East of
Eden by John Steinbeck, winner of The Nobel Prize for Literature, author of The
Grapes of Wrath http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-grapes-of-wrath-by-john-steinbeck.html, according to The Modern Library,
one of the Top Ten Best Novels in English, not all that exhilarating for this
reader nonetheless
9 out of 10
This reader
has been enchanted by The Grapes of Wrath
– read twice, the above is a link to one note, but here is another send
off, to another impression, on the same book http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-grapes-of-wrath-by-john-steinbeck.html - and the performance of Henry
Fonda in the leading role has remained somehow inscribed on the cortex (or
wherever such memories can find a place) but that was on the first encounter, a
second reading was not similarly overwhelming
Indeed,
John Steinbeck has lost a lot of his clout, if not all, ever since I had
learned that he was a communist, or at the very least he had entertained such
affiliations as a young man – yes, there was a joke that went ‘who is not a
communist when young has no heart, who is still a commie when old has no
brains’ – and seeing that I have lived through communism (furthermore, I even
took part in the 1989 Revolution http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html that has taken Ceausescu down) I
reject all such ideology and refuse to come close to those who embrace the
dogma.
Paul
Johnson has a marvelous book http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/06/intellectuals-by-paul-johnson.html called Intellectuals, in which he
looks at the crème de la crème, Leo Tolstoy, Ernest Hemingway, Henrik Ibsen,
Jean Jacques- Rousseau…the latter has left the children at the door of the
orphanage, at a time when nine out of ten died in situations like that – the
conclusion is that great minds have a side that is very dark, vicious, it could
even be said that in order to shine in one way, one needs to have a stigma in
another…
John
Steinbeck should be absolved of the sin of sympathizing with the communists,
for he has given us some unequal masterpieces – another is Of Mice and Men http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/08/of-mice-and-men-by-john-steinbeck-meet.html a compelling, emotional, brilliant
account of what happens with a man with challenges, who is placed in a circumstance
where he is tempted by the wife of the employer (hey, I better be careful ere,
for I could get some Cancel Culture activists on my back, if only I have some
traction, which I do not, so I am free, Alhamdulillah)
The gentle giant
(he is generally as sweet and nice as it is possible, it is demanding situations
that make him unable to see what to do, and with his super power and pressure,
tragedy ensues) is not ‘tempted’ as in this is the poor victim’s fault, and
those lines yet another stupid, malign, vile take of the male chauvinist pig
against females, stating that they are responsible when they are attacked, and
it is not the male criminal.
I just read
yesterday that Johnny Depp is back on the horse, he will have the release of
the film where he plays Louis XVI (or is it another one, quatorze maybe, it can
be checked easily, but why bother, who cares, who gives a damn) directed by the
ex-wife of Luc Besson (the latter had been investigated for severe accusations)
a woman who has just told the press that she had spit on a
journalist…apparently, she had also pulled his hair, in a restaurant, and she
is somehow an opponent of MeToo…
Johnny Depp
has signed the biggest advertising contract, worth some twenty million dollars
or euros, to promote Sauvage, the Dior Fragrance, perfume, just as we had had
the Horror show of the trial, where he won compensation, but my personal take
is that they both came out with a lousy image…I mean, alright, it is Sauvage he
is promoting and savages do wild things, but still, it is very strange for me…
Furthermore,
I am not happy with the way he has acted in the last few years – yes, we have
had Donnie Brasco http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/07/donnie-brasco-written-by-paul-attanasio.html Edward Scissorhands, What’s Eating
Gilbert Grape http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/04/note-on-whats-eating-gilbert-grape.html, Blow and a good number of other
excellent motion pictures, but like with Pacino and others, a stage is reached
when routine can destroy the performances, there is grandiosity and emphatic
exaggeration, pompous grandstanding, instead of minimalism…Less is more in the
words of Mies van der Rohe, one of the greatest architects of humanity, and a
wondrous thinker
These days,
the saga of the resurrection of Johnny Depp continues, for there is backlash,
especially given that Jeanne du Barry will open the most important film
festival in the world, Cannes, where we have this story of a courtesan trying
to get power, enticing Louis XV aka Johnny Depp, in what will be a very closely
watched feature, seeing the controversy and buzz surrounding the actor, but
also the outré director
Maiwenn, as
she calls herself now, has been the wife of another figure that had been
involved in accusations of abuse, and seeing that she had been very violent
recently, this has attracted attention, albeit it is not for artistic reasons
that cinephiles talk about this, the innuendo and gossip will do a lot to make
the public curious…who said ‘there is no such thing as bad publicity’, we have
had Benetton and the search for outrage
Now for a
question, and
invitation – maybe you have a
good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world – as it is, this is a unique technique, which
we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make
lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not
know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
As for my role in the
Revolution that killed Ceausescu,
a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html
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