I Learned It at the Movies

I was once told that not only was there actual weight and heft to thought, you couldn't think anything unless it was or was to come. Well, I said, I don't think anything can be done unless it's
prefigured in old movies.

There's a story in the papers recently about a huge criminal with a hurting shoulder, or so he said. He had a violent history and was due to go up for a long spell with his last conviction. He was 6'7" and
270 lbs. My shoulder hurts, be said.

Okay, the sheriff said, but you can't go alone. They sent an officer with him, a woman about the size of one of his legs.

In the day in which this movie I will tell you about was running, maybe 80% of the entire population
saw a movie at least every week, and all of them knew what to expect when Wilmer the Gunsel strode down the corridor a little bit ahead of Sam Spade. Looking serious and deliberate and not particular conscious.   Everybody knew Spade would jump and disarm the Gunsel who was supposed to be escorting him under guard to see a big heavy about a Maltese Falcon.

People are no longer smart. It's because the movies today aren't educational. We've become a nation of Gunsels.

Go back even further. King Kong has a sore shoulder. The commissioner agrees to send him for an MRI. But he can't go alone, of course. Not with the big guy's history of violence.

So they send Fay Wray with him.