listers and up-and-coming character actors on their way to the A-list. Their biggest-budgeted film was also their biggest failure. And they have such a peculiar sensibility that confounds and even tweaks expectations that their most devoted fans have Coen movies that they can't explain or fathom...and sometimes simply disregard.<br />
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But each film is a complicated moebius strip of cruel fate and clueless human failings, reflecting and refracting the rich vein of material from both the cinematic and literary past. It may start as inspiration, but it becomes increasingly Coen to the final frame.</span>
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<strong style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QqvfSFxx5rI/R6aMwINSkqI/AAAAAAAABwM/wXIOh6x9ja0/s1600-h/250px-BloodSimplePoster.jpg"><span style="color: white;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162968781291688610" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QqvfSFxx5rI/R6aMwINSkqI/AAAAAAAABwM/wXIOh6x9ja0/s200/250px-BloodSimplePoster.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></span></a><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086979/"><span style="color: white;">Blood Simple</span></a></strong><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;">(1984) </span><a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,959284,00.html" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">I read about "the buzz" surrounding this film in Time Magazine</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;">, and decided to attend the premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival (complete with Coen Bros. Q & A afterwards). A more violent, solitary and sinister take on </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Cain" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">James M. Cain</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;">'s </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Postman_Always_Rings_Twice" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><i>The Postman Always Rings Twice</i></span></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;">, and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Indemnity_(novel)" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><i>Double Indemnity</i></span></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;">, what stuck were the sick sense of humor, the brazen camera moves by </span><a href="http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-director-of-photography.htm" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">DP</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;"> </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001756/" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Barry Sonnenfeld</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;"> (I always remember that one sliding the bar that vaults the drunk lying across it--they probably wouldn't pull that one today) and the set-piece structure. what was also clear was that the Coens were studious, not content to show the highlights, but to delve into the psychology of the situation. Case in point: the sequence when </span><a href="http://www.ifididntcare.com/Images/DSC_0068-1.jpg" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">stud Ray</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;"> (</span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0315288/" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">John Getz</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;">) is getting rid of the body of </span><a href="http://www.moviezeal.com/wp-content/uploads/bloodsimplepic2.jpg" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">his lover Abby</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;">'s </span><a href="http://www.culturevulture.net/Movies/images/bloodsimple2a.jpg" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">husband </span></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;">(</span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000445/" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Dan Hedaya</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;">) — he thinks </span><a href="http://thisdistractedglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/Blood%20Simple%20pic%202.jpg" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">she killed him</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;"> and is trying to protect her—by driving it in the middle-of-the-night down a two-lane highway surrounded seemingly infinitely by farm-land. He hears the husband begin to wake up, and in a moment of panic pulls over and flees the car, running into the field.<br />
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And stops. And stands there, looking at his car with the lights on, sitting on the freeway with a not-quite-dead body in it. And there's a perfect Coen situation: what do you do? What can you do? You have to go back, or else someone's going to find the car--your car, with the body inside--eventually, but you're scared to death to go back. You have to go back. There's no choice. He has top go back. And the Coen's don't cut a frame of the entire terrifying walk back. </span><a href="http://img5.allocine.fr/acmedia/rsz/434/x/x/x/medias/nmedia/18/35/62/25/18820298.jpg" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Hitchcock meets Truffaut</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;">...again. </span><a href="http://thisdistractedglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/Blood%20Simple%20pic%203.jpg" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Only Hitchcock would never be so rural</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;">.<br />
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At the Q&A, the low-key Coen's took the amused audience's questions with matter-of-fact answers, until one blow-hard schlumpfed to his feet. "</span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hf2Yudeh7dg/ReZr5OOKjsI/AAAAAAAAANs/kdzhzs4Bf0E/s400/memmet1.jpg" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Why so much blood?</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana;">" he yelled at the stage. The Coen's blinked, looked at each other. Joel said, "It was dramatically necessary." Ethan, said "People bleed, man." "Bullshit!!" said the questioner. It was a portent to the violent reactions that the Coens would generate no matter what movie they made, what genre they explored. You can't please everybody.</span><br />
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The comic sense of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_Arizona"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><i>Raising Arizona</i></span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> is </span><a href="http://www.carterburwell.com/graphics/Project_Images/raising_arizona_trailer.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">as dry and dead-pan as its desert locations</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">, and its peripatetic zinging around the flat-lands (both in terms of the protagonists and the camera work) has the speed and geometry of </span><a href="http://www.chuckjones.com/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Chuck Jones</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">'s "</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wile_E._Coyote_and_Road_Runner"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Road-Runner</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">" cartoons. </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000115/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Nicolas Cage</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> is H.I. McDunnough, </span><a href="http://www.boisseree.com/images/artists/Picasso/Picasso_B_1063.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Picasso-asymmetrical</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> in his look, he </span><a href="http://blogs.e-rockford.com/movieman/files/2008/08/raisingarizona05.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">even has the hang-dog look</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> of </span><a href="http://webport.cgc.maricopa.edu/published/f/as/fast-forward/references/21477bp~looney-tunes-wile-e-coyote-posters-2007813.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Wile E. Coyote</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">. As his better quarter in "</span><a href="http://redriverpak.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/1555661149_da0260fcdd1.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The Family Unit</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">," Edwina (</span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000456/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Holly Hunter</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">) is </span><a href="http://thumbnails.hulu.com/6/861/6859_generated_tgwZxeKofUCROdU6rOtgdQ_384x288__J4G+NmBjREWtVI0a2l4pUQ.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">all bantam chicken-hawk</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">, chest out and lines belted to the loges...in the theater across town. The ying/yang-zing-zing of the McDunnoughs would be enough for most films, but "Raising Arizona" has peripheral characters of mythical proportions threatening </span><a href="http://burbanked.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/raising_arizona_meals.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">their double-wide existence</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">, including </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000422/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">John Goodman</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> and </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001235/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">William Forsythe</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> as </span><a href="http://www.trojanwire.com/football/images/raising-arizona-goodman.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">former prison acquaintances</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> who </span><a href="http://www.carterburwell.com/graphics/Project_Images/raising_arizona_goodman2.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">literally rise up from the Earth</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">, and </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002012/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Randall 'Tex' Cobb</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> as a </span><a href="http://media.photobucket.com/image/Raising%20Arizona/iamian1987/smalls1eb.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">smouldering biker-"warthog from Hell</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">." Invaluable in the mix is </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0934254/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Trey Wilson</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> as Nathan Arizona, the unfinished furniture King whose family's sudden density inspires </span><a href="https://secure.sky.com/images/skymovies/pics/10091544.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">the childless McDunnoughs</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><a href="http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/raising-arizona-baby-300.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">to baby-napping</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">. The energy the Coen's instilled in <i>Raising Arizona</i> was probably siphoned some of the nitrous oxide of their crony, </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000600/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Sam Raimi</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">, whose "Evil Dead" movies have the same sort of manic intensity. The intensity would remain. The mania would occasionally re-surface.</span><br />
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Barton Fink (</span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001806/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">John Turturro</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">) is clearly based on </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Odets"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Clifford Odets</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">, the leftist-playwright who named names before the House Un-American Activities Committee ("I'll show them the face of a true radical" Odets crowed, only to cave when he appeared). </span><a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/163/372853210_79b10832ac.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Fink, fresh off another theater triumph</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">, </span><a href="http://burbanked.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/barton_fink_meals.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">signs on with Capital Pictures</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> to write a </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000891/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Wallace Beery</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> wrestling movie and </span><a href="http://upload.moldova.org/movie/movies/b/barton_fink/thumbnails/tn2_barton_fink_3.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">retreats to</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><a href="http://www.altfg.com/Stars/b/barton-fink.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">the Hotel Earle</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">, </span><a href="http://digitalphilosophy.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/barton-fink.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">whose eerie deformities</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> and </span><a href="http://www.fortheretarded.com/images/barton13.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">distractions</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> only enforce </span><a href="http://thewarrenreport.com/wp-content/uploads/barton-fink.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">his writer's block on the subject</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">. Part of it is </span><a href="http://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/film/gallery/2008/jan/11/1/coenhair5-1041.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">lack of inspiration</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">. Part of it is that </span><a href="http://sleevage.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/barton-fink.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">East Coast intellectual Fink knows little of hard-knock reality</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">, except what he can romantically invent. </span><a href="http://cinematicworld.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/barton_fink.gif"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Visits by working stiff travelling salesman Charlie Meadows</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> (</span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000422/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">John Goodman</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">) (whom </span><a href="http://a.abcnews.com/images/Entertainment/SIPA_BartonFink_071109_ssh.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Fink dismisses to his detriment</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">) and alcoholic writer W.P. Mayhew (</span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001498/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">John Mahoney</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">) only complicates matters. </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton_Fink"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><i>Barton Fink</i></span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> is such an angry, vindictive film that it's more off-putting than entertaining, but the visual and sonic inventiveness of the Coens is on full display to make the audience...and </span><a href="http://docfilms.uchicago.edu/docfilms/06_media/2009-01_images/05Week/Barton_Fink.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Fink</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> squirm in their chairs (This is the first Coen film photographed by their essential collaborator <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005683/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Roger Deakins</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">).</span> But despite their obvious animosity towards Fink, they allow him to emerge </span><a href="http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReview/bartonfink/2.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">from their creative Hell</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">, </span><a href="http://www.massimilianogriner.it/barton_fink.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">more or less unscathed...but still a bit myopic</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042786/"><span style="color: white;">The Next Voice You Hear...</span></a> </b><span style="color: #cccccc;">(<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0920074/?ref_=tt_ov_dr"><span style="color: #cccccc;">William A. Wellman</span></a>, 1950) Leo, the M-G-M lion doesn't roar in <i>The Next Voice You Hear...</i> probably so as not to offend any Christians with Roman Coliseum associations that might produce a "thumbs down." But, that's not the oddest thing in a picture steeple full with them. The wildest thing is to see William "Wild Bill" Wellman's name as director—maybe he's atoning for all those gangster pictures he did in the '30's—associated with its theme. On a Tuesday, at 8:30 in the evening when Mary Smith ("American," as she's identified in the credits, and as well she should be as she's played by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004864/?ref_=tt_ov_st"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Nancy Davis</span></a>, soon to be Nancy Reagan) is helping son Johnny (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0336633/?ref_=tt_ov_st"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Gary Gray</span></a>) with his long division, and Dad Joe ("American," played by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0926235/?ref_=tt_ov_st"><span style="color: #cccccc;">James Whitmore</span></a>) having finished doing the dishes for his pregnant wife after a typical pot-roast dinner, and settled down with a beer and his paper, that something peculiar happens on the radio.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not that we get to hear it. God speaks on the radio. "This is the voice of God. I'll be with you for the next five days." Joe, a bit stumped, walks in to tell his family, and the first thing out of mother Mary's mouth is "Was it one of those Orson Welles things?"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Funny. Joe thinks a local kid is pulling a stunt with a ham-radio kit, but a phone call reveals that another neighbor heard the same voice interrupting another program on another station. "Did it sound like Lionel Barrymore?" asks Mary, out of the blue. After the first night, Joe's pals at the Ajax Aeronautics factory have their own speculations "It's mass-psycho-orology. Only fat-heads are gonna fall for a gag like that!"</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But, the next night, God shows up again. The stations try to record it, but nothing shows up on the electrical transcriptions. More people are hearing it, and it's determined that it's a global phenomenon. And people are starting to seriously freak out. Before the week is over, Joe "American" is going to go on a major bender, when all he wanted to do is buy a pack of smokes, and the resulting loss of stability splinters his family.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not that he was any too stable to begin with. What keeps <i>The Next Voice You Hear</i> from sinking into a sermon swamp is the casting of Whitmore and, yes, even Davis as the American couple. Whitmore is no leading man material, but is a facile actor who pulls off charming even when he's a bit of a louse. Here, he's impatient to a fault, perpetually late for work, flinty with co-workers, disparaging of supervisors, and even he and the wife do a little sniping back and forth at each other. There's one sequence where son Johnny, so used to Dad's frustrating ritual of resuscitating a faltering car engine, <a href="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w300/xQTy89hkIrHwNG2qUKSwvs9Cab8.