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<blockquote data-quote="spiney" data-source="post: 264759" data-attributes="member: 192438"><p>Sunday, 17th Sept.</p><p></p><p>Cape Fear, ITV4, 9pm.</p><p></p><p>This remake with DeNiro is nowhere near as good as the original with Robert Mitchum, but it's "watchable".</p><p></p><p>American Graffiti, ITV3, 10pm.</p><p></p><p>Hugely entertaining and enjoyable, multi-coloured and with a fine cast and great 1950s (early 60s?) soundtrack, this was Lucas' "big film" prior to Star Wars.</p><p>A group of (oldish!) teenagers drive around a small USA town, in their - sometimes kooky - cars, while learning lessons about life and growing up ....... early appearences by Richard Dreyfuss and Harrison Ford, also Ron Howard (director Apollo 13).</p><p>The real stars of this film are the cars, they positively gleam. The film is mostly shot at night, with lots of neon signs reflecting off the shiny cars, the colours on black giving a wonderful chiaroscoro effect! I suspect George Lucas had in mind the masterpiece film Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and was trying for a similar thing .....</p><p></p><p><a href="http://kathyschrock.net/graffiti/" target="_blank">http://kathyschrock.net/graffiti/</a> .</p><p></p><p>A Beautiful Mind, BBC1, 10.15pm .</p><p></p><p>Very cleverly made - and engrossing - biopic about schizophrenic maths genius John Nash. We see him entering Princeton, making a special friend, getting married, and being recruited by the government to decode Soviet spy secret messages, sent via magazine small ads (due to his mathematical ability). It's not until some way into the film, that we realise things are not quite as they seem .....</p><p></p><p>As to what Nash accomplished - including his Nobel Prize winning results in game theory - that's so esoteric that even Spiney doesn't understand it! However, follow the links ....</p><p></p><p>Schizophrenia is still not understood at all (what is "the mind"?), although nowadays symptoms can often be controlled, partly by drugs.</p><p>I had a schizophrenic friend, who used to receive personal messages, just for him, which had been deliberately inserted - by someone unknown - into billboard ads ...... in more serious cases, sufferers see and converse with people who aren't really there .....</p><p></p><p>A very interesting insight into serious schizophrenia is given by the book Operators And Things, which reads like a sci fi novel, but is a true story. My paperback copy is years old, but amazingly it's still in print! It's also been argued that Swedenborg - who regularly talked to angels, and decribed their eating habits in detail - was schizophrenic.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/nash.htm" target="_blank">http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/nash.htm</a> .</p><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0498016641/ref=cm_cr_dp_pt/002-7223169-2251246?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0498016641/ref=cm_cr_dp_pt/002-7223169-2251246?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books</a> .</p><p><a href="http://swedenborg.newearth.org/hh/hh00toc.html" target="_blank">http://swedenborg.newearth.org/hh/hh00toc.html</a> .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spiney, post: 264759, member: 192438"] Sunday, 17th Sept. Cape Fear, ITV4, 9pm. This remake with DeNiro is nowhere near as good as the original with Robert Mitchum, but it's "watchable". American Graffiti, ITV3, 10pm. Hugely entertaining and enjoyable, multi-coloured and with a fine cast and great 1950s (early 60s?) soundtrack, this was Lucas' "big film" prior to Star Wars. A group of (oldish!) teenagers drive around a small USA town, in their - sometimes kooky - cars, while learning lessons about life and growing up ....... early appearences by Richard Dreyfuss and Harrison Ford, also Ron Howard (director Apollo 13). The real stars of this film are the cars, they positively gleam. The film is mostly shot at night, with lots of neon signs reflecting off the shiny cars, the colours on black giving a wonderful chiaroscoro effect! I suspect George Lucas had in mind the masterpiece film Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and was trying for a similar thing ..... [url]http://kathyschrock.net/graffiti/[/url] . A Beautiful Mind, BBC1, 10.15pm . Very cleverly made - and engrossing - biopic about schizophrenic maths genius John Nash. We see him entering Princeton, making a special friend, getting married, and being recruited by the government to decode Soviet spy secret messages, sent via magazine small ads (due to his mathematical ability). It's not until some way into the film, that we realise things are not quite as they seem ..... As to what Nash accomplished - including his Nobel Prize winning results in game theory - that's so esoteric that even Spiney doesn't understand it! However, follow the links .... Schizophrenia is still not understood at all (what is "the mind"?), although nowadays symptoms can often be controlled, partly by drugs. I had a schizophrenic friend, who used to receive personal messages, just for him, which had been deliberately inserted - by someone unknown - into billboard ads ...... in more serious cases, sufferers see and converse with people who aren't really there ..... A very interesting insight into serious schizophrenia is given by the book Operators And Things, which reads like a sci fi novel, but is a true story. My paperback copy is years old, but amazingly it's still in print! It's also been argued that Swedenborg - who regularly talked to angels, and decribed their eating habits in detail - was schizophrenic. [url]http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/nash.htm[/url] . [url]http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0498016641/ref=cm_cr_dp_pt/002-7223169-2251246?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books[/url] . [url]http://swedenborg.newearth.org/hh/hh00toc.html[/url] . [/QUOTE]
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