‘Let’s Roll.’
by Bosch Fawstin
They Will Never Forget
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Posts Tagged ‘2001’
Heroic Hollywood: American Exceptionalism and the Hollywood Hero
by Russ Dvonch
Bitter Gun-Clinger – and Hollywood Hero
For nearly a century now, Hollywood has inspired generations of Americans with the central truth behind the American Dream: in this country, people are free to choose their own destiny. It’s the moral message found in every film that features the classic Hollywood Hero. Here’s a look at how our movie heroes were shaped by American values, a personal look at how the Hollywood Hero can inspire our lives, and the belief that, despite the rise of explicitly anti-American movies, the Hollywood Hero will continue to ride to the rescue.
The late Stanley Kubrick awakened my interest in films. But it was a one-eyed fat man that launched my career in the movies.
The first time I started thinking about films as something more than Saturday afternoon’s amusement was in 1968 with the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey. I was a Midwestern boy in the 8th grade at the time, and it was the first film I kept thinking about after I left the theater: Who made it? How was it done? What does it mean? (more…)
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Top 5: You’re Right – I’m Wrong
by John NolteFriday was a list of films you were wrong about. Here are five I am wrong about. As a matter of fact, I’m so sure I’m wrong in not liking them, they each sit in my DVD collection and have been viewed frequently in the hopes that a repeat viewing will finally reveal what all the fuss is about.
But, no. Not yet. Can’t stand any one of them. What am I doing wrong?
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2001: A Space Odyssey – Some compare this to watching paint dry, but that’s unfair because when paint dries SOMETHING ACTUALLY HAPPENS. (more…)
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