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« Reply #10575 on: July 29, 2010, 02:14:12 PM » |
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It is so scintillating in here, let's annoy everybody.
Remember yesterday,when we took a vote on today's best leading men(now middle-aged, but hey....) because Leo was box office this week for Inception?
Today's headlines from Germany, involving the so-called younger generation professionals of jurisprudence, reminded me of that scene where, if you recall, DiCaprio is shown in the background scenario for: Shutter Island, using his gun, upon the liberation of a concentration camp, and targeting the personnel; some of whom may have been as young as this --
Gruesome charges detailed against suspected Nazi
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
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AP
http://www.aolnews.com/story/gruesome-charges-detailed-against/1186204?cid=13
88-Year-Old Alleged Nazi Guard Charged in Youth Court
http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/88-year-old-alleged-nazi-guard-samuel-kunz-charged-in-german-youth-court/19573123?icid=main|htmlws-main-tarana|dl1|link6|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aolnews.com%2Fworld%2Farticle%2F88-year-old-alleged-nazi-guard-samuel-kunz-charged-in-german-youth-court%2F19573123
To be absolutely sure we understood the point of DiCaprio's character, we are given another scene in which he discovered the camp-kommandant who had attempted suicide by shooting himself in the head but hadn't quite succeeded. Martin Scorsese wants to be sure we get the point of agonist Teddy Daniels' behaviour.
I feel the same way about making the point how Kracow differs but in what way from Belzec where Samuel Kunz was employed., so have included the web-site which is quite definitive of how the ancient city was described by the German occupation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kracow
This was the home of Roman Polanski after his parents returned to Poland from Paris when he was four years old. The following year, the Anschluss brought the Germans to Austria, and then Czechoslovakia and Poland.
I once read the book on the German development of Poland's Ozwiecim, a city separate from which there was a duplication that the Germans called Auschwitz. But, I read it back in the days of the ongoing OJ Simpson trial so, I remember the graphs and maps and photos of a very Germanic village for German personnel better than any other factors, considering how another writer Daniel Jonah Goldhagen* foot-noted that, back in Germany, small local concentration camps were strewn about every 2 and 1/2 miles.
In that regard, Polanski was lucky that his parents could not afford to go anywhere else but back to Krakow,an urbane cultural center. Nevertheless he describes escaping Krakow ghetto and their committee selection( his Catholic mother having died at Auschwitz) and, if he ran as other boys had (as I previously mentioned) reporters say one thing or the other in the last thirty plus years --from Gailey case then and now.
They even say that Judge Rittenband liked to wear a dress when he went to some parties; but they vary about 10 year old Polanski as to whether it was a Catholic farmer or a priest who hid him after he ran. So what did he tell Jerzy Koskinski? Whatever it was, does not mean that Kosinski wrote exactly what he had heard in confidence.
* Goldhagen wrote: Hitler's Willing Executioners (and was a very popular speaker for whom German audiences turned out en masse after the Berlin Book Fair), which I read in Spring'97 before seeing my brother for the last time, and beginning the search for a place to live in Lancaster County-- following the application of the new tax code on inventory. Which was apparently a way for the former senior Republican administration to afford the planned junior continuance of war in the Middle-East.
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« Reply #10576 on: July 29, 2010, 02:45:19 PM » |
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Ps.
If Polanski's parents hadn't left Paris before the Nazis arrived on their grande march into their favorite tourism city, he would probably have ended up in Drancy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DrancyConcentrationCamp.jpg
as an uncared for "enfant" among the elderly (who as you know are both despised by the middle-aged and that feeder group the youthful who can still propagate). He would then have been placed in the railway-car on the siding in the back courtyard where the gate once opened allowed the car to follow the tracks on the other side. If he had not already slipped on the human excrement of all the steps of what is still today a multiple storied housing complex at suburb Ste.Denis. The area today is home to what used to be called the "Arab" population.
http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/GALLKR/KDRAN04.htm
Then we would never have seen all those movies....
http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/GALLKR/KBOBI02.htm
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« Reply #10577 on: July 29, 2010, 03:56:52 PM » |
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Whiskey
Yes, the joke is that there would be anything to seriously debunk there....and the line in the article that said Gere had RARELY spoken about the matter, as if that were worth remarking on. Was anyone expecting that Gere would be more forthcoming, bring the matter up on talk shows and in press conferences, maybe? "I want to talk to you all today about the rumors that I like to stick gerbils up my ass...."
Nutshell review:
Inception sucked. So much talent wasted. Way too comic booky for such a subtle idea. This is a "gimmick film," like Memento.
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« Reply #10578 on: July 29, 2010, 05:32:53 PM » |
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"...I like to stick gerbils up my ass...."
I never believed that story
any way. I was pretty sure
it was actually Schwarzenegger
with the gerbil.
Well, well, my fellow moviegoers—
Knoxharrington, Gere, Harrie, even Schwarzenegger…
So many needy erotic assholes—
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« Reply #10579 on: July 29, 2010, 11:21:19 PM » |
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It's funnier when there is wit, which you lack, of late.
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« Reply #10580 on: July 30, 2010, 02:15:41 AM » |
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« Reply #10581 on: July 30, 2010, 09:22:13 AM » |
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RIP Melba. Catch you later.
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« Reply #10582 on: July 30, 2010, 11:04:13 AM » |
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Oh, no, not again! Knoxharrington, say it isn't so!
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« Reply #10583 on: July 30, 2010, 12:19:03 PM » |
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Who is left in here to let me in on the secret of which movie is worth viewing out there at the teeny-agers favorite hang-out, this weekend?
Nada, nobody in the house now?that Gint, and Barton, and Knox Harrington have left the building; while the foul fiend of FriscU has taken over like the new landlord in here.
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« Reply #10584 on: July 30, 2010, 12:37:19 PM » |
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« Reply #10585 on: July 30, 2010, 02:21:45 PM » |
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Puget: You've cleared out all the regulars, what's wrong with you, boy??
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« Reply #10586 on: July 30, 2010, 10:08:50 PM » |
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That's all right, I don't need him to find a movie. I may have to wait a day as my schedule was all screwed up as a result of changes here but Mark Ruffalo is fine with me, in: The Kids are all right....
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« Reply #10587 on: July 30, 2010, 10:15:38 PM » |
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Movies find you, maud, movies find you.
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« Reply #10588 on: July 30, 2010, 10:21:29 PM » |
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Here's the New Yorker on The Kids Are All Right:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2010/07/12/100712crci_cinema_lane?currentPage=2
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« Reply #10589 on: July 30, 2010, 11:31:49 PM » |
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Wow. Thanks, maud, this feels like I just took a fantastic dump, on the other hand, I guess that feels like re-birth, or recrimination here in the south to some here.
Oh, LORD, I never thought it would COME TO THIS?
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