Posted on 03/01/2005 12:36:34 PM PST by ambrose
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O'REILLY: So it was a surrogate father attached to a young woman who is striving. So to you, it was a more relationship film. That was a primary focus of the film.
EASTWOOD: Exactly.
O'REILLY: And then it gets blown up into an issue film, the euthanasia. Did that surprise you?
EASTWOOD: Well, I don't — it could be blown up, but I didn't see what the blow-up is. It's — it wasn't that — it isn't a message for anything. But nowadays — in the old days, it was everybody was talking about the knee- jerk liberals. Now we have sort of the knee-jerk conservative group that has — tries to politicize everything. But it wasn't a political film. It's merely a relationship film, adventure. It doesn't make a statement for or against anything. It just happens to be the way the story comes out.
O'REILLY: Well, you also did it fair and balanced. I mean, you had the priest in a key part of the film, advising against this in a very, very articulate way. That's what — I said, look, he presented both sides of it. And that's all you can do for the audience. You weren't trying to brainwash anybody in my estimation.
EASTWOOD: No, actually, the priest is right. When he says it, he says to him, he says, you do this thing, you'll be lost somewhere deep within, inside you forever. And he's absolutely right.
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But everyone on here who hasn't seen the film assures me that it is a pro-death propaganda piece. They have to know more about it than the man who made it right?
O'REILLY: Am I brilliant or what?
no.
Geez, it's only a movie.
And a bad one at that
I had no interest in seeing this film when it first came out, but I am sure to see it now.
Hollywood is so liberal that it's easy to forget that sometimes people in Hollywood may present both sides of the story in the movie or may not have a liberal goal with the story. I'm much more bothered by a movie like Vera Drake where the creators and cast talk about what a hero the character was and don't seem to even entertain the notion of a different view.
I won't be seeing it.
I'm still waiting to see "The Jolson Story".
bump.
Clint, where were you a week ago when I was trying to tell this to people who hadn't seen the movie? :)
I don't get the hub bub over this movie. I wonder if it would be such a huge issue if it hadn't come out at the same time as the Schiavo case is coming to a head. It's a movie and as far as I can remember The Passion didn't incite people start nailing each other to crosses.
Definitely will rent MDB when its a DVD.
On the other hand even tho Eastwood did Mystic River I'll never watch it because the thought of Penn and Robbins on my 56" HDTV screen near makes me vomit.
But I'll watch anything with Morgan Freeman and MDB seems to have too much going for it to miss.
Actually, if you watch the movie the priest is presented as a man with no compassion whatsoever who just says "you gotta follow the rules, tough luck buddy". It's a very harsh charicature of Catholicism.
Also the priest says to Eastwood's character "You've been coming to Mass every day for 23 years. The only reason someone would do that is because he's done something horrible that he can't forgive himself for". (approximate quote -- I don't have the script).
That's a real solid deep insult to every daily communicant Catholic in the world ... and Eastwood puts it into the mouth of a priest. What an a**hole.
I'd like to say O'Reilly is an idiot for misreading this film but in fact he's a typical example of someone who's a good bit smarter than average and based on that comes to believe he's Einstein.
Actually, if you watch the movie the priest is presented as a man with no compassion whatsoever who just says "you gotta follow the rules, tough luck buddy". It's a very harsh charicature of Catholicism.
Also the priest says to Eastwood's character "You've been coming to Mass every day for 23 years. The only reason someone would do that is because he's done something horrible that he can't forgive himself for". (approximate quote -- I don't have the script).
That's a real solid deep insult to every daily communicant Catholic in the world ... and Eastwood puts it into the mouth of a priest. What an a**hole.
I'd like to say O'Reilly is an idiot for misreading this film but in fact he's a typical example of someone who's a good bit smarter than average and based on that comes to believe he's Einstein.
I don't get the hub bub over this movie. I wonder if it would be such a huge issue if it hadn't come out at the same time as the Schiavo case is coming to a head. It's a movie and as far as I can remember The Passion didn't incite people start nailing each other to crosses.
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When the movie The Passion Something came out I said EXACTLY the same thing. Whats the big deal about this movie!!!!!! Never plan on watching it either because the subject matter has to relation to my life.
That's a real solid deep insult to every daily communicant Catholic in the world ... and Eastwood puts it into the mouth of a priest. What an a**hole.
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Paul Haggis was the screenwriter for this movie. He wrote the dialog, Eastwood directed.
Research is a marvelous thing.
Yuck. Just realized that those are my (real) initials!
It is a morality film and Clint doesn't have the guts to stand up for his film's message.
Thanks for that insightful review.
I will go see it today.
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