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Following are movie clips that are used in a variety of articles. When the articles were first written, using so many movie references was not contemplated, so it is only starting to be reverse-indexed for convenience of readers. This index allows a reader to find an interesting movie clip and review back into the article or articles from which it is sourced. If a clip does not have an index, then it is not yet attached to source. Some of the new or revised links will automatically open to a new tab, which is the preferred evolution. This task is still in process.
If you want to see all the articles that have movies in the post, try the Categories Dropdown (select Movies) or try the Tags Dropdown (select the Movie_ prefix).
As more and more movies are continued to be placed here, I recognize that something in the movie clips might be offensive to you; although I certainly hope that this is not the case, since I have taken the position that it is very difficult to offend a true intellectual. [GRZUID199] Rather, my hope is that these movie gems inspire a new generation of critically thoughtful cinephiles. Comedy and satire—perhaps offensive—are important components of free-thought, expression, and social commentary. So let us not be hypocritical to conscience. Watch for spoilers. Thank you for reading.
Current Winner, Tie: The Princess Bride and The Crazy Ones with Six References. Seems reasonable, life is hard, and be your unique self: both core concepts. {“Truth is a dish best served cold” does not qualify because it is not externally sourced…}
A Few Good Men [Rob Reiner] [MUID1X]
A Few Good Men [Rob Reiner] [MUID1X] – You Can’t Handle the Truth {Spoiler Alert} [Ed. Note: This little clip is sublime with regard to the philosophical question of self-destruction by goodness, or whether systemic justice will defeat itself. Or, as set forth in various articles, “Civility destroyed by civility.”]
[GRZUID80], [GRZUID178], [GRZUID205] ~
The Princess Bride [MUID2X] – Life Is Pain [Ed. Note: This is one of the greatest stories ever told, masterfully expressed by Director Rob Reiner with an all-star cast. This expression is a masterclass of telling a story.]
[GRZUID76], [GRZUID145], [GRZUID178], [GRZUID205], [GRZUID207] ~
Braveheart [MUID3X] – Hold [Ed. Note: Discipline is holding when we want to attack, courage is attacking when we want to hold. Wisdom decides, justice harmonizes.]
American Pie [MUID4X] – To “Love” Your Pie [Ed. Note: The Greek is much more clear. Greek has different words for “love” that express different concepts, which inherently requires a child to make philosophical decisions before communicating. “I loved the pie” in English is ambiguous, or vague.]
Family Guy [MUID5X] – The Whom Owl
Lord of the Rings [MUID6X] – The Pity of Bilbo to Frodo, Gollum’s Purpose
Game of Thrones [MUID7X] – Judgment and Swinging the Sword [Ed. Note: The suggested reason is because the judge should not displace responsibility for bearing the burden of implementing the judgment. It is participating first-hand in the punishment that provides the meting judicious empathy that the sentence is appropriate and necessary. Judging without personally participating in the sentencing does not complete the test for empathy. Judgment may be the “easier” part of the justice, which is completed with the sentencing.]
Princess Bride [Rob Reiner] [MUID8X]
Princess Bride [Rob Reiner] [MUID8X] – The Battle of Wits {Spoiler Alert}
Star Trek [MUID9X] – Wrath of Khan-Revenge is a Dish Best Served Cold [Ed. Note: I reference this in multiple articles as, “Truth is a dish best served cold,” so it’s really corollary reference.]
[GRZUID40], [GRZUID98_54], [GRZUID145], [GRZUID178], [GRZUID205], [GRZUID207] ~
Misery [Rob Reiner] [MUID10X] – Hobbling [Ed. Note: Notice subtle (or not) use of the Cross on her neckless, and “God I love you.” The things we do for love, and how emotion deludes us…]
A Man for All Seasons [MUID12X]
A Man for All Seasons [MUID12X] – To Give the Devil the Benefit of Law [Ed. Note: This Academy Award-winning gem provides the capstone universal foundation for justice. We need to preserve law when we want to attack, because we need the law to be preserved when we must defend. The wind blows one way but then comes back around. Separation of Church and State finds its source in this concept. The United States Constitution is agnostic to god-religion-dogma by intentional design to protect the “circle of justice.” It is the socio-political Golden Rule.]
[GRZUID61], [GRZUID147], [GRZUID194], [GRZUID197], [GRZUID198] ~
Apple Advertisement (Jobs Version) [MUID125X]
Apple Advertisement (Jobs Version) [MUID125X] – The Crazy Ones [Ed. Note: Often overlooked, the Apple “Think Different” advertisement is a contradiction to proper grammar. The verb requires an adverb as the qualifier. It should be “Think Differently,” so the advertisement itself exemplifies its own message.]
