An idealist, but also a realist
MILFs and fishes.
A few days ago, I posted a snarky little piece on Sarah Palin. In it, I suggested that McCain, in giving Palin the VP slot on the GOP ticket, was rallying the far-right base by dangling the very real possibility of his imminent death in front of their hateful, blood-thirsty little eyes. To the left, I suggested, Palin is a veiled threat, but to the right she’s a coded promise.
Spielberg: Saving Private Ryan part 5
Act V of Saving Private Ryan goes from 2:07:00 to 2:42:27. Its structure is a little more complex than the previous three acts and in many ways it is a mirror of Act I. Each of the acts of Ryan has three "chapters" to it, but both Act I and Act V are weighted with extended battle sequences. Act I’s is 25 minutes long and is followed by two shorter chapters, Act V’s is slightly shorter, 21 minutes, and has only a 4-minute suspense sequence as a prelude, followed by a brief 4-minute epilogue. Both Act I and Act V are bookended, of course, by the "present-day" scenes in the Normandy cemetery. Spielberg being Spielberg, he "stands Act I on its head," making the Act V small where Act I’s was big, Act V about hand-to-hand struggle while Act I is about massive numbers of men overwhelming the odds. To take it further, Act V’s battle is about outmatched Americans defending a losing battle against a larger, more well-supplied force rather than Americans attacking a German defense position. It’s almost as though Spielberg, in Act V, puts us in the positions of the Germans in Act I — the shoe is on the other foot now, as it were, the heartless bastards of the pillbox have become the terrified GIs of the bridge at Ramelle.