Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film-makers die, and the industry busily replaces its craftsmen with product-mongers who think only of mass audience and TV sales. Contemporary social phenomena, prevented from developing in peace, are instantly exploited by a Hollywood desperate to be the first on the marketing bandwagon. Thus Hollywood supplies a hippie to the curious netherworld between San Francisco and New York--a hippie one step closer to reality than John Wayne's faceless chattering Vietcong, but already a stock figure for a director to plug into any context available...
...year. "I wanted to bring the story to the attention of young people," says Director Franco Zeffirelli. "The story is of two urchins crushed by a stupid, banal quarrel with origins even the adults don't know. In love the young couple found an ideal - one they could die for - and youth today is hungry for ideals...
...Theirs not to make reply,/Theirs not to reason why,/Theirs but to do and die." It is necessary to remind oneself these days that Tennyson wrote those lines with a straight face. For the poet laureate, the gallant but futile attack at Balaclava was a testimony to human courage. Aided by the hindsight of history, Director Tony Richardson sees the event in another light. His film version of The Charge of the Light Brigade, based in part on Cecil Woodham-Smith's brilliant study, The Reason Why, is a polemical attack on the futility...
...they nearly die of gratitude. To be a real human being you need something to give your life purpose and take your freedom away, you need something to belong to, the corporation, the force, the platoon, the kiwanis, the brigade...
...back. They all jumped out, and I saw to my horror that they were Klansmen. Uniformed ones. This all seemed a little absurd; what had I really done? At the time, though, the "absurdity" was nudged out by a more persistent thought: I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die. I sat still in the car as they gathered around...