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">mimes it for Mom</span></a> split-seconds before the sound effects of the effort come clanking through the door. It's not dysfunctional to any degree, but it is refreshingly a couple notches below "<a href="http://fatherknowsbest.com/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Father Knows Best</span></a>."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Credit screenwriter <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0773660/?ref_=tt_ov_wr"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Charles Schnee</span></a> and Wellman for daring to throw a little real conflict (and a healthy dose of irony) into the thing to keep audiences out of a diabetic coma, and to make it as palatably earnest as one of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.normancorwin.com/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Norman Corwin</span></a>'s inspirational radio-plays. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And should one get all-blustery and harumph about the overt religious message, one should bear in mind that the next year <i><a href="http://letsnottalkaboutmovies.blogspot.com/2008/12/daze-after-day-earth-stood-still.html"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The Day the Earth Stood Still</span></a></i> would cloak the homilies in the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">shiny jump-suits of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">science-fiction.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logos">Logos</a>: <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/logos">1. (often initial capital letter) Philosophy. the rational principle that governs and develops the universe. 2. Theology. the divine word or reason incarnate in Jesus Christ.</a> John 1:1–14.<span style="font-size: 85%;"><strong><br /></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><strong>n.<br /><em>Philosophy.</em><br /><br />1. In pre-Socratic philosophy, the principle governing the cosmos, the source of this principle, or human reasoning about the cosmos.<br /><br />2. Among the Sophists, the topics of rational argument or the arguments themselves.<br /><br />3. In Stoicism, the active, material, rational principle of the cosmos; nous.<br />Identified with God, it is the source of all activity and generation and is the power of reason residing in the human soul.<br /><br /><em>Judaism.</em><br />1. In biblical Judaism, the word of God, which itself has creative power and is God's medium of communication with the human race.<br />2. In Hellenistic Judaism, a hypostasis associated with divine wisdom.<br /><br /><em>Christianity.</em> In Saint John's Gospel, especially in the prologue (1:1-14), the creative word of God, which is itself God and incarnate in Jesus. Also called Word.</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">It is one of the great ironies, in these times of rancor between the spheres of the sacrosanct and the secular, that the two philosophies are united by a single word, logos. That one word is claimed for the core truths of the two Universes, the one created by God and the other where it is a happy accident of the forces of gravity and mass.<strong><span style="color: #6600cc;">*</span></strong> Both sides hold their truths to be self-evident, because the evidence is bound by belief, bound by Faith. Scientists say that black-holes exist because the math works out in the equations. Religious leaders point to their written texts, like the eye-witness testimonies of the Apostles in the Bible to the Divinity of Christ. The truth is that there is no Truth, so much as there is Belief. There is Faith. In black-holes and in God. But the other side requires proof, even if those proofs are then disputed. It comes down to Faith in the absence of hard evidence. In the equations and in The Word. They can't both be true.<br /><br />Can they?<br /><br />Even if you can't have one without the other.<br /><br />If not, what are the Heavens for?</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><strong><span style="font-size: 85%;">"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">In the cult of personality of Science, the name of </span><a href="http://www.carlsagan.com/" style="font-family: verdana;">Carl Sagan</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> looms large. It was </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan" style="font-family: verdana;">Sagan</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">'s gift as a scientist, that he could explain science in simple terms, so that they are "understandable to a bar-maid"--he could make the cosmos relatable, in terms of fact, without losing any of its intrinsic wonder.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">Sagan's novel "</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(novel)" style="font-family: verdana;">Contact</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">" was its own </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole" style="font-family: verdana;">Einstein-Rosen Bridge</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> between Knowledge and Faith, science and religion. It is a zero-g flip that puts a person of science in the same position as a religious heretic—having to defend their Faith in something that has no evidence against the slings and arrows of the earthly Powers That Be who doubt her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">For Ellie Arroway, the scientist-protagonist of </span><strong style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(film)"><span style="color: white;"><i>Contact</i></span></a></strong><span style="font-family: verdana;">, nothing is to be taken on Faith. It must be based on sound scientific principles as evidenced, tested and re-tested to similar conclusions, and then and only then is it an inviolable Fact or a Law. For her, religion is superstition, not provable. And yet she works for SETI in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, itself a cosmic leap of faith. She holds that the universe is too vast to not hold life like us. And if there is life, there must be evidence or residue or something that can reach us, tiny little speck that we are, in all that expansiveness (as if we were the center of the Universe—sound familiar?). But where's the proof? What evidence is there, except for the vastness of space, and the theory that if Life can make it here, it can make it a-ny-where.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: inherit;">"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."</span></span></strong><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here's where it gets interesting, folks: Ellie is put in the position of being the one human being sent on an ET-designed spaceship to take her to meet its Makers, a journey that opens her eyes to the wonders of the Universe, that she embraces as a certainty, as she sees it, feels it, tests it. It is reality to her—but only to her. She returns to Earth, without a shred of evidence that she was ever gone for more than a split-second. No odometer reading, no frequent-flier miles,</span><strong style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cc9933;">**</span></strong><span style="font-family: verdana;"> no bumper-sticker that says "I've Been to the Blue-White Star Vega and All I Got was Grief"—"What happens in Vega, stays in Vega," there's only a mocking static on her recording gear. To the rest of the world, it never happened, and it can't be duplicated. She is the sole witness in a world of skeptics. And all she can do is testify her gospel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">This scene is from the hearing, in which Ellie is made to defend herself and her vision from a gallery of skeptics and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubting_Thomas" style="font-family: verdana;">doubting Thomases</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">. All she has is her story that sounds incredible, and flies in the face of a concocted (and complicated) conspiracy theory. And her own scientific principles are used against her in prosecution, including "</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam" style="font-family: verdana;">Occam's Razor</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">," which favors simplicity over the complicated—an argument used between Arroway and her former lover, Porter Joss, in their philosophical pillow-talk.</span><strong style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #33cc00;">***</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">Foster is great in the role, and necessarily isolated—except for the dramatic philosophic difference, they didn't even need the Joss character. Her performance, especially in this scene, brings to mind another emotive performance that is a </span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QqvfSFxx5rI/S7bzuHh1QTI/AAAAAAAAVZA/Rn9ySvT8QVQ/s1600/passion-de-jeanne-darc-falconetti-721278.jpg" style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455815972226416946" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QqvfSFxx5rI/S7bzuHh1QTI/AAAAAAAAVZA/Rn9ySvT8QVQ/s320/passion-de-jeanne-darc-falconetti-721278.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; height: 239px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;">classic, </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0266029/" style="font-family: verdana;">Marie Falconetti</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">'s work in </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003433/" onclick="(new Image()).src='/rg/directorlist/position-1/images/b.gif?link=name/nm0003433/';" style="font-family: verdana;">Carl Theodor Dreyer</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">'s silent film </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019254/" name="actress1920" onclick="(new Image()).src='/rg/filmo/title-title/images/b.gif'" style="font-family: verdana;"><i>La passion de Jeanne d'Arc</i></a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> (1928). Shot mostly in close-ups of her face, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Jeanne_Falconetti" style="font-family: verdana;">Falconetti</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">'s wide-range of emotions from religious ecstasy to deep sorrow is considered to be one of the great film performances of all time. Foster's performance is a bit less intense, but nonetheless seems to come from an internalized place that bubbles up in the face of frustration and emotional fervor. The words sound like they could be spoken in Sagan's own voice (which Foster mentions on her commentary track for the film), and the sorrow that Foster projects in the final moments of the scene is palpable, her passion buried within, when she realizes her words are falling on deaf ears, and her own Faith is tested.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">In this way, </span><i style="font-family: verdana;">Contact</i><span style="font-family: verdana;"> is a cosmological </span><i style="font-family: verdana;">The </i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036377/" style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Song of Bernadette</i></a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> backed by the music of the spheres. It is "Joan of Arc" where the stakes are not so life-threatening. It is where spiritual ecstasy (supplanting "the subjective perception of time, space and/or self") informs the objective observer, and where the cold facade of Science is grounded by the three cornerstones of religion—Faith, Hope and Love.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: inherit;">"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."</span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>The Set-Up:</strong> The Universe seems to be collapsing around Dr. Eleanor Arroway (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000149/" onclick="(new Image()).src='/rg/castlist/position-3/images/b.gif?link=/name/nm0000149/';">Jodie Foster</a>). A leader in the <a href="http://www.seti.org/Page.aspx?pid=1366">SETI</a> program, it was Ellie who first heard the throb from space—a consistent signal originating from the area of the distant sun Vega. The United States government and Arroway's patron S.R. Haddon (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000457/" onclick="(new Image()).src='/rg/castlist/position-41/images/b.gif?link=/name/nm0000457/';">John Hurt</a>) manage to decipher the signal as a cryptograph that is translated as the plans for an elaborate transport. But to what end?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An agnostic, Arroway is denied the mission to ride the transport for political and PR reasons, but Fate puts her in the passenger seat when the first attempt to launch the sphere from space. For her, it is a soul-bending trip through time and space. On Earth it appears that she just dropped through the machine, going nowhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The conflicting eyewitness reports demand the pomp and puffery of a government investigation, led by an ambitious political operative named Kitz (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000249/" onclick="(new Image()).src='/rg/castlist/position-18/images/b.gif?link=/name/nm0000249/';">James Woods</a>) and televised to a divided nation. In the gallery are the President's science advisor (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000291/" onclick="(new Image()).src='/rg/castlist/position-20/images/b.gif?link=/name/nm0000291/';">Angela Bassett</a>) and Arroway's former lover, the Reverend Porter Joss (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000190/" onclick="(new Image()).src='/rg/castlist/position-9/images/b.gif?link=/name/nm0000190/';">Matthew McConaughey</a>), as dedicated to his theology as Ellie is to her science.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: courier new;">INT. U.S. SENATE<br /><br />Every corner of the cavernous Senate Chamber is jammed with media, politicians, onlookers. The world stage. The big show.<br /><br />The International Committee is composed of eight men and two women, including Kitz. Occupying the center seat is the COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, An Asian American Senator in his sixties.<br /><br />Sitting all by herself at a long table opposite them, Ellie looks very small and alone.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450773081049573154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivGMspAAOra7WS_be4t5dSunfktyyQZt5GeXl7sA1GOuChkL6gfMM7ZuHL1BxsoP8g-Kt1Yfe9irJyUGRTcpb81bTxk5aT-CWVOB4xO8FWBbjIsb6By21igt32osgBJ_PLxjjMQyk0B_k/s320/01_andyet_Earthtimeyessir.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 136px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />SENATOR</strong> ...And yet every scientific instrument confirms the IPV was out of contact for...only a fraction of a second, is<br />that correct, Doctor?<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450773067886498866" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7iUnDdNQz_44jCll5HNUHZO8cUQyJYtrrzbF4_fgrAD_-rCIRgCB58riEVgPlw3c0WgXorM3G96uIdjCY_9-e1m0LK-9whoZr9mFRY35CkvqIEqS7Hhb8ObPt2PuAOX7fM05MEEu4_Es/s320/02+Earthtime,+yes.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 136px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />ELLIE</strong> A fraction of a second Earth-time, yes.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450773062231607458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvJR-pS3E4EbUpLXUHtojF0FrnSNzhY3TUgbkDxQxB1adCLKXzvJTGM9_VItllpi6_4MhqTydCgAwnuTJg0P3mkf10XkzpFRKChbqS2TPbugfp0X9z9M28WpNClkU1qsq7PUTuOvOClQY/s320/03+earthtime.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 137px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />SENATOR</strong> (pausing) <u>Earth</u>-time.<br /><strong>ELLIE</strong> (a deep breath) Senator... I believe the machine opened up a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole">wormhole</a>.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450773059057491058" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2OZ93VMIM-sjY-9Don0L6BbG0JUhh1TNdCPpTjCIV3qQfUf9ot8v0kNGpJklSRFM9XdwRbzjY5shZHwP_jiL6ZTt0D_4reUZKR6_W4Wy9N2_FxIrpTQJwOQRfFUjEKCgXpnDCYdQcsSY/s320/04_a+tunnel_bridge.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 137px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />ELLIE</strong> A tunnel through the fabric of space/time, also known as an <a href="http://www.earth62.net/whatis/enstienbridge.htm">Einstein-Rosen bridge</a>.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450772198578593122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnhPIytoWcj8K4DoxH_d77B6Tw9igzOiCLkK0SbeeTMlPtHcD-b2xrb19LtYRltdRJQLBIRzCfrQ9ZTs4pYEmFZlyPldWwdt3lhNQL8Ds8QC21hEyreIjBF3wglOKtCiZK_91U7_L8nqI/s320/05_passed+instantaneouslyonEarth.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 138px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />ELLIE</strong> Now, because of the effects of relativity what I experienced as a period of approximately eighteen hours passed almost instantaneously on Earth.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450772187122817138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMUl8Ri3r4zCr70m1GqO9sUnfrpC_rFiNpbGlZY_7eQncfR6UpPnvVwFfXmnHafaubzkwpEYhUYlso3ggXAn7iBz8Cf3_b8jGMM3mw30kBKtBLnHM9ztmDKSy2hugxL68RxZWhOnMOr5g/s320/06_Dr_thatthese.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 138px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> Doctor, isn't it true that these...<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450772172478455586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlSP7Ni0Imv_c2M90sgkyf0hIsJ3ykYfZrG97SXEzIcjcazAgL67R6JaM8eOvy58W16XFGorV-SCr4asBVXVG3__VFrvHA0QlBvel_tAF5yVek1DYl9LrpjlF93CbXukyjkPjZZXRSHcA/s320/07_wormholes_isthere.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 137px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> ...wormholes you speak of are merely theoretical predictions? There's no evidence they actually exist, is there?<br /><br />Ellie hesitates. Looks up at Joss in the gallery. Then:<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450772162965194482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWTuPpcRcac9Ppie3dlivgDzH553Kf_RfXjbN7UqdmS21yxHBr8Q-Y1kB7Mv440cJVaAiLYppLrgckPzX9-dOmx-oskPzQVnU3H0Bz-9gDnYSE0JhXOVlicx5v-EcU9mCWhYQCbNBrC-I/s320/08_thereisno_something+dr.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 137px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />ELLIE</strong> There is no direct evidence, no.<br /><strong>KITZ</strong> Now tell me something, doctor....<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450772161899530594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTBO0Wq7v5UkjgbpLX9paE0C5oKmufosZr2gHxZhUVMWjvIvXIUyD54FbcEKfRlx4z-wSuUWceXHcJHPPM3pA28423XQ4TsQGynii16uwQTWn6gKu0U_hTqiIsmQffuiBYzIkx9Kv8DCg/s320/09_whydouthinkethesealiens.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 136px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> Why do you think these aliens...<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450771105437361874" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdnUfU3ANnwiA01ZpXpDZ0_rD3houFlT7Gps7xgdanwkXQ0ciQ7shi797EF97M6cZlyNrr1Vm2ho1s3BWATyLFif5UZlmQzuZIiRm98TsaJ_oVnvEdRzJnFYO0uWu2TBweh4U4Mic2fTE/s320/10_wouldgo2allthistrouble.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> ...would go to all this trouble....<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450771088963199842" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2F1vLSDb6D13Dt6_MTdCwm3vBAcwL2_dhJiX-kiGDpXQfIHOySf00SpLRD6QPJK4NA7M2aA_xfUiD3p6UOcz35kzwVnedNa0AO8icn_ejVPBnOlnQZDKIt9xSFgoY5TAOy5b1GIBlsIs/s320/11_bringyou10of1000oflightyears.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> ...bring you tens of thousands of light-years...<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450771085533631394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisiwr1p-fYYQTAR22y3gvSILTm_El_46YcgKMXTthQxtslQjbn1d52s8sNC0vE7ivUJ0yHB_TKi1B9Hq-LRo_-CArE62jSKylqJsQf7kBSGUuIgqBtaxqbVwRJPXGj3GMwkKArxgAAG1Q/s320/12_senduhomeofproof.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><strong>KITZ</strong> ...and then just send you home without a single shred of proof?<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450771076398355922" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQK5lX370SZwTdeFCudwxklLn3-_GZvqYbRY5EobuOgVyxvNnEXDHmljoJoZrcJNBmd4-TigzqQESODvIImOKltf_Zq4eULe-cQ2-HwmtMKiojIrYvzefzkntYfLtwn7fWs32kIF3Phy8/s320/13_theysaid_4millionsofyears.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />ELLIE</strong> (hesitates) They said that's the way it's been done for millions of years...