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re: the authenticity of the film, a very enlightening segment on 60 Minutes yesterday:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7357190n&tag=contentMain;contentAux
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 Hurray! I guess I can write: "He who laughs last, laughs best.!  Kathleen
Chopin’s music is all I need to look into my soul.
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I fully expected The King's Speech to be anointed at Hollywood's annual self-congratulatory fest. The Social Network (IMO a far better film) was just too hip and damned with faint praise.
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I fully expected The King's Speech to be anointed at Hollywood's annual self-congratulatory fest. The Social Network (IMO a far better film) was just too hip and damned with faint praise. I thought 'The Social Network' was the better film as well. Hollywood loves 'brits.'
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Hurray! I guess I can write: "He who laughs last, laughs best.! Kathleen Indeed you can. I can't remember when I enjoyed a film as much.
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The Social Network (IMO a far better film) was just too hip and damned with faint praise. TSN was a snappily written little movie, tho very much a monet of a haystack. having been in sw & webdev much of my adult life i can say with some certainty that much of the intrigue portrayed in TSN boils down to long hours in meeting rooms and at computers figuring out very difficult technical problems (e.g. usability, reliability, maintainability, scalability, performance) to deliver a better mousetrap than anyone else. the idea of facebook has been around for @ 15 years, but zuckerberg nailed the implementation to create the killer app. a good take on TSN here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jose-antonio-vargas/the-social-network-hollyw_b_747233.html
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TSN was a snappily written little movie, tho very much a monet of a haystack. having been in sw & webdev much of my adult life i can say with some certainty that much of the intrigue portrayed in TSN boils down to long hours in meeting rooms and at computers figuring out very difficult technical problems (e.g. usability, reliability, maintainability, scalability, performance) to deliver a better mousetrap than anyone else. the idea of facebook has been around for @ 15 years, but zuckerberg nailed the implementation to create the killer app. a good take on TSN here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jose-antonio-vargas/the-social-network-hollyw_b_747233.html Very nice post, Entheo. I remember reading that Huffington article -and Vargas's profile of Zuckerberg in The New Yorker- some months before I saw the film. That said, I'm not inclined to be as critical of the film as Vargas is. Yes, I understand and agree with many of his points, but I think the film was a little more alert to its subject than Vargas gives it credit for. The first scene alone is worth the price of admission, and a friend and I backtracked the DVD twice to savour it!
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I've never seen a more dangerous rewriting of history. Try Gone with the Wind. Except that nobody considers it a serious account of the civil war. Besides, it has Vivien Leigh at her most fetching.  And Clark Gable at his most dashing! (Whatever Scarlett saw in that wimpy Ashley Wilkes I will never know.)
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I really loved TSN and my husband couldn't stand it. Well, he actually liked the movie but couldn't stand most of the characters. (Since I am attending college in my old age, I am much more understanding.)
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I've never seen a more dangerous rewriting of history. Try Gone with the Wind. Except that nobody considers it a serious account of the civil war. Besides, it has Vivien Leigh at her most fetching. And Clark Gable at his most dashing! (Whatever Scarlett saw in that wimpy Ashley Wilkes I will never know.) Who was played by Leslie Howard, though not the pianist. I sometimes jokingly refer to the pianist as Ashley Wilkes, I'm not sure if anyone ever got the reference. I guess I'll have to see this King's Speech when it comes out on DVD, but I don't have the slightest interest in the social network.
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I've never seen a more dangerous rewriting of history. Try Gone with the Wind. Except that nobody considers it a serious account of the civil war. Besides, it has Vivien Leigh at her most fetching. And Clark Gable at his most dashing! (Whatever Scarlett saw in that wimpy Ashley Wilkes I will never know.) Who was played by Leslie Howard, though not the pianist. I sometimes jokingly refer to the pianist as Ashley Wilkes, I'm not sure if anyone ever got the reference. I guess I'll have to see this King's Speech when it comes out on DVD, but I don't have the slightest interest in the social network. Damon - I'm a lot older than you - and definitely a dinosaur when it comes to computers and the internet - BUT I found TSN quite fascinating and well made. And - do you remember Leslie Howard (Ashley Wilkes) as a violinist in 1939's "Intermezzo" with Ingrid Bergman. Great flick.
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The King's Speech demonstrates the importance and significance of speech. It's very cool
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The King's Speech demonstrates the importance and significance of speech. It's very cool And yet, I found a great example of the importance of quality speech. You can check here and read about Martin Luther King's speech, in which he wanted to improve the civil rights of blacks and minorities in the United States, all in one speech. It's incredible, I think you'll find it interesting.
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