A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

Two days after 20-year-old James Alex Fields, Jr. killed 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injured 19 others when his Dodge Challenger deliberately hit a group of counter-protesters who were leaving a white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia., President Donald J. Trump finally spoke out against the KKK, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups.  "I just met with FBI director Christopher Wray, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions," Trump said. "The Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into the deadly car attack that killed one innocent American, and wounded twenty others. To anyone who acted criminally in this weekend's racist violence, you will be held fully accountable. Justice will be delivered." Trump added, "As I said on Saturday, we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence – it has no place in America. And as I have said many times before, no matter the color of our skin

"You can't win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine." (C) 1977 20th Century Fox Film Corporation The Jedi Nexus Cast Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) See-Threepio (Anthony Daniels) Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (Bernard "Bunny" Behrens) Han Solo (Perry King) Princess Leia Organa (Ann Sachs) Chewbacca Artoo-Detoo Lord Darth Vader (Brock Peters) Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin (Keene Curtis) Comm Voice 1st Trooper 2nd Trooper 3rd Trooper Narrator (Ken Hiller) Announcer: OPENING CREDITS Narrator: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away there came a time of revolution, when Rebels united to challenge a tyrannical Empire.  Sound: Death Star up in background.  Narrator: Now many strands in the web of galactic events have come together onboard the Empire's ultimate weapon, an enormous spacegoing fortress called the Death Star. At large in its vast interior, pursued by Imperial stormtroopers, is

Dunkirk (2017) Written and directed by: Christopher Nolan Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, James D'Arcy, Barry Keoghan, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy Dunkirk is one of the great untold stories in modern cinema. Having made a trip on a small boat across the Channel about 25 years ago, the roughness of the water, the sheer physical challenge of making that crossing - but without anybody dropping bombs, without traveling into a war zone - cemented in my mind an extraordinarily high level of admiration for the people who in 1940 just got into those little boats and came over to help the soldiers. - Christopher Nolan , in a Time interview, explaining why he chose to make a movie about the Dunkirk evacuation.    Christopher Nolan's latest film, Dunkirk, is a World War II-set drama that looks a lot like an epic but feels like a thriller. It has many of the elements of a post- Saving Private

Recently, I was lurking around in Quora (a site where people ask questions about any topic under the sun - from Abstinence to Zulus - and other people answer them). I was looking at my feed for something interesting to reply to when I saw this: Do Democrats realize that nobody hyperventilated over Obama like they are doing over Trump? I, of course, was aghast. The original poster  - who upon seeing the avalanche of replies to his literal whitewashing of the past , deleted the question - was claiming that conservatives and Republicans had never "hyperventilated" (i.e. attacked, lied about, insulted, or even criticized )   President Barack Obama during his two four-year terms in the White House, while poor President Trump was being unfairly attacked by liberals, the mainstream media, and illegal aliens.  This is what I wrote in response: Really, Original Poster? Are you kidding me? A slick bit of right-wing propaganda which falsely claimed that (a) Obama was

"We've got to figure out a way to get into that detention block."   (C) 1977 20th Century Fox Film Corporation The Luke Skywalker Initiative Cast Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) See-Threepio (Anthony Daniels) Han Solo (Perry King) Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (Bernard "Bunny" Behrens) Princess Leia Organa (Ann Sachs) Artoo-Detoo Chewbacca 1st Crewman 2nd Crewman 1st Trooper 2nd Trooper Officer 2nd Officer 3rd Officer Soldier Console Voice Narrator (Ken Hiller) Announcer: Opening credits. Music: Opening theme. Narrator: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away there came a time of revolution, when Rebels united to challenge a tyrannical Empire. In the Rebellion's most desperate crisis, plans vital to the defeat of the Empire were hidden in the memory banks of the astrodroid Artoo-Detoo. Artoo and his companion droid, See-Threepio, have come into the hands of young farmer Luke Skywalker and the veteran Jedi Knight Ben Kenobi. Having

"That's no moon. It's a space station." (C) 1977 20th Century Fox Film Corporation Rogues, Rebels, and Robots Cast Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) See-Threepio (Anthony Daniels) Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (Bernard Behrens) Han Solo (Perry King) Chewbacca  Artoo-Detoo  Announcer: OPENING CREDITS. Music: Opening theme. Narrator: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away there came a time of revolution, when Rebels united to challenge a tyrannical Empire. In the Rebellion's most desperate crisis, plans for the Empire's mightiest weapon, the Death Star, were stolen by Rebel agents and placed in the memory banks of the astrodroid Artoo-Detoo. Artoo and his fellow droid, See-Threepio, are now under the protection of the young farmer Luke Skywalker and the veteran Jedi Knight Ben Kenobi. Their plan is to deliver the droids to Rebels on the planet Alderaan.  Sound: The Millennium Falcon' s booming passage through hyperspace. Then engine hum and