From Round to Square (and back)

For The Emperor's Teacher, scroll down (↓) to "Topics." It's the management book that will rock the world (and break the vase, as you will see). Click or paste the following link for a recent profile of the project: http://magazine.beloit.edu/?story_id=240813&issue_id=240610

A new post appears every day at 12:05* (CDT). There's more, though. Take a look at the right-hand side of the page for over four years of material (2,000 posts and growing) from Seinfeld and country music to every single day of the Chinese lunar calendar...translated. Look here ↓ and explore a little. It will take you all the way down the page...from round to square (and back again).
*Occasionally I will leave a long post up for thirty-six hours, and post a shorter entry at noon the next day.

Friday, June 21, 2013

The Power of Five (1)—Movies

Click here for the introduction to the Round and Square series "The Power of Five"
One year ago on Round and Square (21 June 2012)—The Real Ideal: North Dakota Property Taxes
Two years ago on Round and Square (21 June 2011)—Middles: The Tempest
[a] Seven RF
Below, I list the "Five Movies." 

If this does not make sense, stay with it. But if you somehow think that I am making a "top-five list," you would be very badly mistaken. Go back and look at the introduction to this series to get a feel for yin-yang, five-phase cosmology. 

Nope, these are the Five Movies. As a totality, they are "movies." That is what the cosmologist Robert André LaFleur maintains, at least. I welcome your comments and additions, below (but these are still the Five Movies). 

Remember, together, they form the category "movies." 

Deal.

If this doesn't make sense...go back and read the introduction and the links!

                                       The Five Movies
                                       七人の侍  The Seven Samurai
                                       Casablanca
                                       Rocky
                                       Les enfants du paradis  Children of Paradise
                                       Fargo
 
Discuss.

Just like Dong Zhongshu and Lü Buwei, I don't give my reasons (I don't need no stinkin' reasons).* I am well, a...sort of...cosmologist. My choices should be "self-evident," but the whole point of this Round and Square series is to get a little opinion moving—finally (since y'all don't comment much, darnit all).
*But even I miss the Apu Trilogy...and Citizen Kane (at least a little bit).

Feel free to comment and disagree (politely, gracefully...as though you were raised in North Dakota, on the lapping banks of the Red River).

Tomorrow
The Five Fast Food Restaurants
 

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