So...After 7 years .. Who really did up... 9/11....?

Before the Taliban and Saddam Wars....Which country had the worst Civil rights standards and political freedom

Can the TALIBAN legitmately be called Terrorists...?

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Thursday, December 11, 2008

The Best You Never Saw...

Here are the best films that were never given acclaim and widely ignored by audiences and critics when tthey were released .

meaning... they are as good as the best films... that came out in each year.....
but no one other than me seems to think these are great films...

These are since 1970.. only... .

So here is my list

1. Black Hawk Down ... 2001

2. Great White Hype ... 1996

3. Oh Brother , Where are thou..1999

4. Bloodsport . 1988

5. Desperado .. 1995

6.. Dusk till Dawn ..1995

7. Amistad .. 1997

8. Ooctober Sky .. 1999

9. Anna and the King... 1999

10. V for Vendetta .. 2006

11. Three Kings ....1999

12. Legends of the Fall ...1994

13. Last of the Mohicans ... 1992

14. Far and Away ... 1992

15. Dead Calm...1991

16. Samurai X....1974

Kramer vs Tribbiani...

Since there are no new Tv shows that I like.. in the age of "Reality"...

I end watching repalsy of Seinfeld and Friends....

I noticed that no one views the make up of the Friends show as I do :

What is Friends?

My summary would be

Friends : 5 New York Jews and 1 New York Italian ...Mr Joey Tribbiana...
"How Youuuuuuuuuu Doin'..!

and how would I summarize Seinfeld... well that is more complicated as the Seinfed was incomparabaly richer.

but a likewise comparision would be...

Seinfeld : 3 ( much smarter) NY Jews and 1 NY Italian ( George "Cant stand you" Castanza )

So you could say in a sense... that Friends - Seinfeld = 2 Jews... ( you can laugh now )


When Seinfeld came off the TV air waves... in 1998.. it was the Highester rated TV and comedy show...

Friends from 98 and onward .. would take Seinfelds spot at Top..

America seemed to accept Friends in place Of Seinfeld without any discomfart.. sort of like a change in the White house....!

Seinfeld came to TV in 1989... during a Bold movement in the Tv Business by the NBC TV station ( which was behind in success to the CBS and ABC stations ).

The movement was to replace the standard American family.. of Smiths/JOnes/and Williams in the family sitcom with hip Jewish singles living the new and trendy city
single and trendy big New york City Lifestyle...

As the 90s bloomed ... down went the american family on TV .. and came many other seinfeld type imitataions...
and During the flux of this trend came Friends and eventually... Sex and the City...which would explout the original intent of the movement spawned in the early 90s .. ten years later on HBO... in much more graphic and shocking detail than ever hoped for...

Seinfeld was the first and best show to exploit this...

The growth of this trend on Tv just tells me that that audience , metropolitan white people ( smiths and jones)... prefer seeing the NY jews than anyone else ..even themselves on TV...

The best indicator of this is the Friends the show..

The original idea of the show was:

the 2 main characters :

brother and sister : Ross and Monica Gellar.... New York jews...to appear normal and unquirky...

then..

the 2 sidekicks :

Monicas friend and sidekick... the blonde Rachel Green ...
...and...
Ross's friend...and sidekick...Chandler .. funny last name Bing.. who doesnt say anything unless it is sarcastically cynical and iritating to one of the other characters..

All of the four characters above... are presented as being of Jewish descent assimilated into America via the forturned of New York...
Such people are those I refer to as " New York Jews" ....
to a foreign viewer they may seem as the ordinary american ... but as I said.. that would be false .. becuase the ordinary american of the 1980s... micheal j fox.. was deliberatly removed .. in favour of the Gellars and those of their sort.. the "New York Jews" ..

the 4 characters are there for the audience to laugh with ....

and now to mention the other 2...for the audience to laugh at ... i said AT... and not WITH..

Monicas other friend... Phoebe Buffet...to call her ditzy would be severe understatement...

Unlike Joey... the other girls dont make fun of her .. as Chandler does.. because no one wants to see a cranky girl... as chandler appears cranky any time he makes a joke...

Phoebe makes her presence felt by saying silly things.. to allow the audience to laught at her... but unlike Joey.. whose statments make sense .. with twist..
Phoebe is totally absurd.. you cant treat her as a character but as a random interjection of nonsense to excite the audience...

Although she does not have an obvios jewish name... the actress Lisa Kurdrow.. has an obvious jewish name with typicall new york jewish physique..
so she is basiccally a jewish character..

then the last character..

Chandlers roomate ;..... the stereotype NY italian .. Joey Tribbiani...

and what makes him a steotype:

No education... and hence he works as an actor... and is unaware of the lackluster level of achievement he has unless he is informed by Chandler in his characteristic Jewish fashion... his two male counterparts are the opposite... one is a professor and the other some financial engineer...

Slow wit... chandlers sarcasm jokes are usually misunderstood by Joey... and usually unrealiezed by Joey... while the audience is laughing at Joey.

Ladies Man... he has the italian "mafiaso" confidence that he can have anyone one... so women are his only area of expertise .. while the 2 jewish boys... must game plan their first and second move after the slowly develop the confidence to step up to the plate...

All his lines generally reflect his dull wit.. and the lines spoken to him by chandler are almost always insulting of him for his foremention lack of intelligence...

His character is almost a deliberate bashing... of the stereotype New Italian persona and the New York Italian identity... from the minds of college educated , manhattan residing, media influential New York Jewish Community.

I could intrepret this as massice cultural statement coming from the top of the New York Jewish community expressing their feelings about the entire New York Italian culture.


so where does this leave the show ?

the show is basically has the jewish actors/characters as the main characters with the only outsider... the NY italian joey as their token "minority" to be pounced on by the other 4.. and ridiculed to the audience...

and this this formula... seems to have hit the jackpot with audience of white peopel of all ages.. who responded to this formula by making it USAs top show... for 6 years...

Twins: Iranian - New York Italian

Shah Reza Pahlavi....
the last official king of Iran.. ousted in a coup detat in 1979...




Frank Vincent...

Italian American Actor... came to fame after playing true to life NY Gambino mob man...Billy Batts... and later as Phil Leotardo on the Sopranos...







I realized the striking likeness in their features after... I found that.. that Tony Sopranos used the name " Shah of Iran " as a nickname on the show for the character of Phil Leotardo..

Im sure one of the castmembers probably used it on the set and the writers picked up on it..

So now you can see for yourself...

Sight of the Hour

Sight of the Hour
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

A...C H O L A C H E R A P A N D I A N...Production

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