<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450771067871058962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyff19gSQj3RJXxYRW9ubpvaS4yxlVqRlqXK5KfbFjD0lDQoddlxRIXMLINBW6BPDBSu7dUAItaN6HyEBLPXvd3EHOK6iFwOpsGa2Ixvp32RyiVMzIPFv5a2rva-951GVB9oUThyvHBso/s320/14_thatsveryneat_delusion.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> That's very neat, doctor. You have no proof because they didn't want you to have any. A phenomenon known in psychiatric circles, I believe, as a self-reinforcing delusion.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450770280506116338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwoH9Xe-ipNKnL8a9TDsqhjr0oniWxLwUca2fKjijJRcSJ1-eM9zHSEc01vTS5R2ZFKfQz_j_zje7OWEuGp1zWpvaTpHELCxfD7TikQ5ti5ChTH5BSwfeHn_JBDrnjO6w08pewpW_fShc/s320/15_isthatwhatuthink_episodeyeah.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />ELLIE</strong> (hesitates) Is that what you think? That I was delusional?<br /><strong>KITZ</strong> Well, I do think you've suffered some kind of episode, yeah. I do.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450770271136782802" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoNsn9vy2qrsGy85vxyBuXq4HvLyzIPrczRZR2eH2oSRQTxCC0H1V46lL2hKgzpMe4TvJhoZHB8pHS_wcdAtNb1KOmTUWUL1BLGxwVht8oSLsuQjIURqC1cHlukxquVpCeYDpERhyphenhyphenEB8o/s320/16_Doctor_2+bearonit.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> Doctor, I'd like to propose an alternate hypothesis, if I may, and I'd like you to bring your considerable scientific expertise to bear on it.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450770263041654322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMI2wIsIsoZaOi0cH1SgyfBJsFEhV6mSbDezwCKWZIAeofcXSDewS7UcVYuA94KKt4P-wWQd6VvKmVogeT94OiJ3rAUwukp1YpHUMBDCHYeW6hmVOCVWiV-anBOqfjwlWE7x_hQNPHRo4/s320/17_2fake+a+signalfromVega.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> To fake...a signal from Vega....<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450770256706801426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjutb2k9cHWKvx9zxIwAVLjPVq8GJju9EdeMEaxx5u_O6S2dgsohhW9RvCy0H_4N8ceByc4AbOtB9Hut6nw4M5XF_CzP8WzQjhfCBxxy010633DCniNKWSDm8D-bQve09MhXfCQ_3IMpMs/s320/18_wellyoudneeda_asattellite.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> ...whatya you need?<br /><strong>ELLIE</strong> Uh...You'd need a, a satellite to transmit the signal, but it'd be impossible to simulate something that...<br /><strong>KITZ</strong> You'd need a satellite...<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450770246921109634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLGB6nC5MRdPqFuS-UhQpErEgR9KgcQeiSgoIT5SWDr1SyRq_2KgLNzl7BPc8DRDVbJagS1JgqNr3J16M2NbXIxJIMiEE5GmspEKkCU5_I8zQErLisxUqQbh2TyYmaBBczHDqvqaxED4o/s320/19_and+a+launch_messageitself.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> And you'd need launch capabilities to put it in orbit, and, of course, the message itself...<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450768834712000162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCijim5pmj9708FNS5Bc0WYYhyBGnrxgRd8Rlrd9rs5bvpu-dTD2J4YOaLtpFZ1G2ricHbPQhKKMOH8gH0nTQTsOFjviii3jS8jq3_zOzyX9IWuOOGXIwaYkmDaKpSboKzd3Hgp_oF2m4/s320/20_to+put+thisdisciplines.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> To put something like this together, so...complex, drawing on so many disciplines...<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450768821813209922" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSxhIIujExy5drj4adpf4TusEGZFLLNmH9Xz6XD8t7VAUCs0mmNV9gFQte-rwveHpmH7P9WXR8TPaEI_EB9_APMJyiHjo87JaZBX5zvjYy_3zf-IFzeU9x5PaKs5X8CHfqLt1OGiEizTo/s320/21_wouldbimpossibleimpossible.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />ELLIE</strong> ...Would be impossible!<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450768818526523026" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXgiJyhExvTF1loXB98_xC5hMjnD2OKBxlBRgAMto79AjfjNzP7AQ_P-d3VrVLSWWFz7RCVX2NvMIGqjJbbK1bRL4j-rcv4kr6Qrsq83KJqW_nrKuZCQfROAcnKWC2WGng5j32sQ_wneY/s320/22_impossible.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> Impossible.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450768809677452146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3DSiiuwNkBQzuj601-CJIVvqT5yMd-5QYkr3balG_8ChJJkHcs-Ht5h7gBOn7t-SLjjVxJdk85DQYtnv6HyjJNfKAiexFfbc5rkmzlQeszZR2jDPEcKEW3BDO2NBCAFEHaANpYBEqGgE/s320/23_isthereanyonewhomightvebeenup2thechallenge.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> Impossible. (pause) Is there...anyone who might've been up to the challenge?<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450768807227280882" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQIMJweuib-VaLzSM9qO5zRpltBfxjKNOGECVmf9dewnoK822JsNR00hfGx9La4omG9gmUvmhplCYGuRYZgDwESV_AK_WxSGaH84Kk-A9R-XlBva-r8SOMRHXX9cZ5YDm8w9oKn54jovo/s320/24_someone+with_someone.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> Someone with enormous expertise. Someone with enormous resources. Someone...<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450767903233159874" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2cQ0U1ZW_c1AvhecgZ5flB6hGnI5ftEUl2KvgEeGa-JJo-koBOHGylsdVylOtDtjlvFuX-eEjV4z2cCQC6ku5r09MlgS-xaL8_AAj_I39oyaqqlKmFiMJOgc5i-UdM6ESTwogexgeckM/s320/25_eccentricenough_firstplace.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> ...perverse enough, eccentric enough to have come up with the idea in the first place?<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450767897929242274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivToAcNhoLt6W6r-RhB03n7F6fGbi7TESbRiUNirKFYvqVsTWT6fDYwPPZMoKs2_aHcuPe_ebHQnspH-yln4vjMukvAOwuMsk8E6GK66ET4xwjoDTbPoHEbqAr_t4CKsT7jwd6GkjXt84/s320/26_Haddon.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />ELLIE</strong> Haddon?<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450767885030203410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8qpCMEpWZLbdVSYQwSCt3FpfDGKePUOLbWX3JRX-YN8nWmxE19tjHMZuWRfP3nojG6vtns0KlBR3Dr47xNPyAeyO_0b5chLjhI3UQhEzePNppOrOpbuCFMei56QuQ2AJPNLjcOHmBELs/s320/27_S.R.Haddon.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><strong>KITZ</strong> S.R. Haddon.<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450767875820398610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe316neVisyEG_PERqLwJF9D4s7EUAEbWJI75uSW1QqGN7lnuWKoe4iU-MtGXXBIKwQzhEAPsOJ-dLPmq39c-Vsei4nKCTF2iL2x0e_ae1KqufUDRw53kTHXlse2mzrxj4yEgal7LgZVo/s320/28_murmurs.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />The crowd murmurs. Committee members exchange glances.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450767871000437202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiccpzgEYSTvvFtUDdukXGV7wN0cDL-zZSZBy42Ljd5ezh_fQldVx188dH9l8HxVleKHPNMSEThqM2PjiIJ4iVqg68WaKRQD0fLNQKJNQaO8AkRb7XTFnE-B7YT7OOHp83jj-OSFkrj4bA/s320/29_murmurs.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450668684833966466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOjmvLr6H_QGUv0T3WQkzBAcglGYbQuIct-K4eckCvpzSIwzCV_zFjEo8RRmqNVruSnTCLLHp24XAuGuxfAPXW-7GdMCgtasGHL5EYEO6UbjuqGMHzteDK3zhAi-cvzRdq2aLDTRudGRc/s320/30_yourimplying_SRHaddon.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />ELLIE</strong> You're implying...that this was all some kind of a hoax? That he engineered this..<br /><strong>KITZ</strong> S.R. Haddon.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450668681405825218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSBIE_xASuK90kr7PT9pur8zTk0q0dcUnBsd_4QDiMlY-pt7WbdV_G12F7bnXSW1Ju9G7IEyCbBXQiSRIF4iP1I6MyuLBwktC4-7__RBbRJx4CN86GuAqxFSYfsk1GoIpnmX6MRHaMjII/s320/31_abrilliant_immortality.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> A legendary power broker and manipulator in, perhaps, his final bid for immortality.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450668671835499682" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiWDJ4ZzMqceYsPIJrNOOdnBQipbODaz-he1dhA-PgYwYWGqeR-VR66sCVHPmEzUq6QZm8kGUkOtFG1CZrWmNMuacDCTRbn4hv5KPLebOdxHRndtPXk4CDCxPB9c-F9jmH_8cBLLHMMXg/s320/32_maybehewanted2_pickupthetab.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> Maybe he wanted to explore and exploit experimental technologies and get the governments of the world to pick up the tab.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450668668314235154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisX1RcqT3OSM4BZM8uF0JyNXEY2_Rt1maWQQM2M243tK6MdeFWMvd0DQUQfiaKl30b1AEmn6Ut90IwaZl0VQikjP03jdna759OnU7A8NcNZUbi8hHnGO4AxahHntxiUHKam41SPOCJ3o8/s320/33_maybeitwasanattempt_alloftheabove.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> Perhaps this was his final altruistic gesture to unite the world in some common goal. Maybe all of the above.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450667261984140530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_nCaTFUNzzeoiwB1KSIew61hHHUJRS6IEasXog97nP558rvDkBOS7HME8Spvbitdh4O1lZE6SZ380hgbjr5fTx9iYHRclWrOkrTnryJR5OLqzm4ArgmW9gS2D0fEFjUbRhPp7GW3f2wk/s320/34_SRHaddon_complicatedman.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> S.R. Haddon. A brilliant, complicated man.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450667254921890578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKb42qeOGji693wEQ_glfPXWhdxDgtqdSRwq30caPj4qCpKCbe62TaYJ6KWLakIHitwH1K-XugyIHU-8Aqt-lEQkImlmfGa8p5fi7zYZk23oMEen-Hix5NzSWMnBJ6RB1SNEUCCIfVeeg/s320/35_zzzzzzip.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450667250003538818" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjXDJdNlpvaLOJ0rv2tzV6g2lo7oBLyFqeN2WrDpnzmPH0b97JGDyJrx_3hS9oxFGnmdjjnGxV7Qu1AFLeTyGsOi_0zgonnjQ2Td4263V-cHAffWq3uETw01keyZ3McrbjssmUUPXeglw/s320/36_Dr_OccamsRazor.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> Doctor. Are you familiar with the scientific precept...known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor">Occam's Razor</a>?<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450667249250466018" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5lVxVGfp5-7L7khoEd1-8aMUJxKK2GKgfzSJpvp_1bePd3VxNEvzAs1_D5ONWgXYbbY8dH07hHFHD5S7fCTYUeko-1gT7tDnSoZ4ShzMuOmve4HZgh7CEMOGYvQf3O_9joSkqVsr5Egk/s320/37.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450667238543131042" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBNrU2Rp2l3G79GC_sFqfOoMAwCbXejgoPprvc0XClXIQUMj_QFSVFAXZvdv50QCzrPimOd33acCtfLKOFGGn3xOITkVA18-8ndMcz6PDH-Bb6tyRJ5Way2D-NYG3mv1gMehQjQSucZLI/s320/38.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450665981609135330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFb714Y28zV8HXkeP3f-gsVWcw-pqgIEitFZOpG12UDPQtVL0jholh4FHIEoYuzRjj-LKsbxgvZY9fEfUrlVxDOxlV2qgutG_kjhHDcO5b2lvVUCyxTMfXlogTZD9ICeeMi7AgnCZsb70/s320/39.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450665977295670818" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-xDafsKJcSjdGl9frSc6Ph1BiG4YTX9Y0TrfsNDni9Mg9GNQz762n335fzEgn-ZhEwvygIA_IrAEIeK92TQSDVq8jtrTD1NQ7e4SgEn2oq_IM_x7KptTXyOhlvuEr5GgxrvPlzfPO8hg/s320/40.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450665973237640178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj06WngxD14kNfKWyF69MZjiOfS7RqVmqLUbOC49hPXgh9duSsWN5rb01neIoLCpllPt2x7v-ZQGSHuDibJv7MFw26u6X9ZdfnjbLi4CeMhCufk6HlZHKf-HncW87SThPZZ7HYsRufFm4Y/s320/41.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450665963428390930" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3WGM7rYSHyGw0Kyp70gHPXTusdwFfsOalsBHHqfmRvo02N_u5v-2PWIWTF6tDPdN5oQtzdSzTQQZYFXd9I5k76tWnDhY7RJmfMIzWK9NjiicnKb9RtifTffs83YhcvGBylYKNAzg4ifo/s320/42_yes.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450665954604602882" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhP62iwC3CT8ERjsUVBMu3-wxC2Dn3kVljSYXybrrRXuv3T39pSOhp6nz7z1Ha45w_w4ZG6cSPATdNagzlBAmxsPM1_DGyap0sHc-S4kPnkYG3IWF_viFOQBa6EWk4LMK2minmJFzyIIY/s320/43.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><strong>ELLIE</strong> Yes.<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450664472292537490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbT_JwoqG06RAwF-TifITsDgoabNvz126nGAjdjdBhBrQTRJjA1DmhAFRNfQMCcNIL70EI2OK6UROMp3tagJ1TIpfFaksE-xOQnomfk_IflKcU01CA0mniznqu6oA2-acdqUyuVYOMt4U/s320/44_Itsays_exactly_now.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><strong>ELLIE</strong> It means that, all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.<br /><strong>KITZ</strong> Exactly. Now...<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450664463054525586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_ULxumtm-jBdrOWDDqOMVw_psAXgHDByJoTbsOrspw1KqeJKlqq-Bb7jZOqU-Bq9qEvpasMOfbb5tkSTuif5pKPp6bki35RPklFl2pZ6D23WvNpNNGni5_2yG6DG03BzMHsbtl4zxy7I/s320/44_whatismorelikeleyhere.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><strong>KITZ</strong> You tell me, what is more likely here...<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450664457734706642" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1bp2qvhZA-ynbUouyZQq1CiCcFHry7uk4DyJXbDqKi8FLyTrFO0aU7xlo53JKc9ARh38RaddjI4dw4CjoBlacjOXlqvQMsTw_bQZrxy5758ViRF_fxtJLsIal2qdt-jVX_1XBWaQeja8/s320/45_thatamessage+from.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> That a message from...<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450664454224981170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtlTaayrv4oMMjzjAHf67eQ1bTqEzHshSNhcdwq8N7PVJk7cHoZKN4v-4A4e17nkzfnF2OxGkQ5V5sPp5GBvV_iDsQlmTtH99lvAMl3c1UVCCk3fPKsRI7PUs-JBbanwgCdxG72la84qM/s320/46_aliensresults_machine.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> ...aliens results in a magical machine...<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450663144410302242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiJkge-6klBw8NEPljSCbFyUHET_PGvW5HUOSZJJ_nrNUeiLIP9HTmYuh2eAxzy0sOU4zpic07oX1yCRaZ-BKPPc0Hifdr551N_dXMt0DXw1EDRx2USY-ZhkRiSzqYyhLH80eNi21zcwQ/s320/47_thatwhisksy_oldDad.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><strong>KITZ</strong> ...that whisks you away to the center of the galaxy to go ...wind-surfing with dear old Dad...<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450663135217317234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLZOwBSsC4rSWAfqeGCnFP_HFj2OSIMFhfTXxv7lj4Jm3P9pzmwJeIZkmRe8-nKDL1NCryBVm6Gg5E9CRhem-NAGKpzmXc8smrvPvcQugiUZbaox_y7RKrsaAYWtRq9YhxRlWPDU1qFoY/s320/48_thenaspli_singleshredofproof.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><strong>KITZ</strong> ...and then a split-second later returns you home without...a single..shred of proof.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450663133520641890" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp8A0_1sRC9rIuGJ5WKnpyPruFNIH0Jykc1w7eCfUFBb_ccq6kK4u4RtEi3x1rg8LLDSvBBL49Mz3NMETrtnI4XourPYSvPpD0KowEZ-0zwsjsZXS48Ldqr6dbgYYFMz0oK_aeO-N8fGk/s320/49_orthatyour_ofbeing.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> Or...that your experience is the result of being...<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450663128622906722" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWQFbvj2eo8q-npEpkK5bHoCEDYXVJxHFIf4FhRAUPRCuNRm5jJags-PeBda7REa5ZAs7PZOY188gfw5HjBd0HCAwxMekPAFIeK86NykcL9A5r7bkxBGR-Z28fD3TO_4SB5awIhUoKdNc/s320/50_the+unwitting+participant.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> ...the unwitting participant...<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450661656440204578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4PX1pqztKRAnplkvxooPQWXW7dEPWXlLT2x6jeuvSG7omesnC-vXDONi6BG7chrFm1FlukdBQkR2yQgulvxMeDZOG5QNOI-LLG1ToJ0l4nXo3AEvbq4DfK7aMFn8oOgoTwIAavMCINcA/s320/51_inthefarewellperformanceofone.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 141px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><strong>KITZ</strong> ...in the farewell performance of one...<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450661649070566562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyJo52ilNrBkhnCTPccl0tjDtjoj4tn3SfH2ognA-rxJacndeTQvt8s1wUWdsLf4T02W__cyaipmrhi1GYRWrVettXLbtR0whelwYN5tD7H0Zc8np6GP6AmNrjJZ05Zs-cLB2kHKLyWAY/s320/52_SRHaddonandthe+opportunity.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> S.R. Haddon. A man with the means, the motive, and the opportunity...<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450661641719492658" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTTnX2_4cTCUgOn70C1SjP7kUsCxam2oDtnOJ43IKdwW36PDOcXtnURx-qIaDC8bQgX1AgfT4e9bX4rQqCQwIaZOAPx0AtCKv4Y38KdqyoVHyyk97a7REXSbazTIIwgQr6EkmO0V1JrEM/s320/53_to_ofalltime.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><strong>KITZ</strong> ...to play you, and, indeed, the rest of us, as pawns in the biggest, the most elaborate and the most expensive hoax of all time.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450661632729722130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWpoP_LaRCibYB72RMNCF-waTX1yUtLpCTXlHoWXE6tlFAnttClzZhLJGB18PYH9bjLTmVlYL5nEKOi6zpWOQwffZsUoJEMmHY3wmAVUDYjebieB05horQG3sgMj-E2qfwfHThYyP01Lg/s320/54_.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450661631459725698" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggBOkjCKzkM2t-IFxGAqoyngPZLF1QmDvMh6ZOWX0E363EuhfMuYFAFmAeuHBmrDYCXN3X4AvfVps2OIGBjlqPZbmdl0R5WoZcLYdNlKQcu-8RdDGkk0HZW3S5lbW0ZIa-MAoFRviK52g/s320/55_Dr_Arroway.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 181px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />CHAIRMAN</strong> (sigh) Dr. Arroway...<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450660930090632002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWqB-02-nxvbe8oyo7FPsMfRUshlEYbVgKaGhaLfFSrIcSr-XVtmnpkRPaEvamm5yetH52iePsPFdI6MzD-KQ6Cs3GuzI2DeyDAz395B4qBfWWUGlH_FBHYwY2ZT7gD6yoj56UOKA1YfM/s320/56_youcome2us_norecord.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />CHAIRMAN</strong> You come before us with no evidence. No records...<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450660926989489842" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidtnQwYOFQBn_EOk0aZorNuP4bdCvFCCGJI_1wsHRo_ZVicuTqT8kLnhDtA7tdGR9f-7_9cf2n98tiuLmCLv8ULD-u2h5D3975FVftp6qPAAtnDWgaPMS9N878FlvVlNILdCcGEThEqVw/s320/57_noartifacts_putitmildly.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />CHAIRMAN</strong> ...no artifacts -- only a story that -- to put it mildly --<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450660919979222482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqN1EV2J-vBA9uHQIheupbXZm4DNLXi-YGhdY6S6UExbjThIJ3ErDSRiAZECtImPi-gtbSckCXtu8E0WbU8D1-WSMBEi2TDnit-yQ8FOTQT5dc14u8DuGdn2K2P4VF-TyyrYvkdLmoDuA/s320/58_strainscredibility_werespent.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />CHAIRMAN</strong> -- strains credibility. Over half a trillion dollars was spent,<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450660918146205762" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIRkZXVf7hBnwuH68ROwjLe1_ElQDJ9p5DgEdGAlUjePv1mbOl50leyHI464yTOgizMsOlry3x3VEUmH90ntDIViyxNizRhEYkNXeRmW0UOavb2zktn9PcTbonMbPbDoIjQhjNihVAtt8/s320/59_dozensofliveswerelost.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />CHAIRMAN</strong> ...dozens of lives were lost...<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450660909744384786" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxcMDg0yhCJGw_O-9NtrC8stLfRDnmYkmP-1quhugmBmUzuaH2iBgg3d7vEN101pcCRB7I7ZDjLIfgdMqfkpBnguAOUYryNW-FVowzGU1cbvG4e3M_2I-fE4V4B1nnNzKIYMbAuDV1fzA/s320/60_areureallygoing_takethisall.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />CHAIRMAN</strong> Are you really going to sit there and tell us that we should simply take this all...<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450660191934215442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRmUJ_hEmKceSNi2JuNbXiCk3xM632rzdPX4p3xLC8TLIspcKkv2vxRgD21H55epBPemmaYKAraTA5PagoZA0cFvBl03ptB8HXJFrKNBi4XHuispIJPDf9wjKPuz5AmsgY5AJqw3JieTQ/s320/61_onfaith.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />CHAIRMAN</strong> ...on faith?<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450660184308445250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2OnjHhQq3jiVwRVm8pYN9j1T7MYvr4aUI8tTAYZDiIAnZe3ivyUZdRS_Prvqvw387erPiWncf5Zvb4dMrFoCSLNEFnm-t0Gp6efTTvAnuW2rjZmLuP3JJPJIYLkXqjpYgcRtSexf7HBk/s320/62.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />The word rings out like a shot. Silence.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450660176044780802" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuB4MKgOn6emX1SkTocc-AG2zfIz_QGXTBPs5_NDsWajSuFlDz5H2gCUexuop-sThro0v39CTC4iPwY9DBUoAMI1J-cz590Q_o2d98RkxK0pyZuetdq_P5Oh7TAorFNrOa2Ly3Qv2oa8Y/s320/63.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> Please answer the question, Doctor.<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450660175145611698" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI7OLk4PfjFH5bOUzHiclWIOvaFr965cp1Z5Q8kTq7Lb_hABskoZIGycxE6iWR8Mv4J7U-LbWF6vRPD_yZpJKuNdZkW3EOIaULeIuSpVp_i5sz9PGVVh9erc1006EUbomMWs4dGHzE014/s320/64_Pleaseansertheqdr.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><strong>JOSS</strong> Holding his breath.