[GRZUID46], [GRZUID47], [GRZUID151], [GRZUID199], [GRZUID205], [GRZUID223] ~
Anthony Jeselnik [MUID126X]
Anthony Jeselnik [MUID126X] – Best of Anthony Jeselnik
Anthony Jeselnik [MUID13X]
Anthony Jeselnik-His Diagnosis as a Comedian [Ed. Note: The rise of the modern psychologist may be fairly considered in a framework of projection.]
Patton [MUID14X] – Battle Fatigue-The Patton Slap [The quintessential “Objective-Based Leader.” “Lead, follow, or get out of the way.” You help achieving the objective, you hurt achieving the objective, or you are irrelevant. It’s not complicated. It is priority focus to an objective, and determination.]
[GRZUID80], [GRZUID162], [GRZUID208] ~
Steve Jobs [MUID15X] – Acknowledge Apple II [Ed. Note: It is easy to join in on Woz’s perspective, and all news and social media will tug on our heartstrings. But consider the key phrase, “It’s not a luncheon,“ which exposes that the event has one focused purpose—one primary objective—one context—and anything diverting from the mission objective is a risk to achieving the mission objective. Goal posts don’t move. The articles take the position that Jobs was correct, although perhaps not feel-good likeable for it.]
[GRZUID98_113], [GRZUID162], [GRZUID208] ~
Trump and Miss Universe [MUID17X]
Trump and Miss Universe [MUID17X] – Trump and Miss Universe [Ed. Note: “How did it make you feel?” is no part of the primary objective for the defined role. Rhetoric moves audience focus away from the primary objective. However distasteful, some frameworks of the context do not allow the beauty-contestant winner to have the cake and to eat it, too.]
City Slickers [MUID18X] – The One Thing [Ed. Note: The one thing, when clearly defined, is the thing to which all else yields.]
Pulp Fiction [Quentin Tarentino] [MUID19X]
Pulp Fiction [Quentin Tarentino] [MUID19X] – The Wolf-“Pretty Please”
Edelman on Belichick [MUID20X]
Edelman on Belichick [MUID20X] – On Hall-of-Fame Ridicule Coaching Method
Pumping Iron [MUID21X] – Pumping Iron-Arnold on Being a Champion [Ed. Note: Arnold identifies the pain as the critical mass threshold. Not getting through the point is absolute failure, getting through the point is only possible success. The “weed-out.”]
John Adams [MUID22X] – Abigail Adams, Politics
[GRZUID46], [GRZUID47], [GRZUID170], [GRZUID220], [GRZUID221] ~
2001 Space Odyssey [Stanley Kubrick] [MUID24X]
2001 Space Odyssey [Stanley Kubrick] [MUID24X] – 2001 Space Odyssey: The Dawn of Man [Ed. Note: Kubrick’s genius: Look for the evolved weapon at the end of the clip. Only the weapons evolve, not human nature.]
[GRZUID24], [GRZUID141], [GRZUID145], [GRZUID151] ~
Martin Luther King, Jr. [MUID25X]
Martin Luther King, Jr. [MUID25X] – Mike Douglas Show – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [Ed. Note: The calm and cool sophisticated elevated savvy of King. He was no ordinary rebel, but a man of profundity deserving of a day of national recognition.]
[GRZ221] ~
Martin Luther King, Jr. [MUID26X]
Martin Luther King, Jr. [MUID26X] – Final Speech [Almost as if he knew his assassination would be immediately forthcoming.]
[GRZ221] ~
Shark Tale [MUID27X] – You’re a Good Person [Ed. Note: A funny little clip, but profound in exposition of conscience and who is “good” and relativity of morals.]
[GRZ220] ~
The Is Spinal Tap [Rob Reiner] [MUID28X]
The Is Spinal Tap [Rob Reiner] [MUID28X] – This Goes to 11 [Ed. Note: Sublime delusion.]
[GRZUID131], [GRZUID165], [GRZUID178] ~
When Harry Met Sally [Rob Reiner] [MUID29X]
When Harry Met Sally [Rob Reiner] [MUID29X] – I’ll Have What She’s Having
The Longest Yard [MUID30X] – I Think I Broke His F* Neck [Ed. Note: Art imitates life. See MUID31X.]
Gronkowski and Edelman [MUID31X]
Gronkowski and Edelman [MUID31X] – Beast Mode – I Broke His Neck [Ed. Note: Life imitates art. See MUID30X.]
Space Challenger Disaster [MUID32X]
Space Challenger Disaster [MUID32X] [Ed. Note. The scientists predicted success or it would not have launched.]
Lion King [MUID33X] – It’s In the Past [Ed. Note: This gem of a scene, with staid and true old-school wisdom, was removed from the live action version for a reason.] {Spoiler Alert}
[GRZUID88], [GRZUID93], [GRZUID94] ~
Game of Thrones [MUID34X] – Bronn Trial by Combat – A dead loser’s honor. [Ed. Note: The oxymoron of “Rules of War.”]
