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Hafiz Ibn Qayyim (RA), a well-known Muhadith (A scholar of traditions), has written an authentic book, 'Al-Waabilus Sayyib', on the virtues of Zikr, which are more than one hundred and he has listed seventy nine of these, which are briefly given below in the same order. Some of these include multiple benefits, in that case their actual number exceeds more than one hundred:
1) Zikr keeps away the Shaitân and weakens his strength.
2) It is the cause of Almighty Allah Ta'ala's pleasure.
3) It relieves the mind from anxieties and worries.
4) It produces joy and happiness in the heart.
5) It strengthens the body and mind.
6) It brightens the face and heart.
7) It attracts one's sustenance.
It invests the Zâkirs with awe and sweetness so that the beholder is filled with awe and pleasure at his sight.
9) It induces love for Allah Ta'ala, which in fact is the spirit of Islam and the pivot of Deen (religion), and the source of success and salvation in the Hereafter. He who seeks access to the love of Almighty Allah Ta'ala should do Zikr profusely. Just as reading and repetition is the door of knowledge, so Zikr of Allah Ta'ala is the gateway of His love.
10) Zikr involves Muraqabah (transcendental meditation) through which one reaches the stage of Ihsân, wherein a person worships Almighty Allah Ta'ala as if he is actually seeing Him. (The attainment of this stage of Ihsân is the ultimate objective of the Sufis).
11) It helps in realization of Allah Ta'ala so that by and by a stage is reached when he comes to regard Almighty Allah Ta'ala as his sole Cherisher, Guardian and Master, and he turns unto Him, in all afflictions.
12) It is the key to the nearness of Almighty Allah Ta'ala. More abundant the Zikr, more one will get nearer to Allah Ta'ala, and greater the indifference to Zikr, greater will be the distance from Him.
13) It opens the doors of realization (Ma'arifat) of Allah Ta'ala.
14) It makes one to realize the greatness and grandeur of Almighty Allah Ta'ala, and strengthens the consciousness of His omni-presence.
15) Zikr of Allah Ta'ala causes one's mention in the court of Allah Ta'ala, as is mentioned in the Holy Book (Al-Qur'ân):
فَاذْكُرُونِي أَذْكُرْكُمْ وَاشْكُرُوا لِي وَلَاتَكْفُرُونِ
" Remember me, and I will remember you." (2:152)
And as stated in the Hadith:
"Whosoever remembers Me in his heart. I remember him in My heart". (Bukhâri & Muslim Sharief)
It has already been explained under other verses and Ahâdith that, even if there were no other good points in Zikr, except those mentioned above, this alone would have established its superiority over others. Nevertheless, there are many more virtues and benefits of Zikr.
16) It gives life to the heart. Hafiz Ibn Taimiyah (RA) says that Zikr is so much necessary for the heart as water for the fish. Imagine the condition of a fish out of water.
17) It is food for the heart and soul; to deprive them of Zikr is like depriving the body of its food.
18) It cleanses the heart of its rust. It has been mentioned in the Hadith; everything rusts according to its nature; and the heart rusts with worldly desires and indifference; to purify it, Zikr is necessary.
19) It safeguards against pitfalls and lapses.
20) The heart of neglectful person is tormented by a feeling of remoteness from Allah Ta'ala, and nothing other than Zikr can rid off the heart from this feeling.
21) The words of Zikr keep circulating round the Arsh of Almighty, as stated in a Hadith.
22) If one remembers Allah Ta'ala in happiness, Almighty Allah Ta'ala remembers him in his afflictions.
23) It is a means of deliverance from Allah Ta'ala's punishment.
24) It causes Allah Ta'ala's peace and mercy to descend, while angels surround the person engaged in Zikr.
25) It saves one's tongue from indulging in backbiting, loose talk, lies, and abuses. It is a common experience that a man whose tongue remains engaged in Zikr does not commit these absurdities. On the other hand, a tongue that is not busy in Zikr, falls an easy prey to all kinds of useless talk.
26) The gatherings of Zikr are the gatherings of angels, and gatherings without Zikr are gatherings of Satan. A person is free to have a choice between the two, and verily a man, by instinct, is drawn towards what suits to his temperament.
27) By virtue of Zikr, the Zâkir is blessed and also the person sitting by him. Similarly, the indolent person is accursed for his indolence and also the person sitting by him.
28) Zikr will save one from despair on the Day of Judgement. This is confirmed by one of the Ahâdith which says that the gathering devoid of Allah Ta'ala's Zikr will cause sorrow and losses on that Day.
29) If Zikr is accompanied by tears and loneliness, the Zâkir will be blessed under the shadow of Allah Ta'ala's Throne on the Day of Judgement when hearts will jump to lips due to agony of intolerable heat of that Day.
30) Those who remain busy in Zikr are better rewarded by Allah Ta'ala than those who remain busy in Dua (prayer) and supplication. According to one Hadith, Almighty Allah Ta'ala says that "I will reward one better who is engrossed in Zikr than the one who is busy in making Dua".
31) In spite of the fact that Zikr is the easiest form of worship (the movement of the tongue being easier than the movement of any other part of the body), All the same it is the most virtuous form.
32) Allah Ta'ala's Zikr helps the plants of Paradise to grow.
33) Of all the actions, the reward and forgiveness promised for Zikr is the highest. According to a Hadith, if on any day a person repeats the following words one hundred times:
لا اله إلا وحده لا شريك له له الملك و له الحمد و هو على كل شىء قدير
"There is none worthy of worship except Allah Ta'ala, the One. There is no partner with Him; His is the kingdom, and for Him is all praise, and He is All-powerful to do everything."
He is rewarded as much as for freeing ten slaves, and in addition one hundred virtues are written in his account and one hundred sins are forgiven. He remains protected against the devil throughout the day, and none is considered as having acted better than him except one who has recited the same words more often than he did. Similarly, there are many other Ahâdith proclaiming the superiority of Zikr over all other good deeds.
34) Due to incessant Zikr one does not forget his own soul. Forgetting one's soul leads to failure in both the worlds, because forgetting the remembrance of Allah Ta'ala leads to neglecting one's own soul and all its best interests. Allah Ta'ala says in His book:
وَلَا تَكُونُوا كَالَّذِينَ نَسُوا اللَّهَ فَأَنْسَاهُمْ أَنْفُسَهُمْ أُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْفَاسِقُونَ
"And be not ye as those who forgot Allah Ta'ala and therefore He caused them to forget their souls. Such are the evil-doers".(59:19)
Thus, when one forgets his own soul, he becomes careless and forgets his real interests, which leads to his ruin in the same way as a garden or field is invariably ruined when its owner fails to look after it. To remain protected from this ruin, one should keep his tongue always busy in Zikr to such an extent that it (zikr) becomes indispensable for him in such a way as water is for thirsty, food for hungry or a house and clothes for the needy. As a matter of fact, one should be more mindful towards Zikr than any of these material necessities which are a small loss if lost as compared with the spiritual death.
35) Zikr is the source of one's spiritual elevation whether one is engaged in it while in bed or in the market, in good health or in sickness, or even when one is enjoying most of the pleasures of life. Nothing but Zikr can take a man to such spiritual heights whereby his heart is so illuminated with the radiance of Zikr that even while asleep he is more wakeful than a neglectful person who is awake all the night.
