Caine is a Leftist dweeb. But I loved much of his stuff! So, Happy Birthday, and thanks for the entertainment!
Posted on 03/17/2023 5:46:07 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Michael Caine turned 90 this week. I can hardly believe it.
Caine was born in 1933, and like his irreplaceable contemporaries — Robert Duvall (Born 1931) and Clint Eastwood (born 1930) — he keeps on keeping on. How fortunate we are for that.
If you read Caine’s superb 1992 autobiography, What’s It All About?, you’ll discover that his true contemporaries were legends like Peter O’Toole and Terence Stamp and that he grew frustrated watching their careers explode while he scraped along…
But he hung in there, and stardom finally arrived at the ripe old age of 31 with Zulu (1964), a supporting role he basically lucked into. Zulu ended up being a box office hit (and is now rightly regarded as a classic), and in it, Caine proved he was something special: a true actor who was also a movie star, a leading man capable of character roles. But, most of all, there is his depth, a bottomless reservoir of Something’s-Going-On-Down-There-And-Something’s-Going-To-Happen. Without opening his mouth, Caine’s mere presence gives his every character a history and emotional life.
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That is intense and fascinating.
And then there was his role in the comedy “Mr. Destiny”.
Even worse, putting elected officials on pedestals. AND, building them grand cathedrals to do their job in, like the Congressional building. That becomes the church for them, our royalty. Marble, statuary halls, free meals, luxurious accommodations, and they quickly lose their ability to relate, because they don't want to, why would they. Then they parley that into millions - it's a corrupt system, no more commoners. The solution is to move Congress, and use common buildings, and strip away the privledge, and enact term limits.n
Your in-laws have a sauce that’s used by the public ?
Actors (musicians, artists etc.) exercise their craft in public ergo the public commentary.
So far to my knowledge your in-laws haven’t reached enough of the public for public commentary much less appreciation.
Caine has been in a lot of great movies, and more than a few bombs. I think he just liked to work, and he really liked the money.
That’s a bingo! Unwittingly, you just made an argument on why propaganda works on people.
And then they prosecute and jail citizens for even daring to walk into these buildings. People do not even know that one could, at one time, walk up to the White House and the President would let you in. Lincoln did this.
Rowdy drunks slept in Lincoln's WH.
A fine chap, he is.
You’re engaged in the fallacy of category error. The subject of the thread is a person who plies his craft before the public and is appreciated by that public.
You asked why someone (who I assume are people who ply their craft in private) weren’t also publicly appreciated.
The answer is a simple, they’re not in the same category (public vs. private).
Propaganda has no connection. Propaganda is targeted to the public but it doesn’t mean the public appreciates it.
That’s well beyond recent times
Yes a good movie
Indeed how to stay classy
He mastered his trade few do.
His wife is a Muslim.
“My wife is a Muslim and she does Muslim stuff; I’m a Christian and I do Christian stuff, and no questions ever come up. The media view of Muslims is different from mine, which is very benign and peaceful.”
Wow, I did not know that.
Thank you. Bummer.
She’s an apostate then.
Caine is a Leftist dweeb. But I loved much of his stuff! So, Happy Birthday, and thanks for the entertainment!
That was a great scene.
Hahahaha, I was grinning the whole time while I put it together as a GIF...:)
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