Josh
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Re: Movies: who here avoidsToday, 12:43 PM
I haven't been to a movie of any kind in going on three years.
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And try, mon ami Josh, thinking more broadly. I am a huge fan of some mediums, which
gets me some raised eye brows of course.
Take for instance Felix the Cat, Casper the Ghost, Mickey da Mouse, Bugs Bunny, and any
other cartoons of the Max Flescher era or before, and watch closely..... you will see the
anti-semitism >> a little, the racial attittudes, isolationism, scare tactics of fear of the foreign savages < Germans, (confusion of Gernans equals Huns), Asian anti-sentements,
or confusions, Islanders or Polynesians seen as barbaric, Indians as ruthless.
These protrals are not just for light hearted humor but representifve of the times.

Remember the ease with which the Japanese were stripped of their rights and incarcerated in camps after the Pearl Harbor attack?
The rather positive , or at least tolerate attitudes toward Germans even going into the
WWII? not to meaniton before, despite the grip Hitler had in driving Nazism through all
thinking?

The visual medium of cartoons, or movies such as DVDs show much that
our modern world is attempting in our schools to forget, ie. The Gentlemen's Agreement
with...Gregory Peck
www.imdb.com/title/tt0039416/
Showing the hidden undercurrent of anti-semitism despite the "liberal" and enlightened
attitudes of the time ( ruse, tokenism, can you spell Jim Crow Laws al la Jewism)

To totally change the pupit pounding on race, how about a wonderful documentary on
Marshall South and his family that moved to Anza Borrengo ; Ghost Mountain and
lived from the 30's to the 40's or 50's , ending in his divorce because of the harsh
isolation of the desert and its effects on his wife's psyche.
Such movies are powerfully poinant, and visceral in their realism and HONESTY,
Some of the History Channel shows are amazing, such as the one on CHE,
and showing how he resembled the 'anti-hero ' of the movie Battle of Algiers", He, CHE
was both hated, feared and also loved by many, in fact hardly can one walk the streets of some American cities without having ever seen a Che t-shirt or cap, such was
this enigmas effect on the meme of poltics.

< sighing deeply and departs the soap box>
:)
Give some thought to look at a show, T.V. documentary or even a cartoon for
its commentary of its time, zeitghest, and Era-meme .

It will move you to ponder "HOW DID WE REALLY GET HERE?"

Randy
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