Okay, so welcome to Entry #4. Today, I'm going to be begrudgingly write some short stories that'll hopefully make you laugh and cry, but we'll get to that briefly. Firstly, firstly, I want to cover a few more topics worth covering. Such as how McDonalds really isn't even that good, and how the Ox-Bow Incident is very good. This'll probably prove to be a long blog, and so anyone who's been reading up to this point, I'm sorry for the strain on your eyes, and anyone who's been reading up to this point waiting for some hardcore nudity. You're going to have to keep waiting...But maybe someday it'll show up in this blog, you never know. ;)
First Topic: McDonalds.
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| Typical item served at McDonalds(can be supersized) |
McDonalds has a similar life-ruining reputation as Wal*Mart, however, you can go into Wal*Mart and purchase some reasonably price goods(despite the fact it destroys mom and pop businesses), McDonalds has nothing going for it. The food is very cheap....and as such, you honestly get what you paid for. Personally speaking, I'm not a fan of beef, but even I know you can find better hamburgers at burger king and they're chicken is inferior to just about every other fast food's chicken. The only thing they serve that most'll agree upon coveting is their salty french fries. However, everyone's reluctant to eat them in knowing just how bad for you they are. Which leads me to the next point. Their food is disgustingly bad for you. Chicken's generally decently healthy as far as meats go, but their chicken selects can put a dagger through your heart. Srsly. Point is. I dunno why people like McDonalds....
Moving on.
The Ox-Bow Incident.
The Ox-Bow Incident was a film based off a novel that was directed in 1943 by William. A Wellman, and starred the timeless Henry Fonda, and Harry Morgan, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes, Anthony Quinn, and a bunch of other actors the three readers of this blog have never heard of. The Ox-Bow incident is considered one of Henry Fonda's greatest roles according to film critics, and it's my third time seeing it. The film isn't very long only falling at about 75 minutes, but the movie itself is outstanding. The basic synopsis of the movie(SPOILERS) is that a rancher named Larry Kinkaid was rustled and murdered. For you non 19th century types, a rancher was a person who'd raise livestock such as cattle and sheep and sell the wool, milk, etc. And a rustler was someone who'd steal the livestock(which was a big deal.) Anyway, Henry Fonda and Harry Morgan (Col. Potter from M.A.S.H) are basically a couple of loner cowpolks who mosey in town for a few drinks at the saloon when the news of the rancher's death. A close friend of the rancher is very outraged and swears upon finding the rustlers and hanging them. The sheriff in the town is already out about investigating the rumors, so in the mean time the people of the town form a posse to go bring the rustlers to justice....to lynch them, essentially. An older, wiser man in town by the name of Davies does everything in his power to try to persuade them to wait for the sheriff, and the sophisticated judge of the town does the same, but the mob is more to set in their ways, and being led by a civil war confederate major, embark upon finding them. The mob comes across three men sleeping on a fire, and immediately assume them to be the rustlers. One a very modest married man who tries to reason with the mob, another being a senile old man who cries at the thought of being hung, and the last being a very articulate man from Mexico who is very intelligent and suave. Before the mob hang the men, the modest man writes his wife a very touching letter(read out loud at the end of the movie), and the old wise man by the name of Davies, a black reverend, and 5 other men, 2 of which are Henry Fonda and Harry Morgan, voice their discontent, Henry Fonda going to the degree of fisticuffs. The men are hung, and as the mob leave, they run into the sheriff who decrees that the rancher was alive, and that all those men were in severe trouble. The major ends up shooting himself out of disgrace, and the movie ends with all the men in a bar with Henry Fonda reading the letter out loud, bringing the depressing events into full circle.
Now then, with that out of the movie, the visual allusions the movie makes is genius, the acting is genius, and the plot is captivating. Henry Fonda is brilliant, and the movie's meant to be watched with the viewer almost going through his thoughts, even though he's the quiet type. He basically witnesses wrongdoings and is quiet in watching them unfold until it's all too late, not that there was much he could do anyway, which is basically true of life. The plot is historically interesting, and the statements, though a bit dated, are true and moralistic. Everyone should see this film.
....This too long to write, but I do have a story. It's about a grizzled ol' prospector who get's a job as the head of the Federal Reserve!
But until next time, Stay tuned faithful readers!
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