Films that ought to be made

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Oliver Stone made this uncharacteristically stupid film "JFK" glorifying the titled psychopath and other nutcases (e.g. Jim Garrison) - I suspect that most of the fame that the psychotic, drug-addicted maniac who almost destroyed the planet during the Cuban Missile Crisis gathers is due to Stone. But Stone can redeem himself if he makes a film about "JFK" that's based on this here video (footage of JFK in an intimate moment). They should make a film based on this and have it free on Youtube, bringing in the fact that JFK actually heightened the American involvement in Vietnam, and freely used drugs when in a position of power. He wasn't a cartoon villain, just a real villain with real positive characteristics, which is much more dangerous.

Look at the Youtube comments for that video - the sheer amount of hero-worship for JFK is incredible. (They might as well have said that the CIA was the one who identified the nukes, and Khrushchev was the one who defused the situation by backing down.) One of the many glorious bits of JFK's legacy is: the imposition of this idiotic "Camelot" media-induced frenzy while busy spreading STDs in the "circles of powah". The worst thing about this is that "Camelot" is now used as a term of derision - thanks to JFK, the claim that any given person in power isn't promiscuous will be likely met with the plausible objection that it isn't "Camelot", as JFK's actual marital life definitely wasn't (but as the image projected by his frantic media campaign to decieve the public - was).

One of the (invalid) objections against biopics is that they don't capture the particular "personality" of someone (their peculiar style). This is only relevant for those people whose entire personal and public influence were based on the "style" of how they "speak", and I imagine Ruskin or Samuel Johnson (literary people in general) would be of that sort. But who makes a film about literary people? For men of action, public figures, etc. biopics draw attention to aspects of their conduct, which is something more important than qualities of "personality". As the great wit Gore Vidal said, "[w]ho cares what they were like as people? That's just show business."

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The longer I have thought about it the more clear it becomes to me that JFK was a sort of proto-Obama. There are so many parallels: a young, superficially charismatic politician, who has been advanced all his life far beyond the level of his talents and abilities through the help of others, gets talked up by the media as a hero despite being a monster underneath, gets himself elected President on the tribal sentiment of the segment of the lower class he supposedly shares an identity with, and proceeds to make a mess of things while being canonized by the media. An implication of this is that the Irish are the cause of much of America's problems and are more or less as bad as the blacks when it comes to chauvinism and shameless self-interest, which is an idea I am also recently in favor of.
Byssus

Yes. Turn the Irish into baseball mitts and shoe soles, that's what I've always said! This is what will be necessary to save the White race in America -- perhaps the world.

Thoughts

The power of biopics is their power to shape popular history. Oliver Stone seems to have understood this more than anyone else (but more about Stone below). For e.g., no one cares that "Laurence of Arabia" or even "JFK" is mostly fictional - it seems that people want to believe that they are true, simply because the film version is so much more compelling. In this vein, I want to see films some day about various personages I have contempt for:

  • Karl Marx. Make a film about him having sexual encounters with young women, rampantly cheating on his "wife", and acting like a infantile baby, a needy, demanding brat constantly biting the hand that feeds him (Engels). He will be depicted as a callous hypocrite, an economic parasite on his betters. (But of course "complex" and everything, sufficient to satisfy a Freudian psychoanalyst - without losing sight of his essential ignominy.)
  • Einstein. Make a film about this guy plagiarizing relativity, and then having illicit affairs by sleeping around with under-age Aryan women. Apart from being a sexual deviant, Einstein will be depicted as a traitor to his adopted country by being a communist, as well as a genocidical maniac in attempt to use the atomic bomb on Germany. Depict Einstein as mathematically incompetent - this is in fact close to the facts. About one-third of the film will be devoted to Einstein's incestuous affair with his own cousin, in all its gory detail.
  • J. Robert Oppenheimer. The hagiographical literature on Oppenheimer boggles the mind (apparently he's a genius, a saint, but also a prophet, etc., etc.). He was mostly contemptible, to pretty much every single person who worked under him in Los Alamos. He would regularly pretend to know parts of physics that he actually doesn't, just to awe someone with his "breadth". In fact he was an intellectual mediocrity, the typical precocious starter who then lags behind his betters - notice that all of his original contributions to physics were mediocre (and he knew this, hence his inferiority complex). So after encountering these people a hundred times more intelligent than he was (e.g., Fermi or von Neumann) and washing out of physics, he would instead go into the scientist-turned-social-prophet and "Marxist" activism - and it can be said of him that while physicists admire him for his political "activism", activists admire him for his physics. Just depicting the facts would be enough here. [Also, there was supposed to be a Broadway play about Oppenheimer's mendacious conduct, but which was blocked by Oppenheimer himself.]
  • Roman Polanski. I want a film about his molestation of a 14-year old girl. Depict the girl as some kind of perfectly ordinary person going about her life, before it was brutally destroyed by Polanski. Depict Polanski as a typically oversexed psychopath and pathological liar in general. (But not a cartoon villain - someone obviously very "complex" - but at the same time dangerous, an utter monster who destroys lives.) The real reason why Polanski did it will be connected to "emotionally complicated" ties with the girls' mother.
  • Ayn Rand. Rosenbaum (Rand) is a loathesome turd, so just depict the facts. She was a lesbian, and slept around with her own followers' wives (!!). She admired blonde "Aryans" - "blondes" being the creepy obsession in her novels. The film will center around her various lesbian affairs with other women. The release (and especially success) of the film will hopefully rile up the Randians so that vast numbers of them commit suicide or self-immolation (hopefully).
  • Trotsky. Depict Trotsky as a physically feeble, pathological coward who was at the same time a psychopathic mass murderer. Include a scene of him molesting young girls (but not actually explicitly shown of course).
  • Princess Diana. Already said before: this ding-dong apparently has a following among the lower middle-brow SWPL (pro-cuckold) crowd. Make a film in which she has various sexual adulterous affairs with sub-Saharan Africans right after marriage. The affair will be played by very great actors who express such an intensity of emotion that everyone will be moved by it - and swallow all of the implications of the event.
With any luck, after 50 years this will be what most people think of Karl Marx, et al. - at least as far as their personal lives are concerned. Of course, the key to making it effective is to intermix the fictional with the factual elements. It is known, for example, that Karl Marx actually said something malicious when Engel's wife died. And we know Einstein was an asshoe. The other trick is to make the acting very good and morally "complex". That is, these people aren't depicted (in the entirety of their responses) as just cartoonish villains but rather "complicated" characters, although still within the framework that "sleeping around with sub-Saharan Africans" sets for their entire character.

