Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Count Dankula"
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I've never been able to find the movie, again, but there's one where he bumps into somebody, knocks them down, they start chasing him, he bumps into somebody else trying to escape, and so on, until the entire town is chasing him. He runs into a blind alley and swarms up a drain pipe to the roof like a monkey or SpiderMan. Rushes to the other side, makes his death-defying descent, and soon there's another chain reaction mob chasing him, so there's one on his heels and another one looking for him, with all the confusion and mayhem you might expect. As I recall, two of the mobs (I think there were more than just two) run into each other and start brawling, until somebody spots him and they join forces.
Non-stop laughs. You honestly can't stop. Good thing they were silents, because by 1 minute in, the crowds must've been SCREAMiNG with laughter. I just can't remember the title.
Years later, I think the snobs all agreed that "The General" was, in fact, a masterpiece.
So many of his shorts were lost or destroyed in fire or by other causes.
Nobody - I mean nobody - could do a chase scene like Buster Keaton. He was an unbelievable athlete.
I'm not sure how I feel about his first wife. I think he fooled around a LOT, even before she gave him permission. The ladies LOVED him. I imagine there are 10s or 100s of long-faced descendants with some other last name running around to this day. In his wife's defense, there's probably no telling what STDs he might have brought home. I don't blame her for refusing to sleep with him, after a certain point. The one thing I have no respect for is how his first two wives spent his money and walked off with most of it. Patriarchy, indeed!
I used to feel sad, learning his life story, but I think he had a good old time - better than most - for much of it.
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Those original heroes who tilted against whalers in inflatable rafts to save the whales have all left Greenpeace because it was 100% politicized and no longer followed the science. The founder of Greenpeace says their climate-change agenda is harmful and authoritarian. And he's right. If you do everything you're told to do, the environmental damage will be greater (WAY more mining permits and water pollution), and you'll end up having to burn fossil fuels to achieve it. And they ignore the working and living conditions at the off-shored mining operations. As long as it's not on U.S. or Euro soil, they don't care what harm is done or if child slaves are used to get that cobalt and lithium out of the ground.
It's just like COVID, where alternative solutions were forbidden, and everybody had to do the same thing: lock down, mask up and take an experimental drug. You were also required to sign a waiver. "We didn't coerce anyone!" Ha. "Take it or lose your job, lose your home, and starve, you science-denier."
Lots of good, green ideas people could do, but the EPA stands in the way, ironically.
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No dogs and no Campbells. I knew a pure Scot McDonald. Man was a sociopath, but was high functioning, because he abided by a deeply held sense of honor. He wouldn't feel bad about punching you, because he empathized, but he wouldn't shame himself, if that makes sense. Not all Scots are sociopaths, I hope, inasmuch as I've got some in me.
One of the things about stealing cattle that I never thought about until amusing myself with some Bernard Cornwell fiction, was the function served by making cattle raids. It was a way to teach the sons how to fight when there was no war. It was many tribes' way of not fighting a war, but keeping the young ones coming up READY to fight, if necessary. Centuries of invasion made it kind of necessary. And tribes would steal back and forth from each other, just short of war.
But of course, someone always takes it too far, and there's lots of feuding. But the idea was to band together against threats to the combined tribes. And of course, we know that from Roman times on, inter-tribal warfare was the wedge that conquerors always used against Britons, Scots, East Anglians, etc. But especially the Scots.
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