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machngunjoe 06/07/2010 06:42 PM Report
lol I would go ahead and say Charlie ROse has the "sleepy Eyes." THere is a LOTR (Two towers" interview where I thought for a second, that he was asleep. haha
olmanrvr 01/13/2010 03:30 PM Report
The morgan freeman conversation was one of the best ever and as charlie said, that poem Mr. Freeman cited from memory, was special..as are these two gentlemen..thanks
REMant 01/13/2010 01:53 PM Report
NB- Admirers will find my comments for shows aired during this website hiatus posted yesterday with only very slight adulteration.
REMant 01/13/2010 01:52 PM Report
No doubt the govt was afraid of making a martyr of him, but Mandela appears to have been clearly stoic, as seen in his fondness for the Henley poem, which could just as easily have been written by Epictetus. The same was always expected of native captives, as much as in Sparta or Rome. A stoic is also magnanimous, tho as a matter of duty, not as we have it nowadays, to get a something out of it. Eastwood, tho, is closely identified with sentimental American hero literature, which is anything but Stoic, tho often confused by Anglo-Americans with it. That reflects rather the absence of confidence, theoretically because of an absent or ineffectual father, and the projection of a consequent feeling of sinfulness on him, which the hero then feels himself wrongly accused of, in the process the world becoming a place of infinite, imminent danger. Has a certain evangelical ring. As well, the notion of separating loving from punishing, the family from the world at large, which was advocated by therapists, et al, thru most of the last century, is believed of similar origin, and the result deemed to have stimulated the growth of peer culture, and with that a repudiation of the stoic ideals of a republic. Thus adequately explaining Mandela to Americans may prove difficult. I can never see any reason, tho, for this kind of film either way, especially one whose plot, even if true, seems so contrived, and I don't know if it will do to get too self-celebratory about South Africa just yet. A lot of ppl, I believe, think The Shawshank Redemption Freeman's best, and some, the best film of all time - ranked with The Godfather - a film tho that raises the same questions.