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Mar. 6th, 2006
...and saw Disney's Pocohantas.
Its not bad. Ranks with Mulan and Hunchback, but I think Tarzan and Atlantis are better. And of course none of them quite reach Beauty and Aladdin.
note that i'm a history stickler, and i also know the terrain extremely well. they got the fort right, the ship right (though there were 2 others), many aspects of the powatans right (except their size: they numbered in the thousands, in 100-200+ person villages throughout the area).
but there isn't a cliff or a waterfall within 150 miles of Jamestowne. except the artificial one built at the (former) cascades hotel/restaurant outside colonial williamsburg. :)
musically, it has some of Menken's best work, particularly the lead-in to the climax.
basically, I had to suspend my history in much the way one suspends their knowledge of "the book" when viewing a movie (like, say, The Two Towers) where there are significant deviations to make the film work on screen.
oh, and kids need to get over their ability to be easily bored at romantic moments. the song that was cut originally but restored in the 10th anniversary dvd is one of the best in the film. and that rendition (gibson and kuhn) is FAR better than the pop-song version in the closing credits.
Its not bad. Ranks with Mulan and Hunchback, but I think Tarzan and Atlantis are better. And of course none of them quite reach Beauty and Aladdin.
note that i'm a history stickler, and i also know the terrain extremely well. they got the fort right, the ship right (though there were 2 others), many aspects of the powatans right (except their size: they numbered in the thousands, in 100-200+ person villages throughout the area).
but there isn't a cliff or a waterfall within 150 miles of Jamestowne. except the artificial one built at the (former) cascades hotel/restaurant outside colonial williamsburg. :)
musically, it has some of Menken's best work, particularly the lead-in to the climax.
basically, I had to suspend my history in much the way one suspends their knowledge of "the book" when viewing a movie (like, say, The Two Towers) where there are significant deviations to make the film work on screen.
oh, and kids need to get over their ability to be easily bored at romantic moments. the song that was cut originally but restored in the 10th anniversary dvd is one of the best in the film. and that rendition (gibson and kuhn) is FAR better than the pop-song version in the closing credits.
Robert Bork: f'in' nutcase...
Mar. 6th, 2006 12:34 pmDispatches from the Culture Wars:
From the December 19, 2005 issue of National Review, in an article on "How to increase liberty in America", Bork goes Orwell on us. Jacob Sollum has the money quote:
"Liberty in America can be enhanced by reinstating, legislatively, restraints upon the direction of our culture and morality," writes the former appeals court judge, now a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "Censorship as an enhancement of liberty may seem paradoxical. Yet it should be obvious, to all but dogmatic First Amendment absolutists, that people forced to live in an increasingly brutalized culture are, in a very real sense, not wholly free."
Censorship increases liberty. War is peace. Black is white. And Bork was unfairly kept off the Supreme Court. Riiiiiight.