Follow Along As I Make A Movie
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Chapter 6 of Angelo Codevilla’s “The Character Of Nations” is entitled Civility. By “Civility” he doesn’t mean politeness. Rather he discusses what qualities it takes to be a citizen and what kinds of civic qualities different kinds of regimes encourage.
To Codevilla, a civil society made up of citizens is one in which the [...]
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Chapter 5 of Angelo M. Codevilla’s “The Character Of Nations” deals with prosperity, or more specifically how a regimes policies can combine with the character of a people to generate prosperity. How does this chapter relate to the American experience?
America is undoubtably a prosperous country. Depending on how you measure it it may [...]
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I recently came across a great article that I think goes a long way to explaining what made America great. You can check it out here:
http://townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2009/09/15/a_republic,_if_you_can_keep_it
Below is a rather long comment I wrote relating to it.
This is a great article. I’m currently working on a documentary which looks at where America [...]
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Currently as I prep for my documentary I am reading a number of books that will hopefully give me some further perspective on America. The book I am currently reading is Angelo Codevilla’s “The Character of Nations”.
“The Character of Nations” looks at how Regimes in countries can effect and change their citizens over [...]
“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it”
- Michelangelo
OK, so I’ve decided to make a documentary. This is actually quite a huge task when I think about it. What’s my first step? This may [...]
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I’ve just finished Robert Rodriquez’s book “Rebel Without A Crew“. It outlines how he made “El Mariachi” with no crew and a budget of only $7000. Although I’m planning on making a documentary and “El Mariachi” is really an action movie I thought it might be a little inspiring to read it.
Well, inspiring [...]
Well, here I go on my latest endeavor. What exactly is it? Well, I intend to to make a movie – a documentary to be exact. Have I ever done this before? No. Do I know what I’m doing? Not really. Working in my favor however I do have the two most important ingredients required [...]