I came about to get up in the midst of the night time terminating era and became on Turner Film Classics (TCM). Enjoying on the life was once the 1954 film Brigadoon. I’d heard about it however by no means obvious it. It’s about 2 guys on a looking travel to Scotland who find a park in mid-18th century Scotland wherein family are living as though it’s the mid-18th century. But it surely exists within the mid twentieth century. One of the vital characters, performed by way of Gene Kelly, falls in love with one of the crucial citizens of the city, Brigadoon. She’s an attractive girl performed by way of Cyd Charisse.
I realize it’s untruth within the not hidden sense. However there’s every other sense wherein it’s untruth, a way identified to someone who is aware of a lot concerning the terminating 3 centuries of monetary historical past.
I stuck simplest the terminating 20 mins however in that life, we see Cyd Charisse wearing a gorgeous get dressed and taking a look gorgeous as though she’s out of a 1950 factor of Fashion.
See the sickness?
If the village truly had been mid-18th century, she wouldn’t appear to be that. She wouldn’t have gorgeous clothes and she or he would almost definitely have rotten enamel, simply to call two.
I as soon as sought after to write down one thing for a assume tank wherein I gave prominence to the “hockey stick,” the graph that presentations GDP according to capita within the fashionable international from 1000 A.D. to these days. The individual on the assume tank instructed me that the immense majority in their readers know concerning the hockey stick. My assumption is that there’s a minimum of a large minority that doesn’t.
Travel forward and feature your untruth about Brigadoon, however understand that when you had been the nature performed by way of Gene Kelly, the untouched Brigadoon would now not be horny and you probably wouldn’t be drawn to the lady he fell in love with.
Right here’s Don Boudreaux laying it out in additional constituent in a 5-minute video.
The pic above is of Cyd Charisse.
