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To: Teacher317
Oh my.. you're a teacher?

And you don't know who Jamie Escalante is? You must be a California teacher.

Joking, kinda. Surely you didn't think Mr. Escalante is an actor though?
107 posted on 08/27/2003 5:54:18 PM PDT by LaraCroft ('Bout time)
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To: LaraCroft
Nope, I know the movie well. However, my point remains that the public will see the Schwarzenegger staff as a collection of movies... either actors or subjects of movies.

And as for Gandhi, MLK, and Churchill, they were not memorialized by Hollywood films in their lifetimes. Sheeple can disassociate the two. But when the protagonists are still alive, the sheeple identify more with the movie version than the actual person. Few could pick Erin Brockovich, the Apollo astronauts, or Jaime Esalante out of a line-up, but they can quote lines from their movies... and virtually all they know about those people is what they learned from those movies.

Also, taking out Gandhi, I don't recall any major motion picture dedicated the lives of the other two, even posthumously.

(Finally, I'm not teaching anymore... I'm in Law School... on the other side of the desk! Yikes!)

108 posted on 08/27/2003 8:03:09 PM PDT by Teacher317
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To: LaraCroft
Just to reinforce my point, look at the title of this thread. The movie title is added virtually out of necessity, so that the majority of readers (FReepers, even!) would be able to identify with the thread. Most cannot separate the two, and Arnold is picking advisors who are almost all similarly identified. That may not be a distinguishing characteristic that he would want people to use to label his campaign. It reduces him to a Hollywood figurehead rather than a statesman, IMHO.
109 posted on 08/27/2003 8:07:33 PM PDT by Teacher317
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