Your "ideal man" sits in the basement whacking off to pron in this rotten society! not even he can stop the corruption brought upon by hordes of parasites! It its any consolation, it will be the fires of War that will resurrect him like a phoenix but it will be a rising out of a lot of Ashes....a lot!
Most things are ugly in large part because of regulation, some of which actually have a positive effect on human lives. Fire codes, building codes, safety inspections, all of these things have been written in blood through the years. A brick arch bridge may be beautiful, but might collapse in an earthquake; a cute town with narrow streets may be a fire deathtrap, as the fire spreads quickly, and fire crews can't get to them. And cars.. the beautiful steel beasts of the 50s and 60s were death traps for anyone in an accident, so lawyers and engineers now make them soulless, but much safer. In short, insurance runs the world, and if it can't be insured, it doesn't get built or sold. To comply with regulations around the world, everything is well.. ugly.
High Noon is the favorite among several presidents USA and Polish (it helped elect Lech Walesa!) but John Wayne hated it, calling it the most un-american thing he'd ever seen
He is not interested in manipulating the world to his preferred outcome. He sacrifices his present toward what is right and lets the future consequences follow. With the faith that the future will be the best it can possibly be, if he partners with and sacrifices life to live it this way.
Great commentary and great review. I remember the scripture where it says God chooses the simple things to do his work. i think that includes High Noon, its a wonderful life and Charlie brown Christmas.( Also, your fine analysis. God bless and thanks.
Gary Cooper and John Wayne they are the standard that men are measured by both actors their real life personality is them on screen no BS just you see who they are as a man. Nothing like the BS Hollywood puts out today.
Great to see your thoughts on a movie again Gary. I think its really interesting what you are saying about movies and culture focusing on that transition point and point of dissolution more and more as we anticipate it coming up in our own lives. I almost feel after you mention it (though may be completely wrong), that the really famous WW2 movies have reflected that shift to explore a world in dissolution. If you compare a Pearl Harbour and Saving Private Ryan to a Fury for example or even an Imitation Game, things are a little less glamourous, a little less about an unchanging courageous spirit that braves it through the war to something perhaps less hopeful and more morally gray. Its not across the board of course but maybe part of the move to 'grittier' movies and TV that audiences supposedly want is a desire to see things in dissolution.
I was reading this about CS Lewis from Surprised by Joy and I consider it is pertinent: His conversion from Theism to Christianity is not described as “emotional”: ‘It was more like when a man, after long sleep, still lying motionless in bed, becomes aware that he is now awake. And it was, like that moment on top of the bus, ambiguous. Freedom, or necessity? Or do they differ in their maximum? At that maximum a man is what he does; there is nothing of him left over or outside the act.’ At that maximum a man is what he does.
I believe the filmmakers said the title is from Japan being "at zero", so to speak, because of their defeat at the end of the war, and then the appearance of Godzilla bringing them down one more notch to "minus one". BTW, your video about On The Waterfront is part of the reason I now own a copy. I love your videos.
Cool, that's insightful. Looks like I wasn't too far off their thinking. Thank you for the encouragement. I'm going to try to get another movie commentary up this week.
Good to see you again, Gary. Hope everything is good with you and your family. Hopefully this hints at a fuller return to RU-vid. Your insights are always thought-provoking, and always welcome. Best wishes to you, sir.
Hello! Thanks for your message. Yes, everything is good with the family and we've been enjoying going into Glacier National Park a lot lately. Trying to get back more regular! I'm working on finishing up another one today.
Good video. Contemporary ugliness is the result of modernism, the ideology that promotes progress over any other consideration, progress for the sake of progress, and preferably technological progress. But the only real progress is qualitative progress and that means there is enough reason to look at beautiful things and learn from them. In architecture, painting and (serious) music there are already many successful attempts at creating beauty, and not the superficial beauty of kitsch, but meaningful beauty: new classical architecture, new figurative painting, new classical music. It can be done. Only, establishments still don't accept it because to them it seems 'oldfashioned'. But beauty cannot age, so any beautiful thing from the past has still all of its own meaning today and in the future.
Kane returns to Hadleyville, not because of his estimation of the shortcomings of the townspeople, but because he knows that Frank Miller will pursue him, and he'll be out there on the prairie alone without a gun, unable to defend himself. In the film, there's never a strong indication that Kane is acting on behalf of the citizens, nor are they willing to act on his or their own behalf. Of course, it's long been understood that the film is an allegory for the McCarthy years in the United States. Kane is isolated and abandoned, not by the thugs coming to kill him (the House Committee on Un-American Activities), but by the friends and colleagues who desperately want to avoid being drawn into the battle. Carl Foreman, the author of the script, was blacklisted. Though he was put in the position of presenting the best actor Oscar to Gary Cooper, the arch-conservative John Wayne always objected to the film. It may seem that I'm taking serious exception to the narration. I'm not. It's really quite good and admirable.
I will make my family proud by one day being a pilot and eventually captain on a 787-9 this happens when i put efforts, discipline and hard work and also blessings from Sai Baba and Lord Shiva
I will make my family proud by one day being a pilot and eventually captain on a 787-9 and this will happen from discipline hard work effort and blessings from Sai Baba and Lord Shiva
Probably one the best "historic" movie ever. A brilliant review. In 2002 when i got the dvd for my ps2 with surround system it was the amazing soundtrack of Hans Zimmer, the raspy voice of maximus that left an impression. The speech on horseback, bombastic audio. When you come into a place where everybody gives you a nod you feel like Maximus. Well deserved oscar for Russel Crowe. Are you not entertained!!!😎
I was 11 when this movie came out in cinema. My generation (89') was raised under the idea that one day all boys will one day become men and for that we need guidance, conviction and other valuable traits from an early age. Such traits are beautifully displayed by Maximus. However, the reality we find ourselves today (2024) in, is unexpectedly different. The media has unfairly made us the enemy, the ones responsible for the decay of society through a so called "patriarchy" that is simply a social system established by the world since ancient history and because of that, we have been marginalized, outcasted and we are loosing our purpose in the process. The establishment has turned the women and other minorities against us, the very providers of the social fabric of civilization. Even some men today agree with the fact that we are supposed to be more "submissive" which is completely backwards to what we've been taught throughout our youth. If all of this is true, this could mean that we are the last batch of a dying breed of men. Am I the only one that thinks this way? Drop a like if I'm wrong...
I'm a dude that is new to cars. gonna buy my first car in less than a month probably. the amount of ugly second hand cars on the market is so huge, and I'm not talking dirty. I mean design wise. the car design on almost any car is if it were trendy, not timeless. my mom said she thought all men don't care about the color and looks of the car. well. I don't give a fck and I'm willing to spend more to get something I'll actually enjoy looking at when I drive. funnily enough I can't accept a car that doesn't have at least fake real materials. or that is too gloomy and depressing like all black interior.
