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In Reply to: RE: " The Third Man " posted by Bambi B on May 20, 2008 at 15:49:20
Yes, "The Third Man" should be on anyone's very short list of great films.
Thanks for reminding me about "Our Man in Havana." It has been quite a while since I've seen that film. I fear, however, that events since viewing that film have changed my perspective on it. I thought it was an amusing dark comedy back then. But, since then, the U.S. has gone back into Iraq, base heavily on evidence given by someone who drew pictures of what he claimed was a biological weapons laboratory, a claim which brought this fella a lot of "sponsorship" and money from the U.S. government. As it turned out, the facility he drew looked remarkably like a vacuum cleaner. I would guess that "Our Man" would not play as funny these days. The same thing happened to "Network;" I wonder if "Fight Club" is next.
Follow Ups:
Warning to those who've never seen "Our Man in Havana"- plot spoilers follow:
Larry I,
The connection you make between the atomic vacuum sketches in "Our Man in Havana" and the contrived WMD evidence in Iraq is brilliant- it nicely demonstrates the way truth is manipulated to support previously derived intentions of the powerful. George Bush Sr. once said, "I'll never apologize for the United States. Ever. I don't care what the facts are," and in "Our Man", Guiness is completely unapologetic for his deceptions to earn the money to give his daughter a pony. He only fears discovery- but is eventually rewarded for his duplicity while the innocent pilot he named had been murdered, his friend (Burl Ives) was murdered, and Guiness murders the agent after him after nearly being poisoned himself. This is indeed as about as dark as humour goes, and all the darker because of the resemblence to current reality- 50 years after.
All the more reason to see "Our Man" and reflect.
Cheers,
Bambi B
Bises d´Allemagne!
" Mieux vaut une tête bien faite qu'une tête bien pleine."
Mon ami,
Je tombe dans la vieillesse
Le corps a moulé dans le béton irritable
Esprit distrait par pensée de la mort
Regrets de l'unexperienced, le non fini, l'inimaginable
Le paradis tellement mat doit être
Prisonnier d'un film éternel
Rappel de la pluie froide de l'ennui.
Bambi B
ANNABELLE LEE
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love -
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulcher
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me
Yes! that was the reason
(as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we
Of many far wiser than we
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride,
In the sepulcher there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Edgar Allan Poe.
" Mieux vaut une tête bien faite qu'une tête bien pleine."
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