tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post4142130992030357638..comments2024-03-14T19:14:03.059-05:00Comments on Acidemic - Film: CinemArchetype 20 - The Three Sisters / WitchesErich Kuerstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-52532707233835824942023-11-24T04:25:31.533-05:002023-11-24T04:25:31.533-05:00Great comment. But Jewish people weren’t “sent” to...Great comment. But Jewish people weren’t “sent” to their homeland Israel. The Jews all over the world returned to the land Israel. The biblical prophecy is clear that God would bring His people back to THEIR land. Which He did in the 40’s. The world making Israel an official country again is of no consequence to God. Some countries refuse to recognize Israel to this day. They have God to deal with. He said if you curse my people I will curse you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-90536538653603487672021-11-18T12:06:39.372-05:002021-11-18T12:06:39.372-05:00thanks for stepping up! Damn right Amerika Rules! ...thanks for stepping up! Damn right Amerika Rules! I didn't delete that alt-R-anon rant as I found it, at the very least, enlightening as to the new crypto-fascist historical fiction revisionism. I appreciate you defending us and our potent mix of dog-like altruism and gung ho naivete. I will slyly change the name on the cemetery to Arlington. Shhhh. Erich Kuerstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-26606105321196821502021-11-06T18:51:22.510-05:002021-11-06T18:51:22.510-05:00Not sure that Anonymous (above) isn't harborin...Not sure that Anonymous (above) isn't harboring some deep seated grudge, but whatever...<br />As to Saving Private Ryan, the cemetery in the movie is not Arlington - it is obviously the Normandy American Cemetery near Omaha Beach in France, the focus of the movie. And as for the 3 hot grand-daughters, one continued as an actress including doing a James Bond movie.<br />But back to Anonymous' rant: That the US entered the war following Pearl Harbor was fortuitous for England and Europe - along with materiel and supplies, it is unlikely that without foreign help that the continental allies would have been victorious over the Axis. BUT, it is true that - unlike portrayed in many movies - that any soldier, or army, was fighting on behalf of the Jews. At the time, there was only minor attention paid to their plight with many countries refusing refugees. It was not until Germany was defeated and the death camps opened up that the true extent of the Holocaust was seen. Even then though, most of the Jewish peoples were sent to newly created Israel (a British territory of Palestine, displacing them and starting a whole new problem ever since).<br />But if Anonymous is trying to portray the Nazis in a sympathetic light, forget it. They were pure evil. And the Americans were at the very least helpful, and probably at their best altruistic. I'm not American, but get tired of anti-American sentiment. If there are anecdotal examples of American atrocities throughout history, that is part of the dichotomy of their dynamic national character. After all, this is the nation that landed a man on the Moon at the height of the Vietnam War. AND helped defeat the antagonists in Two World Wars.The Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17247255787356238953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-29158729432079819622013-03-30T20:02:21.247-05:002013-03-30T20:02:21.247-05:00Interesting how Americans always claim that your s...Interesting how Americans always claim that your soldiers fought for your freedom in the Second World War. Unless you mean America's freedom to do whatever it wants, anytime and anywhere it wants (a victorious Germany would have checked your power to do this, somewhat,) your freedom was never under threat by National Socialist Germany. Not only were they not interested in America or even Western Europe, for that matter, but they did not have the means to be a threat to the USA.<br /><br />There's also no reason to believe that a victorious German "Reich" would not have eventually become more liberal after a couple of decades of brutal rule in Eastern Europe. One can refer to the ascendency of you Anglophone people as an example - the English went from brutal conquerors and tyrants over a few centuries to the liberal all-powerful protectors of this (your) free world. Always remember that for the American/Anglophone people to have had the kind of power and manipulation skills/control over world media etc. necessary to defeat Germany twice, was obtained after centuries of war and brutality and all the other vices that goes hand-in-hand with murderous imperial and territorial expansion. Yet, here you are now, spread out over entire continents, living it up. Thus the nations like Germany and Japan, whom were your enemies over the past century, were really just completely overtaken by the Anglophones, centuries ago, in the big race for world supremacy, and in them you were really just fighting earlier, more primitive versions of yourselves. <br /><br />As for those daughters - well, that's just one more tool a screenwriter/director can use to pass along unspoken messages, of course, but it can have the opposite effect as well - propaganda. The first thing that popped into my head when seeing those voluptuous hotties was: "Spielberg, have you no shame?" Yes, the perfect and godlike Americans with their superhumanly gorgeous daughters are here to make us praise God they won, for otherwise those hotties would not have existed.