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Vanity: Is tonight's showing of Shindler's List a warning from Spielberg, or simply an observance?
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| February 23. 2013
| Righttackle44
Posted on 02/23/2013 6:37:39 PM PST by righttackle44
Is Spielberg, an ardent Democrat supporter, warning the American people by showing his outstanding film that bad things can happen to helpless populations? Or is he simply observing the 20-years since the making of a movie about the Nazi destruction of the Jewish people?
There is certainly a theme in the film about an unarmed population being overtaken by a military force unafraid to shoot civilians. And so today we have military commanders who have assured Obama that they are prepared to follow illegal orders and also do this very thing.
Or am I being paranoid?
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KEYWORDS: militarycollusion; obama; powergrab
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To: righttackle44
Really?
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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posted on
02/23/2013 7:09:11 PM PST
by
Vermont Lt
(Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?)
To: righttackle44
Well, when my wife called me from the other room to tell me it was on, I wasn't really interested. I don't believe I have ever watched it all the way through.
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posted on
02/23/2013 7:16:31 PM PST
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: righttackle44
From my Arcadia High School yearbook 1963 He was a Leftie DORK then and is a Leftie DORK now
To: higgmeister
Too bad you have never seen it.
An excellent movie based on a true story.
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posted on
02/23/2013 7:33:41 PM PST
by
berdie
To: higgmeister
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posted on
02/23/2013 7:39:09 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: berdie
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posted on
02/23/2013 7:39:46 PM PST
by
Doofer
(Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.)
To: Doofer
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posted on
02/23/2013 7:54:56 PM PST
by
berdie
To: righttackle44
Interesting Idea:
Other spielberg films
Jaws-bad guy was the Mayor (who was screwing up by bowing to capitalism however)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Big govt. was secretive and liars)
Raiders of the Lost Ark - at the end of the movie the Ark of the Covenant got lost in a government warehouse.
E.T. The bad guys were the govt people in radiation suits coming to take ET away to the govt. labs.
Jurasic Park Runaway capitalism is bad.
Minority Report- Govt. makes mistakes in preemtive justice.
Those are the Spielberg movies I’ve seen and although it is a mixed bag, He does seem to be very wary of govt. and also wary of capitalism.
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posted on
02/23/2013 8:47:53 PM PST
by
staytrue
To: berdie
I didn't say I have never seen it. I just said I don't remember seeing it all the way through at one time. I have have many times seen parts of it in endless stretches. Three and a half hours is long enough for brain surgery.
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posted on
02/23/2013 8:50:36 PM PST
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: berdie
It’s a work of art.
So many scenes just give you goosebumps.
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posted on
02/23/2013 10:51:34 PM PST
by
Winstons Julia
(Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
To: Winstons Julia
It does give one goosebumps.
And it never fails to make me weep. (and I’m not one given to tears)
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02/24/2013 1:28:22 PM PST
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berdie
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