[GRZUID80], [GRZUID87], [GRZUID239] ~
The Fountainhead [MUID35X] – But I Don’t Think of You
Game of Thrones [MUID36X] – When We Say Yes – Integrity [Ed. Note: No promises or oaths required.]
Seinfeld [MUID37X] – Indian Episode [Comedic satire, even dark comedic satire, can expose and release social repression in a healthy way. Social constraint, by applied “psychology” asserting feigned normalcy, can be more dysfunctional than healthy functional. If what is funny in private is constrained by not to be funny in public, there is a tendency to unhealthy social dysfunction. This sublime clip releases human social tension by satire, particularly to be worshipped in a free-thinking society.]
Macho Man [MUID38X]
Macho Man [MUID38X] – WWF/WWE – Nothing Means Nothing [Ed. Note: This little WWF/WWE clip with Mean Gene and Randy Savage is XY-male nonsensical genius. This clip never gets old. Mean Gene’s straight-man face and subtle sarcasm. Macho Man’s use of sophisticated terms, “I’ve been…maligned…” Comedic genius all the way around. This clip was first used in the Bud-Light marketing debacle to exemplify the true XY-male nonsense that XX-women have to deal with, being the adult man-child…and many an XY-male reserves that natural right without XX-mommy’s or XX-wife’s or any XX-woman’s repressing condemnation.] See [MUID39X].
Ric Flair [MUID39X]
Ric Flair [MUID39X] – WWF/WWE – If You Want to Be the Man, You Have to Beat the Man See [MUID38X].
[{GRZUID98_109}], [GRZUID142] ~
Legend of the Ten Rings [MUID40X]
Legend of the Ten Rings [MUID40X] – “I always bet on Asian,” and “Did America make you soft?” [Ed. Note: The shift of power, expressed by Disney, which could not be expressed, except by implied market acceptance.]
Army of Darkness [Sam Raimi] [MUID41X]
Army of Darkness [Sam Raimi] [MUID41X] – “Good, Bad, I’m the Guy with the Gun” [Ed. Note: The quote subsumes all political theory. We tend to hope that right makes might, but we know that might tends to make right. And don’t miss the play on words, “Bad Ash” “Bad As*”]
Game of Thrones [MUID42X] – Kill the Boy [Ed. Note: Stop being controlled by “Likes.” Do what you believe is right. As stated in many posts, “Time will get its day.”]
[GRZUID98_31], [GRZUID46], [GRZUID47] ~
Elizabeth and the Golden Age [MUID43X]
Elizabeth and the Golden Age [MUID43X] – Hope
Bob Dylan [MUID44X] – Just Like a Woman
John Adams [MUID45X] – Hamilton and Jefferson
[GRZUID82], [GRZUID181], [GRZUID223] ~
Lincoln [Steven Spielberg] [MUID46X]
Lincoln [Steven Spielberg] [MUID46X] – The Untempered Version, In the Course of Time [Ed. Note: A sublime clip in judgment and civic virtue.]
[GRZUID98_1], [GRZUID98_44], [GRZUID176], [GRZUID189], [GRZUID215] ~
Game of Thrones [MUID47X] – Viper and the Mountain [Ed. Note: Finish then talk. Get your guy out of the jungle, then smoke a cigarette.]
The Devil’s Advocate [MUID48X]
The Devil’s Advocate [MUID48X] – Vanity [Ed. Note: Ben Franklin said vanity/humility/pride was the most difficult vice to eradicate, by application of “Vanity’s Paradox,” that we tend to be proud of ourselves for having accomplished the eradication of the vice.]
[GRZUID85], [GRZUID98_25], [GRZUID98_54], [GRZUID98_87] ~
Resident Alien [MUID49X] – You’re Not the Monkey [Ed. Note: Relative perspective. A brainwashed person is incalcitrant to empathy for any other perspective.]
[GRZUID126], [GRZUID146], [GRZUID148], [GRZUID176], [GRZUID189] ~
Looney Tunes [MUID50X] – It’s Mine, All Mine [Ed. Note: To what end?]
Game of Thrones [MUID51X] – Books and Whetstones [Ed. Note: What sharpens what.]
Darkest Hour [MUID52X] – Arguing with a Tiger
A Christmas Carol [MUID53X] – Marley’s Warning
Looney Tunes [MUID54X]
Looney Tunes [MUID54X] – The Hare and Tortoise Re-Race
Disney Silly Symphony [MUID55X]
Disney Silly Symphony [MUID55X] – The Tortoise and the Hare
Looney Tunes [MUID56X]
Looney Tunes [MUID56X] – Bugs Bunny Cecil the Turtle Tortoise Beats Hare 1941
A Clockwork Orange [Stanley Kubrick] [MUID57X]
A Clockwork Orange [Stanley Kubrick] [MUID57X] – Beethoven [Ed. Note: A murderer/rapist loves Beethoven, and now he is “cured” against his nature by being made sick chemically while being forced to see Nazi violence. Unfortunately for him, Beethoven’s 9th (Ode to Joy) is the German National Anthem. “Behavioral Psycho-Therapy” at perhaps Kubrick’s darkly comical satirical best.]