<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450660166438226994" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0WkM-exeaSguvbsR3kCEd5_Xkh59ZIEqwVdaFj5dbbN532wAn4wL5OFiqBXii59_TMR7kG2XWWdbod3FYnewCPPYICM4ab4NIXHYo6Rrl3PEUcO4yPAAzEZjtvu_uAUYSisqcM4f-954/s320/65.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><strong>ELLIE</strong> Closes her eyes. Finally, almost inaudibly:<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450659483262158162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpwoxvLzrNHHUWsqvJF_9uZKmn_bhK2orDdvdkaxksaO_dJ9yabOJvoftVQ0g0GmqoYJMkHcs-s-NRLxn7Ls2Rc6wfVRvGe-w2TuQEcaMbiUVvO2gKJ6yyc0KoqxP_aYPgQUHxTtAuwAM/s320/66_isitpossible_yes.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />ELLIE</strong> Is it possible it didn't happen? Yes.<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450659479269654130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi172yuMSf-WA2iXWSmxhPhAGZ_tVPcVzBCXyjl48-lt7BOZlLcdBuEmjo8euYc48tL5LmSy9iEEAS5zEmUgs8eq64kPxZroOVsUeuCAoYQF-J39vIzpusgemGR28ahtoVICEP2A2mXd3U/s320/67.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />The room murmurs.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450659475408869666" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNubl9-pSKX4QNAlecdtVbydCNceCLiTeSaw4TCoiAywAjqpYUB9_Jgxh2mc6Rey5mtVKEMeWxTEeRdkedLIb19XTNOvzq4aWU6TDf4TO7YAD0uVO5SjuayGNrsLTVn0_sIC8iFirhyphenhypheno4/s320/68_as+a+scientist_volunteerthat.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />ELLIE</strong> As a scientist, I must concede that. I must volunteer that.<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450659462730156338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUSNesDevme5ZBY3zhoWypmMn3rhQIjaeqd1IkWdk-rPf_VXg9PS-Eg_G0F2SjQMTOF_2T9WhZG_xsK7BTTScLzs8GT9mcxSnp8eIOtbPjyjFby-n2bR8BFSH713Nozmw-AgD9c245Vtc/s320/69.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450659458614968258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZrOBZyIb36mKhy-v1lz_4X6iA1KX8mNFbcC-4sWNIyLEWBV0_BbsAl_D46AKBtdiG2Z3LdRxBJ9n6tWaitXFUvvpaa6SlpmkWQ20xb3hZr_ub4-F9-r0m-9mjT8XH0VYl3pc4Wk3FVFA/s320/70_waitaminuteletmegetthisstraight.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />Almost gently:<br /><br /><strong>KITZ</strong> Wait a minute, let me get this straight.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450658710190280562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdPRCF5Rmc1M6ewQfnHjSWCLMl4ez5GXkhpu-lfd2bfTc-VJu8B4z8A3Dmeo_NNO4Zjmj78LZWKLiBmy33_Wwjt_mC3PJlg8nxUojwA1ML7bc2HSSzo0BeI6PvuJsVhzcji-kjN_3FYZY/s320/71_youadmit_yrstory.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> You admit that you have absolutely no physical evidence that can back up your story.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450658703863472114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp3taT6BucWvuX5V8HwfaE_u2oChr_6RuoGRM1CL8nlZ9t2NRwfghlhseDkfRkMK-tryCuMsITYC3-XtK65Yg6_F1fKOXQXDERG3If5z40su7uzL3HeWuA-Sth7S4jw_R6_dupUoEG63s/s320/72_yes.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />ELLIE</strong> Yes.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450658695287748162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY9LzwcnNtEosT3e3eHFBSALUivTyOs0SxZ8ftPvamkDo18Ez5Cu2yQcEG4sOC9IH7-9nWRwDD7DbDGSPK8Gduza4EPzHCGwZts3xnF0ZoqMUInRSYz7J4JDKlW2EIxvJGQ7T47fpbVeI/s320/73_You+admit_thiswholething.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> You admit that you could have very well hallucinated this whole thing.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450658692995556114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4xEoWqVWgpb9_8sXYFufrOu2vIrGvT4NF4kI8qaiEwR63SRsCTjxdYKFroNOxX2N38i4349I6iELOcdQ-D7pkpAaoK9cN4HKTHkP2Wvb6rs_uXEu3HNsMGqEQDZMVIQcqk7gVo-INyN8/s320/74_yes.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />ELLIE</strong> Yes.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450658688106544530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUcI8UvSgwm_3QIF7dc3O7ydHJU7D6O7wtVtThVCBPUrVw2_p3rRQQHw29y0FBzfg5JIrJJfYgZtOOWgAlxB-b73GRGU4SWSq24YZHvj48kxZHf2lzYlD_xFo_HkStCfdq5Tor3egQlfY/s320/75_youadmit_skepticism.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> You admit that if you were in our position you would respond with exactly the same degree of incredulity and skepticism.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450657939491363906" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWsSCE8vtgwvwbzLp9yy6e5ngyZcmUn1ym0BHiMzooCMNP8AswG-djDSPu2BSfSa2MaMs5wqOqLKCiZKVIEDVuPLebEP5Ds-A_P7-kVP_a_YoVw0zF0hkNl7ZeoIP4W5lkbkdSdR-2erU/s320/76_yes.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />ELLIE</strong> Yes.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450657935392071554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdfWnUT46kpIsXpJCEsw9g-3vJFg5pQ4OLTl1DpZYiIitI2hftP3F1LLH60KzaQ1H6STdpn3bL2nhfJYRwWQngl6aewWEM7V1dZ4Aa9bIH28eaCOLDbrGxLp0AnAvrc2KQCkETLmqRrC0/s320/77_thenwhydontyousimply_centerofthegalaxy.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> So why don't you simply withdraw your testimony and concede that this "journey" to the center of the galaxy...<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450657932077352674" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAdBCQ4UeHzQJKs2PCI8I8U-YNZajdxn6ek6IMgjUEnEDVScgQ4D2gtr4Q3oan-_9hO93yjiaAppkf8-1ervghLn9scuaoZyqWRylQsSNqliORRuAZZR2yLodT4VHk3Z7BHIxJ14UN08A/s320/78_nevertookplace.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />KITZ</strong> ...never...took...place!<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450657918289765938" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipHFG45QfpxVvEFESdPhzmpyPf7dYQ9sl8YRZ4TPOIr6Tg-FzmBLCyfNziVI5rMSv9OsdZrxmA2maa7GfVhQRTyvadacn_QHjzk7c56zXd1-YwTjcWZsb1LohoiZvUZMk9qI37GKNiKGc/s320/79_because+I+can%27t.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />ELLIE</strong> (pauses, then, simply) Because I can't.<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450657913773782018" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuzR0JLbWypeg72qwxr7WzeRXCvjOC8hAVO-WuSenGe2MVG9QSrYaD4N4s0fmZ_yupUwKHuUuTVc4GQCEjOfUHF6SqG7ujhL0o42cJRVmbkC4edFbt3Ld3IHwogxhZgMQVprC8jol5Low/s320/80.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />(The crowd reacts.)<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450657111262498882" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5mIFEzOIlpYoAlI0MyLKxvPMH4R9ElDLlgTEBf-0pq5lvd-tJf3ylo8Ojpo52qPKh3yoSLAuNK9Pk3SxhrsSWm0Cvg0SgWt67bHtP4iPNRGckOLSY-RNLQ0lW-PBxt7q7VWzAp4dlERE/s320/81.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450657107226390226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS4qG1o4drbLQ9Tq2DFRaBT7mucy_3YMui1o4mygmg1nAN5Ofs5C-X0Qp7M_yl7UyO8d7lbW7ZeSygt97uM8oy7jxS3a0Cela45kSOauoqhhjLXIRSTQdKkT-yhjIDaBzD85dy7zmqKkg/s320/82.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450657102798780466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAZKDmKqiheW1iNdelenEYsc4Fsmi1Yj_gqA4YwYDw5V9cDag22fif3vgfGwJTpqY7z5mvrqgsFbEg6n9VQ6CFdSz1pE7-QP8E_wp1gh7eNXlql97vPT_mE1TE2XW5nFdmat2ys2j9FoI/s320/83_I.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />ELLIE:</strong> I...<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450657099656440258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLHiEl5CeAn0SZXBcoJx1o2y3pissZQIf4Bvkd1vnV1MdtvJtQVTJEHdJQpihZ-GzXCrtqpUjLN7GZncw3FdtzRaxJvj04zUARu9YH76XyAtrJC9xvHHXUfO6AostJ5B7uluZQftTE03Y/s320/84_+hadanexperience.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />ELLIE</strong> ...had an experience.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450657092745229090" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGgtDs0czI0UVxe9yBGy85u68sqZXdybp3fSyBJqtQ3WGu6ED6JjX0YqFCHHMLX44ib9kV5QwlwVZ5DKJ8rvwKM3L7UW1kxsa0XPazugQlcUOT1F8m6hz-IDs6edr-WnktzDpUDTiUbjc/s320/85_Icantpr-explainit.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />ELLIE</strong> I can't prove it, I can't even explain it.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450656372796653426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihp22U8xmOQGXeKClfS_tHfCqB9nH_hnS4_pp3p-Oejw3F5RD8b_u7tAzDzcKEMBTBFCthpl5ISsfdBG9fBiXweZWe3aOkJiU_tkAYBju6qAxAL7DRdKs6EZiEd-ooKxOcv0zNYjQxPQA/s320/86_Buteverything_thatitwasreal.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />ELLIE</strong> But, everything I know as a human being, everything that I am tells me...that it was real.<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450656367252878930" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsLEfQv1UeTERu1ZaPb4ba9vmsNsbVvWEdbUEVyrjO7DRrStbBkTKg2CfRjCCtGPyMSbdh30MLzYMsHnuPnd9j0LLKMpsqon5z6gRvRbli8PuSMGHMcSXkaZlFMgq8K_th3P1GlgXus18/s320/87.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />The room grows quiet.<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450656363757784418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-U3NQ5Wm7oV-s3Ds02d853zDX0FASJReB36UdI_XJJHYAGhZoK_bu_48fWTUAVmHC9BxcrYJtuBJtSJrqvgtJ8RTI5EO3jleW19P6JT7T8svC8-aBBjfehNiDF78VgfkirlbdSF6d40U/s320/88_Iwasgiven_avision.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />ELLIE</strong> I was given something wonderful, something that changed me forever, for a vision...<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450656357053621666" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqxufcdMIqKMXUV8fSIT3gdC6DLUuyeX2HyRb45PtITkPPgjh8j_d0WfplNaqdcNMz23svXJ9eYlwJSzELQt01bZUpAa2JINUbE5i3IzquomdIyf13lRtkdSE8x22CGZfri_n-EPukFyI/s320/89_oftheUniverse.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />ELLIE</strong> ...of the Universe...<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450656352446080818" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHV4tbxoCFDL9255XrwPW1wLWu0PzGOhpNl3xgnAslEETeNB6spxxCWNTf5ct-bsO4LjWdtsZJcmWST5tG5k5D7YmeakgHgEwYO8u0s1zLyxmWm3MKqsFqpbRtmAoOv2a5rKZ8GYPZE-k/s320/90_avision_well+are.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />ELLIE</strong> ...that tells us, undeniably, how tiny and insignificant and how rare and precious we all are...<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450655531347225858" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-bEISCUgNjVVWw7YyyPf2JcSlWvO8bSghhD40dtsSWbmSj8p9UhOM5f1OZAWoJzgfoQEcFCEM_WXG9JA58bKzx3pLvGretkPy8PvzQjGFOVM0tgC9uMyRuGtTSSrGEByM9GSNBixF8g0/s320/91.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450655524609530402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfvqmS9f43rhUZSksZ3-D-Xeu9Xu7zrvtbV4eP0hmLbA-LnypurplNpgOOHynac0qIqkNxndpt8fM5aXXuF0LFem6PQiL0ElKnVcATUDPYj5_BMnLPq56TKOmKC0Q0bi1dN8oS2TWApzE/s320/92_avision_greaterthanourselves.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />ELLIE</strong> ...a vision that tells us that we are a part of something that is greater than ourselves...<br /><br /><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450655520229002914" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqQX4IM7zzqnmFkDgIdKYFyz1cfGS15NY6yjkZn0_GHveQIPVQrr5TX-APrSW-XXnd1GQpBg_KbBPsTxogkfEr4nj5Ugk5Qiw-OFRAV4ftyxFUFSTv-veGJ0pxsnfbNEfhir-wVBfisfI/s320/93_thatwearenotthatnoneofisaloneb.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />ELLIE</strong> ...that we are not...that none of us...are alone.<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450655510777340706" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEcvln25K9Vo4Ddodl87voX4DYkoTOXU2HKg-7Om-Dm3H58fBwPun64IL2lVrgZ8rB6hHZabzFJSMBaaefJY36Gay7_1hlmvP5pDHCI6qgG8Ufj3YUZEevnbgsUrCYzAgP-3zUbrcBH1I/s320/94.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450655506384337026" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyfErSq3QoKTknpdnsRdhJBdBFlmXhBXgxmvUTVbJU7WsJsOB5St0pKDvduJ-7Nal277_ICkvQnBKvrYi-naaozZwCl0N33ZPVVIb-iLv7z1-H9EW4JD7jFas24nSRl9iygQ4tSF7fZvI/s320/95.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448295151732657026" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2u0YwAKuAfR-1Zm4Jr9QM2dkS1PvpSeTr8C2AzcqnlgBRKwslfIoYFWd8rUu5P5liqWfBFEwVD0j81_P9wi0nfw0J6RAbUIHcQLd7wVw4JyRcPiWXCJ6T4sZ1Iu2y118VY53b7BkJ1sQ/s320/96_I+wish.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><strong>ELLIE</strong> I wish...<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448295145659632962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzQ3OUwsYgcqhPBHQW9FzO1siy98jkSxZK0A4vdK4Tiu9ISQGlNDWDQT6-NPBUB9-oHiz3V7eCzRUqWaS0-OOmLIlTykU6jr-RFSPEvOjRvkk-7UMVprAaGPGxtnrTzbewpAbPzhhmxMg/s320/97_thatIcouldsharethat.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><strong>ELLIE</strong> ...that I could share that....<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448295142835557458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYa1-8CZYvftHcSnqRwSHEcV3GkO1yCluQjyua_Hfd0EQzcrbVLuC5r8Lt-8Ek6ieGrYKTXDCIudmSd1SJZz-fIn3E7m_VuaWzPIzr9LRceIBmzcc_ddtKzUChHDct1nCucNkIsP24i44/s320/98.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448295138647771058" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8343mdF6xW-VmqpYEsDjzkn6XLupocsksAz22OWh-xRCTIGpM37PtryWXf0csJT3Ov56H45g_5JjYE6aqVLxUHS_ijMdCrMrDDviLRYy6ifxnpQ57G0wyWbjfmKiFqIQ7qNSnTMtnZhs/s320/99_Iwish.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><strong>ELLIE</strong> I wish...<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448295132021401010" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7ASzvInyxMUqTFJRJ_QXxvm5ng-n2atRcR13Ff_mKMPIQeXJtVv83mfB9hyhG5_DeVnQw0OhIgrNYh4IuZvLfBx3pxrvm08m9UE9xfviJvl2UDx2rQ3ORMydsAygCPj46apqHve0OP4E/s320/100.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448292802518520498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRi2k0c1SpJtRQK3xsQvGpgZgiLoiOfqno0fOdQMMa4meEWpofzgfjzlsFtV_aqD0Aj1DDP1jz-MdsZnX6MLRrWGW-ZwNJNVZwWBBMrWNWSr4fzbWFx1OP1mwbcNfSgh6cw8T6rVwr3mw/s320/101_could+feelthatawe.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><strong>ELLIE</strong> ...that everyone, if even for one...moment...could feel that awe...<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448292800026001330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxh0rbSfzMMkd1DQ7mXl-LxyYOXce1b-lDUN_fxWjkkUxJMQwxRn03AnDik3bOeoD8tAh9dlqJFYJArS4eXLH3aF8JSmFv44Yz5-gixhOe_roSXLL4ILblwskP9mWBump01xA2uIVxSy8/s320/102_andthehope.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><strong>ELLIE</strong> ...and humility and the hope...<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448292794597591714" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz6-gDPs9SSseUOAoGbZpL8V3B8Ni6iKhyMc70v6Ro1hyKNbmIAZrxYDnwSFsZ0k9JxGFjkVqa8PCC35aatYIME7_Ygqp2sF6GPrGITsiICjxQZr8d9mqTX1wIOcIDh8TrI4ZxRfrfBaE/s320/103.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448292784742686610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg65vqkC8egjEIEevK3x54rbqQ3ZvzUV-338mkbRTaDFanxkerx88F_Qn_WjhYcIXnjtFImMwldTuI1c9SzsfbU0vgnHqKtxjBjAM5AnNY8rIhvov8rP8iM7Ny09TWp4Bcb1dqEF5cjZys/s320/104_but.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><strong>ELLIE</strong> ...but...<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448292778506480690" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVtar5IuEqMj_MdXzQE-WdYhkNcSPBaNKMZv6wwOkATInC0SRxnfFvQ_5Nyur3tqkAnyB5pYSI-B6Nlv6NUOyWPld3ICiM-eU4d_dFBNu5XQu8zDh7xa8c0m3JcjuJ76yf-PvH31LHp9g/s320/105.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448291440262765938" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvrQ9R0PjLF-0ojKtwwbpmennxCgaBX2KjXmcxxDNKm4-FGOYIgyJxZRdD57P4DMJNqOV9a6D1DlTn2AG6xKe8A8FpvlkyMgFnQtZWHmasc3UTbRn9nS9gRXMpnbMSy5G85p4h08-nXfk/s320/106.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448291434369933538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwQKLz96cAM83sjgkZxgc-TTB0BO03UiiijlF_B6f6jMQRILMOueRZjVI69IKYgaZX17seGe3diAl6EsicphJCi8-mu4LULZ7fGiFDW6MX0yT2CvNJNM1aRKw4svV5c_ZliDv2ecqrIQA/s320/107.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448291424040525826" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxm6Q-a47yiWHeNNZ38E0YP2jIidb8Z2xAxxPbbbSnZYhuQ0Q_kP08ijFyBS0QgMtEOYEJ9tg-I23r6bT6Aw5sGOgkWxIOzslCWnboj-FrP0-W1w_yVT9Am6n7LZKay9v-l1ol9M6E9XQ/s320/108_thatcontinues2bmywish.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 142px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><strong>ELLIE</strong> ...that continues to be my wish.<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448291421402752818" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF0oqCLO6p2bZz7632tO5gjiEfBNU_hO9pAWD8S40bpQCeqB3Sqf6cMgxvfHZ7bbq41YM5P_fbDFA6Qd5yzsYMDmRdO4N12YRJyviEI9gIErv6DfhZwDUR9bjBcew3xK8clATS4jldKuE/s320/109.jpg" style="cursor: hand; 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<b><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Making Things Right</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And Everything Looks Worse in Black and White</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">There's a story that</span><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000953/?ref_=tt_ov_dr"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Peter Bogdanovich</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><span style="color: #eeeeee;">got sick of telling during all the press junkets he did for</span><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><i style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067328/?ref_=nm_knf_i1"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">The Last Picture Show</span></a></i><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><span style="color: #eeeeee;">about why he shot in black and white rather than color. Truth was, that he started test-shots of</span><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaDzTafVabKXmxbin89qpl8dWzkHz0S4QNP11yIT1-2aTHcfyCcXT0Y9p3cP28rY1L2wEpZIsxoDGiYQx4sXPohSXVbwdoLxVhDMPCqW3dSmXTuA3Us2nsSA1pzcLmDdAUIudyD8vzKXM/s640/royaltheaterweb2.jpg" style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">the Archer City location</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><span style="color: #eeeeee;">(author</span><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0573505/?ref_=tt_ov_wr" style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Larry McMurtry</span></a><span style="color: #eeeeee;">'s home town) in color, but the town always looked too good, and didn't have the sense of bleakness that he wanted. The story goes that he went to <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000080/"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Orson Welles</span></a> (who was staying at his house) and mused maybe he should shoot the movie in black and white. "Of COURSE you'll shoot it in black and white!" Welles barked back. After repeating the story over and over again at press interview after press interview, the last few times Bogdanovich simplified his answer: "Because Orson Welles told me to."</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">I don't think <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0668247/?ref_=tt_ov_dr"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Alexander Payne</span></a> shot </span><b><i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821549/"><span style="color: white;">Nebraska</span></a></i></b> <span style="color: #eeeeee;">in black and white for that reason, or because it might recall <a href="http://johannasvisions.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/nebraska.jpg"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">the cover of the same-titled Bruce Springsteen album</span></a>. But, I think the bleakness is there, running as an under-current through the film as a view of life—not rosy and pink with vitality, green with verdancy, but shades of gray and the occasional extreme of black or white—the palette for a story of folks with limited choices in the nuances of life...and truth. But, lest you think this one's about old folks with one foot in the grave, or Alzheimer's or something like that, it's not. Not really. It's about living life before you run out of it, and grabbing any kind of dignity out of that life, despite Nature's determination to take it away in any way it can.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's also a damned funny movie, in the same low-key, sometimes painful way that its writer, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1504572/?ref_=tt_ov_wr"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Bob Nelson</span></a>, wrote sketches for the late, lamented <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_Live!"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">"Almost Live!" show</span></a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyFsHE5SSiU"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">which seemed to focus more on human dysfunction</span></a>, rather than Pacific Northwest eccentricities. The old saw "familiarity breeds contempt" is apt here, as <a href="http://media.monstersandcritics.com/galleries/3772998_1930/importimagesource=MCnebraska-movie-1455085.jpg"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">the extended Gates family, long separated (for good reason, apparently), is blandly caustic</span></a>, bringing up family histories and past imperfections as grist for the family grinding mill.