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Notes: game on...on the radio...Angels night off...Rams and Vikings...Rams 38-28...'bout fourteen minutes left...football is frenetic...Rams playing in the Old LA Coliseum...over the radio, it sounds like the Old Roman Coliseum...Dodgers with night off too...thought they were on...human sacrifice, however dressed up with rituals and sacred notions, was likely entertainment for the Mesoamericans and Andeans...in the Old World, it was entertainment in the guise of punishments being meted out--criminal executions, war prisoner executions, religious persecutions, staged wars, fabricated wars...for the Romans, a kind of what the hell, let's indulge, kind of attitude took hold with both the fans and the participants...kind of like that scene in movieOnTheBeach...
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Sawfish and its crew return to Australia to enjoy what pleasures remain to them before the end. Osborn wins the Australian Grand Prix in which many racers, with nothing left to lose, die in various accidents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(1959_film)
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In a political context, the phrase means to generate public approval, not by excellence in public service or public policy, but by diversion, distraction or by satisfying the most immediate or base requirements of a populace[1] — by offering a palliative: for example food (bread) or entertainment (circuses).
Juvenal, who originated the phrase, used it to decry the selfishness of common people and their neglect of wider concerns.[2][3][4] The phrase implies a population's erosion or ignorance of civic duty as a priority.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
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actually, I'd say, Juvenal, an erosion of hope by common people for basics of life/pursuit of happiness...from that circumstance a few turn to excesses...crime, violence, staged shows with no rules...Road Warrior movie stuff...moviesRoadWarrior likely stem from movieOnTheBeach Grand Prix scene...a thought...Mad Max creators had another thought...
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Yet there were further signs of the desperate measures individuals would take to ensure mobility. A couple of oil strikes that hit many pumps revealed the ferocity with which Australians would defend their right to fill a tank. Long queues formed at the stations with petrol—and anyone who tried to sneak ahead in the queue met raw violence. ... George and I wrote the [Mad Max] script based on the thesis that people would do almost anything to keep vehicles moving and the assumption that nations would not consider the huge costs of providing infrastructure for alternative energy until it was too late.
— James McCausland, writing on peak oil in The Courier-Mail, 2006
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max
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48. Years later, Gibson would say The Road Warrior was his favorite of the three films. “It still holds up because it’s so basic,” he told Playboy. “It’s about energy — it didn’t spare anyone: people flying under wheels, a girl gets it, a dog gets it, everybody gets it. It was the first Mad Max, but done better. The third one didn’t work at all.”
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/60-mad-facts-about-the-original-mad-max-trilogy-118809744717.html
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Gibson went on to produce
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypto
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having produced a film about the torments of Jesus on the cross, he went on to the Mayans and their ritual sacrifices...portrayed as an indulgence by elites...Charlton Heston starred in a movie about the Incas...
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Secret of the Incas was filmed on location in Peru at Cuzco and Machu Picchu, the first time that a major Hollywood studio filmed at this archeological site. A sixteen person unit including Heston, producer Mel Epstein and director Jerry Hopper spent a month filming footage in Peru in 1953.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_of_the_Incas
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both films have sacrifice scenes...in Gibson's the crowd is delirious, dancing around, cheering on the bloodletting...in Epstein's the crowd stands stock still quiet....maybe that had something to do with it being filmed in Peru...Rams win...'sweep September'...Update: Wait!...Was thinking of Yul Brenner Kings of the Sun...watched Treasure...report for tomorr...later today...:)
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