![]() “No one’s allowed to smoke, or tell a dirty joke, and whistling is forbidden. Firefly comes on the scene as a tyrant, tramping down on his citizens’ rights with his first edicts. Groucho casts a global arc and uses the speech to justify the means to his ends. He’d worked his way up with crew who knew his intents before he had to say them. Queeg had always relied on a crew that was oil-slick to the point of having a kind of seamen’s psychic connection. His every decision labeled wrong, when he knew from years of experience that he was acting exactly as situations merited. ![]() In The Caine Mutiny, Lieutenant Commander Phillip Queeg is battered on the witness stand. As monumental a transformation as it is, it is this great because it fulfills the emotional need the audience has for this character to be a survivor. Leigh allows us into Scarlett’s damaged soul to watch as her inner strength is sparked. The audience knows Scarlett will be alright in the end if she has to will it that way. Vivian Leigh goes from shattered to reborn through the fires of Atlanta. Scarlett O’Hara travels a great distance in her monologue in Gone with the Wind. It was pretty much an open secret, especially if you didn’t show up on opening weekend and heard all about it. We all knew he was covering something up, and we knew he knew. His arc is interesting, but his inner character does not move. ![]() In A Few Good Men, Jack Nicholson is badgered into an admission. He is terrifying, blunt, reasonable, and ever-patriotic, but he does not have a journey. Scott stays on an even plane during his rousing speech. We see the inner Marxian machinations at work feeding nagging doubts of unworthiness, selfishness, and paranoia. Teasdale may have cut through months of diplomatic channels in stopping whatever the harm was started by the usurping use of the word “upstart.” Firefly is intent on keeping peace, absolutely assured that this is a righteous path and resolutely committed to seeing it through. The aside opens with a heartfelt expression of gratitude. ![]() Teasdale, who takes up enough ground to be a superpac. Firefly, has taken over a country overloaded with imperfections because of the rich widow Mrs. Anarchy ruled the day and the nights were a free for all in Freedonia – but who am I to quibble with perfection? His Excellency, Rufus T. It was prescient, it wasn’t preachy, and the bad guys won. So, you refuse to shake hands with me, eh?ĭuck Soup is well known as the classic satirical spin on the rising fascism. Why, the cheap four flushing swine, he’ll never get away with it I tell you, he’ll never get away with it!” Think of it – I hold out my hand and that hyena refuses to accept it. Who does he think he is, that he can come here, and make a sap out of me in front of all my people? That’ll add a lot to my prestige, won’t it? Me, the head of a country, snubbed by a foreign ambassador. I hold out my hand and he refuses to accept it. And I feel sure he will accept this gesture in the spirit in which it is offered.īut suppose he doesn’t. I’d be only too happy to meet Ambassador Trentino, and offer him on behalf of my country the right hand of good fellowship. I’d be unworthy of the high trust that’s been placed in me if I didn’t do everything within my power to keep our beloved Freedonia at peace with the world. His Excellency’s journey through those words traverse worlds. He and his brothers may have been uneducated, but that didn’t make them unschooled. He happily hacked up Eugene O’Neill and riffed on Aristophanes. Groucho had indulged in strange interludes before. It lays bare the inner workings of a despotic mind and does it with wit and not a shred of preachiness. Teasdale (Margaret Dumont), tells the story of fascism and the fashion faux pas of brown shirts and tails. Read more: What the Joker Movie Controversy Gets Wrong Oh, and when Groucho himself pondered death and dying he said he intended to live forever, or die trying and concluded that death would be the last thing he’d do. There is no political or philosophical waffling. Groucho makes a complete turn and goes into action. He agonized over vengeance and suicide, with the veins or across the veins, for two to four minutes. Shakespeare’s Hamlet, son of of Winnie the Pooh’s King Piglet, took on the question of life or death.
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