tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post6619565462199944482..comments2024-03-28T16:47:27.333-05:00Comments on Acidemic - Film: In Praise of Dangerous Men: George C. Scott as PATTON (1970)Erich Kuerstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-79730658481732088752010-04-09T13:32:30.909-05:002010-04-09T13:32:30.909-05:00Thanks, MM - you're right about the perfectly ...Thanks, MM - you're right about the perfectly intoned narration. The way he says "a golden crown" has especially heavy poetic resonanceErich Kuerstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-18675688671521715982010-04-02T10:50:09.197-05:002010-04-02T10:50:09.197-05:00An all-time favorite - God, how I love it, I do lo...An all-time favorite - God, how I love it, I do love it so. There's this fantastic romanticism to it too - not just the dialogue and the themes, but those desert vistas, those European plains, that magnificent classicism held up at the exact moment when Hollywood's aesthetic was shifting completely. Change is in the air - it's offscreen, but you can smell it, and so in more ways than one Patton (general and movie) seems the last of a dying breed. Sometimes I think that conclusion, with the crisp clear score, the perfectly intoned narration (read as if it were memory rather than history - hey, maybe it was), that windmill - tremendous.<br /><br />Loved your review too. Peace - er - war, bro.Joel Bockohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11238338958380683893noreply@blogger.com