349th Heavy Weapons Crew
Joined May 2000
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I saw Rollerball when it first hit the theaters, believed Director's Jewison's warning about corporate world take-over, and was engrossed by the action. When it was first shown on network television I was greatly disappointed with the 'full-screen' version. Today television history was made when Turner Classic Movies aired Rollerball's original theatrical, wide-screen version. This is what I waited 25 years to see. It exceeded my every expectation. A great movie with a relevant social messsage that is being borne out today before our very eyes.
Good World War II romantic drama with excellent performances by Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotton and 16-year old Shirley Temple.
"I'll Be Seeing You" looks at the effects of a kind of `battle fatigue' known then as "old sergeant's syndrome". This particular form of post-traumatic stress occurred in battle-seasoned noncommissioned officers. After a dreadful encounter with someone's guard dog Sgt. Zachary Morgan, on leave from an Army mental hospital, experiences a very realistic and dramatically effective "flash back". Through judicious camera editing you see Joseph Cotton affect the appropriate 'sweat response', as his forehead, chest, shoulders and armpits become progressively more sweat-drenched. Very realistic!
This movie also subtly delivers the message that none of us are perfect and that open-mindedness and compassion are virtues called for under difficult circumstances.
"I'll Be Seeing You" looks at the effects of a kind of `battle fatigue' known then as "old sergeant's syndrome". This particular form of post-traumatic stress occurred in battle-seasoned noncommissioned officers. After a dreadful encounter with someone's guard dog Sgt. Zachary Morgan, on leave from an Army mental hospital, experiences a very realistic and dramatically effective "flash back". Through judicious camera editing you see Joseph Cotton affect the appropriate 'sweat response', as his forehead, chest, shoulders and armpits become progressively more sweat-drenched. Very realistic!
This movie also subtly delivers the message that none of us are perfect and that open-mindedness and compassion are virtues called for under difficult circumstances.
As a teen in the 60s I idolized this film. Cary Grant and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. were my idols far more than many of the then current crop of young movie and TV idols, and the British could do no wrong. Everything about this movie seemed first rate for me and so it was with great enthusiasm that I watched Gunga Din this morning the first time in decades. Now however I find its caricature of India's dedicated freedom fighters, the Kali-devoted thugees, just as sickening and racist as its simpleminded characterization of Gunga Din.
Throwing a little reality into all that has been said about Gunga Din, thugees were more akin to the French Resistance fighters of German Occupied France during WWII. Thugees did indeed kill thousands of Indians during their struggle to oust the British, but those deaths were actually the execution of those who collaborators with the foreign invader.
As much as I would like to continue to cherish this old classic for "old times sake", I am forced to conclude (and this isn't an exact quote): that when I was a child I spoke as a child and thought as a child, but when I grew up I had to put away childish things.
Throwing a little reality into all that has been said about Gunga Din, thugees were more akin to the French Resistance fighters of German Occupied France during WWII. Thugees did indeed kill thousands of Indians during their struggle to oust the British, but those deaths were actually the execution of those who collaborators with the foreign invader.
As much as I would like to continue to cherish this old classic for "old times sake", I am forced to conclude (and this isn't an exact quote): that when I was a child I spoke as a child and thought as a child, but when I grew up I had to put away childish things.