36) The Noor (radiance) of Zikr remains with a person in his life as well as in his grave. It will guide him on the Sirât in the Hereafter. Almighty Allah Ta'ala says in the Quran:
أَوَمَنْ كَانَ مَيْتًا فَأَحْيَيْنَاهُ وَجَعَلْنَا لَهُ نُورًا يَمْشِي بِهِ فِي النَّاسِ كَمَنْ مَثَلُهُ فِي الظُّلُمَاتِ لَيْسَ بِخَارِجٍ مِنْهَا كَذَلِكَ زُيِّنَ لِلْكَافِرِينَ مَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ
"Can he who was dead and whom We gave life, and a light whereby he can walk among men, be like him who is in utter darkness whence he cannot emerge?" (6:122)
The one mentioned first is the faithful, who believes in Allah Ta'ala and shines with the light of His love, Zikr, and cognizance, while the second one is devoid of all these virtues. In reality this radiance is a great blessing and leads to perfect success. That is why Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) used to beg in prolonged prayers for it to circulate in every part of his body. As mentioned in Ahâdith, Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) prayed that Almighty Allah Ta'ala may bless his flesh, bones, muscles, hair skin, eyes and ears with Noor, and that he may be surrounded with Noor on all sides; he even prayed that he may be blessed with Noor from top to bottom, and that his whole person may be transmitted into Noor. One's deeds will shine according to the Noor in oneself so much that the good deeds of some people (while going to heaven) will shine like the Sun. Similar Noor will be found in their faces on the Day of Judgement.
37) Zikr is the basic principle of Tasawuf (Sufism) and is invoked in all the schools of Sufism. A person who gets conversant with Zikr enters the gateway of Almighty Allah Ta'ala, from Whom he will get whatever he wishes, for Allah Ta'ala's treasures are unlimited.
38) There is not a single corner in the heart of a man which cannot be filled but with Zikr. When Zikr controls the heart, not only does it fill up this corner but also leads the Zâkir to that kind of contentment which any amount of wealth would fail to produce. Such a person gets respect among people, which his family or party fails to bring about. He earns such a control over people that a sovereign would never dream of. On the other hand, disgrace descends over an indolent in spite of all his wealth and riches, party, strength and powers.
39) Zikr transforms distraction into concentration, remoteness into nearness. This means that one gets relieved of troubles, worries and fears, and is blessed with peace of mind. His mistakes and sins are forgiven, and the devils who are after him are dispersed away. It makes him to remember that the Hereafter is not far away, and the worldly life has little attraction for him.
40) Zikr does not allow one's heart to suffer from forgetfulness, which leads to ignoring one's ultimate interest.
41) Zikr is just like a tree whose fruit is realization of Almighty Allah Ta'ala. More a person engages himself in the Zikr, stronger shall grow the root of this tree and more abundant will it bear the fruits.
42) Zikr of Almighty Allah Ta'ala promotes nearness to Him and thereby one earns His constant patronage. It is mentioned in the Quran.
إِنَّ اللَّهَ مَعَ الَّذِينَ اتَّقَوْا وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ مُحْسِنُونَ
"For Allah Ta'ala is with those who restrain themselves and those who do good" (16:128)
It is stated in one Hadith:
ان مع عبدي ما ذكرني
"I am with my slave who remembers Me". (Bukhâri Sharief)
According to another Hadith, Allah Ta'ala says,
"Those who remember Me are My men, and I do not deprive them of My mercy. When they repent, I Am their friend, but when they do not repent. I Am their physician. I put them to worries to condone their sins."
The nearness to Allah Ta'ala that is developed due to excessive Zikr has no parallel. No words and no writing can describe this nearness. Its taste is known only to those who are blessed with it. (May Almighty Allah Ta'ala also bless me with the same).
43) Zikr of Allah Ta'ala is as meritorious as it is to liberate slaves, to spend in charity, and to perform Jihâd in the path of Allah Ta'ala.
(Many virtues of this kind have already been described and more will further be narrated in this book).
44) Zikr is the fundamental form of thanksgiving to Almighty Allah Ta'ala. One who does not perform Zikr cannot thank Him. It is stated in Hadith that Hadhrat Musa (AS) had asked Allah Ta'ala,
"O My Lord! You have done me countless favours, teach me the manner in which I should thank you befittingly."
Allah Ta'ala says:
"The more you perform Zikr, the more thanks you offer."
According to another Hadith, Hadhrat Musa u is reported to have said,
"O, Lord! how can I offer thanks worthy of Your greatness."
Allah Ta'ala replied:
"Let your tongue be always engaged in Zikr."
45) According to Allah Ta'ala, the best of the pious people are those who always remain busy in Zikr, because piety leads to paradise, and Zikr to the nearness to Allah Ta'ala.
46) There is a sort of hardness in the human heart which does not get softened by anything except Zikr.
47) In fact, Zikr is a remedy for all the ills of heart.
48) Zikr of Allah Ta'ala is the root of His love, and neglecting Zikr is the root of His enmity.
49) Nothing is more effective than Zikr in attracting Allah Ta'ala's blessings and in warding off His chastisement.
50) Almighty Allah Ta'ala grants His grace to those who perform Zikr, and the angels pray for them.
51) One who wants to remain in the gardens of Paradise, even in this life, should sit in gathering of Zikr, because these are like the gardens of Paradise.
52) Gatherings of Zikr are also the gatherings of angels.
53) In the presence of angels, Almighty Allah Ta'ala praises those who perform Zikr.
54) One who is constant in performing Zikr will enter Paradise in high spirits.
55) All good deeds are attained because of Zikr.
56) A good deed becomes superior to others of its kind because of Zikr. Of the fasts, the one with more Zikr is the best; Of the Hajj, one with excessive Zikr is more virtuous. Similar is the case with other good deeds like Jihâd etc.
57) Zikr is a substitute of Nafl Salâh and other non-obligatory devotions. It is related in one Hadith that the poor people once complained to Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) of the higher reward available to the rich because of their wealth.
They said, "These rich men offer prayers and fast just as we do, but they excel us by performing Umrah and Hajj, and by taking part in Jihâd on account of their wealth."
Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) replied: "Should I tell you something, so that none except one who practices it can excel you." He then advised them to recite:
سبحان الله - الحمد لله - الله اكبر
after every Salâh. (Bukhâri Sharief)
By this, Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) has indicated the importance of Zikr to be the substitute for various kinds of worship, like Umrah, Hajj, Jihâd etc.
58) Zikr is very helpful to all other forms of worship. Excessive Zikr creates love for various forms of worship and one starts taking delight in performing them and never feels bored or burdened.
59) Zikr is a solution to all the difficulties, and a good remedy for all kinds of misery. It lightens every burden, and relieves every affliction
60) Zikr dispels every fear of the heart It has a special hand in inducing peace of mind and for relieving the heart of its fear. To free the heart of its fears and mind of its perplexity is one of the specific qualities of Zikr. Therefore greater the amount of Zikr , greater is the freedom from fear.
61) By virtue of Zikr, one is blessed with the Divine help in all his doings. That is why sometimes a man achieves such distinctions which are beyond his capacity and he attains what evidently seems beyond his reach. Once Hadhrat Fatimah (RA) complained to Rasulullah's (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) of excessive fatigue due to grinding of wheat and other domestic drudgery. She requested that a 'domestic help' may be arranged for her. Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) advised her to recite 'Subhân Allah Ta'ala' and 'Alhamdu Lillah' each thirty three times and 'Allah Ta'alau Akbar' thirty four times. The Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) further said to her: "The recitation of these Kalimas is better for you than a servant". (Abu Dawood Sharief)
62) Those who are working for Hereafter are in a race, wherein the Zâkirs shall remain ahead of all on account of the Zikr. Umar Maula Ghufra (RA) says that 'on the Day of Judgement when people will be rewarded for their good deeds many will repent why they neglected Zikr when it was the easiest of all the good deeds and highest in reward. In a Hadith, Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) is quoted to have said:
"The Mufarrideen have surpassed all".
