Posted on 06/24/2019 7:15:27 AM PDT by simpson96
Insignificance is a 1985 comedy-drama film set in 1954, with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City. The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era - Marilyn Monroe, Joseph McCarthy, Joe DiMaggio, and Albert Einstein - called The Actress, The Senator, The Ballplayer, and The Professor, respectively.
Scene from "Insignificance" (1985), the ‘actress’ explains the theory of relativity
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Excellent flick.
Haven’t looked at it (I would have read the script, but I don’t look at video), but you know, of course, that Marilyn Monroe had a high IQ, as does Raquel Welch. Not high enough to keep her from trying to blackmail the President of the United States, but that kind of thing carries its own natural & logical consequences.
Never heard of it. I recommend ‘A Face in the Crowd”. It’s like a movie about Bill Clinton made before Bubby was born!
I like Steven Wright’s take on it:
He’s in a job interview and asks the interviewer:
Wright: “If a car is traveling at the speed of light and turns on the headlights, what happens?”
Interviewer: “I don’t know.”
Wright: “Then I don’t want to work for you.”
“that Marilyn Monroe had a high IQ,”
I am 72 and this is the first time I have seen that. Where did you see it?
The first half of Face is terrific; then it hammers home the same point again and again and again...
The scenarios presented in that scene were exactly the same as my required “Modern Physics” course, which I took in the fall of 1985. The class was basically Special Relativity. Really interesting, but brutally tough, and stuff nobody would ever use again.
“Have you ever noticed that ‘what the hell’ is always the right decision?”
I saw it once, which was enough for me. Not one of Kazan's more subtle films. I have read on other message boards that Andy Griffith in real life was almost as big an asshole as Lonesome Rhodes.
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