Wednesday, September 28, 2005
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August 2005
August 2005
Wow! The movie (and the poster) that helped to kick down the Iron Curtain!
While some sneer at American Cowboys, including the Communist government in 1980's formerly Communist Poland, the graphic art poster warriors appropriated the famous striding Gary Cooper "High Noon" image and pasted it all over the walls of Poland.
In the June 11, 2004 article below from the Wall Street Journal, Lech Walesa (the prime ship worker turned Polish resistance leader) details why Gary Cooper and High Noon were so important in the Solidarity Polish freedom movement: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005204
Hope this bit of history adds to your enjoyment of this great movie!
(If you don't know what Lech Walesa did for Poland, as well as the many Polish graphic artists, flunk your history teacher and search the Net!!!)
PS the famous Gary Cooper High Noon poster is the one Lech Walesa is asked to autograph by admirers of the Polish Solidarity movement, which of course spread to the rest of the European Iron curtain countries, whose Communist regiemes fell peacefully to the many Gary Coopers---and friends---who finally stood by them.
The film can be taken as a symbol of the "David" fighting against any oppressive "Goliaths", whether they be of the right...or the left. Oppression is oppression. Evil is evil.
While some sneer at American Cowboys, including the Communist government in 1980's formerly Communist Poland, the graphic art poster warriors appropriated the famous striding Gary Cooper "High Noon" image and pasted it all over the walls of Poland.
In the June 11, 2004 article below from the Wall Street Journal, Lech Walesa (the prime ship worker turned Polish resistance leader) details why Gary Cooper and High Noon were so important in the Solidarity Polish freedom movement: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005204
Hope this bit of history adds to your enjoyment of this great movie!
(If you don't know what Lech Walesa did for Poland, as well as the many Polish graphic artists, flunk your history teacher and search the Net!!!)
PS the famous Gary Cooper High Noon poster is the one Lech Walesa is asked to autograph by admirers of the Polish Solidarity movement, which of course spread to the rest of the European Iron curtain countries, whose Communist regiemes fell peacefully to the many Gary Coopers---and friends---who finally stood by them.
The film can be taken as a symbol of the "David" fighting against any oppressive "Goliaths", whether they be of the right...or the left. Oppression is oppression. Evil is evil.
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