




So personally - everything that was in last night's movie - I had already seen, and lived through five years ago when hurricane Katrina actually happened - and it's all still vivid in my own mind - just like the people who were down in New Orleans - Hurricane Katrina really was a life altering event for me, personally - getting those 100's of emails every day describing what was going on, and having people down there that I actually knew who were living through the experience reporting back - affected me until today.
There were a couple times in the movie last night that I giggled - at the beginning of the movie there is a very obvious reference to Apocolypse Now - his girlfriend at the time is laying on a bed, there's suggestive music playing, the camera is in close to her face, then it cuts to a ceiling fan, then to her face with her hands behind her head, then to the ceiling fan - then to a helicopter - I had to giggle - but who is Captain Willard, is it the girlfriend who we only see in a couple of shots? Or is it Tom McPhee? Or maybe Tom McPhee is Marlon Brando? He does have a little bit of a belly. He really is an enigma!
I guess we'll have to wait until his next movie comes out and we'll get another cue.
I'm interested to see what comes out in the future from his organization "World Animal Awareness Society" - which he was branding as a "consumer reports" type organizaiton for animal advocacy - because in the movie he interviewed Wayne Pacelle a couple times, and HSUS comes across in the movie in quite a positive light - so in the question and answer session after the movie someone asked Tom how he felt about the organization and he said (more or less) that he felt that HSUS was a stand up organization - that a corporation that was that big and had that many assets couldn't be bad.
There were a couple people in the audience who really wanted to take him to task on it - but he completely shut them down - but he really liked HSUS and thought they were a great Society that was doing good things. And I have to say - that really ended the evening on a sour note.
Joan,
ReplyDeleteI came home and spent some time looking at HSUS' annual report like Tom suggested... hmmm.. fluff and bluster. Hard to find out where money is really being spent.
Yes, as you know I was very disappointed with his view of HSUS and wanting to be a "consumer reports" kinda guy he was really doing a good bit of "glad handing" in his comments.
I liked the movie too. Same as you though.. nothing more than what I knew from 5 years ago.
HeatherM
Hi Heather, Joan,
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you connected with An American Opera and I appreciate your spirit more than you know. However, no "glad handing" here. If i see something that really smells, I'l tell you. I'm not skerr'd!
I believe the work HSUS is doing and how they go about it is better than almost any other on the planet. Are they perfect? Nope. I take a different tack with my work and my focus. I do however rely on people like you to help me see all the pictures of what's going on.
Thank you & Cheers,
Tom McPhee
Executive Director
World Animal Awareness Society
www.WA2S.org
I think there are serious problems with the HSUS & Pacelle should resign. "The Indictment of Wayne Pacelle", http://www.nathanwinograd.com/?p=6510
ReplyDelete~ Ontario, Canada