Henry V [MUID58X] – St. Crispin’s Day Speech [Shakespeare] [Ed. Note: So many famous lines in this clip. Also, an interpretative breakdown is provided here. A great video with daily morning coffee.]
Waterloo (Napoleon) [MUID59X] – Shoot Your Emperor [Ed. Note: The unbelievable part of the story is that it is true. Only the great Napoleon could pull that off. This is the Napoleon to watch, and, for a wider view, the very approachable, Napoleon.]
Waterloo (Napoleon) [MUID60X] – Farewell to the Guard
John F. Kennedy [MUID61X]
John F. Kennedy [MUID61X] – Deftness and Charm
The Civil War-Burns [MUID62X] – Lincoln – Externalizing self-reflection. [Shelby Foote]
[GRZUID176], [GRZUID190], [GRZUID217] ~
Game of Thrones [MUID63X] – “Wealth, or Fear, or Love” [Ed. Note: Notice the three separations as set forth in the referenced article. Wealth allows the grant of “reward” (self-interest) with the dichotomy of Fear (self-interest), or Love (martyrdom, or only to a point, then implicating the other two categories), as exposed in the article.]
Game of Thrones [MUID64X] – So Many Vows [Ed. Note: Competing ethical principles governed by priorities of conscience. See MUID124X.]
Yellowstone [MUID65X] – Their Laws [Ed. Note: Culture is a form of brainwashing, in the sense that social customs are normalized on a localized basis without absolutes.]
Julius Caesar-Brando [MUID66X]
Julius Caesar-Brando [MUID66X] – Away Slight Man [Shakespeare] [Ed. Note: Don’t miss it; it goes by quickly. Perhaps the greatest intellectual insult ever concisely stated, from “Honorable Brutus” to arguably corrupted and whiney Cassius, “Away, slight man,” meaning that Cassius has diminished himself and has conceded his gravitas and substance of honor. Only Shakespeare can cast such a sophisticated complex insult that efficiently.]
Yellowstone [MUID67X] – Luck
[GRZUID98_77], [GRZUID137], [GRZUID155], [GRZUID189] ~
Waterloo (Napoleon) [MUID68X] – God
[GRZUID98_77], [GRZUID137], [GRZUID155] ~
Waterloo (Napoleon) [MUID69X] – Feigns [Ed. Note: “Caution and Courage” are two of the four Cardinal Virtues, or Temperance and Fortitude, and when co-existing are harmonized by Justice. “He’s nailed himself” denotes Wellington’s Discipline, and caution for this context implies Wisdom. Wellington is a formidable contender who does not fall trap to the bait. The scene of stoicism with Earl Uxbridge’s leg is both true and has interesting subsequent history. (I needed to watch this sublime version again to wash out the taste from the recent Ridley Scott catastrophe.)]
[GRZUID108], [GRZUID137], [GRZUID190], [GRZUID239] ~
Julius Caesar-Heston [MUID70X]
Julius Caesar-Heston [MUID70X] – Fickle [Shakespeare] [Ed. Note: The crowd is praising Caesar today. Caesar has just defeated Pompey (the General, not Pompeii, the location). The protagonist is charging the crowd (“you blocks, you stones…”) for praising whomever is the conqueror, now Caesar, yesterday Pompey. Note the play on words (double entendre) of the leader, being a cobbler, who “is a mender of soles (souls),” and who leads others to wear out their shoes (soles, souls), out of self-interest to get himself into more work. A subtle social condemnation of leadership self-interested rather than selfless motive.]
[GRZUID164], [GRZUID215], [GRZUID216] ~
[GRZUID60], [GRZUID76], [GRZUID189] ~
Kung Fu [MUID73X] – Conquer Self
Kung Fu [MUID74X] – Fear [Ed. Note: Fear melts because it is a matter of relativity to the nature of the thing that it would invade. A snowflake melts to the touch of a warm hand, but not upon another snowflake, then another.]
Kung Fu [MUID75X] – Do Not Contend [Ed. Note: It’s the boy’s face of curiousness that caps the clip’s meaning. That is, the boy does not (yet) understand why Cain is not “naturally reacting” to what would commonly be a perceived threat over a “taking” or “intrusion.”]
Marco Polo [MUID76X] – What is Kung Fu?
