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Does this ring a bell at all?  This is from the movie The Dictator starring Sasha Baron Cohen (Borat).  This is the speech he made at the end of the movie trying to justify a dictatorship for his mythical country.  He contrasts what America would be like as a dictatorship as opposed to the current democracy of the people.

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I am preparing a syllabus for US. History 2111, which is a survey course covering all US history from colonization to current, for a university I am applying to teach at (a large liberal Arts college in the Southeast US), and I plan for the students to watch a film that is historically based (or at least reflects the time they are filmed in) and ( Read more... )

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With just a week remaining before the official premiere of The Hobbit part 1, news and hints of the movie are flooding the global info-sphere like a horde of Orcs. Now that we know the movie will be stuffed with spectacular battles and elf-on-dwarf love (Kate from Lost playing an elvish warrior princess, WTF?), the latest addition to this awesome ( Read more... )

[wouldn't want to give it away, now would I?]

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First of all, let me congratulate everybody in our modest comm for passing the remarkable #5000 post milestone: riiiiight here!

WHOAH! Let's bring the cake!!!
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To all you Terry Pratchett fans out there: a question for you. Of all the Pratchett you've read, which would make the simplest movie adaptation? That is, which of his books translates into a screenplay with the minimum of modification?

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