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Yeats ("the greatest poet of the twentieth century"), urging the House managers to "be secret and exult" in their martyrdom.
Which means it will probably prevail in a confirmation hearing but lose in the court of public opinion, vanquished by Weld's campaign for libertarian martyrdom.
He wanted people to talk--and laugh and argue--about his movie, but he had no intention of courting martyrdom.
The film also exaggerates Flynt's martyrdom for the cause of free speech.
That assessment will overrate Paul's post-Beatles output--in particular, I'm guessing, the music he makes next, just as Tug of War was overrated in the wake of John's murder--and underrate his work in the Beatles, an explosion of pop craftsmanship without precedence, overshadowed by Lennon's mediagenic personality and subsequent martyrdom.