On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 8:56:18 AM UTC-4, !Jones wrote:
X-NO-IDIOTS

On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 21:18:05 -0600, in talk.politics.guns rbowman
wrote:

If you've seen the French Plantation scene, quite a few of those
actors became well known in French productions. The scene was cut
from the original release, then later restored.

I saw the restored version on the big screen when it came out. I figured
a little screen wouldn't do it justice. The scene with the egg sums up
many foreign adventures. The white runs out but the yellow (brown,
black) stays.

Cuppola tells the story of the opium smoking scene that they got the
government to furlough a prisoner in jail for opium smuggling to show
them how to load the pipe and give them a block of opium to smoke...
then they all got stoned.

As a coherent story, the movie, AN, disintegrates badly. Anyone
expecting otherwise is doomed to disappointment. If you view each
scene as standing more or less alone, it works a little better... some
better than others.

I always thought Brando was a victim of his early success as a young
man. His character in AN never caught the "Heart of Darkness" Kurtz
nor did he (at 350-plus pounds) pull off a convincing renegade
colonel. He was a waste of celluloid.

Methinks Ermey's best role was in *Full Metal Jacket*. He doesn't
have much range; however, what he does, he does well.

I was also surprised to find he is an honorary gunny, never made rank
while in the service. Lock'N'Load was okay although the oorah stuff gets
old. It also suffers from being a History Channel production. I don't
know if they try to pad a program out by repeating scenes constantly or
if they know their target audience has a five minute attention span and
needs to be refreshed.

Probably both. The "History Channel" is to history as "Crime and
Punishment" is to police work... but you already knew that.

Today's police work? "Crime and Punishment" is a classic russian book published in 1866 by Fyodor Dostoevsky. (is that the one you meant?)

On Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 1:22:34 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 8:56:18 AM UTC-4, !Jones wrote:
X-NO-IDIOTS

On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 21:18:05 -0600, in talk.politics.guns rbowman
wrote:

If you've seen the French Plantation scene, quite a few of those
actors became well known in French productions. The scene was cut
from the original release, then later restored.

I saw the restored version on the big screen when it came out. I figured
a little screen wouldn't do it justice. The scene with the egg sums up
many foreign adventures. The white runs out but the yellow (brown,
black) stays.

Cuppola tells the story of the opium smoking scene that they got the
government to furlough a prisoner in jail for opium smuggling to show
them how to load the pipe and give them a block of opium to smoke...
then they all got stoned.

As a coherent story, the movie, AN, disintegrates badly. Anyone
expecting otherwise is doomed to disappointment. If you view each
scene as standing more or less alone, it works a little better... some
better than others.

I always thought Brando was a victim of his early success as a young
man. His character in AN never caught the "Heart of Darkness" Kurtz
nor did he (at 350-plus pounds) pull off a convincing renegade
colonel. He was a waste of celluloid.

Methinks Ermey's best role was in *Full Metal Jacket*. He doesn't
have much range; however, what he does, he does well.

I was also surprised to find he is an honorary gunny, never made rank
while in the service. Lock'N'Load was okay although the oorah stuff gets
old. It also suffers from being a History Channel production. I don't
know if they try to pad a program out by repeating scenes constantly or
if they know their target audience has a five minute attention span and
needs to be refreshed.

Probably both. The "History Channel" is to history as "Crime and
Punishment" is to police work... but you already knew that.

Today's police work? "Crime and Punishment" is a classic russian book published in 1866 by Fyodor Dostoevsky. (is that the one you meant?)

BTW, a "classic" novel is a novel that is still in print (for example, like this one has been since 1866)