RE: Forrest Gump
September 9, 2010 at 2:37 am
(This post was last modified: September 9, 2010 at 2:37 am by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(September 8, 2010 at 9:29 pm)Watson Wrote: Great movie or greatest movie?
Great. It is an excellent example of why Tom Hanks is such an excellent actor and the movie itself a product of wonderful directing and writing that came together to make a movie that certainly deserves a place amongst the american classics.
Though it's not among my favorites, but I do really like the movie, but I've fallen out of caring about 'favorites' when talking about such things, particularly when some of my favorites don't do too well in the box office. (Many of my favorites have terrible ratings - like Event Horizon, Terminator 3, Terminator Salvation, the Matrix sequels, and others.)
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
