Post by Eλευθερί on Oct 17, 2017 1:38:43 GMT
Marlon Brando's powerful final scene in The Ugly American (1963; adapted screenplay Stewart Stern, director George Englund)--as the American ambassador to a Southeast Asian nation facing Communist overthrow, responding to a reporter's question:
At this point, the shot dissolves from the ambassador speaking to a crowd of reporters in Southeast Asia to a suburban American home, where the ambassador's speech is showing on the television. A man standing in the living room is taking a bite out of a pork chop as he glances at the tv. Then he starts looking at his TV Guide to see what else is on tv.
The man clicks off the tv.
I've learned that the only time we're hated is when we stop trying to be what we started out to be 200 years ago. Now, I'm--I'm not blaming my country.
(continuing uninterrupted) I'm blaming the indifference that some of us show to its promises. If the Cold War disappeared right now, the American people would still be in this fight against ignorance and hunger and disease, because it's right. It's right to be in it. And if I had one appeal to make to every American, it would be that