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Apparently Anderson had roughed up his wife, a certain Sequoia Annette, the night before. As they began filming, they coaxed him into stepping on the roadside and placing his knife down on the ground. They arrived to find Anderson walking in the middle of the road and clutching the large knife. Police had responded to a call about a disabled vehicle on a twisting rural road up there in tall timber country.

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The incident was captured on video, which, sure, is a visual representation of what happened, but the fact that the video has been shared countless times online, can be remixed with a musical soundtrack and twisted into all sorts of memes to the point where its new meaning is entirely divorced from the original incident, and can be replayed long after all of us also join the ranks of the dead means itвЂ™s nothing more than a simulacrum.Дuring the standoff with police after heвЂ™d obeyed their orders to place the large knife down in the grass and before he suddenly picked it up again and charged toward them like a mad black rhino, 38-year-old Robert Anderson referred to a popular movie franchise that made me suspect he thought he was living in a movie. ThatвЂ™s what really happened, but more and more, people seem incapable of living in the real world. Police shot a black man dead after heвЂ™d lunged at an officer with a large kitchen knife in the once-unspoiled northern California town of Crescent City on August 25. We're still waiting for a version that does justice to Pasternak.Plato predicted the postmodern predicament in his allegory of the cave. We had the love story, done a whole lot better, decades ago. It seems the writers of this movie missed the other revolution (the sexual revolution) that might've gotten them past this approach to the material to focus on the larger view of the Russian revolution the novel presents. Again, this might have been daring forty years ago. Her character is hardly the thrall of Komarovsky she is in the novel (the victim she is in Lean's movie).

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Everything seems to boil down to sex in this version, which is daring - for the 1960s! On the plus side, it must be said that Keira Knightley (Lara) is pure sex on the screen. Four hours was not time enough to do justice to Pasternak. The interiors were videotaped like stage presentation and the exteriors were shot on grainy film, but the breadth of great novels came across. In the old days British television would make adaptations of novels this size that went on for months (ZHIVAGO could sustain it). This new version also truncates the novel. However, when some of the same sorts of scenes appear, the new version seems like a hollow echo. It would be unfair to compare this version to Lean's, which had a powerhouse cast (Christie, Steiger, Richardson, Courtenay, Guinness), a director with an eye for the cinematic, and a superb script. The television version that finally appeared was barely an hour longer than Lean's. But now that Pasternak's epic sweep was personified by Lean and Bolt, a television version was needed whose focus was Pasternak's (admittedly soap-opera) story without sacrificing any of the other events for time limitations. Robert Bolt won a deserved Oscar for his work on DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, for his job was formidable. Lean and screenwriter Robert Bolt (A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, LAWRENCE) did a superb job of distilling the essence of the novel, but left out many characters and events in their 197 minute motion picture (which, until the advent of Lucas and Spielberg, was one of the highest grossing movies ever). When the time came to make the movie the task fell, quite naturally, to epic film maker David Lean, winner of the Academy Award for his last two pictures (BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA). The novel itself, with its story of illicit love in time of war, was almost the GONE WITH THE WIND of its day. Pasternak's novel was a love story tucked in an epic set against the turbulent Russian revolution.

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