Kung Fu [MUID77X] – One Particular Man
Marco Polo [MUID78X] – Certainty of Self [Ed. Note: This is the antithesis to jumping on or joining a bandwagon. Certainty of self keeps a thing true to itself without absorbing something else, being a failure of the discipline of integrity. (See MUID109X])
[GRZUID46], [GRZUID47], [GRZUID98_48], [GRZUID148], [GRZUID60] ~
Marco Polo [MUID79X] – Regaining Composed Wisdom from Emotion [Ed Note. Even the best are injured. But the best will heal quickly and adjust effectively.]
Yellowstone [MUID80X] – Hope [Ed. Note: “Hope is the last refuge of a victim.” This is because its proper space is when there is no control option for self-determination. Hope and prayer sit in the same space. This is not to disrespect hope, but to understand it.]
[GRZUID98_77], [GRZUID128], [GRZUID137], [GRZUID155], [GRZUID157] ~~
Yellowstone [MUID81X] – Animals [Ed. Note: There is a reason that Aesop used animals in his Aesop’s Fables. See Epilogue.]
Julius Caesar-Heston [MUID82X]
Julius Caesar-Heston [MUID82X] – Lean and Hungry Look [Shakespeare]
Why Did Britain Appease Hitler? [MUID83X]
Why Did Britain Appease Hitler? [MUID83X]
John Adams [MUID84X] – Titles
John Adams [MUID85X] – Inauguration
Abe Lincoln in Illinois [MUID86X]
Abe Lincoln in Illinois [MUID86X] – House Divided [Ed. Note: Douglas exposes Lincoln’s rhetorical tricks of oratory. If you watch it closely, you’ll see Lincoln do exactly what Douglas said with Lincoln’s twist into the “right to strike.”]
[GRZUID83], [GRZUID176], [GRZUID197], [GRZUID217], [GRZUID225] ~
Rocky Balboa [MUID87X] -How Winning’s Done
[GRZUID98_88], [GRZUID109], [GRZUID110] ~
The Beverly Hillbillies [MUID88X]
The Beverly Hillbillies [MUID88X] – Leave All This?
Henry V [MUID89X] – Kiss [Shakespeare] [Ed. Note: At a certain level, such as Shakespeare himself, what you do defines itself; that is, that you do it, makes it correct.]
Parental Guidance [MUID90X] – You’re [Not] Out
Inglorious Basterds [Quentin Tarentino] [MUID91X]
Inglorious Basterds [Quentin Tarentino] [MUID91X] – Opening
[TBD]
Talladega Nights [MUID92X] – Baby Jesus
Pulp Fiction [Quentin Tarentino] [MUID93X]
Pulp Fiction [Quentin Tarentino] [MUID93X] – The Watch
[TBD]
Shelby Foote C-Span Interview [MUID94X]
Shelby Foote C-Span Interview [MUID94X] – Growing Up As a Nation
Ben Hur [MUID95X] – Team Building
Ben Hur [MUID96X] – Chariot Race Scene [Ed. Note: This is before CGI, with real charioteers, horses, and wheel dust.]
Nuremburg [MUID97X] – Hess, “I have done my duty.”
Nuremburg [MUID98X] – But When We Germans Did It
Silicon Valley [MUID99X] – There’s No Accounting for the Muse
Abbott and Costello [MUID100X]
Abbott and Costello [MUID100X] – Who’s On First?
Cast Away [MUID101X] – Fire, Happiness [Ed. Note: “Survival is absolute, happiness is relative.”]
Vampire in Brooklyn [MUID102X]
Vampire in Brooklyn [MUID102X] – Evil Is Good
Lincoln [Steven Spielberg] [MUID103X]
Lincoln [Steven Spielberg] [MUID103X] – Trust [Ed. Note: Don’t miss the subtlety of time and logistics addressed in the conversation; it goes by quickly. Lincoln had to get the 13th Amendment passed by the states before the Confederate States were rejoined. If the Confederate States rejoined first, before the Amendment, they would have an equal right to defeat the Amendment by their reinstated right to vote. The Confederate States knew this and so tried to get back in fast, seeing the end, but Lincoln did a bit of lawyer trickery to stall the rejoinment of the Confederate States so that the 13th Amendment would be passed by the (Northern) states before the Confederates rejoined. Since the North effectively had already won the War, the Confederates were going to come back in as a fait accompli, but Lincoln masterfully cajoled the timing to end physical slavery. Yes, Honest Abe Lincoln prolonged the Civil War, in effect, to get slavery constitutionally ended first; otherwise, the Civil War would have only resolved the issue of secession and not the issue of slavery. Yes, he was that good. See “The Vote” clip.]
Lincoln [Steven Spielberg ] [MUID104X]
Lincoln [Steven Spielberg ] [MUID104X] – The Vote
[GRZUID190], [GRZUID217], [GRZUID220] ~
Braveheart [MUID105X] – “But it happened,” (Remedial) Latin, and “outlawed” tunes. “First this, then this.”
Ottomans [MUID106X] – Ultimately, It Is Your Mind…
The Godfather (Part 1) [MUID107X]
The Godfather (Part 1) [MUID107X] – Keep your friends close, enemies closer.
