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The 1953 movie, "The Wild Ones"
Stanley Kramer's great morality
play (you know, with Marlon Brando).
Tremendously heavy handed...
The type of thing that (Feb 3 2001)
convinces some people
that art must be above Note that *despite*
morality and must the heavy-handed
avoid the didactic. blathering about the
irresponsibility of the
The police are all main Brando character,
incredibly nicey-nice, *despite* the
compared to these disasters that befall
jackbooted, the Wild Ones, this
"zero-tolerance" movie was one of the
times. great blows against
Western culture.
And the "bad guys" --
the bullies in suits Brando's leather-clad,
who organize a lynch sullen swagger is what
mob -- in retrospect, sticks in the mind,
these guys show a his supreme *coolness*
tremendous amount of is what carries the
public spirt. Can you movie, not the
imagine some suit finger-waggling cop
doing *anything* like lectures at the end.
this today?
Go ahead, try
Now it's all: "Call the and do Message.
cops! This is their job!"
Just try it.
No one is going to recite
the old cliche: "I don't See where it gets you.
want to get involved",
because that's taken as
a given. Of course you
don't. Why would you?
Oh for the days when
it was occasionally
necessary to remind
people:
"don't take the law
into your own hands" (You know all too well
where it's been.)
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