Posted on 02/25/2008 12:20:00 PM PST by Caleb1411
OK, now I remember. I can’t access YouTube from work, but I remember the scene now that you mentioned Fink.
You missed out on some good films.
I'm didn't neither.
No Country was excellent until they killed off Josh Brolin.
Brolin carried the movie. It fizzled thereafter into a dumb movie IMO.
TD was nominated for four, Sweeney for three and won one. But that’s not the point. The point is that the Oscars consistently go to dark, twisted portrayals of wretched humans. Who needs more of that in their life?
Are you talking about acting awards? Actors love playing characters like that and it generally is the sort of acting that gets attention. The Best Picture winners tend to be fairly conservative (Unforgiven, Schindler’s List, Forrest Gump, Braveheart, Return of the King) with an exception here and there (American Beauty).
Hey, when are the Oscars anyway?
Yes, I understand it is fiction. What I mean is how liberals take a modern mindset and liberal values and force them onto past eras.
Go to amazon.com and read some of the one-star reviews of the novel.
All fiction is written with the mindset of the time it’s written. Shakespeare’s plays reflect Elizebthan English ideas and attitudes not those of whatever time he was writing about.
Besides the story is told as a flashback from the present. So retrospective hindsight is built in.
In fact, when you think back on it, there's virtually no one actually killed on camera except that deputy near the beginning. In every other case I can think of, it happens offscreen. What you get a lot of is the prelude or the aftermath of violence and not the violence itself. And the most terrifying scene in the movie, with the store clerk, doesn't have anyone getting hurt at all.
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