[TBD] ~
The Godfather (Part 1) [MUID108X]
The Godfather (Part 1) [MUID108X] – Never let anyone know what you’re thinking.
[TBD] ~
The Fountainhead [MUID109X] – Integrity to a Character Set (See [MUID78X])
Princess Bride [Rob Reiner] [MUID110X]
Princess Bride [Rob Reiner] [MUID110X] – Impossible?, Reality Distortion Field
[TBD]
Steve Jobs [MUID111X] – “I play the orchestra.” [Ed. Note: The initial portion of the scene is not incidental, but instructive. Although perhaps apocryphal, Woz is enamored with the technology, but misunderstands the contextual usage, which is immediately recognized by Jobs. There is a form of entrepreneurial wisdom or genius, which is knowing when to shoot the gun, not just knowing how the technology works.]
Steve Jobs [MUID112X] – Ridicule (Fear)
Black Panther [MUID113X] – Prepare for Death – “It is hard for a good man to be king.” [Ed. Note: The difficulty for the “good” person is in the caring for others as a sacrificial fiduciary of the subjects; that is, to use the position with wisdom is a weighty task. Inversely, a “bad” person uses the authority and power without due care but for self-interest, which is the easier task of indulgence, or in some ways not a task at all.]
Apocalypto [MUID114X] – Sacrifice
Kung Fu [MUID115X] – Bodily Needs
Marco Polo [MUID116X] – Roots
Marco Polo [MUID117X] – Emotion
Lincoln [Steven Spielberg] [MUID118X]
Lincoln [Steven Spielberg] [MUID118X] – Respect Out / Love [Ed. Note: This clip demonstrates that we cannot hate the thing that we love in the same space. The humility, mercy, and respect all flow from the love. In this space, it is not a matter of discipline, but rather, it is the natural inclination.]
Lincoln [Steven Spielberg] [MUID119X]
Lincoln [Steven Spielberg] [MUID119X] – Second Inaugural
Roots [MUID120X] – Human Cargo
Schindler’s List [Steven Spielberg] [MUID121X]
Schindler’s List [Steven Spielberg] [MUID121X] – Concentration Camp
Braveheart [MUID122X] – Freedom {Spoiler Alert}
Quo Vadis [MUID123X] – Christian and Lions
Richard Nixon Interview [MUID124X]
Richard Nixon Interview [MUID124X] – Foreign Policy and “Morality” [Ed. Note: See MUID64X.]
[GRZUID98_80], [GRZUID176], [GRZUID223] ~
Master and Commander [MUID127X]
Master and Commander [MUID127X] – In the Military, The Lesser of Two Weevils
Dr. Strangelove [Stanley Kubrick] [MUID128X]
Dr. Strangelove [Stanley Kubrick] [MUID128X] – “No fighting in the War Room.” [Ed. Note: In a movie of satire, the classic line of hypocrisy. Peter Sellers played three roles, here as the President and Dr. Strangelove.]
[TBD]
Dr. Strangelove [Stanley Kubrick] [MUID129X]
Dr. Strangelove [Stanley Kubrick] [MUID129X] – The Gap
[TBD] ~
Moonstruck [MUID130X] – Snap Out of It.
Mitsubishi Advertisement [MUID131X]
Mitsubishi Advertisement [MUID131X] – “I’m better than you are.”
Conspiracy [MUID132X] – “Evacuation”
The Dukakis Dilemma [MUID133X]
The Dukakis Dilemma [MUID133X] – Family Rape [Ed. Note: The importance of this clip is in the rhetorical dilemma placed to Dukakis. It was a planted pointed question, since it is clearly implicating the contradiction to his well-known life’s work. He’s condemned either as weak or insensitive. The better answer is suggested in the posts, reconciling the personal human weakness and the social civil duty.]
Gettysburg [MUID134X] – Now We’ll See How Professors Fight [Ed. Note: Joshua Chamberlain. How philosophers fight, and how they use the power of the victor. Philosophy is a ruleset, which can be both brutal and merciful, understanding the space and practical necessity of both. Like Lincoln, also a philosopher, Chamberlain fought with brutal bayonets, only so far as required to serve “the good.” To wit: “Chamberlain was thus responsible for one of the most poignant scenes of the American Civil War. As the Confederate soldiers marched down the road to surrender their arms and colors, Chamberlain, on his own initiative, ordered his men to come to attention and “carry arms” as a show of respect.“]
[TBD]
Schindler’s List [Stanley Kubrick] [MUID135X]
Schindler’s List [Stanley Kubrick] [MUID135X] – The Watch Scene {Spoiler Alert}
[TBD]
Schindler’s List [Stanley Kubrick] [MUID136X]
Schindler’s List [Stanley Kubrick] [MUID136X] – War
Merchant of Venice-Pacino [MUID137X]
Merchant of Venice-Pacino [MUID137X] – “Hath not a Jew eyes?” [Shakespeare] [Ed. Note: Shylock is a lender to a rival Antonio, a Christian who disrespected Shylock many times simply because Shylock is Jewish. But Antonio needs a loan. The bargain was that Antonio repay the debt or give a pound of flesh (the security) instead. Antonio defaults on the loan, and the question placed to Shylock here is whether he really wants that “pound of flesh.” Shylock gives his famous soliloquy. He does not need the money, but he wants a form of justice by revenge for the insults. This is the source of the idiom “to extract a pound of flesh,” which, in this Shakespeare play, is not metaphorical, but literal. Perhaps like many of Shakespeare’s works, a must watch for every lawyer.]