The final thing is to do what Oliver Stone always does - i.e., "troll in real life". That is, whenever someone accuses the film of a factual inaccuracy, just say it's just a film. Whenever they are out of earshot (like he did with "JFK"), just constantly act like the film depicts literal fact.

Edit : For the 'spergs here like Ix below, the post was humorous and intended to illustrate how the main effect of biopics is to piss people off, it just all depends on who it is done against (or for).
Thoughts

Upcoming film: " Econophysics "

Opening scene shows the physically dimunitive, main character "Norman Cohen" snubbing his nose at inferior "jock" kids at grade school, and getting straight A's. Norman Cohen has no creativity, is autistic, and can only blindly regurgitate formulae - a perfect combination for success in high school. There's a scene when he claims to be the next Einstein (or whateverthefuck) and that he only needs to apply to Hah-vard. Fast forward a few years, and suddenly "Norman" is encountering the first serious difficulty in his life, when he discovers that there are apparently dozens of people in his Harvard class who are 50x more intelligent than he is (i.e., are capable of original thought). This intensifies the more he gets away from comfort areas (like Goldstein's classical mechanics textbook) to topics like quantum field theory etc. We get a glimpse of Norman's gradual depression and hopelessness, and eventual thoughts of suicide, as his middle-range GPA for the advanced classes don't bode well for a future career in academia. This is all tied in with a "love triangle"-type subplot in which he finds out that his one-time "girl" friend in college is actually a tranny.

Last 20-or-so minutes of the film will be devoted to how Norman finally threw in the towel and joined the rapidly burgeoning field of "econophysics" (in the economics department) for those middlebrow autistic kids like him who "failed physics". He suddenly finds himself in the exact same position again as he was in grade school, and can intimidate people by the his mastery of the notation (if not substance) of mathematics. Happy end.

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Edit: Here's the official film website for "Econophysics":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Econophysics

I LOLed at "analogies from statistical mechanics".

The craze in the 1960s used to be "cybernetics" and "systems science". For a very caustic criticism of all this, see Berlinski's old book On Systems Analysis . The tone of it is indicated in the following passage in the Preface:

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Bio/period piece of Nathan Bedford Forrest.

An amazing man.

Even the most gay assed PC cocksucking faggot type would be hard pressed to disagree.

Mel Gibson directs with Mickey Rourke as Forrest.

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I'm working on the script right now and plan to pitch it to Spielberg. It will be like the 1996 Island of Dr. Moreau , but without an obese Marlon Brando in a dress. The deranged Dr. Church will be played by Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top.
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Thoughts

Film version of this book, dealing with the serious business of "bullying" in California public schools:

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Chinese Girl in the Ghetto by Ying Ma.

The book is extremely funny. The author goes on and says how she was a "4.0 GPA" sperg at "high" school -- although she had no real interests in any actual subject-matter whatsoever. She boasts that she was "smarter" than the blacks in the area who beat her up. The book attempts to be honest about the violent behavior of blacks towards Chinese, and how the Chinese in the Oakland area (who were proud of their 5000-year old "culcha") were "bullied" so badly into suicide, or just killed.

But wait. Who is actually "smarter", the blacks who dominate over and bully the Chinese, or the Chinese? Surely it must be the former -- the "Chinese" so depicted in the book (incl. the author) are pure conformists in every way. They never question the educational system, they accept brainwashing of any sort whatsoever and have no real "interests" in anything (memorization and docility aren't "interests"). They have no real goals or responsibilities -- the idea of anything higher than "getting good grades" is beyond their imagination, or even comprehension. In contrast, the average black isn't a conformist. He has no clear goals either, but with the following exception: he manages to completely bully and dominate the Chinese to submission, without even lifting a finger . He dominates socially over the Chinese without any apparent effort -- the latter becomes a slave of sorts, and can't even figure out why she's "bullied" so badly.

Who, then, is "smarter"?

Hopefully the film will at least raise this honest question in the viewer's mind.

Byssus , Roland