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Wow, this feels too much like real life" said one of the patrons in <i>Nebraska</i>'s audience.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">The story's simple and seemingly uneventful, but mindful of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000186/?ref_=tt_ov_dr"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">David Lynch</span></a>'s </span><i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166896/?ref_=nv_sr_1"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">The Straight Story</span></a></i><span style="color: #eeeeee;">. Woodrow Gates (</span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001136/?ref_=tt_cl_t1"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Bruce Dern</span></a><span style="color: #eeeeee;">) i</span><a href="https://d2h4w2gkaq37lq.cloudfront.net/5d372dbb-8154-439c-a11e-f6ec72b136d4/thumbnail.jpg?Expires=1385865735&Signature=gOsk4fAx0Rmsy4CH7H38H0M55cVE4U09y8jOXmBZQhqcv-GZ6Ucxon7kTjOwK4ytImiwp0hjO2RL33Poz6QGpEzbyF-aj-WJAyeML02JUUe8f2R1CdqNr2UDH45CNrZccBXhrI2ysiYpBFt5gB7vzOQb3A9nXz5ISx5qbW6c0XM_&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJS23P3YYVUNHECJQ" style="color: #eeeeee;">s picked up by the police walking the highway in Billings, Montana</a><span style="color: #eeeeee;">. "Where ya goin'?" says the Sheriff. "Headed down the road there,' says Woody, none too helpfully.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">O-kay, there's a little detour to the police station, where his son David (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0287182/?ref_=tt_ov_st"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Will Forte</span></a>) comes to pick him up. "So you told the Sheriff you were walking to Nebraska..." Woody's wife (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0820053/?ref_=tt_ov_st"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">June Squibb</span></a>) won't drive him, he doesn't have a car, and he won't be given money for the bus. The reason he wants to go to Nebraska (Lincoln, specifically) is because he got a certificate in the mail from a magazine promotion company saying that he could have won a million dollars. Woody doesn't "buy" that it's a way to get him to buy magazines; he thinks he's won it, so he's walking to Lincoln to get his million. Why didn't he just mail it in? "I'm not going to trust the mail with a million dollars." Makes perfect sense. Walking, though, doesn't.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's no sympathy at home. Wife Kate won't entertain any of this "I didn't know the son-of-a-bitch wanted to be a millionaire! Know what I'd do with a million dollars? I'd put him in a home!!" Brother Ross (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0644022/?ref_=tt_cl_t4"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Bob Odenkirk</span></a>) thinks Dad's senile and doesn't want to hear of it. Only David will entertain the notion of driving Woody to Lincoln, if only for the chance to connect with the old man. They set off with some hitches and fits along the way, eventually stopping at relatives' to get a breather from what would seem to be a continuing series of minor disasters. But, his old stomping grounds bring no comfort, as word soon gets around that Woody's driving to Lincoln to get a million dollars—a sum that strikes everyone dumb...and a little bit stupid. Old debts are brought up, and quite a few people want a part of that million dollars whether they deserve it or not...and for some reason, nobody thinks twice about how Woody might have come into that money—the amount leaves them a little blinkered. And envious. And opportunistic.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">For David, it's an opportunity to gain some perspective (just the ability to see Woody's past surroundings adds a little knowledge) and, as he's stuck in a pattern of "getting by," some insight into both Dad and himself. By the time the two ride off into the last shot—one of the loveliest and most potent of the past year's movies, a black-and-white sunset—a nice, warming resolution has been reached. But not too warming. It is a sunset. And it is in black-and-white, lest it betray any cheer or a rosy sensibility.</span> <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Payne, evidently, did make a color version of <i>Nebraska</i></span> <span style="color: #eeeeee;">to satisfy some niche contractual requirements for the studio (</span><a href="http://www.paramount.com/movies/nebraska"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Paramount Vantage</span></a><span style="color: #eeeeee;">), but has expressed hope that it never sees the light of electronics.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">OF COURSE, it won't. It would be a completely different movie, and a less effective one.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The Story: </b> Saul at the crossroads. That's what this scene from <i><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_Encounters_of_the_Third_Kind"><span style="color: white;">Close Encounters of the Third Kind</span></a></b></i> is. That would be Saul of Tarses. As in the Bible, as in the Acts of the Apostles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em;">And as he journeyed, it came to pass that he drew nigh unto Damascus: and suddenly there shone round about him a light out of heaven: and he fell upon the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: but rise, and enter into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do. And the men that journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing the voice, but beholding no man. And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw nothing; and they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus. And he was three days without sight, and did neither eat nor drink.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Religious films and the miraculous made everyday permeates <i>CE3K</i> throughout. At one point DeMille's <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049833/">The Ten Commandments</a></i> plays on a television in the Neary home, and <a href="http://www.wingclips.com/movie-clips/the-ten-commandments/parting-the-red-sea">its cloud special effects</a> recall Douglas Trumbull's billowing eerie clouds around Devil's Tower before the alien ships' arrival. Revelations are made throughout. Signs that "mean something" crop up throughout the movie, and the film has fun with "turn-abouts"—where something can influence one way and then turn another—like the head-lamps that turn from car to spacecraft in this scene, or the lovely transition where Roy Neary sleeps in exhaustion in his rec room until it's suffused with a warm, orange-ish glow, not from visiting aliens, as we've previously seen, but from the normal rising of the sun, something of a miracle itself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Neary finds his mission at this crossroads, like Saul, and his reward at the end of the film is enlightenment, literally and figuratively, as he ascends into the Heavens.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And it's Roy Neary, an Everyman, a line-man who is "chosen." Spielberg commissioned <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001707/?ref_=tt_ov_dr">Paul Schrader</a> to do the first draft of CE3K, which originally had more menacing aliens in it, and Schrader's screenplay had the hero be a UFO investigator at the top of his field—that's who should represent us in Schrader's mind. But not Spielberg; he wanted an ordinary schlub as our First Contact, our man in Outer Space—Neary is picked out of the line-up at Devil's Tower above trained and briefed volunteers. Spielberg continued this pattern throughout his "alien trilogy." In <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/?ref_=nv_sr_1">E.T.</a></i>, it is Elliott (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001794/?ref_=tt_cl_t2">Henry Thomas</a>), not "Keys" (played by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001075/?ref_=tt_cl_t3">Peter Coyote</a>)—who has been investigating the landings for years (according to the book, anyway)—who has the contact and study-time with the gardener from the celestial planes. And instead of a professor (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0058001/?ref_=tt_ov_st">Gene Barry</a>) as in the '53 <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046534/?ref_=nv_sr_1">The War of the Worlds</a></i>, it is a stevedore, a dockworking crane operator (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000129/?ref_=tt_ov_st">Tom Cruise</a>) that is the focus of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407304/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_8">Spielberg's 2005 version</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The Set-Up: </b> They're he-ere! Okay, wrong Spielberg movie, but something strange is going on around the town of Tolono, near Muncie, Indiana. While a team of scientists are globe-trotting looking at an intensifying of UFO activity, line-man Roy Neary (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000377/?ref_=tt_ov_st">Richard Dreyfuss</a>) has been called to work to see why the city is going through an unexplained power outage. He is about to see the light.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">An eerie light just beneath the dip in the road throws amber shafts through an underbelly of fog. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He pulls down a jerry-rigged roll map and sticks the penlight into his mouth...backwards. His cheeks glow pink and for a moment he can't figure why no light is getting on his map.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><b>DISPATCH (V.O)</b> Go'ed.</i></span><br />
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<b style="color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">NEARY:</b><span style="color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> Cough up Tolono on Interstate Highway 90. Maybe a little familiar landmark of some sort.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><b>LONGLY's VOICE (V.O.)</b> Responding to that 10-75 on Cornbread Road and Middletown Pike. I am observing--<span style="color: lime;">I'm not sure exactly what, but it's a negative on the Christmas lights </span>I think it's street-lights in the foothills residentials.<strike> We're on our way.</strike> Cornbread Road, South of 20th.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A bright group of highbeams appears over Neary's shoulder out the back window. </span><br />
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<i style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: lime;"><b>LONGLY's VOICE (V.O.)</b> Sodium favor street lights. Power must have been restored up there. </span></i><i style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: lime;">Couple hundred neighbors in their p.j.'s think its Saturday night out here.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Neary is tearing at maps and absently waves an arm out the side window. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The automobile headlights pass him and somebody yells:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>PASSENGER:</b> You're in the middle of the road, <strike>jerkwater</strike> jack-ass!</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>NEARY:</b> Can you tell me where Cornbread is...</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"> <b style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">NEARY:</b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> ...<i>TURKEY!?</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><b>OFFICER LONGLY (V.O.)</b> Couple hundred neighbors in their pajamas think its Saturday night over here.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><strike>NEARY: Cornbread Road. Middletown Pike. D-five. M-34.</strike></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">His two fingers meet and he takes off, tires screeching.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">FARM COUNTRY ROAD - THIN GROUND FOG - NEARY</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">He checks his map. It confuses him. Neary backs onto the main highway and stops, pulling the map closer, twisting the gooseneck tensor lamp close enough to burn a hole.</span><br />
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<b style="color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">NEARY: </b><span style="color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> M-Mary 10 through M-Mary 12. Okay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">A bank of lights from an approaching vehicle can be seen from the rear window. They draw up close and stop. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Neary is only slightly annoyed by the glare from the rear and side view mirrors as he pours over the wrinkled map. He absently sticks out his left hand and begins to signal "go around."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">For a moment, nothing happens,... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">...then, soundlessly, the super highbeams comply...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">...rising vertically out of sight leaving darkness behind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Neary hasn't seen this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Then there is this noise. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It is like the rattling of tin. Neary looks around. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He shines his spotlight on the road sign.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It is vibrating so fast that the letters seem to multiply and super-impose. He looks again with an almost comical "Huuuh?" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">On that note, his spotlight, intensor light, and headlights glow a faint amber then black.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">CLICK! The entire area for thirty yards around his car is bathed in the brightest light imaginable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He ducks back in and goes for his radio. It is dead. Neary is too scared to budge. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Just his eyes move. Nothing more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Falling open at the hinges, the glove compartment rattles as everything mettalic begins sticking together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A box of paperclips comes undone and dozens fasten themselves to the roof of the car. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The ashtray empties itself out as though sucked weightless by a current of air from outside -</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Paperclips rain down on him from the rooftop. The sign is no longer shaking. A DISTANT RATTLING causes Neary to swing around in his seat. His highbeams, spotlight, lamp, etc. come to life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Down the road there is a FOUR-WAY STOP. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The signs are dancing to and fro, vibrating so violently that the metal around the edges curls against the force. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">CLICK! The intersection a hundred yards down the road is awash in the same intense light. But only for a second. CLICK! And in the dark, the signs are no longer moving. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">All is still. Not even a hint of a breeze. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><strike><b>RADIO VOICE (v.O.)</b> I don't know, I'm asking you. Is there a full moon this morning?</strike></i></span><br />
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<i style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: lime;"><b>RADIO VOICE (v.O.)</b> What do you guys got out there?</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><strike><b>DISPATCH VOICE:</b> That's a negative. Full moon on the thirteenth.</strike></i></span><br />
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<i style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: lime;"><b>RADIO VOICE (v.O.)</b> I don't believe this. My God, it's as big as a house!</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i><strike><b>RADIO VOICE (v.O.)</b> Get out of here, me and my partner are seeing this thing over Signal Hill. This is the thing that everybody is screaming about. It's the moon...(static pause) Wait a sec. Okay. It's starting to move now. West to East.</strike></i></span><br />
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<i style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: lime;"><b>RADIO VOICE (v.O.)</b> It's shaped like a barn!</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i><strike><b>UNIT 1011 VOICE:</b> This is Tolono Police 1011. We are watching it, confirming it is definitely the moon. Be advised it is not moving. The clouds behind it are moving, giving it the illusion of movement over...</strike></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i><strike><b>RADIO VOICE: </b>Where'd you study astronomy, Tolono? When did you ever see clouds moving behind the moon?</strike></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i><b>DISPATCH VOICE:</b> What's your location?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i><b>LONGLEY'S VOICE: </b>Just off the Telemark Expressway and East toward Harper Valley.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Words by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000229/?ref_=tt_ov_dr">Steven Spielberg</a> (and Matthew Robbins, Hal Barwood, Jerry Belson, and John Hill after a first draft script by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001707/">Paul Schrader</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pictures by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005936/">Vilmos Szigmond</a> and Steven Spielberg</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018530/?ref_=tttr_tr_tt"><span style="color: white;">Upstream</span></a></b> <span style="color: #cccccc;">(<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000406/?ref_=tt_ov_dr"><span style="color: #cccccc;">John Ford</span></a>, 1927) Somewhere in New Zealand, there was a film archive that contained a spate of nitrate films that were not returned to the United States after their initial showings in the 20's. They sat there, waiting to either disintegrate or explode in flames, until they were discovered in 2009. Among the treasures were one of the first films ever to be worked on by Alfred Hitchcock, as well as one trailer and one feature directed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ford"><span style="color: #cccccc;">John Ford</span></a> for the Fox Corporation (before their merger with 20th) that up 'til then had thought to be lost.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Early Ford is still deeply Ford country. This backstage drama takes place in a players' boarding house, where touring performers could rent lodgings for their seasons in vaudeville houses. The current residents are a motley troupe: a mother-daughter "sister act," Irish vaudevillians Callahan and Callahan (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0573740/?ref_=tt_cl_t7"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Ted McNamara</span></a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0169742/?ref_=tt_cl_t8"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Sammy Cohen</span></a>—yes, you read that right, it's part of the gag), the faded Shakesperean (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0154352/?ref_=tt_cl_t6"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Emile Chautard</span></a>), the medicine show jugglers (and distillers), the "Star Boarder" (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0386879/?ref_=tt_cl_t5"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Raymond Hitchcock</span></a>)—his reputation gained by inserting himself into every situation, the least talented member of a famous acting family, the Brashinghams (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289317/?ref_=tt_cl_t2"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Earle Foxe</span></a>), and a knife-throwing act with the Castillian expert Juan Rodriguez—real name Jack La Velle (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0936728/?ref_=tt_cl_t3"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Grant Withers</span></a>)—and his lovely target Gertie Ryan (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0621785/?ref_=tt_cl_t1"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Nancy Nash</span></a>). </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Made three years after his landmark <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015016/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_93"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The Iron Horse</span></a></i> and a year before his first talking picture, <i>Upstream</i> is worth seeing for an atypical prototype of what Ford would produce later in his career.