Your questions about what characters

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For me, what makes a masterpiece is when all those elements you talk about are used in right in order to tell a good story. When the actors are good, the plot is great – it can be something quite simple but told in a great way: which brings us to the use of the camera angles, the use of color, etc. If those tools are used in a good way (like Orson Welles does in Citizen Kane or Terrence Malick does in The Thin Red Line or Michael Powell with the color in The Red Shoes) well it can make an excellent film and those are the things that make you [the audience] like it.

I like Chaplin because of his kind of humor, I like the Coens because of their caracters, the way they tell their stories, their sense of humour too and because they combine genres in a way that works and that isn’t extreme like “From dusk till dawn” for example (going from crime to zombies….), I like Tarkovski or Bergman because it’s a different kind of storytelling. It’s slow, it’s introspective.
But I like it when they mix something minimalist with epic like The Deer Hunter or The Thin Red Line…

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Actual Video of explosions and real death is liberal propaganda??
WTF?

I would love to see more good news out of Iraq.

The first answer makes me sick.

Wize Guy answers:

Adolf
Ryan
Taylor
Zane
Enrique
Eric
John

Wize Guy answers:

I think these are two separate thoughts. I believe that strong character comes from having good examples as a child. If one grows up with examples of good character and sees how those people are respected, then one learns to admire those people. I know of no-body who would not prefer to be respected and admired. Being feared is simply a shortcut to a false respect and admiration which confuses some people. To be known to have strong character allows one to walk with their head held high and to have a genuine well deserved pride as opposed to being feared and know that one day the past will catch up to a person. being feared causes a person to live in fear of the past and that is not as advantageous as being respected.

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger only if you are a person of character, otherwise you will simply find a way around a hardship and let someone else deal with it if necessary.

As for the hottest fire making the the strongest metal being applied to life. This is true only of those of strong character. A person of strong character may look at a hardship and say that it is not so bad because they have experienced prior hardships and they can derive pride of ownership in their life by conducting themselves in an honorable manner. Hardships give a person of strong character a chance to both demonstrate and display their character because it gives them a chance to realize the benefit of their character.

A person of less character may cave in in a time of hardship and take the easy way out whether it be doing a job in an unsatisfactory manner, selling out a friend, failing to repay a debt or any one of an endless number of ways a person could demonstrate themselves as a failure. This caving in causes a person to know themselves as a failure and present them self as a failure. It also causes them to become known and treated as something less than a person of character.

I guess my point is that, tome, it seems that when a person applies the saying to life it turns out that the hottest fire gives a person an opportunity to show what kind of character they have.