Category: Criticism

Texas in: 3 Movies

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three movies I recommend to those of you new to Texas… ones I discovered after living here a few years.

The struggle with voice: an accent that isn’t southern, yet out of tune actors, regularly mimic a southern drawl in playing a Texas accent. The sound of Three Burials is the voice of West Texas. The title’s keyword is Melquiades. Chosen because it is difficult to pronounce by the non-Spanish speaker. Listen to Tommy Lee Jones as he speaks. Watch as he mounts, sits a horse. Even the small parts — how he is comfortable with a pistol in his back pocket.

Not the standard Hollywood western — certainly not a Western for an air-conditioned theater. It was filmed in Texas. Even the Mexico scenes. This is Tejas. It is the one film I’d suggest for those of you short on time. It was prompted by actual border events. The key scene is the one in the shack with the blind man.

“In 1997, a group of marines, purportedly on a drug interception mission, shot and killed 18 year-old Esequiel Hernandez Jr. “in self defense.” Hernandez, who was armed at the time and whom the marines claimed fired at them, was outside herding goats. It was the first murder of an American citizen by military personnel since Kent State. “

Three Burials:

Three Burials trailer…
” i like the way Spanish sounds…”

Filming locations in Texas included Big Bend National Park, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Lajitas, Midland, Monahans, Odessa, Van Horn, and Redford

Dallas Buyers Club:

DBC is likely the movie you’ve seen. It is an excellent film providing the other side of Texas. The voice is another flavor: Matthew McConaughey. This too was based upon a true story.

Dalls Buyers trailer

Dallas Buyers is the most familiar movie of this lot. It is also the movie that is more revealing about the Man’ Man nature of the Western Man.

Bernie is the other side of the Dallas Buyer’s Club.

Bernie:

The third movie is also based upon actual Texas events. In Texas, as in most of the US, life is a fiction awaiting a script and a casting director.

Bernie trailer

My rewatch section is the telling about the sections of Texas.

“life behind the Pine Curtain..”

Crafted in Stages

Posted on Posted in A Symbol Life, Criticism, the meta, The Post

fields share many elements, such as changing vocabularies, needs of skill distinction. As a technology -market ages, it crosses boundaries, unseen until appearing in the the rear-view.

software engineering needed to become, for some, for awhile, Craft.

New imperatives are constant during the changing — their decline means that the edge of the field has gotten into the commercial-culture complex to such a degree that it can be done by any enthusiast. For decades, software advanced through the actions and interests of drawing upon people form other fields — At one point, during early Object adoption, Borland keynotes featured a drag and drop build of a spreadsheet application. It was thought that software tools could be built that would make it so easy to write programs the market for applications would decay.

The front, the first way is always driven by optimists. Succeeding waves become more pessimistic.

We begin with one definition of a word, and end with another, perhaps an opposite meaning. It is the way of language change driven, modulated by the technical commercial complex. It is that way is photography as a chemical process, and certainly that way in imaging as a software system.

Engineers learn math as meaning. Artists learn meaning as math.

At successive stages of skill needs, words distinguish qualifications. Amateur is a keyword in knowing where a field is at.