Posted by Neredbojias on 10/26/07 02:18

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:12:39
GMT dorayme scribed:

>> I understand and sympathize, but does your mood dictate the very
>> nature and character of your responses
>
> Unfortunately, yes! We martians have feelings, we are not like
> you robot earthlings. We are live throbbing dreamers.

Terrans have feelings, too, but the more erudite of us try to avoid
upsetting other Terrans simply because our own emotions aren't as steady
as we'd like them at the moment.

>> > I am sorry, but that is how I feel. I have generally kept away
>> > from all this crap but when I am called out, I come out. Gary
>> > Cooper, Charles Bronson, John Wayne, Annie (of Annie Get your
>> > Gun) and Kirk Douglas all did the same before me. Why should a
>> > Martian be left out of a line up like this?
>>
>> Notice that all those people are dead.
>
> Not such bad company then. A friend had a theory about me the
> other day that *does* explain rather a lot of things. My blood
> pressure has dropped and I have been unusually tired and it was
> suggested that maybe I had died.

I get that from transfusions and sex (-afterward, not during). So maybe
you've been psychosematically pricked or something.

>> If you are suggesting that the "character" in the films be the role-
>> model, that's almost as bad because they're static and trite
>
> Static and trite! It saddens me to hear you say this. There was
> nothing trite about
>
> * James McKay (Gregory Peck) in Big Country
> * Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda) in My Darling Clementine
>
> and the list is very long, perhaps ending in
>
> * Will Penny (Charlton Heston) in Will Penny

Gawd, I never even heard of "Will Penny" and saw the other 2 like once
ages and ages ago. How 'bout some more recent examples (-excepting
"L.A. Confidential".) Regardless, though, patterning your behavior
after a movie character doesn't seem very healthy to me in any
circumstances.

> The last is perhaps a touch trite (but then Charlton Heston
> always has been a bit wooden). The thing you miss is that a basic
> decency was seared into the American film makers imaginations by
> the best that was in their nation. Whereas you and that other
> sexist pig seem to take your cue from the lowest in the culture.

Yes, there was a "basic decency" theme predominant in many films of the
past. There were also a lot of gangster movies. See my point?

> Having difficulty understanding any of this? Do say, I am always
> happy to expand on anything. <g>

Actually, I forgot what we were arguing about. Or were we arguing? I
doubt we were agreeing; that seems just too fantastic to believe.

--
Neredbojias
Just a boogar in the proboscis of life.

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