Posted on 05/31/2007 8:43:12 AM PDT by NYer
LOL! That's him.
He was exquisite as Patton. I think Patton would have liked the performance: "General, sometimes they can't tell when you're acting." "It's not important for them to know - it's only important for me to know!"
Do you have a link to buy the film you're describing? I've never heard of Mr. Sim. (But I always get sniffly over Tiny Tim. He reminds me of Pat, in a world without antibiotics and high-potency multivitamins.)
You'll have to look around a bit, there are several different versions (B&W only, B&W and colorized, 50th anniversary edition). I have heard that the 50th anniversary edition was cleaned up and remastered but I don't know that for a fact. Don't panic at the awful tinny score under the beginning titles, it gets better fast. We have the original B&W simply transferred to DVD, with no frills.
The British title was Scrooge, but it's sold here as A Christmas Carol.
I'll see if I can find it.
I always worry too about what we might have had to go through without antibiotics and modern medicine (I would be dead half a dozen times over already!)
Oh Mother, you’ve touched a heart string! I love the Scrooge with Alistair Sim!
If you watch it next, pay careful attention to his housekeeper played by Katherine Harrison. She was a marvelous Shakespearean actress (”Dame Katherine,” I believe) and had a marvelous time with that Cockney accent. I believe it was her idea to use the black wax to mimic a missing tooth as well. She is totally delightful!
That movie was one of the first large productions after World War II. The war had decimated the British film industry and that marked a comeback.
Oh, and Michael Hordern as Marley's Ghost is outrageously good (and actually scary!) When he undoes the bandage around his jaw and it falls on his chest (just like in the book!) it makes you go argggh!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085461/
If you have not seen it, please rent “The Dresser” with Tom Courtenay and Albert Finney. It is about an aging Shakesperean actor during WW-II playing to bombed out theaters during German air raids. The movie is a masterpiece and Courtenay is totally great.
There is a scene in which Finney and company is at the train station as their train is pulling out. He simply bellows in incredible form, “S-T-O-P T-H-A-T T-R-A-I-N!!!” enunciating every syllable, trilling the “r” so that it echoes off the walls. The train stops dead. Amazing!
Elsa Lanchester is said to have an uncredited cameo.
Yup, that’s a great one. Lear backstage.
What a great thread!
Fascinating. I figured rickets and tuberculosis (which would be only temporarily improved by better nutrition and medicine, but who knew in those days.
It makes me want to go to Blockbuster!
He is the only actor on this Lord’s earth who could do that “Oh woe is me!” (with the backhand to forehead gesture) without being laughed from the theater!
So why is the Latin language such a hated language now? Perhaps it’s because what Jesus Christ has done to the Roman tongue. His Love has turned “Roman virtues” into Redemption. The boastful empire that crucified Christ became His champion. The story of Latin is a Romance and a promise of how Christ will Redeem us all if we invite Him into our hearts and our lives.
Respectfully...
Who “hates Latin”? I don’t follow this train of thought...I don’t think there’s been one posting on this thread that anyone, even the most stauch non Catholic, has said that...please elaborate...
I must say you have an interesting perspective on Christ using the Roman Empire to spread His word, of course Greek was probably bigger since this spread the Gospel throughout the world in a faster and more commonly understood way. Point being, God uses us to bring us to Him. It’s an amazing thing when we sit back and look at how it has all happened over time.
Please describe the one, or many traditions, that are not located in scripture which are essential for salvation that you, Dr. E or I could not read today by scanning scripture.
Respectfully stated. I look forward to your answer.
Blessings in Christ!
PM
Respectfully asked:
What doctrines, necessary for salvation, are not located in scripture?
“What doctrines, necessary for salvation, are not located in scripture?”
Respectfully answered: that’s the wrong question.
The problem lies in the word, “necessary.” Bread, water, and vitamin pills are all that is necessary to sustain life.
God has set a banquet before us out of His infinite Love, but protestants turn their backs on it, contenting themselves with crusts and condemning those who partake of all the blessings offered. We should not receive these blessings from God, apparently, because they are not “necessary.”
Matthiew 15, v1-20, and Mark 7, v1-16
The Lord condemns using the traditions of men, rather than the written commandments.
Sorry for missing this post earlier.
The devil “hates Latin”, but more so, hell hates anything good for mankind. To be fair to all tongues that might praise our Creator, Satan hates all creation for all Creation is to serve the Holy Trinity and God’s Divine Plan.
Yes, the Greeks were very influential in Rome and both were vehicles driven by the Holy Spirit to spread the Word of God.
