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By: JA Schalick

JA Schalick — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 05:13:16 +0000

Am commenting singularly on web options. I believe that Jodie Foster is Kat Polinski.

Age apart, the attitude is right. And it is not an attitude derived from the general public. It is smart, angular, tough, and only found behind a wall of silence.

Kat is a character we need to understand. The future may well bring us more young women of physical strength, anger, character. It is always ANGER which must be contained. Or used.

Just thinking

By: JA Schalick

JA Schalick — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:13:28 +0000

Still thinking broadly about the context and character. Still think Jodie Foster is the model. If Bourne can be played by a cheerful type from Massachusetts (muscled out) you need that sort of physical response. But Kat is more than that. She has attitude and doesn’t settle down to a Miami housewife, if you see what I mean. Anyone realistically who has these skills has the opposite happen. But fiction allows us to go to the extreme, and learn something in between. I’ve learned not to forget to edit a reply. Lost some sentence structure on one.

By: JA Schalick

JA Schalick — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:24:39 +0000

On the mid-level issue, the ‘whistle blowers’ have a mixed history of success/failure. And they are very often women. But they DO have substantial cinematic presence. There is a body of filmography about just such heroic activity. Movies love a bulldog, often a female, who perseveres. Finance (think ENRON); GE (think pollution); energy (think on the coalmining industry); over and over films have gone for the heroic individual who takes on government, unions, whatever. I’ll bet somewhere in China there is a scribbler who might have written about lead paint whether published or not. Of course, Kat is just that, heroic. There is a quality about her that shouts out for film. Shout it out!

By: Humphrey

Humphrey — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:52:45 +0000

Thanks Judy,
Middle level people that’s interesting. When they start shouting, do they not either gain power or forfeit what they already have?

By: Humphrey

Humphrey — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:48:52 +0000

I tried to blogroll Steve Levine but it doesn’t seem to link. I am very new to this complicated world. But thank you.

By: Candy Gourlay

Candy Gourlay — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:34:09 +0000

Congrats on the History Book and the new blog. There was a mention of the History Book on Steve Le Vine's blog, The Oil and the Glory. Cheers, Candy

By: JA Schalick

JA Schalick — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:17:32 +0000

You have said: “The issues are total government surveillance, contracted out to private companies who control energy supplies for their own gain.”

Democracy is about ‘gain’. Theoretically. Clearly? men and women who gain power choose to hold it.

I would like to hear you write about ‘middle level’ persons, people who can be reasonably expected to shout.

Since human nature does not change, only the impetus to collect the spirit of ‘the family of man’ will count. LIFE Magazine interpreted that photographically. The generations since? well, too much info, too little concern, too much ownership? who knows.