He was asked:
"Who were the Mufarrideen?"
The Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) replied:
"Those who toil hard for Zikr because it lightens their burdens". (Muslim Sharief)
63) Those who perform Zikr are deemed truthful by Almighty Allah Ta'ala and those who are testified as such by Almighty Allah Ta'ala will not be raised with the liars on the Day of Judgement. It is quoted on the authority of the Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) that when a man utters:
لا اله إلا الله و الله اكبر
Allah Ta'ala proclaims:
"My slave has spoken the truth, and nobody is worthy of Worship except 1, and I am the Greatest of all."
64) While being engaged in Zikr the angels remain busy in constructing houses in Paradise for the performers. When Zikr is stopped, the angels also stop construction of the houses. When asked why a particular construction was stopped by the angels, they reply, "The construction had to be stopped because funds for that were stopped. The fact is confirmed by a Hadith, which reads when a man recites seven times:
A tower is raised for him in the Paradise.
65) Zikr provides protection against the Hell fire. If, due to any misdeed a Zâkir deserves the Hell, his Zikr acts as defense against the Hell. The more his Zikr is, the stronger will be this defense.
66) The angels pray for the forgiveness of Zâkireen (those who are engaged in Zikr). It is related on the authority of Hadhrat Amr bin Aas (RA) that when a person says:
الحمد لله رب العالمين سبحان الله و بحمده
the angels pray to Almighty Allah Ta'ala for his forgiveness.
67) Any place whether a mountain or plain on which Zikr is recited, feels proud of it. According to a Hadith, one mountain asks another if any Zâkir has crossed over it during the day, if the reply is in the affirmative, it feels happy.
68) Zikr guarantees immunity from hypocrisy, for Almighty Allah Ta'ala has described the hypocrite as:
لا يذكرون الله إلا قليلا
They do not remember Allah Ta'ala except very rarely. It is also related on the authority of Ka'b Ahbâr (RA) that he who performs frequent Zikr of Allah Ta'ala is free from hypocrisy.
69) Compared with other good deeds, Zikr carries a special taste which is not found in any other action. Even if there were no other virtues of Zikr, this fine taste alone would have been a sufficient reward to justify it. Maalik bin Deenâr (RA) has said that nothing surpasses the taste of Zikr, which is the best and finest.
70) The faces of those who perform Zikr remain illume in this life, and will carry a special radiance in the Hereafter.
71) One who is frequently engaged in Zikr while sitting, standing, walking or in any other position, will find this earth testifying his act on the Day of Judgement. The day when the earth will throw out all that it knows. Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) asked his companions if they had any knowledge about what will that news. They expressed their ignorance. Then Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) said, "Whatever deed is done good or bad, by any man or woman on the face of the earth, it (the earth) will narrate everything with date, time and place". Hence, one who performs Zikr at whatever place he is will find number of witnesses in his favour.
72) As long as the tongue is busy in Zikr, it is saved from indulging in lies, backbiting or any other kind of evil talk. The tongue will engage itself in useless talk if it is not in Zikr. Same is the case with the heart; if it is devoid of the love for Almighty Allah Ta'ala, it will get filled with the love of worldly things.
73) The devils are outright enemies of man and always create trouble for him and keep him surrounded. The miserable condition of one who remains surrounded by enemies can well be imagined; especially when the enemies are vindictive and everyone of them wants to surpass the other in troubling him. Nothing except Zikr can protect him against these enemies. Many forms of Dua (prayer) are mentioned in the Ahâdith, so that, if any of these is recited by a person, then Satan dare not come near him. If the same is recited at the time of going to bed, one remains safe from Satan throughout the night.
Hafiz Ibn Qayyim (RA) has also mentioned many such Duas (prayers). In addition to these he has also mentioned in detail under six headings relative merits of Zikr as also some of the virtues, which are specific to Zikr alone. Then he has also given seventy five chapters of specific Duas (prayers), which are suited to specific times and occasions. For those blessed with determination to act, the virtues of Zikr detailed above are more than enough, and for those who are disinclined to act, thousands of such virtues would be of little avail.
(Taken from 'Instrument for Understanding Qur'an' by Dr Rafiq Ahmed)
Dr. Nadira Mehriban
Dept. Of Public Health


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Samuel Fuller Begins
by Martha P. Nochimson
The Steel Helmet
Eclipse Series 5, a box set of three DVDs, including I Shot Jesse James (B&W, 81 mins., 1949), The Baron of Arizona (B&W, 97 mins., 1950), and The Steel Helmet (B&W, 84 mins., 1951). A Criterion Collection release, www.criterionco.com, distributed by Image Entertainment, www.image-entertainment.com.
The Dark Page (1944)
by Samuel Fuller. Glasgow, UK: Kingly Reprieve, an imprint of Kingly Books, 2007. 227pp. Paperback: $18.95
Feeling homosocial? Sam Fuller is the director for you. Sam's the man who said, "If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamn garbage." Sorry Sam, I'll have to find another way of judging narrative value—and your films.
Truth be told, the titles for which Sam is most admired—The Naked Kiss, Pickup on South Street, and Shock Corridor—are deeply concerned with women, and not only as adjuncts to men who are facing inner and outer demons. Criterion's DVD collection of The First Films of Samuel Fuller, however, is pretty much a boys' club affair, and let us hope that the boys are not too precocious. For, although Fuller's first three films—I Shot Jesse James, The Baron of Arizona, and The Steel Helmet—contain some flashes of brilliance, what may be most interesting about them is the contrast they make with Fuller's 1944 novel, The Dark Page.
The Dark Page was published about the same time his first films were distributed, and has serendipitously made a reappearance, thanks to Kingly Reprieve Books, at about the same time that the Criterion box set hits the market. If longtime admirers of Fuller's oft-praised raw visual sense as a filmmaker dip into both the reissued novel and the newly released DVD collection, they will be astonished at how much more at home Fuller is in print than on screen, certainly at the beginning of his career, if not throughout. In The Dark Page, Fuller's capacity for marshaling sensuous details through verbal language, cultivated during his younger days as a yellow journalist, and his ability to convey a complex understanding of human nature, make an impressive show. The early films—not so much.
Certainly Fuller is more at home in The Dark Page than in his first film, I Shot Jesse James, in which, although he both wrote and directed it, Fuller had almost no control of either the sensory texture or point of view. This tepid Western attempts to wring a story out of the Wild West legend of Robert Ford's murder of Jesse James, by presenting the outlaw in the hackneyed form of a guy "with a heart, and a hand and a brain," who "took from the rich and gave to the poor." This portrait is one of the film's major problems, as it conflicts sharply with Fuller's actual opinion that the bandit king was the scum of the earth, revealed in interviews he gave long after he made the film.
As a result, apparently stuck with a demand from his producer that he make James an American populist hero, Fuller was unable to dramatize him (Reed Hadley) with the degenerate vitality he saw in his imagination and instead came up with a wooden character whose wife (Barbara Woodell) knows better than he does who his real friends are. Of course, all the film's real interest is invested in the guilt of the shooter, Robert Ford (John Ireland), as predicted in the title, but even that is hobbled by the lack of genuine feeling the audience has for the "dear" friend Ford betrays, to his endless remorse.
