Except I answered that within the first seven words and then expanded on it. If you can't understand the thesis then clearly you're beyond help
Simple: not dying where I was born, having a goal, and expanding my horizons. Simple as that. The fact of the matter is that too many of those rural areas are afraid to go as much as fifty miles outside their comfort zone even if they go on vacation. These are people who legitimately don't get that what Grandpa did is gone and it's not going to work for them. They have no sense of adventure, no imagination, no drive, just sitting at the same place for the rest of their uneventful lives and have the gall to cry foul when the world moves past them.
I would say it's temporary catharsis. It's the classic "tell them what they want to hear despite that it's never going to happen" to placate the idiots who refuse to have ambition and just rely on whatever is immediately around them to base a life on. It's a short-sighted reaction that will make them feel good for the next year...but then the jobs won't come back, the wall won't be built, the Muslims and Mexicans will still be here due to the complicated logistics of deportation and the fact that Republican leaders WANT that cheap labor, the gays will still be here, etc. And then the double-edged sword of a supermajority comes up because then the Reps have NO ONE to point fingers at because the first reaction of citizens is to blame who's in charge (i.e the president) and whoever is associated with them (i.e. the Republican party). The Dems have a chance to exploit that at the mid-terms, though considering how that works it'll be more about maintaining their seats rather than gaining a majority. They're already working on 2020 so it'll be interesting who they focus on as the new face of the Dems. At the very least I know Drumpf is in for a miserable few years as he realizes what the president ACTUALLY has to do.
we get it Bob, Nolan beat you up and stole your lunch money. Time to move on. This just reeks of being insecure over how Nolan's Batman films are still considered the best superhero adaptations of all time due to be smart and exciting while Marvel's line is thought of as entertaining, but not especially evocative and is thus a line of popcorn films. It's been years, time to let go.
uh, he DID have nothing in common with the Count, because, as you just said, that was more about his father. And even then his father didn't embark on some epic, stabifying revenge fantasy so much as he just sulked after he was relieved from his post after discrimination laws were passed in France before dying of cancer. So even then it was more about the Count's attitude than it was about his life story (and oddly enough Dumas barely even KNEW his father so even that's dubious). And of course despite his noble name, Dumas' family was pretty impoverished until Dumas was able to strike it rich writing plays and stories, as well as the fact that Dumas had zero military experience. All in all, he was guy writing stuff he had little actual life experience with but it was still fine because it was well-done
That is the thing about Emmerich; he may be a gay liberal, but he's also white as a freaking sheet and a spoiled rich brat. The man just doesn't get that you can have character not representative of yourself. I mean, geez, Dumas wrote The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo despite having NOTHING in common with the main characters right down to race (Dumas being of Haitian descent). It's probably also why he buys into the flimsy Anti-Stratford theory regarding Shakespeare.
All in all, this is going to go down as no one caring about Emmerich's "passion projects" or attempts at being a serious filmmaker. Which is no doubt going to be a huge blow to his ego.
I elect he review Black Mass, if just because I can imagine Bob going full-on Bostonian due to Whitey Bulger. The negative reviews are fun, but I do want to see Bob flexing his critical muscles more.
This is why you don't let the guys the film is about produce it. Besides, the best film about NWA is still CB4
Which is why Romeo and Juliet is the archetypal sappy love story about two idiot teenagers (and coincidentally, isn't really his best work unless adaptations heavily revise it).
And what's funny with the Shakespeare authorship thing is that the conspiracy theory is typically touted by upper class snobs...but if you know ANYTHING about English history at the time then Shakespeare's plays were the epitome of low-class entertainment. Much like how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a pulp writer who wrote Sherlock Holmes solely for the money, Shakespeare was also a businessman who was clearly making his works for money.
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