Italian Freemason Giuseppe Mazzini
TURNING MEN INTO SWINE
How do you take a nation of free and independent citizens and turn them into slaves? How do you do this slowly and imperceptibly, without violence, and with the willing participation of the slaves-to-be?
The answer is simple. You corrupt them, undermine them, deprave them, demoralize them, until they have acquired all the characteristics of slaves.
As the sorceress Circe, with a wave of her magic wand, turned the followers of Ulysses into grunting swine, you can wield your weapon of mass hypnosis, the media, over a nation and transform its citizens into willing slaves.
Peter O Toole in Richard Rush s The Stunt Man
Credit: 20th Century Fox
The passing of Richard Rush, the writer-director who died last week aged 91, strikes me as the epitaph to something – a certain era of risk-taking in American cinema. His career is one of Hollywood’s great might-have-beens. According to Variety, he gave away the rights to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and turned down Jaws. In the last 40 years, he was only responsible for one film, and that was his worst – the dilapidated Bruce Willis erotic thriller Color of Night (1994), about which the less said the better.
Richard Rush
He also helmed three films featuring a young Jack Nicholson as well as one of the first buddy-cop movies, Freebie and the Bean.
Richard Rush, the writer, director and producer who earned two Oscar nominations for his work on the deliciously dark Peter O Toole comedy
The Stunt Man, has died. He was 91.
Rush died Thursday of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles, his wife, Claude, told
The Hollywood Reporter. He demonstrated an incredible will to live and survived 18 years with a heart transplant, she noted.
Early in his career, Rush directed the youth-targeted flicks
Hells Angels on Wheels (1967) and
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Richard Rush, the director of “The Stunt Man,” died April 8 at the age of 91, and if you look up his credits he has only 14 of them (and one was an episode of “The Mod Squad”). In a career that spanned 35 years, he made just a dozen features. Yet to an unusual degree, he meant every one of them. Maybe to a fault: As he noted in “The Sinister Saga of Making ‘The Stunt Man, ” his documentary look back at the fabled cult film about filmmaking, Rush gave away the rights to “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and turned down “Jaws.” He was very choosy. Yet when you watch his movies, you always see them peering around corners and glancing ahead, anticipating the world that was coming.