The French
Connection based on the book by Robin Moore, with Gene Hackman in the leading
role http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/06/night-moves-written-by-alan-sharp.html
10 out of
10
This is an
iconic motion picture, one of the Best 100 of All Time, with a stupendous Gene
Hackman dominating the big or small screen, in the leading role of Jimmy Doyle
aka Popeye, for which he has won one of his two Oscars…the other was for the
astonishing Unforgiven http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/07/one-of-realini-top-20-best-movies-ever.html Gene Hackman was nec plus ultra
However, it
is interesting to see how things have changed, and some of them have not, in
that they could not make a French Connection by saying that the aggressive
Doyle is a positive character, he would be the villain, in a movie made now, given
that from the start, he kicks and hits a suspect, granted, the latter had just
used a knife against his partner, Buddy Russo aka Roy Scheider- this is another
glorious artist, the star of All That Jazz http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/08/note-on-all-that-jazz-written-and.html
Our hero –
maybe the anti-hero – had to extract important information from the underworld,
but this is what they all say, and they justify violence using the philosophy
of Bentham, do something to benefit the most people, and if that affects one
individual, then you have to go ahead…there is this example they have in
lectures available online, from Yale I think they are, in which they ask students
to consider a test
You have a
railway line and a train is coming, if it takes one track, it will kill one
person, on another, there are more, I forgot the details, but it is in the
power of the individual to change the course, so what would you do…things can
be more complicated, and this is not as obvious a choice as it sounds, in
circumstances where, fro instance you have a group of thugs who pressure,
torment or worse a single man, who has the keys or access to the vault of the
bank, from which they want some millions of dollars.
In theory,
it is a few, maybe as many as fifty five ghouls that would rejoice with stolen
money… we can even multiply this and I am thinking of Trump and his cult members,
their happiness would be to steal elections (they have tried it, and their
spiritual guru is facing indictments now, but the fools do not care, they want
to dismantle the FBI, DOJ anything that stands between the White House and
their dinosaur)
What do we
do then, let the world explode, because an idiot and a sick fool with
Narcissistic Personality Disorder has to play with the red buttons, pretend he
is an adult and the ‘very stable genius’ he claims to be?
Let us come
back to the French Connection, where they are using a technique from Influence http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/05/influence-by-robert-cialdini.html a classic of psychology by Robert
Cialdini, exposing the six principles, social acceptance, reciprocity, respect
for authority, the one that applies in this instance appears to be reciprocity,
though it could well be a combination of factors
Doyle seems
to be frantic, always tense, ready to fight, you would say definitely a
neurotic character – this reminds me of Scoop http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/07/scoop-by-evelyn-waugh-adapted-for-bbc.html by Evelyn Waugh, one of the
greatest writers, with a series of extraordinary books listed among the
masterpieces of history, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, The Loved One,
vile Bodies, Black Mischief
The list
longer, but nevertheless, in Scoop, we have a journalist that travels to
Africa, to cover events there, and he works for Lord Copper, some of the
dialogue has made history and I have read about it in The King’s English http://realini.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-kings-english-guide-to-modern-usage.html by His Majesty Kingsley Amis – when
telling the employer something authentic, an assistant he has says ‘definitely
Lord Copper’, but when it is not true, the same man only dares ‘up to a point,
Lord Copper’, which is both excruciatingly funny, and so deep, truthful, for
this is what happens
We can see
it with this tragicomic spectacle in America, with Trump -such a leit motif
here, some criticize this ‘obsession’, but I retort that this is arguably the
most important show that we can watch, for once the gorilla (and they are such
nice animals) is back in the White House, then all hell will break loose, and
we will all be affected, unless you live on the space station, and even then
you are not safe, the creature will sell this part of the world to Putin, for
peanuts and some compliments from the czar, and then he will avenge what he
sees as ‘witch hunt’, but it only an effort to make the criminal pay…
The most
tempting thing is to say I cannot believe it still, after all these years of a
permanent circus, this degradation of America – let me put here the red states,
but they are many, then they could well be enough, again, in 2024, even when
the ‘popular vote’ is lost by millions, to get the pterodactyl anointed ‘king
of the free world’- which has this basic flaw, that they have an electoral
system that allows for the minority to rule, in that Hilary Clinton would have
been president in 2016, in another democracy, where they count all the votes,
and the one who has more wins, well, not so fast in the USA…
This was
supposed to be about The French Connection, but then it was about the US, which
even now has a major drug problem, but as I insist ad nauseam here, there is
another one, a potential calamity that awaits us all…
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
