Jesus Was Right!

I don't suppose the young Gordon Brown went into politics so that one day he could stand up in front of an audience of money-men and announce that Britain needed to retain its independent nuclear deterrent.

I guess he thinks he needs to make these compromises in order to appear electable to the frightened mush-heads of Middle England.

But in the process he's turning himself into everything he once hated and despised.

There's a verse in the New Testament that explicitly addresses this situation; "For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world but lose his own soul?"

Jurassic Park

If you watch a sequence from a movie out of context (detached from the story and the characters) you can begin to see how it was assembled.

I just watched the climax of Jurassic Park that way and I was seeing it as a series of animated storyboards. 

Spielberg is a director who leaves nothing to chance. Eveything is calibrated to within a hair's breadth. Hitchcock and Lean worked the same way.

Not John Ford. He said he never rehearsed an action sequence because you couldn't anticipate what was going to happen when you had a whole bunch of horsemen charging down hill.

In my present mood I'm with Ford. Overprepare and you squeeze out the humanity.

Jurassic Park is a dishonest film. It's pushing this conservative moral line about not messing with Nature and yet every frame is screaming "I want the dinos back".

Suppose you had 20 billion to spend on either a new generation of independent British nukes or a real life Jurassic Park; which would you choose?