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Germany, I was just kidding. Don't gas me.
ok, i was just kidding about that, too. its all good.
this. and taunting John with the postcards was just another way for him to have fun, to let John know he was onto him from the start.
there is no reason to believe the post-cards were a set up - Wwarwick knew one was out in the box, read the con immediately. he's crazy, but not stupid.
the guy is functioning as an LEO, so he has to be able to keep the details somewhat in order. all this requires a good deal of suspension of disbelief, of course. that said, you can find some pretty incredible stories of crazy killer cops on-line IRL.
your funny
the people are quite funny, just like everywhere, except maybe germany.
i suppose you react against the seeming levity associated with brutality. ok, but then again, remember there is such a thing as gallows humor, originally rendered by the people headed for the gallows.
sometimes history plays out as black comedy.
i can certainly envision this critical period as ripe for such a treatment. its historically accurate that, as stalin laid there stroking all night, everyone was too terrified to go into the room - to help him.
now -that- is funny.
it was hilarious, largerly adhered in the main to historical events, looked right at the brutal reality underneath the slapstick.
this is a very tight film.
you know, that makes sense, but he's only down for 10 episodes in IMDB. perhaps those are manipulated to prevent reveals. iow, you are probably right - otherwise, too big a gap in his development.
yes. you've brought my attention to the archetypes, the sociological/class themes at work. its clear that this is a film with a thesis - beyond the, youknow, sister-banging may be hazardous to your mental health bit.
i think you are close to it. i suppose with the siblings, you have the downwardly-mobile sister and upwardly-mobile brother - prior to her marriage. her upstart status leaves her with vertigo, she claws out to her brother, then uses him like an abused step-child, for motives, beyond self-serving one-upmanship, i have yet to discern.
your post is old, you may be dead, but dead or alive, i enjoyed it very much.
over thinking. john was her creature. she could control his thinking.
she probably mind-melded a thought like: if you ever go upstairs, i'm going to beat the living crap out of you.
he was, after all, a dainty boy. a love slave.
one more thing: its all nonsense anyway - like the kids who used to write into DC comics kvetching about the physics violations.
that said, i loved this film, consider it one of the truer horror films ever made in the genre. yeah, the locked up in a box thing. gets me every time.
"They make Butler seem like a bad-ass, then Costner just walks up to him and shoots him in the head and Butler just stands there like a dumbass."
that's because he just got shot in the head, and hadn't fallen yet. but yeah, after you get a bullet in the head, its probably normal to assume a dumbass expression.
its been a while, but the mexican kid strumbles into town, iirc, to see what befell his buddy, who got his head cracked in.
i've always wondered if they cut that fight scene, or just implied it. would have been something to see.
one possible explanation already given.
mine, which i obviously think more likely, the transplants were not perfect fits - the mind-meld was a hack.
but a piece of grandpa is better than no grandpa at all.
its all a story device, anyway.
the point of this movie was to satirize white racial attitudes. mainly, our hypocrisy.
as a white person, i feel qualified to make that assessment.
in terms of content, it is the most important film i've seen in a long time, certainly many years.
devastating wit, metaphor, thematic heft.
if you are white and offended by it .... awesome :)
they are the best beasts. that was one of the themes.
rather than thinking literally, think historically/sociologically. its metaphor.
all those tinkerings would pretty much either sap the drama, or render the characters less compelling (same thing, really). this important film's principle theme, as i see it, is the impact of class upon perception, privilege, power.
part of that class demonstration is the striving for status. the captain already has it, the foreman wants it (and her). hence, conflict.
Wyler very skillfully uses that reality to challenge viewers preconceptions about the 'propriety' of the two families, and the foreman. perhaps in different directions. the sea captain gets to be the noble patrician, confident in his place, well-armed to defend it. all of it emblematic of the confidently elitist, yet moralizing, humanistic can-do uplift of that era.
Sorry for all the p's. I can't help myself.
its one of my favorites
others
red river
the searchers
one-eyed jacks
shane
ft apache
she wore a yellow ribbon
open range
how did he do that? yes, my hat is off to him, he has restored a very important film commentary archive.
he was shopping for a watch.
milk me.
Ray is getting in touch with being touched, doing the odd murder for hire.
its a living.
Ivar is a cunning genius. Bringing in the Huns to win his war isn't exactly what you'd expect from such a canny guy.
OK, they had a personnel shortage. But you can always raise an army, without giving away the farm.
I don't mind the historical re-arrangments/embellishments, but this defies character development. However,
this series is not usually sloppy, so perhaps an explanation will be forthcoming.
iceland, the only place where the magma meets the surface of the planet.
i'm thinking the first voyage landed on iceland. Odin played a funny joke.
anyway, Floki is being sacrificed, to be reborn in Westworld. He looks a bit different. Doesn't laugh the same.
they are hinted at in the costumes of the hosts, i believe (i could be mistaken).
its conceivable that other 'narratives' would have had different historical settings.
the main point being, you can imply something, which is cheap, without producing it, which is expensive.