I Shot Jesse James is soggy with the kind of melodramatic pathos that was approved for family audiences but was neither to Fuller's taste nor a prefiguration of the kind of effect he later excelled in creating. The film strives doggedly for emotional effect as it dramatizes how Ford commits the murder with the very gun Jesse gave him as a present, in Jesse's own home, right after an intimate scene in which Ford washes Jesse's back as he bathes. And, as if Fuller hadn't sufficiently telegraphed his message of betrayal, he then shows Ford shooting Jesse in the back while he is straightening a picture of—isn't it touching?—his mother. There isn't an ounce of suspense or authentic feeling in the moment despite the thumping minor key music on the soundtrack and the reproachful look in the eyes of Jesse's wife, as she discovers that her worst fears about Ford have come true. Instead the scene leaves us with questions about how a woman with so much insight brought herself to marry Jesse James, whose naiveté is as cloying as it is unbelievable in a hardened outlaw. It screams for the kind of insight into desperate men that Fuller would show not long afterward in Pickup on South Street, in which Richard Widmark, the distillation of the Fullerian hero, wins us over as a guy pummeled by the hard knocks of the street; almost, but not quite, drained of the milk of human kindness. Chalk Jesse James up to the pressure of genre? Some may say it exceeds even the most sentimental extremes possible in the typical Hollywood Western.
Typical is the watchword of this film. All the characters in Jesse James are familiar stereotypes. There's the all-too-familiar Cynthy (Barbara Britten), the pretty, demitartish singer with a heart of gold, whom Ford adores enough to kill James for the immunity from prosecution it will buy him, and thus give Ford a future with his lady love. There's John Kelley (Preston Foster), another of Cynthy's admirers, a clone of that guy we've seen often enough in Westerns who is "man enough" to take the risks of a new territory without breaking the law and victimizing others to do it. Yeah, he's the one for Cynthy and she feels guilty knowing it. Probably most of the clichéd feel of the performances has to do with the inability of either Ireland or Foster to carry a film. But the moments when Fuller goes into high gear in this film—details to follow—suggest that it was Fuller's lack of experience that caused him to miss opportunities to use his actors better, even if they are from the industry B list. Moreover, the cinematic techniques Fuller uses are tired and dull, particularly his incessant recourse to montages of newspaper headlines propelled toward the viewer to tell the part of the story he doesn't want to dramatize. The sanitized folksong, the lyrics of which I have quoted above, that memorializes the story of Ford and James takes its toll as a saccharine soundtrack ditty. With only a few exceptions, the lighting and cinematography are far too reminiscent of what would soon be familiar as the flat texture of television serials.
But all is not lost. In narrating Ford's progress toward martyrdom, Fuller also demonstrates an electrifying sense of the consequences of actions that goes far beyond the easy morality espoused by the Production Code Administration. Ford's situation, as imagined by Fuller, casts light on a strain in the American character which so single-mindedly pursues desire that all thoughts of repercussions vaporize in a puff of denial, only to haunt the victor mercilessly. When Cynthy's manager offers Ford a job as an actor, reenacting his murder of his best friend, Ford happily takes the deal, unable to foresee that he cannot relive that moment even once, let alone seven nights a week. But Fuller does not isolate Ford as the only fatally myopic violence addict. In depicting the avid eagerness of the people packing the theater to experience vicariously the death of Jesse James, Fuller also characterizes, with a savvy humor, the passive attraction ordinary people feel for the illusion of what I will call the "entitlement violence" that Ford has acted out.
Beyond these insightful scenes, just when it seems too late for the redemption of the pedestrian visuals of this film, Fuller serves up a cinematic triumph. In the final shots, he visualizes Ford's obsessions by covering with darkness the classic Western shootout over Cynthy in which Ford is killed by Kelley, even though the fight takes place during the day. The final close-up, in which Cynthy cradles the dying Ford, beautifully picks out their heads in a small pool of light within a deep blackness that represents more the murky state of his love for her than a naturalistic evocation of the chiaroscuro of light and dark on the street on which he lies. Indeed the very last frame is a marvelously composed, almost abstract image of the back of Cynthy's head as she bends over Ford in sorrow, leaving them both faceless and yet indelibly etched at the same time.
That said, comparisons that can be made between Jesse James (as well as The Baron of Arizona and The Steel Helmet) and The Dark Page generally work in favor of the book. If Fuller had some feel for the erotics of violence that possessed Robert Ford, in none of these first three films does he have in his blood the sense of place that he has for the grit of the New York streets in The Dark Page. The novel, which Fuller's mother sold to a publisher while her son was fighting during World War II, grows organically from Fuller's experiences as a newsman. It transports the reader to a time and place, the Thirties in The Big Apple, so effectively that one can virtually feel and smell the city's meanest of mean streets and its down-at-heel beer-perfumed bars. The effect is, of course, in the accretion of details, not in just one evocative paragraph, but the following serves up a slice of the texture of the novel: "South Street was quiet. A moon was coming up and he could smell fish and the river. Waterfront factories were quiet and dark. He passed an old woman poking around in the garbage near one of the markets; a cat gnawing at a hunk of refuse. He saw the stern light of a tug hauling a line of loaded barges. He paused in front of a big plate glass window upon which was crudely painted Keenes." There is nothing remotely resembling this texture in the studio sets for Jesses James or the even less vivid, almost amateurishly sterile sets of his next film, The Baron of Arizona, though there is a respectable recreation of felt atmosphere in his third cinematic effort, The Steel Helmet, born of Fuller's indelibly etched war experiences.
Fuller's 1944 novel is an oedipal story of an experienced newspaper editor, Carl Chapman, and his protégé, a feisty reporter named Lance McCleary. Narrated in the third person, in some chapters from Chapman's point of view and in others from McCleary's, it explores Chapman's management of McCleary's investigation into a murder that, unbeknownst to the younger man, was committed by Chapman himself. Chapman's jaded ruthlessness is complicated by the remnants of his youthful fervor as a reporter which, until it is too late, impel him to let the intrepid McCleary gather the information that will doom the older man. McCleary's eagerness to solve the mystery is frustrated by the pressures of the economics of journalism, with their demand for sales rather than truth. No longer limited by the constraints of his actors, Fuller creates compelling characters free from central-casting clichés, and animates their stories with expressions and textures he almost never achieved with a camera.
Oscillating between Chapman's and Lance's vividly drawn opposing desires, Fuller seamlessly feeds his reader necessary expository information, all the while placing his adversaries within the context of a living, breathing New York City. In doing so, Fuller creates an admirable psychological and social complexity. In his novel, though not in most of his films, Fuller anticipates by decades the advent of popular entertainments with multiple points of view. As we avidly accompany Lance toward enlightenment, we root for him to find the clues he seeks, while, moving into Chapman's head, we are privy to the clever false trails and dead ends into which he steers Lance. Between the two experiences, an intricate moral and intellectual perspective emerges that allows us to embrace the tensions between disparate choices made by men in an America emerging from the Great Depression, as well as to explore our own ethical sensibilities.
