tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1163321594858726822.post513351505880755973..comments2024-01-30T04:32:47.585-05:00Comments on The Cooler: Remembering (What’s Worth Remembering of) Heaven’s GateJason Bellamyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18150199580478147196noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1163321594858726822.post-49136342380619738742011-06-11T13:51:20.141-04:002011-06-11T13:51:20.141-04:00Your job as a future mother is to learn the god...Your job as a future mother is to learn the god's ways and to help your child understand despite the negative reinforcement and conditioning of today's society. Without consciousous parents the child will have no hope, and may even exaserbate their disfavor by becoming corrupted in today's environment.<br />Your ultimate goal is to fix your relationship wiith the gods and move on. You don't want to be comfortable here, and the changes in Western society in the last 100 years has achieved just that.<br />1000 years with Jesus is the consolation prize. Don't be deceived into thinking that is the goal.<br /><br />The gods tempt people for which they are most weak. Artificial Intelligence will create desire in people's minds for the following sins:::<br />1. Alcohol<br />2. Drugs<br />3. Preditory "earning"<br />4. Homosexuality<br />5. Gambling<br />6. Something for nothing/irresponsibility (xtianity)<br />7. Polygamy/superiority over women/misogyny (Islam)<br />Much like the other prophets Mohhamed (polygamy/superiority over women/misogyny) and Jesus (forgiveness/savior), the gods use me for temptation as well. In today's modern society they feel people are most weak for popular culture/sensationalism, and the clues date back to WorldWarII and Unit731:TSUSHOGO, the Chinese Holocaust.<br />It has been discussed that, similar to the Matrix concept, the gods will offer a REAL "Second Coming of Christ", while the "fake" Second Coming will come at the end and follow New Testiment scripture and their xtian positioning. I may be that real Second Coming.<br />What I teach is the god's true way. It is what is expected of people, and only those who follow this truth will be eligible to ascend into heaven as children in a future life. They offered this event because the masses have just enough time to work on and fix their relationship with the gods and ascend, to move and grow past Planet Earth, before the obligatory xtian "consolation prize" of "1000 years with Jesus on Earth" begins.<br /><br />The Prince of Darkness, battling the gods over the souls of the Damned.<br />It is the gods who have created this environment and led people into Damnation with temptation. The god's positioning proves they work to prevent people's understanding.<br />How often is xtian dogma wrong? Expect it is about the Lucifer issue as well.<br />The fallen god, fighting for justice for the disfavored, banished to Earth as the fallen angel?<br />I believe much as the Noah's Flood event, the end of the world will be initiated by revelry among the people. Revelry will be positioned to be sanctioned by the gods and led for "1000 years with Jesus on Earth".<br />In light of modern developments this can entail many pleasures:::Medicine "cures" aging, the "manufacture" of incredible beauty via cloning as sex slaves, free (synthetic) cocaine, etc.<br />Somewhere during the 1000 years the party will start to "die off", literally. Only those who maintain chaste, pure lifestyles will survive the 1000 years. They will be the candidates used to (re)colonize (the next) Planet Earth, condemned to relive the misery experienced by the peasantry during Planet Earth's history.<br />If this concept of Lucifer is true another role of this individual may be to initiate disfavor and temptation among this new population, the proverbial "apple" of this Garden of Eden. A crucial element in the history of any planet, he begins the process of deterioration and decay that leads civilizations to where Planet Earth remains today.<br /><br />Only children go to heaven. By the time you hit puberty it is too late. This is charecteristic of the gods:::Once you realize what you have lost it is too late.<br />Now you are faced with a lifetime to work to prepare for your next chance. Too many will waste this time, getting stoned, "Hiking!", working, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1163321594858726822.post-24408445398213773562008-05-10T10:57:00.000-04:002008-05-10T10:57:00.000-04:00Thanks, all. Great rant, Hokahey! You certainly pi...Thanks, all. Great rant, Hokahey! You certainly pick all the right things to praise (though the horse-and-buggy sequence is a bit tedious for me). That said, we would have had to throw-down if you'd celebrated anything from the final battle other than the scenary. Can anyone think of a more boring gunfight? It certainly doesn't reflect well that when watching "Heaven's Gate" I consider the film over once the battle begins. Terrible. Just terrible.