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Originally Posted by DamianJ
And I mocked you for using that example because it is pathetic for a left wing politically active person to think that an action film is better than twitter. Offensively pathetic. In fact, you are an intelligent man, so I can only assume you are doing a Markham and just trolling me now!
Read the news occasionally.
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I used a popular action film exactly because its main function is entertainment. That is not a bad thing. It is a very well made film, I think the editing, mis en scen and sound in the attack on the flat should go down in film history together with the Odessa Steps sequence of Battleship Potemkin.
The fact you misunderstood this shows the weakness of this form of discourse, a simple phone conversation would have made everything plain. Old technology .
The printing press, twitter etc are important tools, but what changes the world are ideas not the means of delivering them. The failure of the people in the most advanced countries to make any political change shows that it is not the technology. Egypt has had change because its pro western government was unpopular, the small educated elite now find that twitter will not help them with the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood with its organization based on a party and books reaches all the population.
As I said if you look at "Sullivan Travels " it will show you the relationship between political movies and entertainment. After making musicals Sullivan wants the studio to let him make a movie about real people based on his script "Brother Where Art Thou?" I will not spoil the ending.....
I don't think I troll as I don't really know what it means.
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