Fuller never made The Dark Page into a film, but he did sell it to Columbia, which filmed it under the title, Scandal Sheet (dir. Phil Karlson, 1952), three years after Fuller made Jesse James. It's an entertaining thriller with some good film noir flavor, but it never rises to the psychological intensity of Fuller's novel, nor does it come close to the specificity of place Fuller achieved on the printed page. At this point in Fuller's career, however, there is no reason to believe that he would have had much more success than Karlson at moving the story from page to screen. Perhaps Fuller wouldn't have opted to use panoramic views of the majestic, sunlit New York skyline as movie shorthand for the story's location, a vocabulary that directly undercuts the unrelievedly seedy, claustrophobic Manhattan topography that defines the novel. But it's unlikely that Fuller would have escaped the Hollywood casting clichés that, in Scandal Sheet, replaced his red-headed, New Yorkish, Ichabod Crane-like Lance McCleary with dark, pretty boy John Derek and a mid-American media dialect that denies the role of place in speech patterns. Similarly, studio pressures replaced Fuller's short, equally New Yorkish, Napoleonic Chapman with thuggish Broderick Crawford with his Hollywood trained diction.
Such problems—characters scrubbed of any specificity, and banal movie shorthand for identifying place—are only a part of the disappointments of Fuller's second film, The Baron of Arizona, also based loosely on a legendary American figure, James Addison Reavis, who, by forging land grant documents, attempted to scam the United States government out of most of what is now the state of Arizona. With a leaden cast headed by Vincent Price as Reavis, Arizona has even less psychological and physical texture than Jesse James, even though the cinematographer was James Wong Howe. Filled with standard-order southwestern shanties and cartoon-like reproductions of monasteries and haciendas, this Arizona has no existence as a landscape, a historical site, or a cultural system. What is worse, it doesn't even manage to rise to the level of an exciting and entertaining generic tale of a rogue. Fuller uses expository techniques so thuddingly ponderous that, anachronistically speaking, at times the narrative seems to have been constructed by someone trained to write instruction manuals for DVD players.
The film begins in a men's club, where central casting's idea of bewhiskered, prosperous old patriarchs obligingly ask government agent John Griff (Reed Hadley) questions that will allow him to dole out expository information about "a real lover of Arizona… my friend James Addison Reavis." When one of the pompous white-haired patricians asks in a hushed voice, "You mean the man who called himself the Baron of Arizona?," a neon sign starts blinking, "Exposition, exposition, exposition." And sure enough, right on cue the film lurches into a flashback that tediously follows Reavis's rise and fall, never missing an opportunity to use Griff's voice-over to make connections that are already as obvious as an infected case of acne. (One interesting Fuller intertextuality: he repeatedly uses the name Griff, as both a first and last name, in a number of his films, including Pickup on South Street, The Naked Kiss, and The Big Red One.)
Laying it on with a trowel, Fuller gives us our first view of Vincent Price as Reavis during a rainstorm, punctuating his words with a peal of thunder. Pounding music takes on the burden of emphasis when the rain stops. Reavis's plot depends on his ability to marry a woman of Hispanic heritage whom he can establish as the rightful owner of Arizona by forging old Spanish land grant documents, once he creates a suitable past for her. Reavis begins by inventing the necessary pedigree for a downtrodden, hungry little peasant girl called Sophia (Karen Kester), an orphan whom he recreates as the heir to the de Peralta family, the supposed inheritors of the Arizona land grant. He then buys the newly baptized Sophia de Peralta an education that will transform her into a "real" Spanish lady.
Once the education is set in motion, Reavis leaves Sophia to her teacher and goes off to masquerade as a monk so that he can alter the ancient land grant contract located in an Arizona monastery, moving on, when the deed is done, to Spain, where he seduces both a gypsy and an aristocratic floozy to complete the necessary forgeries. Fortunately for Reavis, the grown Sophia (Ellen Drew) is bedazzled by him, allowing Reavis to complete the second stage of his scheme, his marriage to her. But the infernal machine stops with the wedding ceremony. Reavis is unable to seduce the entire state, principally because Agent Griff punctures Reavis's impossible dream with a relentless repudiation of his lies.
Again, as in Jesse James, in what is mostly an otherwise dull, clichéd film, Fuller finds a kernel of searing truth. He depicts Reavis's mad adventure as part of a national, aggressive, sociopathic tendency not only to climb into self-created fantasies and live them as if they were real, but to impose them on an unwilling world, no matter what damage may result. The deeply rooted antidemocratic strain that Reavis's impulse represents, a danger to the United States then as now, is explicitly exposed by the angry small landowners who resist his efforts to swindle them. And even today Fuller's awkward speeches strike home; the antidemocratic self-created mythology of the present administration proves that the kind of hubris that motivated Reavis cannot be exposed often enough. The problem is that what could have been a great saga of outrageous obsession was absurdly executed. And, of course, Orson Welles had, with much greater artistry, realized a film on the same theme a decade earlier, with Citizen Kane. Then, too, by the end of the film, Fuller seems to have failed where the state of Arizona succeeded. Somewhere during the proceedings, he appears to have been seduced by the magnitude of Reavis's bold daring, and alienated from Reavis's victims.
Arizona ends with a formerly deluded Reavis realizing that the love of Sophia, a good woman, is more important than, well, Arizona. His transformation, contradicting history—Reavis was an unreconstructed grifter until the day he died—and psychology—through Reavis's absurdly precipitous turnaround—is more mendacious than the original scam. In the last analysis, Fuller enobles Reavis at the price of demonizing the working farmers he sought to cheat, by transforming the latter into a completely unsympathetic lynch mob in the penultimate scenes, a narrative turn that validates Reavis's contempt for ordinary people and will suggest to some that Fuller shared a generous helping of his protagonist's defects. It is one of the worst films I have ever seen.
Fuller was on stronger, if not strong enough, ground when he made his first war film, The Steel Helmet, which intriguingly and appropriately gives war a Twilight Zone-like frisson. Touted as the first American film to treat the Korean War, The Steel Helmet may also have the distinction of being the first to capture the disorienting experience of unprepared American troops in a land war in Asia. Produced by Fuller with his own money, The Steel Helmet certainly reveals more of Fuller's spirit, through expository technique and characterization vastly superior to those in Fuller's first two films. Here we get our first glimpse of the basis for Fuller's subsequent reputation as a cult film director. Helmet begins with an effective trompe l'oeil effect before proceeding to a suspenseful moment that visually sets the scene with an economy that was all too scarce in Fuller's first two pictures. The credits roll over a bullet-punctured steel helmet which seems to rest on the grass by itself. The helmet soon moves, however, revealing itself to be perched on the head of an American soldier, Sergeant "Iron Mike" Zack (Gene Evans), whose hands are tied behind him and who, like a wounded snake, struggles to shimmy to safer ground. The arrival of two bare feet belonging to a Korean child of no more than eleven years of age, Short Round (William Chun), who prods Zack's body with a rifle, invites fear for the shackled American. In a lightning quick reversal, the child cuts the soldier's bonds with a knife lying nearby, proclaiming, "South Korean!"
It isn't the sensational opening of The Naked Kiss, which begins in medias res as a half-naked Constance Towers beats a man into submission with her purse and then shucks her blonde wig, revealing that she is bald. But it does prefigure the wit and verve with which Fuller later went on to develop his movies. For an added kick, when Zack tells Short Round that he speaks more like a "dogface" than a "gook," the child says emphatically, "I am no gook; I am Korean." This too prefigures Fuller's unsentimental way of confronting troubling social issues head on, and his willingness, so uncharacteristic of the early postwar period in Hollywood, to complicate our feelings for his protagonists by giving them unattractive attitudes.
