I like this part the best:
"After they signed, then we'd take the signed papers, get off the bus and push
it over the edge anyway, and then redistribute the funds."
Hee hee! And I didn't know he was doing a film about Frankie - I wonder what
kind of portrayal he'll give? I once read something about him that said he
loved and admired mobsters - he once told friends that he'd rather be a bag man
for the mafia than a big shot entertainer. And these are the people our society
glorifies.
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On Tue, 1/21/14, TurquoiseB <turquoi...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: New meaning for Kesey's "Are you on the bus or
off the bus?"
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 1:58 PM
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson
wrote:
>
> I'd ride with 'em, I ain't prejudiced agin
rich folk.
Personally, I suspect that the
planet would be better off if we managed to get all 85 of
these people on one bus, and then threatened them with
driving the bus off a cliff with them on it unless they
signed over all of their money to the poor people they
fucked over to get it. After they signed, then we'd take
the signed papers, get off the bus and push it over the edge
anyway, and then redistribute the funds.
But that may just be how I feel today, after having been
forced to sit through "The Wolf Of Wall Street." I
now completely agree with everything said in the open
letter written by Christina McDowell, daughter of one of the
real-life scumbags who worked with the real-life Jordan
Belfort. I think that Martin Scorcese, Leonardo DiCaprio,
and all of the other producers who glorified greed and
immorality in this film should be sentenced to spend the
rest of their lives doing "community service" by
making movies about the "little people" these
real-life scumbags ripped off, and whose lives they ruined.
Those of you who mouth off about misogyny, you really
haven't even *seen* misogyny until you've seen this
movie. There is not a woman in the film who isn't
portrayed as a bimbo, a hooker, and just one more rube to be
fucked and fucked over. I literally had to take a shower
after watching it.
The experience made me rethink Martin Scorcese's work as
a whole. Yes, he has made the occasional film that
*doesn't* celebrate greed, corruption, and misogyny
(although the only ones I can think of right now are
"Hugo," "The Last Temptation of Christ,"
and "Kundun"), but those subjects have been the
focus of and the preoccupation of almost *all* of his other
films. Only 3 films as a director out of 55 *not* about
slimeballs. And his next film is going to be about Frank
Sinatra. What a fuckin' waste of creative talents.
> --------------------------------------------
> On Tue, 1/21/14, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote:
>
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] New meaning for Kesey's
"Are you on the bus or off the bus?"
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 8:19 AM
>
> According to a recent
> OXFAM report the 85 people who own *half of the
planet's
> wealth* could all fit onto this bus:
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/17/oxfam-bus-wealth_n_4616103.html
>
