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@DannyDrinksWine It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.” ~ Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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Kubrick's The Shining sees Wendy reading Catcher In The Rye while Danny eats a sandwich. Did Kubrick nod to a character that wants to protect children from harm but can't because they haven't processed their own trauma? King's novel suggests the same. Or the book cover's red ... https://t.co/RPhc5I2BRY

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Francis Ford Coppola decided to make The Outsiders after a small country grade school in Fresno, CA sent a letter asking him to read S. E. Hinton's book. A correspondence was created and Jo Ellen Misakian, Librarian Aide to Lone Star School, will always be part of film lore. https://t.co/qQTR6rEuXs

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Orson Welles achieved the cinematically impossible in Citizen Kane. Aside from negotiating a contract that gave him final cut (unheard of at the time) he credits two assets for his work. Gregg Wesley Toland, A.S.C. and a giant boatload of ignorance... https://t.co/jOA7fnEfGt

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I love the comments! Yes, Kurosawa was influenced by noir pulp novels as well as John Ford. It's all a very interconnected relationship. Lucas called Star Wars "Blue Harvest" in code as a nod to Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett. Star Wars being modeled after The Hidden Fortress.

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@DannyDrinksWine It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.” ~ Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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David Warner's Hamlet (1965) directed by Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company is considered the finest work of his generation. That's like threading a camel through a needle's eye. Safe travels. https://t.co/ki1TCD1Jl7

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Larry McMurtry, author of The Last Picture Show and other great works, has passed. He learned to tell stories by listening to his grandfather speak on his ranch house porch. Forever a bibliophile he opened and ran his book store in his hometown of Archer City, Texas. Safe travels https://t.co/Mkhg5sud2I

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Also, if you want to go down the rabbit hole, read Chaos by Tom O'Neill, reconsider how powerful people literally construct a false flag reality around us in order to carry out hidden agendas, and how that very concept permeates all of Polanski's work. It's almost too much.

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Jean-Luc Godard did not invent the Jump-Cut, but 1959's Breathless made it film grammar. Partly to show the absurdity of cutting film to fit a pre determined length it worked so well he adopted it as his default. It profoundly changed cinema, affecting films like Taxi Driver. https://t.co/6FzIQ3PQrU