The best aspect of Helmet is how it communicates the experience of feeling constantly lost on the battlefield, unable to determine the loyalties of the strangers one meets in the mists that befog everyone's path, and forever losing whatever comrades one encounters. The worst aspect is its unqualified hatred of the North Koreans (Fuller, of course, was notoriously anticommunist) and its man-crush on gruff, pragmatic, uneducated, battle-hardened, but secretly soft-hearted, Zack, Fuller's idea of the perfect soldier and, perhaps, the perfect man. Like Lee Marvin's Sergeant thirty years later in Fuller's The Big Red One, Zack, combining luck with cool shrewdness, makes war, for all its exposed confusion and cruelty, into a game that can be won by the right man. In this way, Fuller, who has no particular love for the countries that wage armed conflict but great admiration for individuals who can endure its insanity, caters to the illusions we all want to believe in and, inadvertently, carries on the "glory of war" tradition of the mass media.
As he made more pictures, it became increasingly clear that the battlefield was Fuller's key metaphor for life. So fully was Fuller committed to the need for an immediately reactive defensive stance in a world filled with danger that he often fell into an unattractive anti-intellectual bias and a near contempt for the contemplative nuances of art and culture. It's not by coincidence that Zack, an early model of this kind of machismo, a less grotesque Stanley Kowalski taken seriously as a heroic figure, emerged in Fuller's first war film. The context of the Korean War allows Fuller to create a survivor who validates the Fullerism that it's better (and much safer) to be a boor. Ditch the sacred and take the profane.
A telling and early example of the film's admiration for Zack's defensive rejection of "the frills" of humane practices occurs with the discovery of the body of a dead American, and the insistence of college-trained Lieutenant Driscoll (Steve Brodie) that one of the soldiers retrieve the dead man's dog tags. Speaking with his mouth full of the melon he and his compatriots have found on the road, the juice running down his chin, Zack grunts, "Look, lieutenant, don't let your emotions get the best of you. That man is nothing but a corpse. Nobody cares who he is now." The lieutenant is disgusted by Zack's attitude, but the soldier who goes for the tags is killed when the booby-trapped American's body explodes. Sergeant Zack's adaptation to a norm of violence marks the superior man.
Fuller's embrace in Helmet of violence as not only the rule of life but as a thing of beauty is evident in the brilliance of his shot compositions and camera technique when Zack and his cohort ferret out a simplistically characterized and vicious North Korean "commie" major hiding in the Buddhist temple in which they take cover, and during the combat sequence at the end of the film when the cut is made between survivors and victims. The battle scenes are ravishing. Moreover, Fuller finds nobility in Zack's inability to express emotion other than through violence. When little Short Round is killed by a North Korean sniper outside the temple, Zack, through what is obviously a great deal of sorrow, says only that it was the "kid's fault." For being careless? Vulnerable? It goes unspecified. But when the captured North Korean ridicules a note found subsequently from Short Round asking Buddha to make "Sergeant Zack like me," Zack kills his prisoner of war for his insult to Short Round's memory, even though he is an important prisoner who would have earned the motley group of soldiers a reward from the army. Such is the love song of Fuller's noble savage.
Unsurprisingly, it is neither the idealists nor the cream of American society that live to tell the tale of that day, but the social outcasts, the different ones, including Zack, a black medic (James Edwards) who has inured himself to risking his life in an Asian land war for a country that discriminates against him at home, a Japanese-American (Richard Loo) whose family was in an internment camp during World War II (Fuller's praiseworthy reference to an American shame few at the time cared to acknowledge), and an oddball white Southern soldier (Richard Monahan) who has been cruelly marginalized because of his premature baldness.
Needless to say, the educated Lieutenant and the conscientious objector in the group do not make it, although in the end they acquit themselves with what Fuller acknowledges as courage. The film concludes with the war-weary soldiers trudging off to fight another time. This indeterminate closure is, in some ways, a realistic and even innovative terminus for a war story. But the unending battle scenario also has the unfortunate overtones of a parable of life that defends the know-nothing biases of an American mass audience which, confronted with a choice between the nuanced, long-range thinking of an educated man and the sharp decisiveness of an ignoramus who has no options but the preprogrammed dogma rolling around his empty head, will choose the latter every time.
The First Films of Samuel Fuller is distributed as part of Criterion's Eclipse series, which seeks to make available "affordable," "simple" versions of "lost, forgotten, or overshadowed classics." In keeping with this goal, the boxed set of Fuller's first films provides no commentary tracks, interviews, or documents for any of the three films. The notes on the case covers are more adulatory than informative, but they do include a useful list of credits. The collection is likely to interest Fuller aficionadoes and those curious about the construction of masculinity in American culture. For my part, I was more engaged by The Dark Page as "the road not taken" by Fuller. Equally absorbed by manhood, it creates more vibrant, freewheeling characters than Fuller's first films and connects male aggression, entitlement, and ego to the social fabric of America in a much more nuanced manner. The novel brought me into the patriarchal mysteries of combat and conquest more fully than any of Fuller's films, although I enjoy seeing Pickup on South Street and The Naked Kiss as much as I like reading The Dark Page—even if biology prohibits me from giving Sam the salute of appreciation he cherished most.
Martha P. Nochimson, a Cineaste Associate, is the author of The Passion of David Lynch: Wild at Heart in Hollywood and, most recently, Dying to Belong: Gangster Movies in Hong Kong and Hollywood.
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This assurance was given on Wednesday by the General Manager of the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), Abimbola Akinajo while addressing officials of the Office of Transformation, Creativity and Innovation (Office of Head of Service).
She said: "These two lines will change the transport landscape of Lagos when operational. We have a transport master plan, which speaks to the vision of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on transportation.
LAMATA MD, Mrs Abimbola Akinajo
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2018-2019 Off the Glass Breakout Players Series: Domantas Sabonis
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In today's space-and-pace NBA, few players exemplify the modern big man like Indiana's Domantas Sabonis. He's an imposing 6'10", but can pass and shoot like a wing. And best of all, he's just getting started.
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Petter the Flying Norwegian
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As Rallycross is gaining popularity and support also from FIA, the one man that is the face of this series is the flying Norwegian Petter Solberg. Petter debuted in the World Rally Championship in 1998 and was signed by the Ford factory team in 1999. The following year, Solberg started his successful partnership with the Subaru World Rally Team. Following Subaru's withdrawal from WRC at the end of the 08 season, Petter secured private backing to start the Petter Solberg World Rally Team and continued to compete in WRC with Citroen. He switched to Rallycross after the 2012 season and in 2014 became the inaugural winner of the FIA World Rallycross Championship with five race wins and nine podiums finishes. He repeated his title in 2015. Racing begins with four qualifying heats in which each of the 4 series there are smaller races containing 3 to 5 cars. The driver with the fastest overall race time is the qualifying winner and advances to the next heat. The two Semi-Finals consist of a six cars battle and are run over 6 laps. The top three drivers in each of the semi-final move into the final round which determines the overall event winner. If you have not seen a Rallycross event you're missing out, it's fast, furious and very entertaining.
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Ben Dawson's in-form youngsters travel to Ilkeston's New Manor Ground in the Premier League Cup, knowing that victory could see them take a big step towards reaching the knockout stages of the competition.
United are second in Group H, level on points with leaders Southampton, having won two and drawn one of their games so far.
