Hello.
In the fictional, alternative world where our
president seems to thrive, we have a few messages from that world T Rump needs
to hear since they are eerily poignant to him and to those of us who live in
the real world every day.
Marine Colonel and combat veteran Nathan R. Jessep
(played by Jack Nicholson) dressed in his uniform and sitting in the witness
chair, his blood gradually boiling until it reaches a breaking point causing
him to erupt with a compelling indictment against T Rump and his dwindling
number of unprincipled sycophants, “You can’t handle the truth!!”
Howard Beale, anchorman for UBS evening news,
(played by Peter Finch), has seen all the moral corruption, social dysfunction
and human depravity his soul can handle, so he leans out of the window in his
downtown apartment and screams to the world; in particular, T Rump and the convicted
felons in his administration, “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take
this anymore.”
Forrest Gump, (aka Tom Hanks) sits on a bus bench
talking to a stranger, summing up anyones’ (namely T Rump’s) lack of
intellectual curiosity and aversion to reading, “Mama says, ‘Stupid is as
stupid does.’”
Terry Malloy, ex prize-fighter turned
longshoremen, (one of Marlon Brando’s best roles), is totally frustrated over
the corrupt behavior of his union bosses, and articulates what could well
become T Rumps epitaph: “You don’t understand! I could’ve had class. I
could’ve been a contender. I could’ve been somebody, INSTEAD OF A BUM,
which is what I am.”
You had me at, “Hello.” locked0 List
