Issue 177
News: An Alternate View of Aldo Raine.
As I mentioned earlier, I have become increasingly immersed in the life of this autistic manchild by the name of Christian W. Chandler and his crappy webcomic. By this point, I am less horrified by what I see than I was. What I didn't mention was that he claims to be part Native-American, noting that, especially in the south, where he is from, having Native ancestry was often cover for having Black ancestry (apparently the one-drop rule didn't apply to the native folk.) This immediately got me to thinking about somebody from a movie I had seen a year ago who claimed to be of Native American ancestry, Aldo Raine from Inglorious Basterds. In addition, he has a scar on his neck that is supposed to be rope burn (this is not so easy to see in the film itself, but it is much easier to see in publicity shoots and the cover of the one-disc edition,) and the published script implies that Raine was the survivor of a lynching. So my theory is that the people in his hometown of Maynardville, TN, discovered he was partially black, and attempted to lynch him for a crime he (considering his brutality in the film) might have actually committed, but by some freak accident, survived, and turned his anger towards the bigotry of his region, and after it became clear that the American Army was going to fight them, their international equivalents, The Nazis. And, as soon as he realized that the Army would be less unkind towards both being mixed-race and the sociopathic behavior Raine clearly harbored, he fit in like a glove, and he rose through the ranks. And knowing Quentin Tarantino, I'm fairly certain that Fritz Lang's anti-lynching film Fury somehow fits in, but I don't know where.
Film Idea of the Day: N/A.
Film Review of the Day: My Sister's Keeper. I managed to get this movie recently, and I have to say that the idea is certainly an interesting one, and, indeed, seems somewhat Randian in its plot: a child is born pretty much as spare parts for her leukemic sister, and eventually has enough and files for medical emancipation, seeming to recall the interesting things of Ayn Rand's novels, namely the triumph of the individual over the demands of altruism, without the romantic plot tumors or fighting collectivism from a collective. What I really liked about the film was its ending, and especially how different it turned out to be from its original novel. In both, the well sister got medical emancipation, but in the original novel, according to TVTropes, she immediately got killed by a bus and had her kidneys donated anyway. However, in the film, it turned out that the sick sister actually masterminded the plan for the well sister to apply for emancipation to let her mother finally know she had had enough and wanted an end to all the suffering, and so, it turns out that both sisters get the suffering to stop on both ends, and even their hard-ass of a mother ends up lightening up in the end, as seen as when they go to Montana. Unfortunately, a lot of the movie, particularly the parts which didn't have to do with the major plot (read: the flashbacks) I just couldn't relate to.
Quote of the Day: "Your definition is narrow; life insisting on life’s viewpoint, when alternatives exist."
______________Dr. Manhattan on the point of view of the mother in My Sister's Keeeper.
Link of the Day: A song I think should have ended the movie, and could have even lightened the mood, and would still be fitting.
As I mentioned earlier, I have become increasingly immersed in the life of this autistic manchild by the name of Christian W. Chandler and his crappy webcomic. By this point, I am less horrified by what I see than I was. What I didn't mention was that he claims to be part Native-American, noting that, especially in the south, where he is from, having Native ancestry was often cover for having Black ancestry (apparently the one-drop rule didn't apply to the native folk.) This immediately got me to thinking about somebody from a movie I had seen a year ago who claimed to be of Native American ancestry, Aldo Raine from Inglorious Basterds. In addition, he has a scar on his neck that is supposed to be rope burn (this is not so easy to see in the film itself, but it is much easier to see in publicity shoots and the cover of the one-disc edition,) and the published script implies that Raine was the survivor of a lynching. So my theory is that the people in his hometown of Maynardville, TN, discovered he was partially black, and attempted to lynch him for a crime he (considering his brutality in the film) might have actually committed, but by some freak accident, survived, and turned his anger towards the bigotry of his region, and after it became clear that the American Army was going to fight them, their international equivalents, The Nazis. And, as soon as he realized that the Army would be less unkind towards both being mixed-race and the sociopathic behavior Raine clearly harbored, he fit in like a glove, and he rose through the ranks. And knowing Quentin Tarantino, I'm fairly certain that Fritz Lang's anti-lynching film Fury somehow fits in, but I don't know where.
Film Idea of the Day: N/A.
Film Review of the Day: My Sister's Keeper. I managed to get this movie recently, and I have to say that the idea is certainly an interesting one, and, indeed, seems somewhat Randian in its plot: a child is born pretty much as spare parts for her leukemic sister, and eventually has enough and files for medical emancipation, seeming to recall the interesting things of Ayn Rand's novels, namely the triumph of the individual over the demands of altruism, without the romantic plot tumors or fighting collectivism from a collective. What I really liked about the film was its ending, and especially how different it turned out to be from its original novel. In both, the well sister got medical emancipation, but in the original novel, according to TVTropes, she immediately got killed by a bus and had her kidneys donated anyway. However, in the film, it turned out that the sick sister actually masterminded the plan for the well sister to apply for emancipation to let her mother finally know she had had enough and wanted an end to all the suffering, and so, it turns out that both sisters get the suffering to stop on both ends, and even their hard-ass of a mother ends up lightening up in the end, as seen as when they go to Montana. Unfortunately, a lot of the movie, particularly the parts which didn't have to do with the major plot (read: the flashbacks) I just couldn't relate to.
Quote of the Day: "Your definition is narrow; life insisting on life’s viewpoint, when alternatives exist."
______________Dr. Manhattan on the point of view of the mother in My Sister's Keeeper.
Link of the Day: A song I think should have ended the movie, and could have even lightened the mood, and would still be fitting.
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