Romney's performance at his "presser" last night, reminds me of this famous performance by Bogart.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

[monmouth]

1. He certainly is remembered as one of the greats..n/t

[japple]

2. Oooooh. You're right! Old Yellowstains.

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[Joe Bacon]

3. It was the Strawberries!!!!!!

[Jack Sprat]

4. The Captain was a sympathetic character

Yeah, he was obsessive and had real personality disorders. Mitt is just plainly elitist and looks down on people due to his wealth and fortune. Unlike the Roosevelts, he doesn't care whether anyone else has food, shelter, or the essentials to life. He just wants them to all go away so he and those like him can play without distractions or being inconvenienced.

Like it has been said before, becoming president of the USA is nothing more to him than gaining power to match his privileged life. It's not about making the U.S. a better country for our citizens. It's about keeping Mitt satisfied and creating more wealth for those of his status. Mitt wants to be the king and have a regal court of dukes, lords and bishops.

[zeemike]

5. Very true.

As I remember it the captain was an up from the ranks captain that had spent time in the Atlantic convoy to Europe...which was a dangerous and stressful job..and in the end they all felt sorry for him and sorry for not helping him.
Can't say the same for Mitt at all...

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

6. Re: The Captain was a sympathetic character

Yes he was, but my point was that Mitt's public unraveling at his presser, on display for all to see, had parallels to Queeg losing it on the stand.

[Jack Sprat]

7. Oh no doubt

Nobody missed your point. I was simply adding to it. Point well taken.

[KansDem]

8. Do you think José Ferrer was justified in throwing his drink...

...in Fred MacMurray's face at the end of the movie?

[TrollBuster9090]

10. Did you see the BRAD DAVIS VERSION of Captain Quig??? It's ROMNEY TO A TEE!

[KansDem]

11. Thanks!

I haven't seen this movie yet. I'll put it on my list!

[TrollBuster9090]

12. It's awesome! Actually, I couldn't find a decent clip of Captain Quig getting all pissy about

the strawberries, but it's priceless.

A little side note: the trial takes place in a gymnasium that's at the same decommissioned navy base in Washington State that "An Officer and a Gentleman" was filmed at. I was in that gymnasium a few times.

The movie is based on the stage play version of The Caine Mutiny, which just covers the trial and the victory party afterwards. Brad Davis is a much better Quig than BOGEY. You can't picture Bogart as a whiney, neurotic, insecure little prick; but Davis nails the role perfectly. And the ending scene where Greenwald shows up drunk at Keiffer's victory party is also done much better than in the Bogart movie.

[TrollBuster9090]

9. Yeah, but unlike Captain Quig, Romney was NOT 'standing guard over this fat, dumb, happy country of

ours' in 1968. He was riding a bicycle around Paris, while all the poor plebs (who he thinks are government freeloaders) were doing his fighting FOR him.

Not to worry, though, he was fighting the Culture Wars!