One of those victories came against Notts County at Whitley Park in October, with Elias Sørensen and Cal Roberts on target for Newcastle, while Dawson's side also beat County's first team 2-0 at Meadow Lane in the Checkatrade Trophy that month with the same two players on target.
Sørensen has been on international duty with Denmark under-21s - he scored in both games against Mexico - and Roberts could be involved in Saturday's Emirates FA Cup tie against Watford, so it remains to be seen if either player will feature on Tuesday.
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Bergen - F. Eileen "Tally" Almquist, 88, of Bergen, died Thursday, (August 2, 2012) at Strong Memorial Hospital, in Rochester. Mrs. Almquist was born February 23, 1924 in Kiowa County, CO, a daughter of the late Freeman and Leo Hazel (Eyestone) Talbot. Eileen worked as a welder's assistant, helping to build ships during WWII in Oregon and later became a school teacher in Nebraska. She also worked in the Weather Bureau in Nebraska before relocating to Bergen in 1956. She retired in 1983 as director of the Byron Bergen Library; was the Bergen Village Historian; member of the Triangle Club, Bergen Business and Civic Association, Bergen Historical Society, Republican Women's Club, league of Woman Voters and Historians of Genesee County. Mrs. Almquist was also a correspondent for the Daily News for many years. Tally was the wife of the late Earl V. Almquist who passed away in 1998. Survivors include five children, Vickie Almquist of Bergen; Joel Almquist of Boston, MA; Dr. Robert (Dr. Perry) Almquist of Charlotte, NC; Eric (Jill) Almquist of Staten Island; and Rebecca (Peter) Quartieri of Brockport. Her grandsons, David, Ryan, Conor, Alex, Will, and Tyler Almquist also survive. Mrs. Almquist is preceded in death by her sisters, Audrey McGolden and Ramona Sherman. Friends may call on Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. at the H.E. Turner & Co. Funeral Home, 51 South Lake Street, Bergen. Tally's Memorial Service will be held on Monday at 1 p.m. at the Bergen First Presbyterian Church, 38 South Lake St., Bergen. Memorials may be made to Byron - Bergen Public Library, P.O. Box 430, Bergen, NY 14416. Burial will be in Mt. Rest Cemetery, Bergen.
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In the first day of qualifying round action at the FIBA Europe U18 European Championship for Women Division A, France and Turkey from Group E have secured a place in the quarter-final.
In the relegation Group Belgium hold off Poland (49-43) while the Czech Republic beat hosts Romania (85-73).
Olivia Epoupa was in fine form for France in their victory against Greece (64-42). She scored 10 points, dished out 5 assists and pulled down 8 rebounds.
France took hold of the game early and never trailed in this match. With a double-digit advantage (19-9) by the end of the first quarter, France were able to rotate players frequently for the remaining three quarters.
Mamignan Touré from France was the leading scorer of this match with 16 points while Styliani Fouraki was the only player in double digits for Greece with 12 points.
Turkey were pushed all the way by Sweden and had to work hard for their (60-58) victory. Pelin Bilgic who led the way with 21 points put Turkey in front for good with 55 seconds to play.
In the final game from Group E, Spain rolled over Russia (92-66). Leticia Romero with 17 points and 5 steals was the best player for Spain.
You can watch the highlights video from Day 4 which shows Group E match Turkey vs. Sweden and all the games from Group F.
Group F has been blown wide open with the Netherlands and Italy suffering defeats.
The Netherlands could not cope with the heat and allowed a 14-point advantage (46-32) from the third quarter against Slovenia evaporate. Slovenia did not panic in the final quarter and ran over the Netherlands 20-5 to win the match (57-51). Alina Gjerkes was the game leading scorer with 12 points while Laura Cornelius finished with 11 points for the Netherlands.
The Slovak Republic snapped their two-game losing streak with an important victory against Italy (59-54). Terézia Páleníková was everywhere for the Slovak Republic scoring 14 points, dishing out 3 assists and making 3 steals.
Serbia put together a 21-7 third-quarter run against Croatia which enabled them to win the match (75-63).
Aleksandra Stanacev's 19 points and 8 assists gave Serbia the edge in this match.
All six teams in Group F still have a chance of qualifying for the quarter-final.


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What is really happening with James Gunn. What did he joke about? Why should or shouldn't he get sacked? Do you support him? it seems like every cast member of Guardians of the Galaxy support him, but then who'd be that one person to say 'err . . . actually I think he should go'
Lyri
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He made a lot of jokes about peadophila and sexual assault. They were made over ten years ago and he has apologized for them in the past, when they first came to light.
I don't know if he should be fired, that's not for me to say or judge, but a lot of people have done and said worse and still have their job, and I would like to point out that apparently, the guy who went digging for these tweets and brought them to light, actually has a whole lot worse on his Twitter than James Gunn ever did.
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What was he doing when he made these jokes? Was he working for the same company and doing the same job? Anyone know any of these jokes - can you repeat them?
Ahm Shere
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I think he shouldn't have been fired considering that the jokes were made ten years ago, which he already apologised for. I believe he was truly sorry for what he'd written, and understands what he did was wrong.
Being from the UK, I'm not sure of the US justice system, but from what I understand, you can't even be tried from a crime that happened over ten years ago due to the Statute of Limitations...so why fire someone over something that happened over ten years ago? It just doesn't make sense to me.
As Lyri said, people have done much worse and still have their jobs. (See Roman Polanski, although he can't ever enter the US.)
So yes, I do believe he should be given his job back.
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Originally Posted by Priceless
He wasn't working for Disney back then.
DeepBlueJoy
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Someplace... usually.
So... last I looked saying bad stuff isn't usually a criminal matter.
That said, depends on WHAT he said as to what his future should be.
It also depends on who he is now. The strong support he's getting from cast and others involved in the project suggest that they cannot reconcile the person they know with whatever was said.
I think everyone has made a joke that could be shaded as inappropriate in some corner of the world. I am not defending him since i have no idea what he said. I am simply MULLING.
As a survivor of child sex abuse AKA rape, I am not fond of people joking about it. But I'm a person of a dark sort of humor and may well have said something funny/sick about it at some point. I made jokes when my life partner died... it's what he'd have wanted -- he was an aspiring stand up comedian -- it made me feel closer to him and helped me deal. I got some very odd reactions to my 'dead boyfriend jokes', however. Then again, they were a safety valve and I was joking as the injured party. Hard for others to be offended, though some probably were to a degree.
So jokes... come in different flavors. whether he gets the job back depends on whether he was (a) celebrating rape of children (b) blaming the victim or whether he was trying for ironic and simply lost the bubble. Jokes about complicated stuff often go wrong, even when told by sympathetic people. If he made a joke about a pedophile somehow getting away with things (again), he'd probably get a pass from me. If he demonstrates a patent disregard for victims... not so much. Content matters.
Context also matters... and part of context is who he was at that time in his life - and his age. We are seldom wise when you, and sometimes, when we're young and drunk we get extra stupid. It doesn't excuse it, but maybe it shouldn't follow him like a millstone forever either.
I dug up one of my college English papers once. It had a vigorous defense of a political stance I strongly oppose now. Don't remember why I wrote it, or even if that was what I believed then. But were I on the short track for the supreme court, that paper might be used as evidence for or against me. It is diametrically opposed to who I am today (and have been for a long time). Did I write it because I was supporting the opposing view, or as an exercise? No idea. Thirty years have passed.
