thread: 2005-05-03 : Creating Theme
On 2006-04-02, Curly wrote:
I watched Master & Commander tonight.
It seemed to me that the Captain faced a mutually-exclusive choice—between noble War/ to keep the vile French from taking-over the world; vs. noble Science/ so his Doctor friend could unlock the mysteries of the Galapagos, 30 years before Darwin.
That the Doctor was briefly allowed to set foot on the Island only serves to heighten tension, not scupper it: since Doc gets so-close-he-can-taste-it to the islands' mysteries... only to have to veer-away to War, repeatedly... before ever achieving the profound scientific breakthrough that we-the-audience know is waiting to be found.
It's like that Eisenhower quote:
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children...
This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
(From the Chance for Peace address delivered before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953.)
This makes NinJ go "Great quote!"
