Life Stinks
Bolt learns a series of important life lessons during his 'adventure', namely that life is not about accomplishments or material success, but rather the integrity of the human spirit. However, Bolt is unaware that the unscrupulous Crasswell has no intention of honoring their bet. When Crasswell realizes that Bolt is honoring the bet fair and square, Crasswell bribes Bolt's lawyers into fabricating the story that Bolt had lost his mind and has his property seized. Bolt finds this out first hand as, upon completing the bet, he forces his way into a party which is being held by Crasswell at Bolt's home and his lawyers feign ignorance.
Life Stinks
Forced to live on the streets for good and remanded to a free clinic by mistake, a drugged Bolt murmurs that "life stinks". Molly implores him to remember the small things, such as the two of them waltzing, that make life livable. Crasswell, meanwhile, has his own plans for the slum area, planning to tear it down as well. Bolt incites Fumes and the other slum residents to stage a mock battle during the televised ceremony of Crasswell demolishing the slum area. Realising that he will be ousted, Crasswell attempts to stop Bolt with a hydraulic excavator. When Bolt's grapple has plucked Crasswell and has him hanging by his jacket, the scene is freeze-framed into a news report saying that Crasswell, in a court case, was forced to admit he made a bet with Bolt, then reneged on the terms.
A rich businessman makes a bet he can survive on the streets of a rough Los Angeles neighborhood for 30 days completely penniless. During his stay he discovers another side of life and falls in love with with a homeless woman.
A rich businessman makes a bet he can survive on the streets of a rough Los Angeles neighborhood for 30 days completely penniless. During his stay he discovers another side of life and falls in love with a homeless woman.
Brooks plays a zillionaire who bets he can live on the streets and instantly forgets about cell-phones, sharp suits and credit cards to learn the simple pleasures of life among smelly, good-hearted folks.
We all have those days where we think life stinks. This card is perfect for someone going through one of those moments and to send them a little cheer. This skunk thinking of you card is sure to make someone smile.
Of course! Gratitude and joy are twins; where you find one, you find the other. To experience them, you sometimes have to choose not to focus on what stinks in life and instead, elevate your gaze a little higher to that which is good.
When we choose to be grateful, it liberates us from the devastating pain of not only the little disappointments we all experience, but also from the pain of the bigger things that threaten to internally destroy us. Gratitude lifts us above the difficulties of life and gives us a fresh, godly perspective. It helps us encourage others who are experiencing their own difficulties. It demonstrates that we trust Christ.
Even though it's easily the worst of Mel Brooks' non-spoof films (His worst overall is the Dracula spoof in my opinion), I have to give the comedy legend credit for trying something different and more culturally substantial than another spoof during a time when his career was still going strong. Life Stinks is the first non-spoof film Brooks directed since 1970s underrated Russian farce Twelve Chairs. It's basically a remake of the Preston Sturges classic Sullivan's Travels, about a wealthy man who purposefully tries to live the life of a homeless person, with a timely anti-Reaganomist twist around it.
The biggest difference between the two films is the main character's motivation for living a poor life. In Sullivan's Travels, Hollywood director John L. Sullivan puts the challenge on himself in a desperate attempt to understand the poor as research for his upcoming working class melodrama. The protagonist of Life Stinks is an out-of-touch billionaire named Goddard Bolt (Mel Brooks), who accepts a bet from competing billionaire Vance Crasswell (Jeffrey Tambor) that he can live as a penniless bum for thirty days. Goddard came from money, while Vance made his own fortune. Vance thinks Goddard can't survive without his wealth, and the clueless Goddard takes the bet in a pathetic attempt at proving his manhood.
Granted, optimism sometimes is the lone lifeline we will have to keep hold of that dream. Optimism in the face of loss, suffering, pain, and betrayal can often be the only thing that keeps us putting one foot in front of the other.
DUTCH - He is just an ordinary guy, faced with escorting a rich and snobbish brat to his mom's home for Thanksgiving vacation. Needless to say, the kid learns lessons from his working-class mentor, but not enough to make the movie worthwhile. It's clumsily made and hackneyed from beginning to end. Peter Faiman directed John Hughes's dull screenplay.(Rated PG-13) LIFE STINKS - Mel Brooks made this goofball comedy about poverty and homelessness, of all things. And he plays the hero: a millionaire who bets he can survive a month in the Los Angeles slums. The very idea of such a movie is outrageous, but the film itself is surprisingly solid, showing a welcome awareness of desperate urban problems and giving the greedy '80s a much-needed comeuppance. If it gets moviegoers thinking about improving today's cities, life may stink a little less tomorrow, and that's a worthy goal. (Rated PG-13)
MY MOTHER'S CASTLE - A young boy and his family commute between their city home and a provincial retreat, but run into trouble when they wear out their welcome with a country landowner. Yves Robert's comedy-drama is much richer and deeper than "My Father's Glory," which told about earlier adventures of the same characters without acknowledging the dark side that even a happy life may have. Memoirs by Marcel Pagnol, a great filmmaker of old, are the basis for this lovely and lovable French tale. (Rated PG)
Can the notion of readily inferable rescue (our extension of)Soames' account? He says little about what is required for one sentence to bereadily inferable from another. His only example is an inference of a conjunctfrom a conjunction [1989, p.411]. But is there any sense to the idea ofreadily inferring from (1) a sentence identical in content with `life is`difficult to understand''? First, as just noted, `life is `difficult tounderstand'' does not seem to express a proposition. Hence, what could beinferable from it? Also, even if there is a sense in which an utterance of`life is `difficult to understand'' says something, Soames' account can berescued only if a sentence about words can be readily inferable from a sentencenot about words. How this might be is a mystery for us.
In (4), e.g., `is difficult to understand' serves two functions. It(together with other words) functions to report what Alice said, namely, thatlife is difficult to understand; but it also functions minimally to reportthat Alice tokened `is difficult to understand'. So, `is difficult tounderstand' serves two functions, without incurring ambiguity. In (10), nosingle component serves these two functions; and so, (10) fails to explain howa token can have this double function; it just states that it has it.11
where `-' is a sign for concatenation. (14) is ungrammatical. Since,according to the description account, when quotes surround basic units, say,`a', `b', etc., the result is a name of the expression, (14) represents thestructure of (4) as analogous to `Alice said that lifeManhattan-Brooklyn-Bronx-Queens-...', which it clearly is not.
In summary, our criticisms of accounts of indirect, direct, and purequotation show that in order to account for mixed cases an account must do twothings: it must account for how the complement clause of, e.g., (4) can beemployed to effect simultaneously a report that Alice uttered the words `isdifficult to understand' and one that Alice said life is difficult tounderstand. We turn to proposals for how to execute these.
We should always remember how great it is to Just Be Alive! To go outside and look up at the sky and breathe the fresh air is awesome! When is the last time You Danced In The Snow or YOU Watched the Sunrise ? Is it too early for you? Then get to bed a couple of hours earlier, even if you have to eliminate a few hours of useless television! Speaking of television binging........ you know that TV that is robbing you of your sleep and too many precious minutes of life.
Autopiloted responses are common in endless life situations. And they are not always bad. They help us cut through sometimes overwhelming detail to hit the mark. They help us make sure we attend to basics like food and drink and safety. In athletics, for example, where so much of performance is intentionally automatized to a desired point of perfection, athletes often use a regimen of reflect, edit, and visualize to identify and improve sketchy mental and physical performance but also to identify excellent maneuvers that may at times have popped up unexpectedly. This regimen allows athletes to deliver more deliberately, repeating the positive and avoiding the negative the next time they are in a similar situation. 041b061a72