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Television -- A Bright Shining Lie (HBO) and Thanks of a Grateful Nation (Showtime);
Journalist David Halberstam and former Pentagon official Daniel Ellsberg, who are characters in Shining Lie , complain that the Vietnam film distorts the nonfiction book it is based on.
St. Jerome, translating from the Hebrew and referring to the Greek, while preparing the (Latin) Vulgate, evidently mistranslated the Hebrew qaran to shine, for qeren horn and went on record with cornuta , horned: Quod cornuta esset facies sua . Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable calls the translation “a blunder,” explaining that “the Hebrew for this shining may be translated either as `sent forth beams' or as `sent forth horns.
The best of his films-- The Killing , Lolita , Dr. Strangelove , and The Shining are wearing especially well--provide a peculiar kind of exhilaration.
Malick puts a lot of shining things on the screen: soldiers, natives, parrots, bats, rodents, visions of Eden by way of National Geographic and of the Fall by way of Alpo.
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