[TBD]
Cromwell [MUID138X] – Final Speech [Ed. Note: Human nature tends not to maintain the discipline required for its own systemic survival and general happiness.]
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Schindler’s List [Steven Spielberg] [MUID139X]
Schindler’s List [Steven Spielberg] [MUID139X] – Power
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Apocalypse Now [MUID140X] – I Love the Smell of Napalm [Ed. Note: “Someday this war’s going to end,” caps the clip with the soldier’s look that it’s insanity. Lt. Colonel Kilgore makes the statement with the presupposition that everyone must love war as much as he does and will be saddened when the war ends. Notice how he does not flinch at the background bombing. Purpose of task and reconciliation with the task are different issues.]
The Emperor Strikes Back [MUID141X]
The Emperor Strikes Back [MUID141X] – That Is Why You Fail
Logan’s Run [MUID142X] – Cleanup [Ed. Note: Death processes by culture.]
Amadeus [MUID143X] – “Too many notes” [Ed. Note: The lesser cannot comprehend the greater. The criticism of the greater genius.]
The Defiant Ones [MUID144X] – Complete Movie
A Tale of Two Cities [MUID145X]
A Tale of Two Cities [MUID145X] – The Bastille – Revolution
Caesar [MUID146X] – Discipline
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– Hope and Self-Interest [Ed. Note: Notice the method. Higher purpose and exceptionality. “I suffer with you” that can be distinguished from the many politicians who do not suffer but take benefits, matched to the sell of the self-interested, “what’s in it for you.” The former allays the anger, the later extracts the hope.]
Einstein and Eddington [MUID148X]
Einstein and Eddington [MUID148X] – “Feel Sorry for God” [Ed. Note: This movie is a gem of history and philosophy. It is extremely well-expressed. It is as entertaining as it is instructional.]
Full Metal Jacket [Stanley Kubrick] [MUID150X]
Full Metal Jacket [Stanley Kubrick] [MUID150X] – Duality of Man [Another Kubrick satirical masterpiece.]
[TBD]
CBS Mornings-P.T. Barnum [MUID151X]
CBS Mornings-P.T. Barnum [MUID151X]
Julius Caesar-Brando [MUID152X]
Julius Caesar-Brando [MUID152X] – Tides in the Affairs of Men [Shakespeare]
The Fountainhead [MUID153X] – Public Opinion [Ed. Note: “He’s too good,” meaning that society accepts good because it’s average, but “too good” is to say that something is excellent and beyond the average “good.” The implication is that society will not allow something excellent (different by genius self-definition) to survive, because it extracts human fear, jealousy of supplantation, and envy. In short, excellence is a threat. Moreover, the average does not have the integrity and discipline to self-judge by its insecurity of self and therefore seeks external standards, “When I want my opinion, I’ll ask you for it.” Francon saying “I won’t defend it” is because the subject that self-defines by its own excellence does not need the assistance of an external defense.]
Martin Luther [MUID154X] – Complete Movie [See MUID23X]
Death Scene [Ed. Note: Sir Saint (or Saint Sir) Thomas Becket, the knighted best friend of the King Henry VIII, for a time. But time always gets its day.]
A Man for All Seasons [MUID156X]
A Man for All Seasons [MUID156X] – Death Scene [Ed. Note: Sir Saint (or Saint Sir) Thomas More, the knighted best friend of the King Henry II, for a time. But time always gets its day.]
Sheryl Crow – Strong Enough to Be My Man [MUID157X]
A Man for All Seasons [MUID158X]
A Man for All Seasons [MUID158X] – Inquiry – More Won’t Sign
A Man for All Seasons [MUID159X]
Conviction [Ed. Note: All the King’s Men required that Sir (Saint) Thomas More bend to the marital desires of the King, but personal conscience prevented him from doing so against all risks. The background is that King Henry VIII was married to Spanish Catholic Queen Catherine of Aragon (who did not yield a son, but only the daughter later to become Catholic Bloody Mary). The Catholic Pope would not consent to the divorce. On clever advice, the King decided that a king’s authority is directly from God and not through the Pope conduit, so King Henry VIII started his own Anglican Church that was much like Catholicism, but conveniently allowed divorces, didn’t concede to the Pope’s authority, with some other details, more or less important, depending upon who’s asked. Here Sir (Saint) Thomas is convicted for his personal conscience, but we recognize that Sir (Saint) Thomas burned others (Protestants) for exercising their own personal conscience.]
