End o fman immortal story12/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Let me assure you, as one who knows personally one of the men who walked alongside Dr. He was 81 at the time of his “conversion.” Flew’s mental capacities were diminished, perhaps because of his age. The reactions ranged from surprise, to disbelief, to even questioning whether Dr. But this in no way lessened the impact of his startling declaration. He made clear that he accepted deism, and not the God of the Bible, or of any other of the great world religions. Flew rocked the world with his confession that he had come to believe in God. Antony Flew-perhaps the greatest among atheist thinkers of the last 100 years-came to faith in God largely through his studies in philosophy and, most especially, science, as he recounted in his book written with Roy Abraham Varghese, There is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind. I’ve been downgraded because of my love for what you do-but I won’t have it because it does work even once in a while-and we all know the moments when it works.The late Dr. That’s the kind of business you’re in and I’d like to remind you of that, because you’ve been downgraded so often. You’re really tacked onto the future-like it or not-so you’re going to be changing people 100 years from tonight and 500 years from tonight and a thousand years from tomorrow noon. This is the science-fictional business you are all tied into. ![]() Marie Dressier died in 1934-but she is still alive!” I thought: “everyone in that film has been dead for 20 or 30 years. You have beat death at the game because that scene is going to be repeated a thousand years from tonight and ten thousand years from tonight-and there’ ll be other teenagers who don’t know any of you from Adam, but they’re going to break into applause because of something excellent you did once in your life, maybe-or twice, or three times when you had the breaks, and you had a good director, and you had the decent script, and you had these actors working for you and that magical thing happened. My hair stood up on the back of my head, and I thought “A thousand years from tonight, the work you people did and that she did and all the people in this industry do will be immortal.” You are all immortal. I was in tears by the end of the evening, because, when Billie Burke finished the great scene where she’s mad at the whole world-upset because the food hasn’t been prepared right for the dinner that night, when she finishes her big tirade which ran two minutes in the middle of the film-this audience of teenagers-to a person-broke into applause for this tour-de-force. Let’s go in and see it again.” We went in and sat there with a bunch of teenage kids and guys and girls in their twenties, who didn’t know Marie Dressier from the side of a barn, who hadn’t seen Lionel Barrymore or John Barrymore, or Billie Burke in their heydays. I said, “I haven’t seen this film since I was 12 years old. My wife and I just wandered into the theatre by accident because we couldn’t get into various other shows around town. I went to the Los Feliz Theatre to see a revival of George Cukor’s Dinner at Eight. RAY BRADBURY: I had a wonderful experience three or four weeks ago that I want to tell you about. –AFI tribute to Orson Welles, February, 1975 To the movies-to good movies-to every possible kind. ORSON WELLES: Let us-Let us raise our cups then standing, as some of us do, on opposite ends of the river and drink together to what really matters to us all-to our crazy and beloved profession. Bradbury made these comments in Hollywood, while Orson Welles was making his adaptation of Isak Dinesen’s The Immortal Story in Madrid, Spain. 25 years ago the great artist and poet of the cinema, George Orson Welles met the end of his adventure on Earth.īut not really–if you listen to what Ray Bradbury told the American Society of Cinematographers in 1967. ![]()
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