I was a high school marching band geek, and we got uniforms when I was a senior where the tunic was fastened diagonally like the Star Trek tunics, and let me tell you it was really satisfying to pull that sucker open and breath. Those were the best.
One of the many great things about this film is that half the men have bangs.
I'm not sure how I ended up on a Wrath rewatch tonight, but here we are.
James Horner's work, of course, is keeping me stuck to this through the end. Cannot beat this score.
Ricardo Montalbán spitting curses is the best. Every Star Trek villain wishes they were this guy.
Right in the feels every time.
Film closes with a quote (paraphrase) from A Tale of Two Cities, which would go on to be quoted and misquoted in genre films up until today.
The fun part is that Carol Marcus doesn't know the quote. So, they're a lot like us in the future.
They don't make Trek films like they used to. This one remarked on and quoted Paradise Lost, A Tale of Two Cities, and Moby Dick.
(Trek will return to Moby Dick twenty years later in First Contact.)
I adore that from near the end of A Tale of Two Cities, which also gets quoted at the end of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES.
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Sure, folks. When the guy whose demands weren't about Jews forced his Jewish hostages in a synagogue to call a rabbi in another state, it totally wasn't about Jews. That was just a coincidence. Coulda been calling anybody, really.
Big SCOTUS news. The court has agreed to hear the case of a high school football coach who was disciplined for praying at the fifty yard-line after games. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/2…
9th Cir. held that when he "kneeled and prayed on the fifty-yard line immediately after games while in views of students and parents, he spoke as a public employee, not as a private citizen," and so was not protected by the First Amendment. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opin…
9th Cir. revives a Title IX suit from a male grad student dismissed from UCLA after an accusation of misconduct from a female student. Finds allegations sufficient to state a claim. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opin…
Court finds plausible inference of Title IX sex discrimination where student alleged (1) external pressures, including the Obama admin's infamous "Dear Colleague" letter; (2) pattern and practice of discrimination against previous male students, shown by state litigation; and
(3) specific statements from univ. staff to this student, including the claim that female accusers do not fabricate allegations in Title IX cases, which seems, uh, yeah, problematic.
There's so much great stuff in this film that I noticed for the first time.
In the middle there's a long action and dialogue take with Poitier leading and the rest of the cast having to hit their marks that must have taken hours to get right.
There's also a part I hadn't noticed before where the camera casually pans by while Poitier is delivering exposition while the blind dude is chopping vegetables in the foreground. So good.
Attorney arguing against the OSHA mandate points out the 100-employee line-drawing was based on expedience rather than evidence that COVID-spread is worse in businesses with more than 100 employees.
Justice Barrett getting some concessions here from counsel opposing the OSHA mandate, who seems to agree that there are some businesses where a mandate might be appropriate. She mentioned meatpacking plants and the dentist.
The next attorney opposing the OSHA mandate is up now. He's arguing remotely bc of a covid diagnosis. (His symptoms have abated.)