Thursday, February 21, 2008
50s Movies
Yo - Gort!
There's some stuff lately that has me thinking about some of our more paranoid (in a good way) movies of the fifties. The Day the Earth Stood Still brings to mind our recent satellite shoot down. Along with our satellite the Chinese did the same last year ago (when we griped at them a lot for doing it). And then a couple of years we splattered a friendly asteroid with a 800 pound chunk of copper. Anyway, all this brings to mind Klattu's posthumous speech just before he left:
It is no concern of ours how you run your own planet, but if you threaten to extend your violence, this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder.So don't forget how to say: Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!
POWs and Mom
While I'm on the subject of fifties movies, Republican nearly candidate John McCain brings to mind another movie, The Manchurian Candidate, from the early sixties. If you haven't see it, it's about a group of American POWs, from the Korean war, not Vietnam, who get brainwashed by the Chinese. Sometimes afterward one of the POWs is supposed to assassinate the USofA president after being triggered by the Queen of Diamonds - and whose mom just happens to be the agent who controls him. We all know of course, that this could never happen. But McCain did spend about five years in the control of VietCong/Chinese military as a POW. So how much better than assassinating a USofA president would it be to be the president.
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