The Anonymous movie Top Ten
I have a dream, that one day this nation will rise up..
Another classic! But we’ll talk about that a bit later.
Next up, over video of cops in riot gear, we have Will Smith as Christopher Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness:
Don’t ever let somebody tell you… You can’t do something. [ … ] You got a dream… You gotta protect it. People can’t do somethin’ themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want somethin’, go get it. Period.
And Kurt Russell as Herb Brooks in Miracle, over an image of the streets aflame:
Great moments, are born from great opportunity. And that’s what you have here, tonight.
Okay, we’re coming to the close. The music shifts to some semi-classical piano, and the nodding technanonymity says a few words… then, over some tranquil shots of the globe we live on…
Billy Bob Thornton as Coach Gaines in Friday Night Lights tells us:
Being perfect is about being able to look your friends in the eye and know that you didn’t let them down, because you told them the truth. And that truth is that you did everything that you could. There wasn’t one more thing that you could’ve done.
Can you live in that moment, as best you can, with clear eyes and love in your heart? With joy in your heart?
Fade…
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Okay, we got — what? American football, boxing, hockey, a Conservative politician, a non-violent Civil Rights leader, a salesman-entrepreneur, lots of police and rioting, no military that I could detect, unless you count Churchill’s speech…
Funnily enough, V for Vendetta (image at the top of the post) isn’t among the movies they’ve clipped from, although the Anonymous mask is a Vendetta Guy Fawkes mask.
Interesting that in the quote from Network, after the words “I want you to get mad!” and before “first you’ve got to get mad” they’ve omitted the words:
I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot…
Funny that in quoting Any Given Sunday, they chose a version that has “shit” bleeped out of the soundtrack, so Pacino says:
We’re in hell right now, gentlemen. Believe me. And, we can stay here, get the ** kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light…
Funny that they say:
The only difference between us and protesters of the past is that we believe in fighting for our rights. We indeed are not pacifistic: if the oppressors fight us we will fight back ten-fold.
and then quote Martin Luther King Jr, the Gandhian practitioner of satyagraha…
Funny that they say, “now we are the majority” and a little later, “we can not win this fight alone”.
Ooh! And that’s a great (math) line at the end, though I don’t know quite what it means:
United by one, divided by zero.
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I’m more of a Gandhian, pacifistic, lay down on my back and let them roll over me, foolish school myself — and I don’t watch many sports movies, so I wasn’t the ideal target audience here.
The Martin Luther King speech might just take my “best documentary” award. And I’m with the critics on Vertigo.
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