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Amazing...and in No Good Way</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">I've been avoiding seeing</span> <b><i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2024544/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt"><span style="color: white;">12 Years a Slave</span></a></i></b><span style="color: #cccccc;">, despite a deep interest in it. It's one of those film that, despite the buzz, nobody goes too far into specifics, and only talking in general terms of the experience. I like the kinds of films that are special enough that the critic community (such as it is) comes together to not spoil it for anybody else, dilute the experience. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also, I hadn't seen <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2588606/?ref_=tt_ov_dr"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Steve McQueen</span></a>'s other films (<i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986233/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_6"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Hunger</span></a></i> and <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1723811/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_2"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Shame</span></a></i>), but knew he was considered an interesting, if brutal, voice (and eye), a bold film-maker, but with no editorial bent, except in the canniest scrupulousness. He's not an artist who intends to tell you how to feel, but instead just wants you to feel it—by any means necessary, within the film-making form.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also wanted to see it, as "The Movies" have had a very poor record of showing slavery as a subject, often treating it as a benign necessity in its past, informing the fabric of our entertainment and our lives, or social-memory, as such. Part of a film's potential audience has always been housed in The South, and as that section has lagged in its views towards minorities, Hollywood, unless there was a dime in it, would choose not to risk offending its patrons, and so, would, instead, pander, even to the bigot. Think on this: when only two mainstream movies—<i>Amistad</i> and (ugh!) <i>Django Unchained</i> have taken slavery head on, that is a shameful record. Even Mel Brooks' <i>Blazing Saddles</i> might be considered more courageous than the whole gamut of Hollywood films. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The whole story of this film is one that makes you shake your head and say "why has no one thought of this?"</span><b><span style="color: #e69138;">*</span></b> <span style="color: #cccccc;">"12 years a Slave" had been one of the best-selling books of its day—that being 1853—and became known, along with "Uncle Tom's Cabin," due to its inflaming the abolitionist movement of "starting the Civil War."</span></span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> After 1865, it fell into obscurity until scholars in Louisiana began doing research on it in the 1960's and published an annotated version in 1968. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My reaction to it is pretty much what I expected—</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was devastated.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I would have been disappointed by anything less.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">McQueen starts <i>12 Years...</i> in an odd place in the story-line—about half-way through, at a time when the free man Solomon Northrup (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0252230/?ref_=tt_ov_st"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Chiwetel Ejiafor</span></a>, one of my favorites), now known as the slave Pratt, is working Louisiana cane-fields for a Judge for a season, while his owner Edwin Epps (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1055413/?ref_=tt_ov_st"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Michael Fassbender</span></a>) is having a contagion of cotton weevil destroy his crop. McQueen introduces us to the environment by moving his camera forward into the work area through the foliage—long, thin leaves that seem to last forever and never move out of the camera's way. Then, at night, sleeping on a bare floor, the woman next to him guides his hand to her, and when finished, turns away. Northup does the same, and when he does, all but leaves the frame.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At that point, Northup, when observing his paltry dinner pan and the berry juice that runs on it, decides to whittle a stick, use the juice as ink and tries to write a letter to anyone in the North who might help with his situation. The process is frustrating, and it is then and only then, that McQueen goes back to the beginning of the story, of how Northup, born free and a violinist by trade in Washington D.C., is tricked into his situation, <a href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/07/16/article-2364806-1AD57857000005DC-536_634x388.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">sold into slavery in Louisiana</span></a>, <a href="http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/201399/rs_1024x759-131009114111-1024.3.12-Years-Slave.ls.10913_copy.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">his family away to not notice his kidnapping</span></a>, and his series of houses to which he is sold.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Interesting structure on McQueen's part. Northup endures all kinds of hardships, both physical and mental, his only thought to get back to his family, but it is only at the time when he feels he might betray his family, does he take real action to get out. Oh, he tries to run away a couple times, but if he gets caught, he is very aware that he will be hung, no questions asked, and at one point, he very nearly is, in an excruciating sequence that seems to last forever. Northup hangs, <a href="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/RqjrB5ibAwyBgx3OEbDO7w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTU0MDtweG9mZj01MDtweW9mZj0wO3E9NzU7dz05NjA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/video/video.yahoomovies.com/20131016_yearsaslave_ididasinstructed.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">at the instigation of a man he's beaten</span></a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0200452/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t35"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Paul Dano</span></a>) in a rage, and is saved from being killed, but just barely—the noose tight around his neck, his feet tentatively on soft, unsure ground, his toes barely giving him purchase—while around him, life goes on, the other slaves work, taking no action lest they be punished, and he hangs, his life literally in the balance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">It's an incredible sequence, done in long uninterrupted takes, like many of the episodes of cruelty and torture dramatized in the film, that illustrate, very vividly, the absence of any hope in the life of a slave, of the system of property that was imposed on living, thinking human beings,</span> <a href="http://www.criticizethis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/12-Years-A-Slave.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">and the thin thread that constituted the difference between survival and the grave</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">. It's <a href="http://www.apnatimepass.com/12-years-a-slave-movie-poster-5.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">a world devoid of charity, of any stripe</span></a>, and belies any claims to the label of civilization. This is done so well that even a long shot of Northup just looking out around him, that comes deep in the film, with only the sounds of the birds, winds and insects in the background still imposes a feeling of dread, the expectation that the normal <a href="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1483976!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/slave11n-9-web.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">will explode in the next second and end you</span></a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's amazing work, <a href="http://pmchollywoodlife.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/12-years-a-slave-gallery-13.jpg?w=600"><span style="color: #cccccc;">done in ways both screaming and subtle</span></a>, but makes those moments of quiet anything but peaceful. There's a lot of <i>12 Years a Slave</i> seared into my head. It will surely win a lot of awards, but hopefully won't be forgotten once the gold is exchanged.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">* And they have. "12 Years a Slave" was known enough from the renewed interest in the '60's that in 1996, PBS aired a film by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662953/?ref_=tt_ov_dr"><span style="color: #e69138;">Gordon Parks</span></a> entitled "<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088148/"><span style="color: #e69138;">Solomon Northup's Odyssey</span></a>" starring <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000984/?ref_=tt_ov_st"><span style="color: #e69138;">Avery Brooks</span></a>, deep in his "<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106145/?ref_=nm_knf_t1"><span style="color: #e69138;">Deep Space Nine</span></a>" run.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044386/"><span style="color: white;">The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe</span></a></b> <span style="color: #cccccc;">(<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000320/?ref_=tt_ov_dr"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Luis Buñuel</span></a>, 1954) This is another of those films that seems to be remade every few years (the attraction of the property being in the public domain is irresistible), but it would be tough from an overall perspective to improve on Bunuel's English language version (which was also made in the director's native Spanish) from 1954.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The story is familiar to everyone (it's been around since 1719)—of the British sailor who is stranded on an island after his ship is wrecked and must eke out an existence there without hope of rescue, despite his lack of experience taking care of himself. Also, there is the man "Friday," who eventually becomes his companion on the island, leading to the "noble savage" mythology that is trucked around whenever somebody wants to point to relative "worth's" of races within the humanoid one. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But, Bu</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ñ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">uel, one of the peskiest of directors has nothing to do with all that, and the surrealist—and realist—in him, takes this <a href="http://pixhost.me/avaxhome/3e/aa/0019aa3e_medium.jpeg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Robinson Crusoe</span></a> to some little-known parts of the island in this version of the adventure. For example, Robinson Crusoe is on that ship as part of his work as a slave-trader, its wrecking serving as some kind of retribution for its business, and his exile a learning experience for <a href="http://www.slantmagazine.com/assets/film/adventuresofrobinsoncrusoe.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">what it is like for a man to have no choices in the world</span></a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Crusoe is able to swim back to the ship <a href="http://media.theiapolis.com/d4/hNG/i2CDZ/k4/l2DD6/u2F0/w15O/avventure-di-robinson-crusoe-le.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">to get a good amount of supplies</span></a> before it finally succumbs to the sea, and manages to rescue <a href="http://pixhost.me/avaxhome/2007-10-30/PDVD_008.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">a cat, Sam</span></a>, from the wreckage. Once back on his island, <a href="http://media.theiapolis.com/d4/hNG/i2CDS/k4/l2DCZ/u2F0/w15O/avventure-di-robinson-crusoe-06.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">with a raft so piled with supplies that it must have been in constant danger of sinking</span></a>, he finds the Captain's dog, Rex, has also survived and made it to land. With that troika of inhabitants comes the most interesting part of the film, <a href="http://pixhost.me/avaxhome/2007-10-30/PDVD_006.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">where Crusoe explores the island</span></a>, sets up fire-stations in case a ship should sail by, hunts game, starts to raise livestock from the wild goats that live on the island, <a href="http://media.theiapolis.com/d4/hNG/i2CE2/k4/l2DD9/u2F0/w15O/avventure-di-robinson-crusoe-le.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">builds a walled compound around a make-shift cave where he lives</span></a>. <span style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://media.theiapolis.com/d4/hNG/i2CDT/k4/l2DD0/u2F0/w15O/avventure-di-robinson-crusoe-02.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">When he runs out of bread from the ship</span></a>, <a href="http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdreviews5/robinsoncrusoe/crusoe29.59.JPG"><span style="color: #cccccc;">he starts to raise his own wheat and grain</span></a></span> and makes his own. <a href="http://media.theiapolis.com/d4/hNG/i2CDW/k4/l2DD3/u2F0/w15O/avventure-di-robinson-crusoe-05.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">A rescued bible provides study</span></a>, and he even takes up pottery. He has a lot of time and quite a bit of resources.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not sure of Friday's eating habits, Crusoe returns to his old ways and <a href="http://i777.photobucket.com/albums/yy60/Hawkmenblues/RobinsonC2.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">puts the native under metal restraints</span></a> that he carried over with him from the slave ship. Before long, he learns to trust the man, and one begins to wonder what the hierarchy between them is. The native is "Friday." Crusoe is, disquietingly, "Master." When Friday is barbering Crusoe's hair and the voice-over says it was a sublime time on the island, one is about to protest, when he gets up, the two exchange places and the former slaver cuts Friday's hair in reciprocity. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bu</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ñ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">uel, you crafty old Marxist. "We found that two working together could do much more than working separately."</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> We won't spoil the part where Crusoe and Friday debate the Bible.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And as far as surrealism, the closest </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bu</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ñ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">uel </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">comes to it is in a Crusoe fever-dream, where he is warned by his father (also played by O'Herlihy) never to stray from his native land (</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bu</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ñ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">uel, a Spaniard was living in Mexico City at the time, after spending a few years in the United States) with the sequence intercut with <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU_wAaBQ1653vcZw5yLcWtXRVDnixdzUdpcvVJSxjjecjS4GOkvaQx-ExegWdaXn6CpMKiMnh7X-5dCDsKkTiAsBbFkQ1rcXu4Qufjh31XT3SuFV5qNM1rssgAXirRRWGXG8K4_0C2DTM/s1600/Crusoe+the+father+sequence.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">shots of the father (or is it an elderly Crusoe) drowning</span></a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">O'Herlihy is mostly known for his later career of playing ancient, menacing autocrats, but here he is a revelation, and it is, frankly, amazing that the film had enough attention that he was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, the same year as Bogart for <i>The Caine Mutiny</i>, Bing Crosby for <i>The Country Girl</i> (an amazing performance, that), James Mason in <i>A Star is Born</i>, and the winner, Marlon Brando for <i>On the Waterfront</i>. Tough year.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's interesting to note that <i>Robinson Crusoe on Mars</i> has a release in the Criterion Collection (not to quibble, I regard <i>RCOM</i> fondly), but this adult-oriented family film by one of the great directors of the 20th century is not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The Story: </b>The opening shot of <b><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Lyndon"><span style="color: white;">Barry Lyndon</span></a></i></b>, all thirty-two seconds of it, telegraphs the entire film (nearly three hours of it), based on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Makepeace_Thackeray">William Makepeace Thackeray</a>'s <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4558/4558-h/4558-h.htm">romp of a novel</a>, "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0076OEGT4?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B0076OEGT4&linkCode=xm2&tag=letsno-20">The Luck of Barry Lyndon, ESQ., A Romance of the Last Century</a>," first published in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser's_Magazine">Fraser's Magazine</a> in 1844. Adapter-director <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick">Stanley Kubrick</a> compressed the title, compressed the story, altered circumstances, and, instead of making it a "romp" (as <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0724798/?ref_=tt_ov_dr">Tony Richardson</a> had with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057590/">his Oscar-winning version</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fielding">Fielding</a>'s "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Tom_Jones,_a_Foundling">Tom Jones</a>"), chose to make a more stately film that might recall the pace of life at which one might have lived at the time of the story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He also chose to replace the narrator. In Kubrick's original script, it is, as it is in the novel, Redmond Barry (now named Roderick) who informs us of the events of his life, putting a naive and rose-colored light on those circumstances, much as the character Alex had in Kubrick's previous film <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_5">A Clockwork Orange</a></i>. For whatever reason, Kubrick chose an omniscient narrator of unknown identity (as he had in <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049406/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_11">The Killing</a></i>, <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_7">Dr. Strangelove</a></i>, and had planned for <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/">2001: a Space Odyssey</a></i>), whose knowledge and opinions supplanted all others, providing a more reliable narrator than the novel. In the script's version, "Roderick's" narration is a simple statement of lineage and facts. In the film's final form, the narration provides context and a sense of loss over the promise of the wasted life. Its composition also allows for a certain humorous timing, following the deeds depicted on-screen with the relative lack of value of the cause.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also, if you would, notice that the entire description of the scene is "Brief shot of duel."<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">*</span></b> Everything else would be worked out on-set and location, a process that Kubrick enjoyed prolonging as much as possible to produce the perfect back-drop, which only a capricious Nature could provide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The stillness and natural lighting of the sequence would be echoed throughout the film by frame movements of only one direction, left or right, or by an internal movement provided by the moderated use of a zoom lens. Although Kubrick did employ his familiar hand-held and tracking "shots" in the film, they are kept to a minimum in favor of the more rigorous strategy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><strike>RODERICK (V.O.)
