Here’s one script that isn’t up for Best Picture. Cut to the 1950s: a 52-year-old salesman peddles a new, multi-spindle milkshake maker to hamburger stands across the Midwest. The salesman has a simple pitch–faster milkshakes. But what he’s really selling is a concept, a futuristic vision of what business could deliver: speed, reliability, mass production.…
via A Great Business Movie Is Getting Snubbed at the Oscars This Year — Fortune
Here goes the idea behind Philip Seymour Hoffman’s last piece of film, A Most Wanted Man: There is no delicate, surgical hand in American justice. Instead, it hammers away at evil in big, imprecise swings that disregard the smaller costs or miss their target completely. And all those costs and misses that accumulate as the U.S. government metes out imprisonment and death—they are the reason America will never win its wars. Not the war on terror. Not the war on drugs.
That is the idea.
For instance: Amid the wreckage of a drone-dropped bomb there may be not only the cadavers of targeted terrorists, but also, at times, the lifeless body of an informant, or an innocent. A large terror cell can be taken down, sure, but only if immunity is granted to the smaller players. The writing of a speeding ticket might slow the response to a murder down the street. All these things, and things like them, hammer and hammer ceaselessly, the bruises blackening and blackening until lives are nearly or completely lost, and justice itself is subverted.
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Here goes the idea behind Philip Seymour Hoffman’s last piece of film, A Most Wanted Man: There is no delicate, surgical hand in American justice. Instead, it hammers away at evil in big, imprecise swings that disregard the smaller costs or miss their target completely. And all those costs and misses that accumulate as the U.S. government metes out imprisonment and death—they are the reason America will never win its wars. Not the war on terror. Not the war on drugs.
That is the idea.
For instance: Amid the wreckage of a drone-dropped bomb there may be not only the cadavers of targeted terrorists, but also, at times, the lifeless body of an informant, or an innocent. A large terror cell can be taken down, sure, but only if immunity is granted to the smaller players. The writing of a speeding ticket might slow the response to a murder down the street. All these things, and things like them, hammer and hammer ceaselessly, the bruises blackening and blackening until lives are nearly or completely lost, and justice itself is subverted.
Read the article here at Esquire
Life is about choice. What we eat, what we read, who we elect; every day we make choices that determine how we want to live.
But what if these choices are just an illusion?
In an era where regulations and red tape rule every industry, where lobby groups and big business wield more influence than ever before, our daily choices have become increasingly limited. And with all our options so deliberately handpicked, are we really making a choice at all?
Freedom From Choice is a feature-length documentary examining the current state of life and personal choice in America today. Experts from many different fields offer a frank and startling look at the hidden limitations in our daily lives. Focusing on key areas such as food, medicine, finance, and media, Freedom From Choice provides viewers with a glimpse at the myriad of ways their lives are being dictated, and tells us who stands to gain.
Presented in an entertaining style, Freedom From Choice is a film not about the choices we make, but rather the choices that are being made for us.
Life is about choice. What we eat, what we read, who we elect; every day we make choices that determine how we want to live.
But what if these choices are just an illusion?
In an era where regulations and red tape rule every industry, where lobby groups and big business wield more influence than ever before, our daily choices have become increasingly limited. And with all our options so deliberately handpicked, are we really making a choice at all?
Freedom From Choice is a feature-length documentary examining the current state of life and personal choice in America today. Experts from many different fields offer a frank and startling look at the hidden limitations in our daily lives. Focusing on key areas such as food, medicine, finance, and media, Freedom From Choice provides viewers with a glimpse at the myriad of ways their lives are being dictated, and tells us who stands to gain.
Presented in an entertaining style, Freedom From Choice is a film not about the choices we make, but rather the choices that are being made for us.
Attending an earlier screening of the new movie Lucy, my guest and me were impressed. Lucy debuts to American theaters on Friday, July 25, 2014 and is expected to do well at the box office. Starring Scarlett Johansson as Lucy, the movie is well paced and like director/writer Luc Besson’s other films is a non-stop thriller. If you put aside knowledge of science, then you will enjoy the movie.
Gary Oldman has stolen plenty of hearts, but he probably now has a special place in the hearts of liberty lovers. The English actor told Playboy he considered himself a libertarian and took a great shot at Bill Maher in the process.
PLAYBOY: How would you describe your politics?
OLDMAN: I would say that I’m probably a libertarian if I had to put myself in any category. But you don’t come out and talk about these things, for obvious reasons.
PLAYBOY: But there are a ton of conservatives in Hollywood, and libertarians too. Bill Maher has called himself a libertarian.
OLDMAN: I think he would fail the test. Anyway, unlike Bill Maher, conservatives in Hollywood don’t have a podium.
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Susette Kelo—the working class nurse who lost her waterfront home in an epic U.S. Supreme Court battle—has lived a life that reads like a Hollywood movie, and now that is exactly what it will become. Today, June 23, 2014 marks the 9th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s rulling in the Kelo case.
Producers Ted and Courtney Balaker of Korchula Productions today announced they purchased the movie rights to the book “Little Pink House,” which documented the behind-the-scenes story behind the Kelo fight against eminent domain abuse, and they also purchased the life rights to Kelo’s personal story. With those rights secured, the script ready, and funding expected to be completed this year, Korchula Productions plans to move forward with casting and move into production of the theatrical movie in the spring of 2015. Next year marks the 10th anniversary of the infamous ruling in Kelo v City of New London, a much-despised decision in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the government could take the homes of ordinary Americans and hand the land over to another private party for the mere promise that the new project would raise more money in taxes.
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Atlas Shrugged 3 Movie coming this September, 2014 to theaters nationwide. Last of the the trilogy based on the book ‘Atlas Shrugged’ by Ayn Rand.
Atlas Shrugged 3 Movie coming this September, 2014 to theaters nationwide. Last of the the trilogy based on the book ‘Atlas Shrugged’ by Ayn Rand.
Today, May 9, 2014, the new movie ‘Neighbors‘ appears in movie theaters nationwide in the United States. Nicholas Stoller, writer of ‘Fun with Dick and Jane ‘and’ Yes Man fame, directs the movie. ‘Neighbors‘ stars Zach Efron and Seth Rogen plus Australian-born Rose Byrne plays Rogen’s wife in the film. Dave Franco, younger brother to actor James Franco, also plays a supporting role to Efron.
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