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* Ship of Fools (1965): Stanley Kramer now steers the camera for real as the director in addition to being producer, and he steers a cruise liner full of a cross-section of society across the Atlantic toward 1933 Germany. Written by Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg) from a novel by Katherine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools is a series of interlocked vignettes that travel the decks of the boat, showing the different levels of society, dissecting an international cast of characters. An Austrian anti-Semite philanderer (Jose Ferrer) rubs elbows with a deposed Spanish contessa (Simone Signoret), an alcoholic ex-baseball player (Lee Marvin), an idealistic but naïve painter (George Segal), a lonely middle-aged woman (Vivien Leigh), and many others. Each has their own shortcomings, usually enflamed by their shortsightedness, and putting them together, trapping them in one space for a specific period of time, only serves to call more attention to what ails them. Only two people are conscious of the humanity around them. The ship's doctor (Oskar Werner) is aware of the failings of others, and it makes him despair of his inability to exact change, causing him to pay the ultimate price. With him is the dwarf (Michael Dunn), the narrator who speaks to the audience on either side of the cruise. Being below most people's sight lines gives him a unique perspective, and the film being made in 1965 also allows Stanley Kramer to imbue the story with a sense of prescience for what is to come. The human tragedy that is only years away plays out on the ship. All the bad ideas, all of the selfishness, and all of the denial is right there for our viewing pleasure, and most of us may be disheartened to find ourselves somewhere in the population of the Ship of Fools. It may feel a little tidy or preachy today, but its truth holds strong.
I wonder how, I wonder why
Yesterday you told me about the blue, blue sky
And all that I can see is just another lemon tree
And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon tree
And I wonder, wonder
Not sure how many of you remember a song called yellow lemon tree by Fools Garden. When I was a little kid , this was my number one song along with Run Away by real McCoy , which I listened to in loops numerous times !
EXIF | EOS 450D | Canon 55-250mm | 163mm | F10 | 1/400sec | ISO 200 |
i've become somewhat of a recluse these days. when friends do see me, they ask: "how are you?" but before i say a word, they quickly follow with "you look good, you look good!"
on the one hand, i know this is meant to cheer me up; it's a way for them to express care, offer a little bit of tlc by way of complimenting my appearance.
on the other hand:
... what a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away
what seems to be, is always better than nothing ...
i know they just don't want to know what's really going on, let alone believe i'm anything other than "lookin' good"!
don't get me wrong, i never intend to put up any sort of false front. my masks are flimsy, sometimes for whimsy, rarely for deception or protection. but if i wear them, all too often it's more for the sake of others, not my own.
i don't feel like i'm making sense; i'm confused; a genuine smile, and yet i was feeling so sad, angry, lost, frustrated, scared.
you know, i think i took these shots just because i had some free time, and i liked the way my hair looked. how feeble, how sorry is that?
Did anyone else have fun with Flickr's little trick today? I probably spent way too much time fooling around with it. This is one of my favorite results. I posted more at on my blog .
World Premiere of the motion picture Fools' Parade at the Court Theatre, June 17, 1971.
- From the Thomas Burns Fools' Parade Collection of the Ohio County Public Library Archives.
▶ Read more the making of Fools' Parade in Moundsville
▶ Visit the Library's Wheeling History website
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