My father, who was well-known to the
best circles in this kingdom under
the name of roaring Harry James, was
killed in a duel, when I was fifteen
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rule 1. The first offense requires the first apology, though the retort may have been more offensive than the insult. Example: A tells B he is impertinent, etc. B retorts that he lies; yet A must make the first apology because he gave the first offense, and then (after one fire) B may explain away the retort by a subsequent apology. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rule 2. But if the parties would rather fight on, then after two shots each (but in no case before), B may explain first, and A apologize afterward. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">N.B. The above rules apply to all cases of offenses in retort not of stronger class than the example. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rule 3. If a doubt exist who gave the first offense, the decision rests with the seconds; if they won't decide, or can't agree, the matter must proceed to two shots, or to a hit, if the challenger require it. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rule 4. When the lie direct is the first offense, the aggressor must either beg pardon in express terms; exchange two shots previous to apology; or three shots followed up by explanation; or fire on till a severe hit be received by one party or the other. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rule 5. As a blow is strictly prohibited under any circumstances among gentlemen, no verbal apology can be received for such an insult. The alternatives, therefore -- the offender handing a cane to the injured party, to be used on his own back, at the same time begging pardon; firing on until one or both are disabled; or exchanging three shots, and then asking pardon without proffer of the cane.
If swords are used, the parties engage until one is well blooded, disabled, or disarmed; or until, after receiving a wound, and blood being drawn, the aggressor begs pardon. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">N.B. A disarm is considered the same as a disable. The disarmer may (strictly) break his adversary's sword; but if it be the challenger who is disarmed, it is considered as ungenerous to do so.
In the case the challenged be disarmed and refuses to ask pardon or atone, he must not be killed, as formerly; but the challenger may lay his own sword on the aggressor's shoulder, then break the aggressor's sword and say, "I spare your life!" The challenged can never revive the quarrel -- the challenger may. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rule 6. If A gives B the lie, and B retorts by a blow (being the two greatest offenses), no reconciliation can take place till after two discharges each, or a severe hit; after which B may beg A's pardon humbly for the blow and then A may explain simply for the lie; because a blow is never allowable, and the offense of the lie, therefore, merges in it. (See preceding rules.) </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">N.B. Challenges for undivulged causes may be reconciled on the ground, after one shot. An explanation or the slightest hit should be sufficient in such cases, because no personal offense transpired. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rule 7. But no apology can be received, in any case, after the parties have actually taken ground, without exchange of fires. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rule 8. In the above case, no challenger is obliged to divulge his cause of challenge (if private) unless required by the challenged so to do before their meeting. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rule 9. All imputations of cheating at play, races, etc., to be considered equivalent to a blow; but may be reconciled after one shot, on admitting their falsehood and begging pardon publicly. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rule 10. Any insult to a lady under a gentleman's care or protection to be considered as, by one degree, a greater offense than if given to the gentleman personally, and to be regulated accordingly. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rule 11. Offenses originating or accruing from the support of ladies' reputations, to be considered as less unjustifiable than any others of the same class, and as admitting of slighter apologies by the aggressor: this to be determined by the circumstances of the case, but always favorable to the lady. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rule 12. In simple, unpremeditated recontres with the smallsword, or couteau de chasse, the rule is -- first draw, first sheath, unless blood is drawn; then both sheath, and proceed to investigation. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rule 13. No dumb shooting or firing in the air is admissible in any case. The challenger ought not to have challenged without receiving offense; and the challenged ought, if he gave offense, to have made an apology before he came on the ground; therefore, children's play must be dishonorable on one side or the other, and is accordingly prohibited. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rule 14. Seconds to be of equal rank in society with the principals they attend, inasmuch as a second may either choose or chance to become a principal, and equality is indispensible. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rule 15. Challenges are never to be delivered at night, unless the party to be challenged intend leaving the place of offense before morning; for it is desirable to avoid all hot-headed proceedings. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rule 16. The challenged has the right to choose his own weapon, unless the challenger gives his honor he is no swordsman; after which, however, he can decline any second species of weapon proposed by the challenged. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rule 17. The challenged chooses his ground; the challenger chooses his distance; the seconds fix the time and terms of firing. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rule 18. The seconds load in presence of each other, unless they give their mutual honors they have charged smooth and single, which should be held sufficient. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rule 19. Firing may be regulated -- first by signal; secondly, by word of command; or thirdly, at pleasure -- as may be agreeable to the parties. In the latter case, the parties may fire at their reasonable leisure, but second presents and rests are strictly prohibited. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rule 20. In all cases a miss-fire is equivalent to a shot, and a snap or non-cock is to be considered as a miss-fire. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rule 21. Seconds are bound to attempt a reconciliation before the meeting takes place, or after sufficient firing or hits, as specified. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rule 22. Any wound sufficient to agitate the nerves and necessarily make the hand shake, must end the business for that day. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rule 23. If the cause of the meeting be of such a nature that no apology or explanation can or will be received, the challenged takes his ground, and calls on the challenger to proceed as he chooses; in such cases, firing at pleasure is the usual practice, but may be varied by agreement. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rule 24. In slight cases, the second hands his principal but one pistol; but in gross cases, two, holding another case ready charged in reserve. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rule 25. Where seconds disagree, and resolve to exchange shots themselves, it must be at the same time and at right angles with their principals, thus:
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">N.B. All matters and doubts not herein mentioned will be explained and cleared up by application to the committee, who meet alternately at Clonmel and Galway, at the quarter sessions, for that purpose.</span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-54388112344269711782013-11-22T11:00:00.001-08:002013-11-22T11:00:00.616-08:00Gravity, Part II<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is already a sequel of sorts to the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0190859/?ref_=tt_ov_dr"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Alfonso Cuar</span></a></span><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">ó</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0190859/?ref_=tt_ov_dr"><span style="color: #cccccc;">n</span></a> film <i><a href="http://letsnottalkaboutmovies.blogspot.com/2013/10/gravity.html">Gravity</a></i>, written and directed by co-scenarist <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0190861/?ref_=tt_ov_wr"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Jonas Cuar</span></a></span><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ó</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0190861/?ref_=tt_ov_wr"><span style="color: #cccccc;">n</span></a>. If you have seen the film, it will make perfect sense and add another touch of (dare I say it?) "gravitas" to the feature.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">If you have not seen <i>Gravity</i>, then consider this a major</span> <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">SPOILER ALERT</span></b>. <span style="color: #cccccc;">Don't watch.</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-55696969750138529892013-11-21T11:00:00.001-08:002013-11-21T11:00:02.213-08:00Hancock<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448157/"><span style="color: white;">Hancock</span></a></b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000916/?ref_=tt_ov_dr"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Peter Berg</span></a>, 2008) The premise (for a super-hero movie) is interesting, the stars are all competent, and in some cases exceptional </span></span><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000234/?ref_=tt_ov_st"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Charlize Theron</span></a> <a href="http://teammovies.com/images/hancock_2008_1276x682_544732.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">puts in quite a surprising turn in her role</span></a>)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, and the writing sometimes refreshing. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What kills <i>Hancock</i> is the direction. Berg's snatch-and-grab semi-documentary style worked gangbusters for <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390022/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_13"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Friday Night Lights</span></a></i>, but for the super-heroics of <i>Hancock</i>, you just get the impression that they're trying to hide some flaw in the effects from you, especially in the inevitable fisticuffs that these things seem to depend on (although the cleverer ones find ways around it).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000226/?ref_=tt_ov_st"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Will Smith</span></a> plays John Hancock, who can bend steel in his bare hands, <a href="http://www.entertainmentfuse.com/images/hancock-movie.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">but would rather bend his elbow</span></a>. He's alcoholic, down and out and super-depressed. Most super-heroes are high and flying, but Hancock takes it the wrong way, so rather than looking up in the sky for him, chances are the best place to find him is the gutter. He has powers and abilities far beyond mortal men, but no idea who he is, how he got that way, and there's no messianic father-figure to tell him the back-story. And yeah, he'll do all that super-heroic stuff, but he's too stoned out of his mind to do anything carefully—he's like a bull in a china shop, and every time he does some good, he does a lot more harm in property damage.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After saving the life of marketing maven <a href="http://images.starpulse.com/Photos/Previews/Hancock-movie-s19.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Ray Embrey</span></a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000867/?ref_=tt_ov_st"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Jason Bateman</span></a>), <a href="http://images1.fanpop.com/images/photos/1700000/Will-Smith-and-Jason-Bateman-in-Hancock-hancock-1703822-1200-800.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Hancock is taken under wing</span></a>, sobered up, read the "with great power comes great responsibility speech," and given a better public image (rather than a secret identity), a leather "sooper-suit," and is supervised in his derring-do so that he first does no harm.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Hancock</i> isn't very good, but it has an interesting take on things "Superman-ish," and when you see <i><a href="http://letsnottalkaboutmovies.blogspot.com/2013/06/man-of-steel.html"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Man of Steel</span></a></i>, the latest "official" Superman movie, you'll see some of the ideas brought back to the source—the colliding bodies, the city-wide collateral damage, and the hard edge of sci-fi aspect to things that most super-hero movies tend to miss for the musculature and myth-making. Also, the script has a literal vulnerability for the super-dude that's far more ingenious than sticks and kryptonite-stones. You wanna reduce Superman's effectiveness? Attack him through his loved ones. <i>Hancock</i> takes that one step further by making his loved ones his true weakness, making him vulnerable, and shortening his life, taking the "apart-ness" of the super-hero, bringing it from the sub-text to the foreground, and lending the whole thing a nice melancholy touch that's missing from the genre as a whole. It also brings Will Smith nicely down to earth, as well.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Marvel's <a href="http://letsnottalkaboutmovies.blogspot.com/2011/05/thor.html"><i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Thor</span></i></a> was a necessary part of <a href="http://letsnottalkaboutmovies.blogspot.com/2012/05/marvels-avengers.html"><i><span style="color: #cccccc;">The Avengers</span></i></a> puzzle—the Norse God is a little minor-ish when compared to A-listers like "Spider-man" or "Captain America" (in the comic world, anyway, where the same could be said for Iron Man) and is usually relegated to second row in group shots. That first movie was a bit "iffy" despite a Shakesperean director (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000110/?ref_=tt_ov_dr"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Kenneth Branagh</span></a>) and <a href="http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131101085430/marvelmovies/images/b/be/Asgard_DarkW.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">a rather breath-taking conceptualization of Vanaheim</span></a>. It took <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923736/?ref_=tt_ov_dr"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Joss Whedon</span></a>, though, to throw a couple of good lines into Thor's mouth (without him turning into a jokey punster) and making a grand villain out of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1089991/?ref_=tt_cl_t3"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Tom Hiddleston</span></a>'s Loki—so grand, in fact, that they brought him back for the second Thor movie,</span> <b><i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981115/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_2"><span style="color: white;">Thor: the Dark World</span></a></i></b>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This film is part of the "<a href="http://www.geekexchange.com/marvel-studios-phase-two-update-82797.html"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Marvel: Phase Two</span></a>," which I translate to "We take advantage of <i>The Avengers</i> success by trying to make hay on individual characters until <i>The Avengers 2</i> comes along." Good strategy, that. But there's the danger of watering down anticipation of that next film if they don't show some promise in the second installments, which already showed signs of rust in <i><a href="http://letsnottalkaboutmovies.blogspot.com/2013/05/iron-man-three.html"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Iron Man 3</span></a></i>. Even if you're Thor, lightning doesn't always strike twice in the same franchise.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Thor 2</i> (if we can call it that) is quite a bit lighter in tone than the first film, the first one being rather stuffy, as if there was any humor it would blow the Norse mythology segments away in a puff of whimsy. No, it was taking its playbook from Jackson's <i>The Lord of the Rings</i> trilogy where the heroes are rustic and the villains are really vile looking and the violence is over-the-top, but not so over the top as to risk an "R" rating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">It also compares to <i>TLOTR</i> by sharing the propensity for using the first six minutes or so of the film to shoe-horn as much detailed exposition intoned with doomed gravitas as can be wedged in before the title card. "Long before the birth of Light," <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000164/?ref_=tt_cl_t4"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Anthony Hopkins</span></a>' <a href="http://bestmoviesevernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/chris-hemsworth-thor-2-dark-world-movie-images-loki-1277x526.png"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Odin informs us</span></a>, "there was darkness. From the darkness, came the dark elves." That's quite a jump, but then, we have to find out about the Aether (everything in the Marvel Universe seems to be a common term spelled wrong), the Kursed on Svartalfheim, and the 5,000 year configuration of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asgard_(comics)#The_Nine_Worlds"><span style="color: #cccccc;">the nine Realms</span></a>, at which point evil with a capital "E" can take out all nine of them with having to make it a bank-shot. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malekith_the_Accursed"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Malekith</span></a> (because everybody needs to have a name that sounds like a lisp) and who is played by an unrecognizable <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001172/?ref_=tt_cl_t5"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Christopher Eccleston</span></a></span><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">* </span></b></span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">is the leader of the Dark Elves and wants the Aether all for himself, so that he can destroy the nine Realms because...well, I don't know why, it seems like a really dumb thing to do, akin to crapping where you eat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And at that point, I didn't care. I just wanted something familiar so that I could stand any chance of following the movie. Now, the last time I saw Thor, he was in <i>The Avengers</i> movie, and some mention is made of "New York," especially by <a href="http://i2.cdnds.net/13/41/618x411/movies-thor-the-dark-world-natalie-portman.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">gal-pal Jane Foster</span></a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000204/?ref_=tt_cl_t2"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Natalie Portman</span></a>), who uses it 1) as part of a "why didn't you write me for two years?" hectoring of Thor (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1165110/?ref_=tt_cl_t1"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Chris Hemsworth</span></a>, not so stodgy this time) and 2) <a href="http://theladiesfinger.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/thor-the-dark-world-second-trailer-feature.