Little Lamb
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Film Review: Lions for Lambs
It’s been seven years since Robert Redford directed a film with THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE and he comes back with a political hot cake in LIONS FOR LAMBS, which takes a look at the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of both a Senator, a reporter, a college professor and his students, and two Special Forces soldiers.
Unlike what many critiques and audiences think, LIONS FOR LAMBS is an engaging film about responsibility in terms of the war and how we can best solve a growing problem that seems to have neither end nor a solution that will benefit everyone. Senator Jasper Irving (Tom Cruise in a role reminiscent of that in MAGNOLIA) commands an audience with seasoned reporter Janine Roth (Meryl Streep) whom he trusts with the a story that could make both of their careers which is a military strategy that could end the war. In Afghanistan this new strategy is coming into effect but due to bad Intel Special Ops Ernest Rodriguez and Arian Finch (Michael Pena & Derek Luke, respectfully) are stranded in enemy territory with little help of rescue. In the states, Professor Malley (Redford) is disillusioned with student Todd Hayes (Andrew Garfield) who doesn’t see a solution to the war and has just given up without a fight.
Screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan has crafted a tight piece in which the dialogue is just as important as the action. Now some may look at the film as an over indulgence in political wordage but like such great feats of cinema as GLENGARY GLENROSS, 12 ANGRY MEN, or even the more recent HARD CANDY, tension and suspense can be had through nothing more than words.
The harsh criticism the film has thus mare been inflicted with, I can only assume, comes from people who would rather watch TRANSFORMERS (a mindless action film with barely a leg to stand on in terms of story and characters) then watch a film that will stay with you long after watching it.
In a year filled with mediocre political films (i.e. RENDITION, THE KINGDOM, etc.) LIONS FOR LAMBS is a film that will not be soon forgotten once given the chance.
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Is the nursery rhyme “Mary had a little lamb” about Mary and Jesus?
I mean Jesus was the lamb of God
The nursery rhyme was first published (as opposed to written) as an original poem by Sarah Josepha Hale on May,24,1830 and was inspired by an actual incident.
As a girl, Mary Sawyer (later Mrs. Mary Tyler) kept a pet lamb, which she took to school one day at the suggestion of her brother. A commotion naturally ensued. Mary recalled:
“Visiting school that morning was a young man by the name of John Roulstone, a nephew of the Reverend Lemuel Capen, who was then settled in Sterling. It was the custom then for students to prepare for college with ministers, and for this purpose Mr. Roulstone was studying with his uncle. The young man was very much pleased with the incident of the lamb; and the next day he rode across the fields on horseback to the little old schoolhouse and handed me a slip of paper which had written upon it the three original stanzas of the poem…”
There are two competing theories on the origin of this poem. One holds that Roulstone wrote the first four lines and that the final twelve lines, more moralistic and much less childlike than the first, were composed by Sarah Josepha Hale; the other is that Hale was responsible for the entire poem. Another person who claims to have written the poem and well known nursery rhyme is Mary Hughs but it has been confirmed that Sarah Hale wrote it.
Mary Sawyer’s house, located in Sterling, Massachusetts, was destroyed by arson on August 12, 2007. A statue representing Mary’s Little Lamb stands in the town centre. The Redstone School, which was built in 1798, was purchased by Henry Ford and relocated to a churchyard on the property of Longfellow’s Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts.
Mary had a little Lamb