Einstein and Eddington [MUID160X]
Einstein and Eddington [MUID160X] – Einstein Won’t Sign
[TBD]
Conscience – Make Me Worthy
Einstein and Eddington [MUID163X]
Einstein and Eddington [MUID163X] – Truth Doesn’t Care [Ed. Note: English v. German, c.WWII. Science is a form of truth. What is true is not argued. What is argued is only what is believed to be true, an important deprecation. Shakespeare is English and Goethe is German. The war factions wanted the truth to be by their respective champions, such as is much of the gods. But Einstein and Eddington ascended to truth and were not constrained to the lesser purposes.]
Caesar [MUID164X] – Education and Wisdom [Ed. Note: The arrogance of “evolved” educational curricula. Listen to the subjects taught by the slave, being far superior to today, 2,000 years ago. Children exhibit more wisdom because they do not profess to know such as adults and therefore accept the teachings more readily.]
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Caesar [MUID165X] – Caesar Can’t Possibly Win
Julius Caesar-Heston [MUID166X]
Julius Caesar-Heston [MUID166X] – How I Moved Them – Flipping the Audience Rhetoric [Ed. Note: This is one of many Shakespeare expositions and condemnations of the fickle easily-manipulated masses. Here the audience is convinced by Brutus that the “assassination” of Caesar was justice for the good of Rome, then Caesar-loyal Mark Antony flips the audience, including by using their own self-interest as beneficiaries to Caesar’s Will. But the real key to the clip is the ending, with Antony smugly saying how he had “moved” (manipulated) the weakling riotous audience against his own enemies.] See also, [MUID130X]
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indiana Jones) [Steven Spielberg] [MUID167X]
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indiana Jones) [Steven Spielberg] [MUID167X] – Don’t Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight
[TBD]
Robert Palmer [MUID167X]
Robert Palmer [MUID167X] – Addicted to Love
Robert Palmer [MUID168X]
Robert Palmer [MUID168X] – Simply Irresistible
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Head Office [MUID169X] – I Love This Business
Scalia-Separation of Powers [MUID170X]
Scalia-Separation of Powers [MUID170X]
Star Trek-The Wrath of Khan [MUID172X]
Star Trek-The Wrath of Khan [MUID172X] [Ed. Note: The cheat is praised or condemned as a function of the outcome.]
60-Minutes [MUID173X]
60-Minutes [MUID173X] [Ed. Note: The subject and commercial sophistication of this video is beyond the relevance to most people, but the progression of the concept is alarming. It portends the systemic corruption of influence by monetary corporate power acting in self-interest and now with the power to harness AI to do its bidding.]
Jobs-Ideas and Implementation [MUID174X]
Jobs-Ideas and Implementation [MUID174X]
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Count of Monte Cristo [MUID175X]
Count of Monte Cristo [MUID175X] – Birthday Toast
[TBD]
Terminator [MUID176X] – Endoskeleton Rises, Because It Can and It Must. [Ed. Note: Unyielding determination is sometimes a thing of unusual beauty. It’s not the totality of the thing at issue or its purpose, but the thing’s integrity to maintain the attribute of its character. The integrity to maintain purpose, focus and determination. Said General Robert E. Lee, “It is well that war is so terrible—lest we should grow too fond of it.” The master of the art loves the integrity of the attribute that allows the art to exist.] See also [MUID109X]
Yellowstone [MUID177X] – The Enemy “I Really Like Her” Scene [Ed. Note: We notice that the two enemies are using emotion to drive their respective strategies and tactics. The burn of emotion is there, but it is controlled to a point of focus and usage. Emotion is the mover, but not the advisor. Strategy and tactics are thoughtful and disciplined implementations. Emotion is the wind, not the rudder.]
Scarface [DePalma] [MUID178X]
Scarface [MUID178X] – Trust
[TBD]
Scarface [MUID179X] – Bank Scene
Scarface [DePalma] [MUID179X] – Bank Scene
[TBD]
Zappa [MUID180X] – Zappa on “Fascist Theocracy” [He lacked academic credentials, which is a different issue from empathetic free-thinking, and perhaps is the antithesis to it. Socrates, Jesus, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., would understand.]
Star Wars III – Revenge of the Sith [MUID181X]
Star Wars III – Revenge of the Sith [MUID181X] [Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.]
[TBD]
Mr. Wonderful – Ideas [MUID182X]
Mr. Wonderful – Ideas Dime A Dozen [MUID182X]
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