Sunday, October 04, 2009

Inherit the wind


I saw the film years ago. It transfixed me. I remember Spencer Tracy’s speech about mankind, stripped of reason is nothing
I have been down for a while. So I decided to go and see this on stage.
I think Spacey flubbed a line. The horse is stronger and swifter then man. When he has already established the elephant is
``I may be rancid butter but I am on your side’’ A quip from the journalist. I liked this one
I felt sad, for the Ministers daughter. A Dixie accent always get me
Baltimore, is mentioned as a city of sin. Something’s never change! Music to  this eager viewer of ```the Wire’’
The journalist is based on H.L Mencken. I am a fan of his work, having picked up a paperback version of his work somewhere in the US
Brody’s critic of Darwin, as being anti democratic should get more weight. Darwin, influenced Fascism
It is a more innocent age. The science teacher can show a smart lad, his microscope and no one sneers, or raises an eyebrow.
Brady is made a Colonel, in the state militia, the Jacksonian tradition lives on in the South,.
I am glad I went.

1 comment:

Learning Center said...

Since you're glad you went, I am glad too! :) I looked up the film, it sounds interesting.

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