RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
May 5, 2019 at 1:44 am
(This post was last modified: May 5, 2019 at 1:54 am by Deesse23.)
Reading about various characters of the Trump administrations and the (probable or not) motivations made me think of one of my all time fav movies, with some of my all time fav actors*: The Nuremberg Verdict.
In his culminating speech, Janning (Lancaster) talks about motivations of people in nazi Germany, and then went on to his co-defendants. I think this is maybe a good summary and panoply of any number of people and their characters during any tumultous time in any country.
Some are just horribly wrong in selling their souls, some are just immoral to begin with. The faceless buerocrat is maybe less of an issue, tho, who knows how many people are sitting in the white house just "doing their job". Luckily quite a few seem not to follow all of Trumps orders or he would already be wearing an orange jumpsuit, but i am digressing. I think in the Trump admnistration most of the *actors* can be clearly classified as one of the characters with one of the motivations Janning describes.
Lancaster for example reminds me of (if i am correctly informed about his background) Mattis. Serving his country well with all his dedication, and then making a fatal misjudgement.
*Lancaster, Tracy, Clift, Schell, Widmark, Dietrich, Garland, and of course: Captain Kirk! . EPIC
In his culminating speech, Janning (Lancaster) talks about motivations of people in nazi Germany, and then went on to his co-defendants. I think this is maybe a good summary and panoply of any number of people and their characters during any tumultous time in any country.
Some are just horribly wrong in selling their souls, some are just immoral to begin with. The faceless buerocrat is maybe less of an issue, tho, who knows how many people are sitting in the white house just "doing their job". Luckily quite a few seem not to follow all of Trumps orders or he would already be wearing an orange jumpsuit, but i am digressing. I think in the Trump admnistration most of the *actors* can be clearly classified as one of the characters with one of the motivations Janning describes.
Lancaster for example reminds me of (if i am correctly informed about his background) Mattis. Serving his country well with all his dedication, and then making a fatal misjudgement.
*Lancaster, Tracy, Clift, Schell, Widmark, Dietrich, Garland, and of course: Captain Kirk! . EPIC
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