Monday, January 16, 2006
Tim Robbins Continues To Make It Hard To Hate Sean Penn The Most.
For his next "scathingly liberal" project Tim Robbins intends to do his very own film adaptation of George Orwell's 1984. He has been fronting a stage version of 1984 for some time now, but apparently hopes to get this story's strong message out to a larger audience. The material easily reflects the goings on of the world today and only requires minor changes from the original story to be as topical today as it was supposed to be in 1984. In Robbins' film version, "Big Brother" Will likely be changed to "George Bush" and the "thought police" will be referred to as "the Damn Republicans. Also, they'll be burning Ipods instead of books. Or was that Fahrenheit 451? I always get those two alarmist FICTION novels mixed up. Go Tim Robbins! You are fair and balanced!
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I think Sean Penn wins since he is the one who took "Blame Bush" to a whole new level. Apparently, Penn blames Bush for his continued smoking problem.
A true American does not complain about an artist's (or anyone else's) unalienable right to free speech. This country was founded on free speech. Besides, if we all agreed about what actors and artists should say we would be Commmies. And this ain't a complaint about Lord Kingly's right to free speech either. -SD
Nice save at the end, anonymous. I, myself, never said that Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, or any other idiot who's portrayed a politician, whore, cop or what have you on the big screen weren't entitled to speak their mind or make films out of books and pretend to know exactly how the author would have interpreted their own work as compared to the world today. I merely pointed out that I think Tim Robbins is an ass.
Oh, and one more thing, anonymous. I hardly think that my original statement was complaining about someone's unalienable(sic) right to free speech. I was merely voicing my opinion about what they chose to say. If you define a true American as someone who does not even "complain" about someone's saying what they feel, when it goes against what they believe, I defy you to show me a true American. To contend against a person's right to free speech would be another thing altogether.
What is alarmist about these great works of science fiction? Are we needlessly scared because ET will come and eat all our Reese’s Pieces? No silly rabbit, but when is science fiction not alarmist but alarming instead?
How about when it seems like it may not be fiction anymore?
In Orwell’s 1984 the government has demolished all privacy rights to protect its people. Is there any current relevance in the United Sates of America? Domestic wiretapping? Patriot Act allowing the government to track which books you take out of the library, when and where? Bradbury’s Farenheit 451 is science fiction about government censorship. If the government knows what we read, and what we search for on the internet, does this influence or censor what we read because what we do read is also read by the government peering over our shoulder?
The only thing alarming about your comments Lord Kingly is that you don’t understand that we can learn more by READing than we can by RANTing. -SD
I find it strange that you would accuse me of ranting while defending someone such as Tim Robbins. People like Robbins, Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon are some of the biggest offenders when it comes to forcing their opinions down the throats of the American people, whether it be in the form of straight up political commentaries or "art" such as a film version of a 60 year old piece of fictional literature.
Your dig at the end was a more pleasant surprise. I am sorry, yet tickled, that you think I am unable to understand the value of reading in our education. I suppose I see your point about my ignorance of that reality, it's just that I am unable to locate 1984 in the reference section of my library. No doubt that is where you'd find it in yours, though.
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