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Cool Hand Luke
1967 · Film · 127 min
Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
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an into a YouTube short testing how to cut down steel poles quickly yesterday, with battery powered tools. Sawzall, 1m 15s, circular saw 1m, circular saw like 20s.
Manual pole cutters have existed for at least 100 years. No batteries. Almost zero noise.
You put one on the pole, walk around the pole once, and it's cut. They were used a lot in the 1970's when people were rebelling against parking meters.
I believe it's part of the opening scene of the film Cool Hand Luke.
It’s time for a refilm of the Paul Newman movie Cool Hand Luke but in this version he is cutting off the poles that support the fluke cameras.
Cool Hand Luke, which I prefer, has its protagonist sentenced to a work camp for an absurd crime.
A more recent prison movie which made me feel similarly to Cool Hand Luke and Shawshank Redemption while watching it is "I Love You Phillip Morris" (starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor).
Systemantics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics :
> The term systemantics is a commentary on prior work by Alfred Korzybski called general semantics which conjectured that all systems failures could be attributed to a single root cause – a failure to communicate
Which character says "what we have here is a failure to communicate?" in the film 'Cool Hand Luke'?
It looks like the full OT quote has another sentence:
> A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.
Is this why we are encouraged to write a test, ensure that it doesn't pass yet by running it, write code to make the test pass, ensure that there are sufficient tests and that they all pass, and only then commit to a pull request branch, so that the centralized build runner will verify that all of the tests pass before code is merged onto the release branch?
Not disagreeing with the economics behind it, but this movie-goer walked away decades ago when the "super hero" genre became Hollywood's focus.
Even before that though otherwise decent movies were starting to play heavy handed and treating their audiences for children that need lecturing — need "The Moral of the Story" spelled out for them. I disliked the "book-ending" that was popular when Titanic, Saving Private Ryan (and even Schindler's List) were released.
Music in film too has, for some time now, been telling us how to feel much too often. In romps or swashbuckling films it's probably an expected part of the genre. I just wish there were more quiet films where we are left to feel for ourselves.
Billy's death in The Last Picture Show (and as metaphor for the death of the town) is an excellent example of old-school film making where you just let the film do the talking. And then it is us, the viewers, who are left talking about it, thinking about it afterward.
Maybe the biggest tragedy of heavy-handed film making is it leaves nothing to really even ponder afterward. I kind of like films that leave you thinking about them much, much later.
While I remember seeing great films like Cool Hand Luke, Summer of '42 and The Last Picture Show, working through the "1001 Movies to See Before You Die" has been a real eye-opener to how much film can be art and how far we fallen from anything close to that.
Perhaps we'll get another "New Wave" of young filmmakers to break the corporate log-jam.
If I was ever stupid enough to commit a crime worthy of prison, I would want to have an active, outside job. Example: cleaning up old cemeteries, repairing park trails, working in a recycle facilities... I realize there's the possibility of liability, and yes, I have seen the movie "Cool Hand Luke", but non-activity is almost inhuman. Punishment is essential, but common sense must prevail.
I once saw this documentary where a guy ate 50 in an hour.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Hand_Luke
I believe he's wondering if your username is a reference to Cool Hand Luke.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061512/
I'm going to recommend watching Cool Hand Luke. While many folks love being rebels as they are youngsters, there is a cost to being "cool".
What is it with the long history treating inmates poorly in the south?
See: Cool Hand Luke http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061512/
>what we've got here is faiiiiilure to communicate!
>From Guns'n'Roses civial war song, in my opinion, ...
Sorry, but the Guns'n'Roses got it from the movie "Cool Hand Luke".
[1967 - The phrase is first used in the motion picture Cool Hand Luke, delivered by actor Strother Martin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_we've_got_here_is_failure_to_communicate)