Back to what is good for mankind. Anything that perpetuates life is coined “evil” by those who mean to control the human will. For example: the oil/petroleum fueled combustible engine and plastic products. These items are not a matter of good or evil and their broad use for perpetuating life does not condemn the inanimate products as vice or virtue. I think even the Greeks argued over whether fire itself was good or evil (please correct me if I’m wrong). You can use fire to stay warm and cook your food. Yet, fire can be horribly destructive as a weapon and even inherently dangerous when not guarded. To conclude, mankind must master the elements in nature that are in chaos and endanger creation.
Similarly, pollution from petroleum products present a danger when practice is undisciplined. But this too is matter of ethical human action and its required discipline to bring order to chaos and not the morals of inanimate creation (which have no morals by its created nature).
Beware the distraction tactics Satan is using for dividing our minds against each other. “Global Warming” has more to do with the phases of the sun’s seasons than it does with petroleum products. Yet, Satan has turned this argument on its head to incite political distraction away from human actions of righteous vs. sin.
We are naturally separated in life. God created both man and woman. Even within our own nature we have purpose built separation and division but with common goal. Our brains have two halves and both provide thought. Our hearts have two halves and it pumps blood. We even have redundancy of our organs yet with common goals. The goal is to serve and promote life both within ourselves and outside ourselves.
Satan puts all of this into chaos and turns ourselves against each other. If he were permitted to affect our bodies (and in reading scripture, we know this is possible) he would ruin our health. Most satanic attacks are overwhelmingly psychological. Satan divides us via politics time and again, and the worst of these arguments have nothing to do with reason or even reasonable science. The most obstinately furious and sophomoric frivolous debates of our power elite have nothing to do with the betterment of our condition: abortion for the “woman’s right to choose”, green house “global warming”, contraception for “safe sex”, human “over population”, eternal youth/quality of life “euthanasia” extermination. The devil uses greed and the lust for power to gain violence among souls so that hell may reign in human life. Even without naked aggression (as witnessed in Socialist Communism’s heresies), the before mentioned arguments have brought more misery upon the human condition than pure and total warfare (more lives are lost via abortion than what violence witness on the Eastern Front in WW2).
Long before Christ was robed in flesh, history witnessed the same demonic-inspired division: the democracy of the Greek states vs. the Persian Imperialism, and even the brutish politics of Caesar (of which the title “Cesar” was coined from the gens Julia family) vs. Roman Senate (viciously defended by one Senator Brutus who’s actions coin the definition of everything “brutish”); and even our very own Civil War where a “states’ rights” assassin allegedly screamed, “sic semper tyrannis” after killing the US President bent on abolition. These senseless arguments meant only to turn mankind in-side-out and against itself, and presently so richly defended by those who hate Jesus Christ, work in the exact opposite of God’s Genesis command for us to take dominion of this world, be fruitful, and multiply. Simple obedience to this command is praise for our Creator. Debate and discussion to perpetuate human kindness in obedience to God’s good order of creation is duty for all souls.
Latin born from the ancient Italian people, covered much in disciplining human action toward ethical obedience. Greek philosophy gave substantial intellectual base to laws later written in Latin. Both Latin and Greek spread this Goodness like blood coursing through arteries and veins to all mankind. Thus, the tongues of men worked like brick and mortar to build up human action like a temple in our hearts—a temple to become a home for Jesus so that He may reside in us. Our hands may be what His pierced hands would want us to do—our feet will walk where His pierced feet would direct us.
Thank you for posting the Scriptural reference. I've read it through but I see no reference to 'sola scriptura'. However in Matt. 28:20 - "observe ALL I have commanded," and, as we also see in John 20:30; 21:25, not ALL Jesus taught is in Scripture. So there must be things outside of Scripture that we must observe. This is corroborated in Mark 16:15 where Jesus commands the apostles to "preach," not write, and only three apostles wrote. The others who did not write were not less faithful to Jesus, because Jesus gave them no directive to write.
The best illustration, of course, would be John 20:30; 21:25 - Jesus did many other things not written in the Scriptures. These have been preserved through the oral apostolic tradition and they are equally a part of the Deposit of Faith.
There is no evidence in the Bible or elsewhere that Jesus intended the Bible to be sole authority of the Christian faith.
Jesus did not WRITE the Word of God, he SPOKE it. Therefore, he left us the tradition of passing on His Word through the spoken word. The Bible is a great treasure, but it is not the sum total of all Jesus left us. He left us his Church in it’s entirety.
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