<br /> <br />Another thing, calling Tarantino ingenious for his Hans Landa character is mindless butt-kissing. The main German antagonists are always presented as very clever and shrewd in all films. Hans Landa is therefore a stereotype. Convincing the farmer first that it's OK for a couple of Jews to be shot before asking him where they are hiding is not something only a genius writer can come up with. Oh yes - the start of the film is historically inaccurate: French Jews were not rounded up until the second half of 1942. Inglourious Basterds starts in early 1941, with a family that has already been in hiding for nine months (thus since 1940!) <br /> <br />Also, not everyone who helped to run occupied France was a genocidal thug. This is the kind of ignorance that has people cheering at scenes like the indiscriminate scalping of the German troops in Inglourious Basterds. Some of those troops were easily just 16 years old, all of them were drafted and many of them would have been good people and "good" soldiers. Try to not make use of generalisations when you write. If I were to call Allied troops rapists, it would be unfair, as not all Allied troops raped German girls at the end of the war.<br /><br />Apart from the small issues I listed above, the article is very informative about a symbolic reference that I've never really taken notice of.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-32975624669824863532013-01-15T10:26:58.357-05:002013-01-15T10:26:58.357-05:00wow. great post. something i haven't even real...wow. great post. something i haven't even really thought about.MrJefferyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04657422824565425948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-86483843354908472442013-01-13T00:52:11.284-05:002013-01-13T00:52:11.284-05:00The two oldest sisters now live in small trailers ...The two oldest sisters now live in small trailers on my Mother's property. It's kind of a Larry McMurtry meets the Beales of Grey Gardens, with at least 11 small dogs. I am digressing here, but i met a psychic once, and the very first thing he said was "You grew up in a house full of powerful women, all bigger than you, and you have never been able to assert yourself in relationships as a result of it. You didn't have a father figure, so you have spent your life hiring them, and then when you outgrow them, you fire them and move on." This was on a handshake, not after a therapy session! I love them, get along great with them, but it took a lot of work to get there. Anyway, I love the points you brought up about the Estrogynous Trinity! <br />johnnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11799326880962880585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-34036338132857023862013-01-11T17:55:46.759-05:002013-01-11T17:55:46.759-05:00Good lord right? Thanks for your recent comment/s,...Good lord right? Thanks for your recent comment/s, Johnny. Sorry to hear about these three older sisters. I can only imagine, let alone seven. I only have one younger brother and now he's a hulking gun nut in Arizona and I know, sadly, my petty irritable tyranny when we were kids helped in some way to bring him to that state. I thought about incorporating the Punch Drunk coven into this post somehow, so I'm glad you brought them up. One day I want to go through their scenes and try to listen to each individual voice / thread one at a time, but I imagine it would drive me insaneErich Kuerstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-16855748703699197682013-01-11T15:57:39.411-05:002013-01-11T15:57:39.411-05:00I have three older sisters... and I have a LOT of ...I have three older sisters... and I have a LOT of issues. For all those fathers of daughters that keep knocking up your wife until you finally get a son - Celebrate your daughters and quit while you are ahead. He's not going to be the Alpha Male of this pecking order, growing up an alien in his own house, with a father who is as outnumbered as he is. See Punch Drunk Love.johnnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11799326880962880585noreply@blogger.com