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">a chance to lash out at Loki</span></a> (Hiddleston) as if he personally took out her favorite pizza cart on Fifth (and he gets a chance to do his version of the line from <i><span style="color: #cccccc;">The Dark Knight</span></i>: "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5XiDLV2PWM"><span style="color: #cccccc;">[She's got some fight in her]. I like that</span></a>."). Plus, Dr. Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgaard) has been acting strangely—</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">making international news by </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">stripping naked with some sort of stick-devices at Stonehenge that are supposed to do some sort of astral plane alignment or something, or maybe nothing as he's a bit of a raving lunatic at this point (His excuse: "I've had a God in my head. I don't recommend it" Geez, Doc have you watched TBN lately?).</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meantime, <a href="http://turntherightcorner.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/thor-the-dark-world-movie-trailer-screenshot-loki-prison-cell.jpg?w=1024"><span style="color: #cccccc;">the already-mentioned Loki is imprisoned in As-Gitmo</span></a>, where, when he isn't using his quick-change ability, <a href="http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/0/40/3424110-thor-the-dark-world-tom-hiddleston.jpg"><span style="color: #cccccc;">he's sulking and throwing illusory daggers at people</span></a>, babbling contradictory dialogue ("You know, I've always loved our little talks because...actually I haven't"). That's some trickster. As with Hensworth's Thor, Hiddleston's Loki actually had become an interesting character in <i>The Avengers</i> movie, and although he's still a little devil, <a href="http://turntherightcorner.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/thor-the-dark-world-movie-trailer-screenshot-thor-and-loki.jpg?w=1024"><span style="color: #cccccc;">you begin to think that his motivations, if not his brains, are a little scrambled</span></a>. He does provide a couple of little quick-changes in a walk-and-talk out of Asgard, one of which might be considered a cameo appearance. He also provides the big "question mark" of the film, that is one of those things that the film-makers will either resolve, or, if they have bigger flounder to fry, will just dismiss with a line somewhere down the road.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Speaking of which, there could be considered three "stingers"—the convention of mid and post-credit "tags" in the Marvel super-hero films—in <i>Thor: the Dark World</i> that have decreasing importance, but increasing complexity (how many of these things are they going to have, not that <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003911/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr10"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Brian Tyler</span></a>'s score isn't rather fun to listen to, but sometimes I have better things to do than watch all the credits). There is the "stinger" that ends the film, and confuses the issue of what was going on; there is the second "stinger," after <a href="http://vz3.blur.com/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Blur Studio</span></a>'s main credits, that serves as a preview for another Marvel production</span><b><span style="color: #93c47d;">**</span></b><span style="color: #cccccc;">—in this case, <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2015381/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_6"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Guardians of the Galaxy</span></a></i> with a look at <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001125/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Benicio del Toro</span></a>'s "Collector" (and we'll just say two words: "tonal shift"); finally, a third stinger at the very end of the movie that's purely for "shippers" and has an "after-thought" joke, much like the "shawarma" scene from <i>The Avengers</i>. There's nothing essential to wait for, if you have a ride waiting.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">So, summing up, <i>Thor: the Dark World</i> is generally more entertaining than the last one, but not entertaining, realm-changing, or artistic enough to make it rise above the Rental category. Characters are born, characters die, and the Universe is returned to the same point it was at in the beginning of the movie, not unlike episodic TV. Nothing major is going to happen until somebody's contract runs out. In the meantime, it looks good, fulfills the action quotient, without going over the line (Hello,</span> <i><a href="http://letsnottalkaboutmovies.blogspot.com/2013/06/man-of-steel.html"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Man of Steel</span></a></i><span style="color: #cccccc;">) to the point where you think it might be better not to have superheroes "saving the day" but destroying the infrastructure. It does suffers from the Marvel "I-don't-know-but-it-sure-is-big" syndrome, where there are no rules, and merely randomness in phenomena that just show up, make a big noise and then *poof* go away, leaving us to mull over our shawarma or bowl of "Shreddies." There is no order to the Marvel Universe (as much as the tick-tock clockwork of the art direction says there is), and it's easier to take a page from "The X-Files" and just leave it unexplained. Or come up with a convenient new super-power like "amnesia kiss" to take care of it. Sometimes, rather than thinking through a problem, it's just better to hit it with a hammer to make you think it's getting better.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>** Although that's completely arbitrary, nothing is set in celluloid stone, and the solar wind is more stable than the tides of movie marketing—the cosmic villain Thanos appeared in <i>The Avengers</i>, may appear in <i>Guardians in the Galaxy</i> and definitely won't be in <i>Avengers 2</i>.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now that <i>that's</i> done, one is worried about how to write about super-hero movies in the future. There is a sameness to them that creeps from film to film—the mythos, the "givens" of selfless good and illogical (and often impractical) evil, the unquestioning quest for revenge, the brooding sky-scapes, the heavy air of portent, and the elaborate CGI. One feels like they're in the process of grading different brands of chocolate. They may be bitter or sweet, but they're all chocolate.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, in the future, as the tent-poles of the franchise circus increase in number, we're going to do reviews of super-hero movies with a basic form—a Comic-Book Movie Matrix, that should distill what the movie's about, where it fits in its own little universe, and how successful it is—as a movie-movie, and <i>maybe</i> as a representative of that character.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take a look at the list, and if you have any suggestions for what might be a critical consideration, drop a comment.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>2) Is the plot something that someone who doesn't know the comic can come in and still understand?</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>3) If not, how complicated is the back-story that is provided in the movie?</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>4) What's wrong <i>this</i> time, plot-wise?</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>5) Is the story important enough to deserve its own movie, or is this one just "marking time?"</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>6) In relation to 5): Major villain or minor villain?</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>7) Is the back-story and motivation the same as in the graphic/comics version?</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>8) How radically different is the setting of the movie version to the graphic/comics version?</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's a classic fish-on-the-prairie story as Keaton's tenderfoot and his tender-footed cow-friend find ways to get things done while not doing things in the normal cowboy fashion, and any mentioning of the lessons learned in milking, lassoing and branding a cow will only spoil the surprise. Let's just say that PETA would be proud.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The way most silent comedies work is with a long series of short bits and then an extended sequence in the final couple reels, and that was Keaton's standard blue-print, as well. The final complication involves getting the herd to market so that the ranch can pay its bills, while at the same time, saving the one cow that Keaton has become the guardian cowboy to. It involves a train-trip (a Keaton specialty) as well as one logistical movie-making nightmare—a cow stampede through the streets of roaring '20's Los Angeles, but done at a pace with a tangential series of complications that amaze.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As always seems to be the case with silent comedies, especially those of Keaton, the fewer words the better. Just seek it out and enjoy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Such a movie is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Ford_Coppola">Francis Ford Coppola</a>'s <a href="http://www.thegodfather.com/"><i><b>The Godfather</b></i></a>.<span style="color: #cc33cc;"><strong>*</strong></span> There are speeches throughout the thing where the characters justify the things they do and explain their paths. But the opening is significantly powerful and all-encompassing. Its first few minutes, with a character that is, in the scheme of things, unimportant, sets up an entire world. The world of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia">La Cosa Nostra</a> doesn't operate like the real world, but it does operate like a mad-house magnified version of the Corporate World. Make a mistake and it's not your job--it goes a step further--into your grave, or an anonymous cornerstone. The fiefdom of The Godfather with its favors, its fealty and its family ties has rules of honor and service far tighter than a mere contract can bestow, a necessity for order when working to bend rules and subvert honesty. In the topsy-turvy underworld The Godfather demands loyalty, friendship and respect from the very men who do not respect the ways or the rules of the rest of the world. And for those intangibles he will use his sway to make the world bend to your needs. In the first few minutes of <i>The Godfather</i> a desperate man—pointedly and ironically, an undertaker<strong><span style="color: #6aa84f;">**</span></strong>—asks of Don Vito Corleone (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000008/">Marlon Brando</a>) to re-align his immigrant's dream of a perfect life in America, which has now been threatened, for both his family and his soul. He has tread the righteous path up until now, but it has failed him, and in desperation he turns to the one man he had hoped to avoid for fear of losing that dream. He must now go to the devil to beat the devil, as Faith is no longer enough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: courier new;"><strong>Bonasera:</strong> Beautiful girl. Now she will never be beautiful again. Sorry. Sorry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: courier new;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><strong>Bonasera:</strong> Tell me anything, but do what I beg you to do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: courier new;"><strong>Corleone:</strong> That I cannot do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New;"><strong>Bonasera:</strong> I’ll give you anything you ask.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New;"></span><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><strong>Corleone:</strong> We’ve known each other many years, but this the first time you ever came to me for council or for help. </span><span style="font-family: Courier New;">I can’t remember the last time you invited me to your house for a cup of coffee. Even though my wife is god-mother to your only child.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New;"><strong>Corleone:</strong> But let’s be frank. You never wanted my friendship...and...you were afraid to be in my debt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: courier new;"><strong>Bonasera:</strong> I didn’t want to get into trouble.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New;"><strong>Corleone:</strong> I understand. You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a good living, the police protected you and there were courts of law. But, uh...now you come to me and you say “Don Corleone, give me justice.” But you don’t ask with respect. You don’t offer friendship. You don’t even think to call me “Godfather.” Instead you come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to commit murder...for money.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New;"><strong>Bonasera:</strong> I ask you for justice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: courier new;"><strong>Corleone:</strong> Bonasera...Bonasera...What did I ever do to make you treat my so disrespectfully. If you’d come to me in friendship, then this scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: courier new;"><strong>Corleone:</strong> And if a honest man like yourself should make enemies, they would become my enemies...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: courier new;"><strong>Corleone:</strong> And then they will fear you.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">** "Bonasera" is played by Salvatore Corsitto, a "novice" actor, who showed up at an open casting session. His undertaker feels real, and his performance at the opening of the film gives it an emotional weight that evokes empathy--he gains the sympathy of the audience from the way his monolog is played, and that sympathy is a gateway to the plight of the immigrant in America, and an argument for the subsequent reliance on "social clubs" and "secret societies" to gain a modicum of power in this country . Marlon Brando called it the best performance in the movie. Considering the talent involved in <i>The Godfather</i>--Pacino, Caan, Duvall, Keaton, Cazale, Hayden, Marley, Conte, Castellano, Brando himself...that's a tremendous compliment. But it's true. Perhaps because of the familiarity of his face and voice, or for the fact that he wasn't a "professional" actor--or the residuals from this one movie and its many versions--Corsitto has only appeared in one other film...on television.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What it is is the first original screenplay by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0565092/?ref_=ttfc_fc_wr1"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Cormac McCarthy</span></a>—he also exec-produced—and directed, with a lavish budget for just about everything, including dirt, by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000631/?ref_=ttfc_fc_dr1"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Ridley Scott</span></a>, who one should now probably call a "stylist," rather than a director. Everything looks great. But, again, one wonders if Scott read the script beyond descriptions. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like so much of McCarthy's work, it is dark and gritty and nihilistic—in a hopeful, moral kind of way; in other words, it's a story or very bad people doing very bad things from the point of view of a person who is tsk-ing in the background. Perfect director for this would have been Martin Scorsese. But, it's Ridley Scott who, given his past, seems to have a lot of sympathy for the devil (<i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_23"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Blade Runner</span></a></i>, <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089469/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_22"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Legend</span></a></i>, <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212985/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_14"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Hannibal</span></a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325805/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_12"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Matchstick Men</span></a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765429/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_8"><span style="color: #cccccc;">American Gangster</span></a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_5"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Prometheus</span></a></i>), indeed, in his last movie, the hero was, once again, a synthetic human being with its own sense of ethics. That synth was played, rather brilliantly, by Michael Fassbender, which is why he's the titular lead.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The thing about novelists doing screenplays and writing for the movies is they're slumming, unless they see themselves as legitimate film-makers (see the Coen Brothers or John Sayles). Maybe McCarthy couldn't flesh out his characters for the novel form. Maybe he wanted to see what a film-maker wanted to do with a work he wasn't happy with and see what the collaborative process would produce. Maybe he wanted to make some money. But, for whatever reason, McCarthy chose to do this as a film, and not a fully thought out novel.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maybe he just didn't like it. It's extraordinarily simplistic—<i>The Counselor</i> spends the first half warning its protagonist "Don't do this" and casually mentioning ways in which people can be killed, usually involving decapitation ("it's just business"). Once he's "locked in," it spends the second half eliminating most of the cast in precisely the ways that have been described in the first half. It answers the question that is contained in a couple iof questions in that first half—"Why am I telling you this?" Obviously, so we can anticipate it being used later and knowing what's happening. In other words, literally, the first half of <i>The Counselor</i> is a prolonged "you just don't get it, do you?" speech. The second half, he gets it (I'd warn about spoilers here, but everything is telegraphed fairly early on, even "the surprise" puppet-master of the thing).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One interesting aspect of <i>The Counselor</i> is the cast...or, at least, the cast as it once was. Fassbender was always going to be in it, evidently, but the others were going to be real-life couples <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000093/?ref_=tt_cl_t9"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Brad Pitt</span></a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001401/"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Angelina Jolie</span></a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000849/?ref_=tt_cl_t4"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Javier Bardem</span></a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004851/?ref_=tt_ov_st"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Penélope Cruz</span></a>, but slightly scrambled so that Bardem and Jolie would be a couple and Fassbender and Cruz would be paired. At some point, Jolie dropped out and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000139/?ref_=tt_ov_st"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Cameron Diaz</span></a> was cast in her role. She's as fine as everybody else in the cast, but the dialog is difficult for swallow. Take for example, this:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I remember a scene from the Elia Kazan film of <i>The Last Tycoon</i> where movie mogul Monroe Stahr in a fit of pique exits a screening saying "'And I, you...' nobody TALKS like that." Everybody talks like that in <i>The Counselor</i>, everybody's vocabulary is up to snuff, and everybody has the time to ponder and philosophize. But what their philosophy centers around is Nature, "red in tooth and claw." But Nature doesn't have the time to think about what it is doing, except strategically. If there is a slaughter to come for the human race, the meek won't inherit the Earth, but evidently the pretentious will. </span><br />
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