I am against bad people getting away with bad things. I'm not so much for stupid youth leading to the destruction of someone's future when the harm they caused was somewhere between minimal and and nil. The internet often doesn't differentiate those well.
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I have only seen two of the so-called bad tweets, and I won't repeat them here. They are something that I do find disgusting and not something to joke about or even talk about, even in this kind of context. Also, I have heard that there were literally thousands of tweets of this inappropriate nature. That being said, the tweets I did see, they were more of a hypothetical nature. They weren't about anyone specific or aimed at any one person.
Whether or not that makes what he did better or worse is not for me to decide.
If these tweets are 10 years old, Gunn was 41 at the time, hardly a young man. I doubt it's personal growth that's made him change his views, and more about growth of his bank account But we all need a catalyst for change, so no judgement
TimeTravellingBunny
As far as I understand it, James Gunn's tweets at the time were a part of his persona when he worked for Troma Entertainment, an independent movie company specializing in gore, splatter and shock-humor, and directed movies for them like Tromeo and Juliet, which were in that vein. That artistic style and type of 'humor' doesn't seem like something I'd enjoy, but it was a well known part of his work at the time.
What's ridiculous about the whole thing is that this is absolutely nothing new. Disney must have been well aware of his previous work and style, and so was probably anyone in the public who ever followed his career (I did not, but even retroactively, it must be super easy to find that info, and I'm sure people who were following his career - and that probably includes those in Disney who decided to hire him or advised hiring him in the first place). Getting suddenly 'shocked' and 'outraged' at his bad tweets from 10 years ago is like getting 'outraged' by suddenly discovering that John Waters' movies are often offensive and in bad taste (because, duh, they were meant to be!).
It seems like it was all about Disney covering their behinds after a media campaign started by an alt-righter who was trying to find an easy target among anti-Trump celebrities and pull the "well they fired Rosanne Barr, why not him"? card. This article explains the context of this: https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...irector-tweets
In the meantime, the cast is fully supportive of Gunn: https://www.radiotimes.com/news/film...-karen-gillan/ We'll see if that will change things.
You keep waiting for the dust to settle and then you realize it; the dust is your life going on. If happy comes along - that weird unbearable delight that's actual happy - I think you have to grab it while you can. You take what you can get, 'cause it's here, and then...gone.
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Janes Gunn is now in talks to write/direct Suicide Squad 2. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
I've also read a view re the tweets from 10 years ago, and that if Gunn were a Republican/right wing, social media would be calling for his head, and it's only that he's Democrat/left wing, that people are defending him (on social media) and that's hypocrisy.
Really? Do you know any Republicans or right wing people who have recently been fired for tweets from 10 years ago that everyone knew about or could have known about all along?
It's funny that they are trying to claim that and using the word "hypocrisy", when the only reason he was targeted were his political views.
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Originally Posted by TimeTravellingBunny
Nope, I know no-one. But I'm not American, I'm only on social media, and I follow a lot of left-wing/(American) Democrats, who I usually agree with. But this James Gunn thing did seem a little hypocritical to me, and I do think that if he were a right-winger, the people I follow would have buried him by now
Maybe I should just follow different people
vampmogs
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It was the alt right who waged this campaign against Gunn in the first place. The same people who support the president despite his outrageous tweets over the years and despite the president boasting about committing sexual assault on tape. The same people who defended Ron Moore who was accused of *actually* assaulting minors. None of these people cared about Gunn's tweets , they just used it to score a "hit" against him for his political views.
Whilst I'm sure there's some hypocrisy by some people on the left the majority of democrats I interact with condemned Gunn and were happy to see him fired. However, it obviously makes a great deal of people uncomfortable that he was fired because of the campaign waged against him against the alt right who, really, didn't care about the content of his tweets at all but rather just used it to their advantage.
Gunn was fired for tweets he made 10 years ago which his employer new about at the time they hired him. He's paid for his mistakes. Meanwhile, Trump sits as president of the united states despite his tweets and despite being a sexual predator. I'd dare anyone to seriously argue that there's a double-standard against republicans...
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Originally Posted by vampmogs
You can say he's paid for his mistakes, I guess he has, by being fired. But now he's in talks with DC, and good luck to him. I have no animosity towards him at all. I don't care what his employers knew or didn't know about it. Roseanne Barr's employers knew about her racist views, and still employed her. I don't think we can look to massive conglomerates who simply want to make money, to tell us what is right and wrong in this world.
My argument is that the left defend James Gunn a lot (at least on twitter), but a lot of right wingers who do and say incredibly stupid and hurtful things are hammered by the left. I understand that the left and right support their own, I am just pointing out the hypocrisy of it. If the left cleaned house prior to attacking the right, the world would be a whole lot better of.
Trump is an insane monster created mostly by the media. But he got elected because Clinton was seen as too corrupt to appeal to the majority, and the other left candidates were, politically, too scary to get elected.
You obviously follow a different kind of democrat than myself. The people I follow are movie buffs, so perhaps their arguments aren't even political but based on a love of film
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I think the real difference is that Gunn's tweets were from 10 years ago. He acknowledged that they were wrong and he apologized - even before they were brought to light. It's not about his politics - it's about his acceptance of personal responsibility.
Roseanne Barr was hired even though her past was known. Hell, she appeared in a sketch as Hitler baking people shaped cookies in an oven. That was not why she was fired. After a rising flurry of offensive tweets - for which she apologized after each - she was fired for saying an aide of Obama - a black woman - was the child of an ape and the Muslim Brotherhood. Yes - sexist, racist, and islamaphobic as well as political. There's really no comparison between the two.
IMO, if someone die something stupid, acknowledges and apologizes they should get a pass. If it happens again is the real test.
Can we agree that the writers made everyone do and say everything with a thought to getting good ratings and being renewed. This includes everything we love as well as everything we hate.
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It's so hard to weigh in on a side without all the facts. Disney wants a wholesome image. I'm kind of okay with them letting someone go that they don't want representing their brand. Perhaps the real wrong here is they didn't investigate James gunn more before hiring him. Maybe they felt James misrepresented himself during hiring. Who is to really know?
Im with bespangeled that people should be given a pass for long ago offenses, especially if done when very young or when standards were different. I don't think kavanagh should have gotten the job, not so much because he was just another teenage miscreant but because he didn't have the balls to say he was sorry and that he would never condone that behavior now. Maybe as a middle aged father of two girls he will treat women better now But if he can't own his school year behavior which has been substantiated by some witnesses is there really any hope or reason to believe he's changed?
I like who I am when I'm with him. I like who we are together."
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Oh, the sad irony when the bar for a Supreme Court justice is lower than that of a Disney employee.
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Kavanaugh can't stand up and apologise because what he did is illegal and he would be arrested and charged, or at least I hope he would. He has to keep denying to keep himself out of prison or at least end up with a criminal record, and then no seat on the bench for him.
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2013-ban mutatkozott be a Wil másodosztályban szereplő felnőtt keretében. 2018-ban az első osztályú Thunhoz igazolt. 2020. szeptember 4-én hároméves szerződést kötött a St. Gallen együttesével. Először a 2020. szeptember 20-ai, Sion ellen 1–0-ra megnyert mérkőzésen lépett pályára. Első gólját 2021. január 20-án, a Vaduz ellen hazai pályán 2–0-ás győzelemmel zárult találkozón szerezte meg.

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Stillhart az U20-as és az U21-es korosztályú válogatottakban is képviselte Svájcot.

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