Don't ever say ol' Redactor is against free speech. Force of Evil is one of my favorite movies even if it was made by commies. Director Abraham Polonsky was openly a card-carrying commie. John Garfield was probably a cryptocommie. In '48 that didn't mean you posted furry stuff and your pronouns on Twitter, it meant you were part of a global organization working to make Stalin ruler of the world. But I still don't want people like that blacklisted if they're making art that's supporting American values.
The line about "you're in it for $35 a week" really hit me hard. In my younger days I worked for a company that did business with another company that was basically a scam. I didn't choose for our company to work with them, but it wasn't up to me. I ended up working very closely with these people. I didn't have a lot of moral qualms about it at first. My coworkers, people I really respected, had been doing this for several years and they didn't seem to have a problem with it. Then at the end of the project they gave me a Hallmark greeting card thanking me for my hard work. How sweet. Inside it they left a "tip". I wasn't a f-ing waitress or something, this wasn't an industry where you get tips. (And way before this new thing of everyone even at fricking Subway asking for tips.) So I understood very well what they meant. They were telling me that if I continue to just go with the flow I'll keep getting a little more cash. I thought of that line in the movie and how people degrade themselves for small amounts of money and justify it because they're not directly committing the crime themself. And of course I kept the money anyway.
!pinoypride I imagine this is like when someone running for local office hands out campaign fliers and they've got a $5 bill stapled to the back. Also note that we had jueteng in America back then, we just called it "policy", "numbers", etc. It's totally different now tho. Each state has a lottery which is legal and sold openly in every store. They constantly show ads highlighting how the state's cut of the gambling money is used for rural infrastructure, green energy, kids with cancer, etc. to appeal to every segment of society. I sure am glad that we're so civilized now and gambling is actually a good thing now.
The one person here who actually was on the same page with me about the whole gambling issue was my neighbor Penny. I hope she's still around on an alt.
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I want my 35 a fricking week !slots100
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I bet you can't even use a typewriter.
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When I was a fricking kid I would see how many of the fricking keys I could jam at once
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So basically you're saying that you were already a hacker trying to find exploits back then. Jannies might need to watch out for you...
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Politicians here still do this, though depending on the province and how tight the polling is they offer up to 500, even 1000 pesos (about $18).
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Seems like a nice movie, but some of that acting is pretty rough other than Thomas Gomez as the big guy, and even he isn't quite naturalistic. But oh well, that's pretty common for movies from back then.
Me, I think my favorite noir from back then is Murder, My Sweet.
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Finally somebody who agrees with me. I think Peepee Powell did the best version of that character. He doesn't really know wtf is going on 80% of the time, he's not some kind of MMA fighter. He's getting surprised by some f-slur sucker-punching him in the back of the head. And he escapes from a crooked mental hospital that's drugging patients so they don't beat the staff to death. Relatable on so many levels.
I think in my parents generation they didn't take this seriously because Peepee Powell was known for dancing in their time. You fricking r-slurs.
Everywhere in the world except post 1960s America it's been expected that every actor has another skill, usually singing or dancing. This one makes me fricking irate. This idea that actors are these geniuses who have to be handled with kid gloves. There are 1000 guys/girls going for that job. And I'm just gonna lay a 14,000lb truth bomb here, you don't have to be smart to be a pretty good actor. This isn't fricking rocket science, it's not even setting up the goddarn lighting, it's making facial gestures.
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There have been many film Philip Marlowes, but I think I like Peepee Powell the most. More than Bogart, Mitchum, or Gould. And I like all of those guys' Marlowes a lot, but I think Peepee Powell's is the best. And also the most accurate to the books, but that's a separate matter. Bogart kind of just played stereotypical Bogart as Marlowe, missing the vulnerability (despite the fact that Bogart was quite good at playing vulnerability in some other movies). Mitchum is good but lacks some of the Marlowe snark. Gould is great but his Marlowe is kind of just a long setup for the ending scene of The Long Goodbye, the plot arc in that movie overwhelms the character work.
Speaking of actors singing and dancing, yeah. I recently watched the 2012 Les Miserables movie with Russell Crowe and Huge Jacked Man both singing, and it's pretty good. People who get surprised when a guy is both good at dancing and at playing macho roles don't understand acting. Same as chuds who are surprised that Robert DeNiro is a leftist, not Travis Bickle or a mafia gangster. Personally I am not a leftist, but come on, kind of the whole point of being good at acting is being able to portray characters who are not necessarily similar to who you are in real life. You may need to expose aspects of your real self in your acting to do a good job of it, but the character is not the actor.
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That's exactly why I like him. Marlowe is supposed to be somebody you can really relate to because 80% of the time he has no idea wtf is going on and somebody is beating the shit out of him for reasons he doesn't know. Just like you are if you get yourself mixed up with some really dangerous hot chick. Lots of movies are power fantasies and that's great. I love to see people shooting machine guns on spaceships while doing kung fu. But the special charm of Marlowe is that he's the everyman who is thrown into an unusual situation.
One of my top 5 favorite shows of all time is Australia's Frontline from the 1990s. It's really weird going back and rewatching it now because it's got lots of references to contemporary Australia so they're talking about people like Russel Crowe and Nicole Kidman as local celebrities in their country. And making fun of Imran Khan for being an extremely lecherous cricket player decades before his abortive/r-slurred attempt to overthrow the deep state running Pakistan.
But my favorite memory of Hugh Jackman was him and his wife on some totally random cooking show where he tells the story about how his father was a diplomat at the Australian embassy in Seoul and he would always tell people "pay attention to Korea because in a little bit this place is gonna be fricking lit
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For your information, "internet comments" aren't some special kind of imaginary or play world. They are real comments from real people. This is still an actual conversation, genius, just like it was happening in someone's house, face to face. Maybe to you, it's just internet comments and comedy because you don't know what real life is. Look at your user name. Everything is just sarcasm to you. Look at your posts. You have no inner compass. Everything is just for a joke.
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