Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Missed chance
One of the Tesla skeptics was forming a dubious metaphor between Elon's endgame and the Shawshank movie. He posted this screencap from the movie:
The warden has just discovered the tunnel leading to the sewer.
I've already debunked the tunnel. It couldn't have worked in the real Mansfield.
Since this year is the 50th anniversary of my time in Mansfield, I've been thinking about the experience again. Time for another debunk. This debunk is more serious because it's a more general time-displacement, and it's also just plain ODD.
The time displacement: Prison wardens didn't turn into smooth Soros-serving bureaucrat types until the '80s, so this character couldn't have been the warden at the supposed time of the movie.
Just plain ODD: The real Warden Copley was perfectly cinematic. He was Edward G. Robinson ON THE FUCKING DOT. Robinson wouldn't need to learn any new mannerisms or speech style to play Copley. Just do his standard routine.
So the producers made the usual time error, and also missed the chance to include a movie character in the movie.
¶ 12:32 AM 
The warden has just discovered the tunnel leading to the sewer.
I've already debunked the tunnel. It couldn't have worked in the real Mansfield.
Since this year is the 50th anniversary of my time in Mansfield, I've been thinking about the experience again. Time for another debunk. This debunk is more serious because it's a more general time-displacement, and it's also just plain ODD.
The time displacement: Prison wardens didn't turn into smooth Soros-serving bureaucrat types until the '80s, so this character couldn't have been the warden at the supposed time of the movie.
Just plain ODD: The real Warden Copley was perfectly cinematic. He was Edward G. Robinson ON THE FUCKING DOT. Robinson wouldn't need to learn any new mannerisms or speech style to play Copley. Just do his standard routine.
So the producers made the usual time error, and also missed the chance to include a movie character in the movie.
¶ 12:32 AM
