May 12, 2009

Extremes are dangerous

May 11, 2009

 

Orson Bean writes . . .

“Left-wingers and right-wingers come together when they become extreme enough. The Nazi Party was called National Socialism, very similar to Stalin’s Communism, with the addition of “the Fatherland”. The crazies behind this film say they are non-partisan. They are: they’re equal-opportunity haters. They’ll never be satisfied until they are standing in the smoldering ruins of society… any society. They only feel comfortable in chaos. They whip up people’s fears and then give those fears something to latch onto.”

I grew up watching Mr. Bean, the original one and not character created by Rowan Atkinson, on TV and games shows and movies.  He’s what is now call, and well, then, an ‘ol’ time actor’

 

I like ol’ time actors.’  I liked the TV shows they were in and the moves too.  Everybody kept their clothes on.  I was a kid and wasn’t interested in the clothes be on, but it was good for my imagination . . .   But, when less skin was showing more story was told.  I like stories.  I like characters talking to each other.  I like action, adventure, mystery and romance, even as a kid, I liked the guy getting the girl.  That was the formula, guy gets girl, guy losses girl and then he does something to get the girl back.  In the movie musical, he danced ala Gene Kelly.  In Westerns, he shot the bad guys.  We have Gary Cooper.  In Mysteries, well, the mystery is solved like in North by Northwest with Cary Grant. 

 

Did I just like formulas that worked?  Or maybe, as a kid, I just knew that the good guy should win.  There are some things like ‘the good guying winning’ that should just happened because it’s right.

 

Mr. Orson Bean finished his column with:

“I’m not a pessimist. I do believe that in some way we don’t understand, God has a hand in things and it will all work out for America. Our money says In God We Trust. And we are the best country, aren’t we?”

I’ll finish here.

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