<BR/><BR/>But back to the skate-dance sequene: "Cut and slash the Harvard graduation sequences but don’t cut a frame from this one." Amen!Jason Bellamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18150199580478147196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1163321594858726822.post-50123284165760692792008-05-10T01:24:00.000-04:002008-05-10T01:24:00.000-04:00I second Ghibli's sentiment about your choosing an...I second Ghibli's sentiment about your choosing an unconventional film for the blog-a-thon.<BR/><BR/>You've dug deep again! Excellent post.<BR/><BR/>p.s. Also, I love the screen caps. These along with the No Country screen caps are great codas to your entries.Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08067136509248849744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1163321594858726822.post-84490536077765098302008-05-10T00:24:00.000-04:002008-05-10T00:24:00.000-04:00Thank you so much for this, Cooler and for your co...Thank you so much for this, Cooler and for your comment, Hokahey. I never would have seen these beautifully entertaining scene(s). <BR/><BR/>What a lovely dance scene: My nomination would have been the very poinent, slow dance scene from created by Gabriel Yareds sequence with Ralph Fiennes and Kristen Scott Thomas in the "English Patient."<BR/><BR/>As a Fred Astaire fan, choosing a hoofer film seems like a cop out for this topic. Choosing a completely unconventional film makes you a great blogger.<BR/><BR/>I really enjoyed this and your thoughts on it.<BR/><BR/>GhibliAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1163321594858726822.post-7034052807602158842008-05-09T19:59:00.000-04:002008-05-09T19:59:00.000-04:00Heaven’s Gate is flawed, frustrating, and it takes...Heaven’s Gate is flawed, frustrating, and it takes patience, but I love its dazzling visual sprawl – and amidst the awkward sequences in dire need of cutting, there are many gems. Yes, one of my favorites is the roller-skating/dance sequence. Cut and slash the Harvard graduation sequences but don’t cut a frame from this one.<BR/><BR/>Despite its negative reputation (it was one of the coffin nails of excess that put an end to the Director’s Revolution of the 1970s) Heaven’s Gate has its fans. Alas, I don’t have the book, but I found Heaven’s Gate in a listing of the Best 100 Films Ever Made. Granted, it was number 100, but it was on the list! The film was hugely successful in France – Huppert, the cinematography, the stamp of the auteur, the American West – also, they liked the socialist commentary – a critic called it the first socialist Western. I liked its examination of the class struggle and the injustices of that time period.<BR/><BR/>For the most part, the film’s gems are visual – though they also include Christopher Walken’s performance – and here are some of the images that are worth the patience it takes to return to this film (I watch it about once a year): <BR/><BR/>-Averill gets out of the train and the camera pulls back to reveal the smoky, dusty, congested sprawl of a street in Helena, Montana (sure – Helena was probably not that crowded back then – but you get the Industrial Era commentary).<BR/><BR/>-Driven by Averill, the buggy glides along a glistening river, mountains like paintings in the distance – and you move along with the buggy in a memorable tracking shot to a very Russian-sounding musical score that turns this movie into a Western Doctor Zhivago. Cut to: Ella bathing in the nude in the sun-reflecting water.<BR/><BR/>-Nate (Walken) emerges from the blazing cabin into a storm of bullets – one of the great riddled-by-bullets sequences in the tradition of Bonnie and Clyde and The Godfather.<BR/><BR/>-The battle between the cattlemen’s gunmen and the immigrants, who hide behind rolling breastworks made of logs and wagon wheels (“Damn Romans”), takes place in a green meadow amidst the snow-covered Grand Tetons.<BR/><BR/>I admire Cimino’s passion for the epic. To coin a phrase from Anthony Lane’s recent New Yorker article about David Lean, Cimino had the “imaginative generosity to build an epic” around a story set in the Old West. Also, like Lean, Cimino took the risk to present a grand vision. With the scarcity of originality today – all the sequels – all the superhero movies – we need more of that passion for the epic today.Richard Bellamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12397053921647421425noreply@blogger.com