Sunday, October 12, 2003
Nuggets
The Great Communicator has a couple of good posts about movie scenes. This is what I commented on the second one:What a great idea, to think of great scenes rather than great movies, since there are masses of great moments in otherwise mediocre films that would be forgotten.
One of my all-time favourite scenes is in (the mediocre) Forrest Gump, when Forrest sees his son for the first time in Jennie's apartment. You see him gazing at the infant Haley Joel Osment saying "he's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen" and then you suddenly see his guts rising into his throat, and he says "..but is he.... is he..." and Jennie reassures him that Forrest Jnr's very smart. Up to that point, Forrest Snr might have been oblivious to his own mental slowness, but you suddenly realise he's felt the pain of the taunting and prejudice all along, and doesn't want Forrest Jnr to suffer the same. It's over in less than 3 seconds, but it's just a brilliant piece of acting. There are probably masses of other scenes I can think of.
What is your favourite scene in an otherwise so-so film?
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Forget the sentimental notion that foreign policy is a struggle between virtue and vice, with virtue bound to win.
Forget the utopian notion that a brave new world without power politics will follow the unconditional surrender of wicked nations.
Forget the crusading notion that any nation, however virtuous and powerful, can have the mission to make the world in its own image.
Remember that diplomacy without power is feeble, and power without diplomacy is destructive and blind.
Remember that no nation's power is without limits, and hence that its policies must respect the power and interests of others.
Hans Morgenthau
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts
Bertrand Russell
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one
Albert Einstein
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative
Martin Luther King Jr.
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man
Bertrand Russell
I think it would be a good idea
Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun
Pablo Picasso
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others
Groucho Marx
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it
Mahatma Gandhi
Always make new mistakes
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