Lonely Are The Brave-Showman’s Images
Finally got around to scanning and loading those documents from the Showman’s Manual I posted about in July.
It’s really an interesting look into how film producers marketed their products in the ’60′s, and it’s also full of some interesting tidbits about the film. Some well known. Others perhaps not so well known.
There are interviews, biographical information, suggested radio spots, images for print. You can see what I’ve scanned so far here.
It’s a good time to be reading the book and watching the film. Follow up with Good News.
And here’s why…
We’ve got Cheney spouting off about a “gut feeling” that America’s next terrorist attack “will be nuclear,” and Michael Chertoff’s “gut feeling” that America “will soon be hit hard.” Add the fact that the U.S. military is flying nukes over the continent, a new tape supposedly from “Bin Laden,” Israel “discovering” nuclear installations in Syria and the ongoing barrage of Iran propaganda, and well, I’d say something is going to happen.
The question that should be on everyone’s mind is exactly who or what should we be scared of? The answer might surprise you.
And don’t forget to throw in climate change, peak oil and shrinking aquifers. That should really make things interesting. Seems damn clear that folks need to be making some plans. Some changes. Preparing for a vastly different world.
Yes, we need more Paul Bondi’s and to broaden the scope of peaceful resistance. We need more rugged anarchists like Jack Burns. Guys and gals willing to make a stand for what’s right. Real defenders of democracy and wilderness.
Perhaps the real question we face is how to best go about bringing forth positive change? Within the system? A new system? A combination? That’s the real challenge, getting millions of people that consider themselves “progressives” to really do something progressive. To throw a real monkeywrench into the system by pulling away and making it irrelevant.
The prevailing system is in place because it provides the desired results for the people who benefit from it and manipulate it, and it’s been that way from day one in this country. The system is quite resistant to change despite the obvious inequities that it sustains, and it is so phenomenally powerful and so intimately inculcated into our society, that it is therefore most likely impossible to change.
And how on earth can you have a rational and sane society when 90% of the people believe in a God, Heaven and Hell and look to an old man no one has ever seeen to tell them how to be good?
The whole thing is nuts, but eventually, these things run their course. Take comfort in knowing it can’t last forever. Do your part to make sure it doesn’t, and in your spare time, read some good books and catch a good film every now and then.
Cheers,
I emailed you about 3:10 to Yuma. I don’t know if you check the jackburns one. Anyway just in case you didn’t go see it if you haven’t. Incredible acting.
Hey Sean…got you message. I’m actually out of town this weekend and using a cafe computer. Left the laptop at home!
I did see 3:10 to Yuma. Thought it was pretty well done. The casting was great, although I thought Ben Foster/Charlie Prince stole the show. He was a pretty terrifying nutcase.
Bale was solid, although I thought at times there was a bit too much dialog. They did a good job of making him seem extrememly weak, and at making Crowe’s character become more likeable as the film wore on.
Have a nice weekend….
Ben Foster creeped me out just a bit. I never saw the original film though, I wonder how much they changed it.