Got to love Mark Shea. Jolly dinner companion, able and artistic speaker, prodigious defender of Catholic things, great and small, and now, feature film actor. Check out this link and then make plans to show this delightful movie. I am anticipating this more than the summer movie run.
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Hmmm, I thought Mark was opposed to torture.
Blessed Easter to you, Father!
Fr.,
You are up for some blog awards at the Crescat (Carolina Cannonball).
AMDG,
Suzanne
Is this a dead link? I couldn't find anything. I did look up Mark Shea in IMDb and it lead to "G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense", is that it? Father Thorpe, you should suggest that "Mark P. Shea" update his bio on www.IMDb.com
I understand this is an adaptation of Chesterton's novel, but is a torture scene the best trailer the producers could come up with? It's not even funny in a dark way, it's just sick (and poorly shot).
Ummmmm....
This looks ... interesting.
Clapping my hands...
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Torture? Are you guys serious or just trolling? Being forced to sing a ditty at gunpoint could only be considered torture in the very broadest use of the term.
In this particular case it most certainly is not. Is Smith extracting information or wantonly inflicting pain? Perhaps some context would help http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books/manalive/man_pt2_1.html
Find out what's really going on before jumping to conclusions.
I must admit, I'm rather disappointed with the scene. In the novel the professor is dangling outside the window. His ability to see the world is a key element of the narrative. Also instead of "If your happy and you know it", one of the more inane dittys every conceived, he actually sings:
"`I thank the goodness and the grace
That on my birth have smiled.
And perched me on this curious place,
A happy English child.'"
Sigh. I guess I'll see it anyway, but this is why I prefer books.
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