Thursday 2 October 2014

King Solomon’s Mines

Also Known As:
Unknown ()…
Year:
1985
Country:
United States…
Predominant Genre:
Action
Director:
J Lee Thompson…
Best Performance:
John RHYS-DAVIES…
Premiss:
Fortune hunter teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing father lost in the wilds while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival explorer.
Theme:
White supremacy
Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)…
Review Format:
DVD

White Man’s (Cinematic) Graveyard

Despite the pervasive White supremacy, intermittently-funny comedy and weak characterization, this is rather fun.

Moving at a cracking pace, you can almost ignore the bizarre and glaringly-bad continuity. Just how does Colonel Bockner extricate himself from quicksand; while having no trace of the fluid on his uniform immediately afterwards? How do Jessie’s shorts become skimpier as the film progresses (not that we mind, of course)? And how does Dogati (John RHYS-DAVIES) escape - after being crushed by rocks (twice) - to engage in a climactic showdown with the hero Quatermain?

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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.



Jacob Bronowski… (1908 - 74), British scientist, author. Encounter (London, July 1971).


Sleep of Reason:



The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.



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Terence… (circa 190-159 BC), Roman dramatist. Chremes, in The Self-Tormentor [Heauton Timorumenos], act 1, scene 1.


Führerprinzip:



One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves… There is no organ of conciliation or mediation interposed between the leader and the people, nothing in fact but the apparatus - in other words, the party - which is the emanation of the leader and the tool of his will to oppress. In this way the first and sole principle of this degraded form of mysticism is born, the Führerprinzip, which restores idolatry and a debased deity to the world of nihilism.



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