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To: Reaganesque

There’s a premise that I see a lot in the movies these days. It’s one that proposes the best leaders were the worst kids. That’s NOT a great message to send out to all the kids that will go to see this movie.

I wonder how far they will take this premise into the movie. Is he a rag tag scoundrel until he is gifted leadership? Once again, not a very good message for children viewing the movie.


21 posted on 03/06/2009 9:00:14 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Resolved: Gregg, McCain, Snowe, Spectre: 2010, Collins, Graham: 2014)
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To: DoughtyOne

Actually in times of war some of our best leaders have been people who were misfits as kids. They don’t fit into polite society well, but gawd are they good commanders when it counts. Grant comes to mind as does Patton and Napolean. None were good with the polite society stuff, but they could win wars. As could Halsey, LeMay, Montegomery, Forest and others.


34 posted on 03/06/2009 9:29:11 AM PST by redangus
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To: DoughtyOne

>I wonder how far they will take this premise into the movie. Is he a rag tag scoundrel until he is gifted leadership? Once again, not a very good message for children viewing the movie.

I liked the way his growing up was handled in “Best Destiny.” I know, not canon. He was a scoundrel, pure and simple. A gangster. A hood. Because he went to space and almost got executed by Kodos. Five years or so later, his dad drags him to space again and the young hoodlum is forced to grow up fast or he, his Dad, Captain Robert April, and a few others are going to die. One of the turning points is when Jimmie meets the pirates and realizes he was looking at his potential future.


96 posted on 03/06/2009 2:24:35 PM PST by Frank L
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To: DoughtyOne
There’s a premise that I see a lot in the movies these days.

It's all about the premises. Very often there will be a credible, accepted, and popular primary premise (e.g., destroying the enemy is the mark of a hero) that conceals the real objective: acceptation of a questionable secondary premise.

108 posted on 03/06/2009 4:15:25 PM PST by cornelis
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To: DoughtyOne
There’s a premise that I see a lot in the movies these days. It’s one that proposes the best leaders were the worst kids. That’s NOT a great message to send out to all the kids that will go to see this movie.

Shakespeare, Henry IV. It's actually one of the oldest plot devices in the book . . .

115 posted on 03/06/2009 6:24:32 PM PST by RansomOttawa (tm)
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