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On Saturday night, we watched the 1940 British film, Night Train to Munich, and Sunday we saw a matinee showing of Skyfall. (I skipped Meeting & Meeting for Business to rest. I hope watching Skyfall counted as rest but it wasn't the most relaxing film.)
No time for deep comparison and analysis, but some thoughts.
* Hitler pounding on a map was an established behavior in 1940. Was there newsreel footage? Is there historical accuracy in that repeated depiction?
* Map graphics have changed: 2012's map is a digital three-D construct. Maps actually more integral to the plot in 2012.
* Car chase in 1940 establishes a certain baseline, and trope of having the chase car be cut off. Chase scene in Skyfall establishes a new upper limit.
* 1940 film wasn't terribly jingoistic, but the comic pair (Christine thought of Rosenkranz & Guildenstern) have an encounter with a German station officer that clearly played to stereotypes.
* Skyfall's setting in Turkey, Shanghai, Macau, Christine notes, the quintessential Orientalist depiction.
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I finally did my performance appraisal. Now on to monthly report hell. (The hell is all in my mind as i respond to everything with "failed!" and have to twist it back into, hopefully, a positively framed objective view.)
Yesterday i caught up on many of the outstanding ticklers and undigested incoming digital bits. Stuff in the box for my desk is so old i can probably throw it all out. (Sigh)
Visitors from the Whale Mothership today (to mix metaphors). Therapist at 5. Christine's home tonight. Not sure what my "Condition for Enoughness" should be at home. It should probably have something to do with laundry.
No time for deep comparison and analysis, but some thoughts.
* Hitler pounding on a map was an established behavior in 1940. Was there newsreel footage? Is there historical accuracy in that repeated depiction?
* Map graphics have changed: 2012's map is a digital three-D construct. Maps actually more integral to the plot in 2012.
* Car chase in 1940 establishes a certain baseline, and trope of having the chase car be cut off. Chase scene in Skyfall establishes a new upper limit.
* 1940 film wasn't terribly jingoistic, but the comic pair (Christine thought of Rosenkranz & Guildenstern) have an encounter with a German station officer that clearly played to stereotypes.
* Skyfall's setting in Turkey, Shanghai, Macau, Christine notes, the quintessential Orientalist depiction.
--==∞==--
I finally did my performance appraisal. Now on to monthly report hell. (The hell is all in my mind as i respond to everything with "failed!" and have to twist it back into, hopefully, a positively framed objective view.)
Yesterday i caught up on many of the outstanding ticklers and undigested incoming digital bits. Stuff in the box for my desk is so old i can probably throw it all out. (Sigh)
Visitors from the Whale Mothership today (to mix metaphors). Therapist at 5. Christine's home tonight. Not sure what my "Condition for Enoughness" should be at home. It should probably have something to do with laundry.
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Google Books turns up "The Hitler filmography: worldwide feature film and television miniseries portrayals, 1940 through 2000"
Christine and i are chatting about this and her point is map tables were common. My point is that it is like if there were multiple movies showing Obama throwing his blackberry across the room. The fact Obama carries a blackberry (at least before his election) is widely known but not uncommon or unusual, But if popular media showed him hurling the phone at the wall: is that a theatric gesture to communicate anger? Or was it based on a known behavior?
Anyhows.
(Just realized i compared Obama to Hilter, NO. Not that. He's just the first leader i know was technically savvy. I guess i could say Al Gore throwing his MacBook across the room....)