During the 1960s I forged my conception of movies as an art form rooted in entertainment and involving performance, like theater and dance, but also narrative form, like prose fiction; the composition of line and volume, light and color to represent things and atmospheres, as in fine graphic art and painting…..
Recently, my wife asked me what would happen when the sins of modernity catch up with us, when our refusal to educate the new generation and our refusal to protect life and property from the ever-expanding criminal would combine with out ever-increasing dependency upon all things electronic to produce a complete collapse…
With President Trump’s new National Security Strategy “pivoting” to Asia, meaning China, I thought I would write some articles outlining what’s really going on with national defense.
The Supreme Court is on the brink of a decision to give even more unchecked power to the Executive Branch at the expense of the Legislative Branch.
Of course the sinking of the Titanic was huge news in 1912 and immediately afterward, but by the 1950’s it figured no more in the public consciousness than, say, the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 or the sack of Troy.
This is a John Carpenter movie, so there are no pretenses to being highbrow (there is an actual professional wrestling match with trash can lid shields and nail covered baseball bats!).
This is a slightly fictionalized piece of personal history. Some of the names have been changed to protect the sensitive, and the dialogue, while it represents the substance of what was said, has been sharpened by recollection.
The first is by Robert Louis Stevenson…. The second is by Thomas Hardy There will be more.
