2014-11-03 ®eality is always black / and white.

2014-11-03          ®eality is always black / and white.

                'Fiction' the opening credits' screen of this movie brands itself better, then followed by 'fact', then 'Fiction / Factory' is the name of the outfit, fiction factory is all / we gots.

                'No arms, no legs', Metallica sings it better in their song One - of your man Joe, the 'hero' of this film based on Dalton Trumbo's novel Johnny Get Your Gun - 'absolute / horror.'  What it is is that your man Joe gets bombed in World War II while in the trenches in Germany, and then gets shipped home to a Veterans' Administration Hospital state-side, but not before having both arms and both legs amputated, not to mention / his two eyes, absolute / horror is all / we gots.

                Johnny manages to stay alive but not much else, finally managing to tap out some S.O.S messages, like Regan McMeil in William Friedkin’s take on Wiliam Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist, Regan who manages to write out on her stomach 'help me' while in the grips of ©aptain Howdy, Johnny in his S.O.S messages starts out with the  same, but eventually loses all hope, and starts instead tapping out 'kill / me' to the medical staff. 

                Good times, Halloween horrors persist along with the candies even after the departure / of Michael Meyers and those guys.  Spanish director Luis Bunuel was 'assupposed to direct the film version of Trumbo's novel - this after Trumbo had spent time in the stripey hole and on the Hollywood 'black list' for suspicions of being / a communist - spending time in the stripey hole and on the Hollywood 'black list' for suspicions of being / a communist is all / we gots. 

                Trumbo instead at some point decides to direct the movie version of his own book himself, and then hires the cinematographer and actors and whatever else is needed to make / a movie, innit Cash, it's called creative control, and it is of course the subject of the 'Extras' bit of this DVD.  Donald Sutherland makes a cameo as JC up on out on up on out in / the desert during one of Joe's many dream / nightmare sequences in the film, innit Electrified JC, and Jason Robards plays / his Dad.

                'He didn't understand' Trumbo's son Christopher says it better, of his and his Da's arrangment on the set, 'the mechanisms / of the set'.  Trumbo had won an Oscar for a movie script that he had written while he was ostensibly on 'The Black List', and for which the Academy had given the trophy to a nephew of the film's director (that's enough -id.), but had never directed / a movie.

                So Trumbo's son Christopher helped out his Da on the set, helping out your Da on the set is all / we gots.  Course this is easier said / than done, Cin managed to hide his own Da's shame yesterday night, upon discovering his Da starkers on his bed, by folding the bedsheet back over / the bed, but Cin declined to take off his Da's fleece jacket, which his Da had also elected to wear in bed, as well as no / undergarments, boxers / or briefs.

                Cin lost patience in other words when the patient their Da neglected to dress / appropriately for ' enter', Metallica sings it better, 'sandman', aka sleep, 'to sleep' your man Hamlet in the Shakespeare play of the same name sololiquies it better (hooker please –id.) of the Big Sleep, 'perchance / to dream.'  It was petty of Cin - first to be irate at the idea of his Da letting it all hang out, second not to take off your man his Da's jacket before tucking / him in - but not petty enough that Cin bothered to take off his Da's jacket even when the aformentioned bout / of pettiness managed to bother him later in the evening, bouts / of pettiness managing to bother us later in the evening is all / we gots.              

                'The dream was always in color', the actor Timothy Bottoms, who plays Joe, says it better of the color scheme of the film, 'the reality is always black / and white'.  Oh yeah, your man Joe has no / ears either, 'he has only' the radio play of the novel recounts it better, this radio version's Joe is played by James Cagney, 'his mind.'  It's a tough story, your man Joe needs to imagine everything and recall everything / from memory, imagining everything and recalling everything / from memory up on out on up on out on up on this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and the reality is always black / and white is all / we gots.

                'I tried to swim' Cagney reads it better, 'but I had / no legs' (that's enough -id.), people back in the day had stronger stomachs, to listen to the likes of this on the radio for hours on end, these days we're immune / to horror and unlikely to sit and listen to stories on the radio for hours / on end. 

                Who will read the audio version of this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and the reality is always black / and white, and who will play Cin in the movie version, which he will cinsist on directing, in order to maintain creative / control?  Joachim Phoenix, perhaps in both roles, your man Phoenix more dour on-screen than Cin off-screen, and that's not easy / to do, 'you look' a bar person said it better to Cin in the hal©yon p®e-®egime ze®o days and nights before House Arrest / the Horror, 'like a serial / killer.' 

                Course Cin's 'a need a re-write of certain editions of this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and the reality is always black / and white  up in here, Cin came across his latest Dear John e-mail - this one from the last chamber of horrors that he called work before this one, 'career suicide' they call it, as though showing up on Day One on a gig like that was anything / but deliberate and self-cinflicted death by Cubicles, 'some folks call it Hell' Slingblade says it better, 'I call it / Hades' - but passed it over without reading it again. 

'Don't write anything on a web-site', the sister of the Facebook founder  of all people said it better of the dangers / of over-sharing, 'that you wouldn't want your grand-mother / to read', it's a good as slogan / as any, violated of course by Cin daily, 'where I come from', Ed Harris' dirty Irish cop says it better in Ben Affleck's 'Gone Baby Gone', 'we take our secrets to / the grave.' 

                'I try to be the same in the light' a Mormom said it better on the telee, referring to his religion and his code / of living, 'as in / the dark'  - it's as good a slogan as Cin's heard, and as of late he's heard / them all - and Cin ought to be able to re-read his old e-mails, and older editions of this Take Thing Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and the reality is always black / and white, without feeling like a dirty / worm.                              

                                                               

                Course that's why God invented / (-id) / (ed) / itors, innit God, to make our stories more / palatable (that's enough -id.).  'For democracy', Jason Robard's father character says it better in Metallica's video of One, 'any father would give up his only / begotten son', innit Electrified JC, though humanity works slightly better as hopeless cause celebre than / democracy, if not / by much, 'democracy' Winston Churchill said it better, 'is the least / worst system' – ‘it would be’ your man Gandhi said it better and facetiously before during and after being aksed his opinion of Western liberal democracy, ‘a good / idea’ - and the less said about humanity, the better, 'some folks call it Hell' Slingblade says it better, 'I call it / Hades.'

                Thank you for reading this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and the reality is always black / and white.