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Since solar time depends on the longitude, solar noon occurs at exactly the same moment in all locations that share your local meridian. When Is Solar Noon? The three documentaries are decent too. ‘Behind High Noon’ and ‘Inside High Noon’ have a few too many family members contributing for my liking. I always find that practise odd as the children/spouses were rarely involved in the film in question other than perhaps visiting the set briefly, though some of them here are quite strong collaborators. Foreman’s son offers some interesting insights for instance. The longer ‘Inside High Noon’ is a decent featurette though that goes into reasonable depth about the film’s production and reception.
However this is all dreamland while Tories & Labour need to ‘other’ SNP (& Scotland)to appeal to voters in England.It is important for people to understand that their mainstream media is blinding them with a distorted, biased, twisted view of reality and events designed to cause the binary division that safeguards the protected interests of an elite few. I don’t wish my country to be a world leader in anything the UK (England) claims, or to be part of their neoliberal dream.
Then we can focus on the real change that the vast majority of our fellow citizens, civic organisations etc have already stated is required. The film can be read in numerous ways though. In fact, it has conservative/right-wing supporters as well as left-leaning ones. A number of American presidents have even cited the film as a personal favourite, including Bill Clinton (who crops up in the special features) and Ronald Reagan. It’s a testament to the strength of Foreman’s script that it’s rich enough to be interpreted in so many different ways. John W. Cunningham, the author of the original short story on which the screenplay is based should not be forgotten either.Davin Nugent, CEO of Mark Anthony Brands International, said: “we are delighted to launch White Claw Hard Seltzer in the UK, the brand’s first market outside of North America.
The narrative that many on the unionist side nurture is that their identity is British and that they feel threatened by that changing at all. Struggling to find a coherent positive case for the union the debate is often thereby reduced to ‘hurt feelings’ or talk of ‘divisiveness’. Somehow, for some people Britain and ‘Britishness’ is the most important thing in the world. It’s inconceivable for them to imagine the world without this status. The love of our country seems, in ordinary cases, to involve in it two different principles; first, a certain respect and reverence for that constitution or form of government which is actually established; and secondly, an earnest desire to render the condition of our fellow-citizens as safe, respectable, and happy as we can. He is not a citizen who is not disposed to respect the laws and to obey the civil magistrate; and he is certainly not a good citizen who does not wish to promote, by every means in his power, the welfare of the whole society of his fellow-citizens. Apparently, Cooper, who was an A-list star throughout the 1940s, liked the script so much he’d agreed to take half his usual salary. He’d just turned 50 and wasn’t in great shape, so knew his days of playing Hollywood heartthrobs were over. What attracted him to the script, besides its atypical take on the genre, was Kane’s minimal dialogue. He saw an opportunity to emote only through facial expressions and body language and showcase his character-acting skills. The current situation with the Conservative Party can be characterized as the two candidates talking to the party membership rather than the wider electorate, and that once elected some sort of Tory Party sanity will return. This might be so. But, their commitments during the leadership debate are still going to be expected to be acted on once in Downing Street. Moreover, the direction of travel of the Conservative Party with regards not just to independence, another referendum and even devolution itself is pretty clear – it is an attitude of pretty unrelenting hostility which seeks “co-operation” of a “do as we tell you” kind, supplemented by undermining devolution as necessary (eg Internal Market Act), and the possible end point of repeal of the Scotland Act.The film also reportedly had a poor test screening. One belief was that there was originally wall-to-wall music that didn’t go down well and the use of ‘Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin’ throughout the film wasn’t popular. That changed after the song was released as a single and became a hit though. Some changes were made to the film after the screening too, but it’s unclear exactly what was changed. Lots of people have claimed responsibility for ‘saving it’. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four of them: ‘Best Actor in a Leading Role’ went to Gary Cooper, Elmo Williams and Harry W. Gerstad shared ‘Best Film Editing’, Dimitri Tiomkin won two statuettes, the first for ‘Best Score’ and another for ‘Best Song’ (which he shared with Ned Washington for “The Ballad of High Noon”, a.k.a “Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'”.) It’s rather telling that the remaining three nominations were ‘Best Director’, ‘Best Picture’, and ‘Best Screenplay’, which would’ve gone to director Fred Zinnemann, producer Stanley Kramer, and writer Carl Foreman, respectively. Perhaps their recent run-ins with HUAC had impacted their chances. Katy Jurado was the first Mexican actress to win a Golden Globe Award, for ‘Best Supporting Actress’ as Helen Ramírez, and another Golden Globe went to Floyd Crosby for his ‘Cinematography’. Its origin lies in the Latin word none, referring to the 9th hour after daybreak. Originally, it was used to denote the timing of a daily prayer or meal at 15:00 (3:00 pm), nine hours after 06:00 (6:00 am). In the 12th century, the prayer and meal were shifted to 12:00 (12:00 pm), while the term none remained the same, inspiring the use and timing of today's noon. As the Jesuits were the spearhead of cultural genocide in what is now Canada and elsewhere, boasting about their success in finally getting natives to beat their own children, were involved in the atrocities of child terrorising, torture, rape, imprisonment, psychological abuse, neglect and murder at Canada’s residential schools for indigenous populations, and worked hand-in-glove with British colonialists, surely we can and should discount the biased testimony of someone who allegedly could only see the mask of kindness until it was ripped away by innocent conversational topics? Also, Jesuits were trained to defend the indefensible using church-branded sophistry. Hardly the people you would turn to to ‘mastermind’ a secular political independence campaign.
I was living with these lovely Jesuits in Canada, these lovely men who were really, really sweet and kind and caring,” he recalls. “And as soon as you mention Quebec they turned and they became really kind of angry. It was almost quite visceral. And what that did for me — probably for the first time — was make me understand the other side of the experience. Maybe ‘wound’ is a slightly excessive word, but it had left a mark on them.” He comes across as a decent, intelligent, thoughtful man and some of his conclusions are undeniable, ie that to see the world in purely binary terms without considering the other sides views leads to being blind-sided and paralysed into a silo. The phrase ‘dead-certainty’ springs to mind. Compromise is key, he says. “In life you sometimes get 90 per cent of what you want and that’s good enough. And so for the independence movement, if we can get 90 per cent of what we want, and in a way which gives the No side also a good chunk of what they want, is that not worth exploring? The more we can do this through a process of agreement and consensus, the better the end result will be.”The Leonard Maltin hosted ‘Making of High Noon’ has more interviews with people actually involved in the production, including Kramer and Zimmerman, so is the stand-out featurette here. There are still a few children of cast/crew interviewed but only briefly and just the surprising famous ones, including David Crosby (son of DOP Floyd Crosby) and John Ritter (son of Tex Ritter, who sang the famous theme song). It starts with ourselves …If we are inspired by what we say and do, we will inspire others…together we will make it happen… As long as opposition minds remain closed to any idea of pooling and sharing sovereignty, it is hard to see how any pro-democracy movement (and this includes the movement for Scottish self-determination) can avoid taking an oppositional stance.
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