Posted on 02/05/2005 7:10:28 PM PST by churchillbuff
The movies Huston directed existed in a moral universe: the bad guys were either arrested or killed in the end. Does Clint's movie have a similiar exploration of consequences? (I haven't seen it so I don't know.)
He's just trying to solve the Social Security dilemma.
That sounds like something a person with an AGENDA would say!!!!! What are you hiding????
I think that he is either independant or no party afiliation is needed for that mayorship.
Yup. Clint's okay.
I get a little cranky with FReepers who think a filmmaker can't explore an issue or a topic they might not agree with without being "branded." That's the kind of thing the Libs do with Mel Gibson, for one handy example.
Agree BUT I want to change "FReepers who think a filmmaker can't explore an issue or a topic they might not agree with" to "people" who think a filmmaker can't explore an issue or a topic they might not agree with."
There really is no way for many of us interactive internet board readers to know who is posting on internet boards.
Ain't that the case ... Good point!
Well and truly put, Proust. "Yes, Angel, I'm going to send you over," said Humphrey Bogart to Mary Astor, when she asked him to cover for her murder of his partner. She went to the big house - and probably the chair - - because Bogart's Sam Spade knew that was what had to happen. """Well, when one of your organization gets killed, it's, it's bad business to let the killer get away with it, bad all around, bad for every detective everywhere.""" ------ Maltese Falcon
Re: Post 44, cat and hanging man: Good one!
If I want to kill myself, I'd just do it. It happens thousands of times a day. And 99.9% of them didn't need or ask for help.
at the time though Clint was regarded as maybe not conservative in the way you or I think of it but as the Republican compared to the opposition.........he doesn't like to talk about politics very much but is still thought of as to the right
You don't think art should be challenging or thoughtful?
The assisted suicide in question literally takes place at the very end. It would make no sense to give away the direct ending of a movie. No matter what it was.
Why hasn't anyone mentioned Chris Reeves? Same predicament, so should he have yanked the respirator years ago?
The Nazis would have loved the film's ending. I saw a while back a Nazi propaganda drama extolling the heroine for getting her doc to give her lethal meds because she had MS. The German term translated to something like "Like Unworthy of Life." Showed scened of cretins and others, "unworthy of life."
The thing is though that Reeves didn't want to die. The character in this movie did. No one was pressuring her to. In fact the Eastwood character tries to talk her out of it. It's certainly not presented as something cheerful or easy.
If you haven't seen it yet, go see 'Coach Carter'. Based on a true story, and it's great.
Exactly.
Some of these replies sound like what one would expect of the DU'er - snap judgments when not even having see the movie!
I lived in Carmel for some years - small town about 4000 - I had private dealings with Clint - don't start knocking him. He's one of the good guys - straight as an arrow conservative - has done a lot of good things not many will know about.
But he's a story teller - who tells a story...he doesn't use movies, like the libs, to send a message. Let's not turn on our own. Especially in Hollywood - there's too few on "our side" out there.
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