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They always write Nash off.

It's not really spoiler-y, but I do reference season 5.

So here's why I'm bullish on why I think we'll see Patrick Nash again if the show gets a season 6. They always write him off, but then he always returns. I think it's best to think of seasons 2 and 3 as one long season because they wrote and filmed them back-to-back, so they knew that Felix Scott was in for both seasons. They sent Nash to France at the end of season 3, and they sent him to prison at the end of season 4. In season 5, they've sent him to Australia. I get that in Victorian England, this would mean he would never return, but I don't think it matters in the Miss Scarlet Universe! For goodness sakes, they had Eliza and Patrick playing poker and drinking whiskey in the warden's office -- this show is not concerned with remaining true to Victorian England! So maybe he befriends a wealthy old man on the ship whose dying wish was to see Australia, and he's so charmed by Patrick that he leaves him his fortune -- I dunno! I just think the show's creators like to keep their options open -- they've written off so many characters*! But I think Nash is the only one who always returns...

*Rupert Parker to Germany, Hattie Parker to Amsterdam [?], Moses to France, William to New York-- I dunno if I'm missing anyone else...

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Movie Review: Motherless Brooklyn

The greatest villains of noir are never the central antagonists. The corrupt cops, the slimy businessmen, and the small time hoods and assassins typified by the genre’s heyday are of course all vital to the seedy underrealms these movies sink us into, but the true villain is always the world itself, and specifically the rotten and festering systems whose waste drips down and creates the conditions for battered, weary detectives and crooks with no hope in the first place. This was implied in most classic noir, but Edward Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn makes it explicit. It focuses on a man seen by others as a freak, trying to do a good thing in a city that exists because of bad things. He’s up against such a vital underpinning of his entire world that he might as well be trying to punch out the moon.

Lionel Essrog is not exactly the first person you might choose in such a fight, even if one overlooks his Tourette’s syndrome, which in the decidedly unenlightened 1950’s is unlikely. He’s one of several detectives working for the aging Frank Minna (Bruce Willis), whose particular skills would have been equally applicable on the other side of the law. Also under Minna, in a crew the older man pulled from the morass of an abusive orphanage and led through World War II, are the force-and-bluster tough guy Tony Vermonte (Bobby Cannavale), who has an interesting relationship with Minna’s widow (Leslie Mann); the sharp information-gathering Danny Fantl (Dallas Roberts); and the reserved and slightly bumbling Gilbert Coney (Ethan Suplee). The film opens with a terribly thrilling sequence in which Minna seems to be trying to make a deal with some underworld figures, and as one might expect the deal goes wrong, resulting in Minna’s eventual death.

Let’s take a moment and look at that sequence. It takes up the first half hour or so of the film, and it takes its time. Essrog, played by Norton, listens in for a signal from Minna, and you know something is going to go wrong. Yet where other movies might make that a quick and easy scene, Norton gets our hopes up that Minna might live, and it is genuinely affecting when he doesn’t, because of how much he clearly meant to our protagonist. This death is more than just a device to set off the plot of the film. It defines Lionel’s key character traits: loyalty to those he trusts, suspicion towards most everyone else, all of the wariness that a lifetime of being infantilized by others would give a man. His character is not defined by Tourette’s, which, for the record, is presented accurately as the repetition of tics and phrases rather than by the cliche and rare repeating of profanity. His photographic memory is a tool for detective work, but also a burden; imagine never forgetting anything, and if you’ve suffered at all in life you might realize that isn’t a superpower. He wears his boss’s old hat and coat, in tribute to the man rather than to try and be him. Lionel is a fully developed character, and not a gimmick. The film is patient with him and with the plot, the kind of patience lacking in modern films where audiences will sit for more than two hours only if computer effects are involved.

His case is no gimmick, either, but a fully developed and twisted web that goes, of course, up to the Very Top. The central question: why was Minna, ostensibly a licensed private eye, talking to mobsters as if they were dealing with each other? Lionel digs into this, and it becomes clear it involves the city’s powerful planning commissioner, Moses Randolph (Alec Baldwin). He seems able to demand whatever he wants from the government, behaves like a Godfather instead of a public servant, and is involved in the demolition of slums. Ostensibly, the plan is to provide better housing for the mostly black residents, an assertion which is challenged by two people. The first is wary-but-idealistic housing activist Laura Rose (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), who develops a connection with Lionel that feels true and complex and not like an obligatory screenplay romance. Mbatha-Raw is a seriously undervalued actress, and here she represents the counter-culture of jazz, which was primarily African-American and seen as degenerate at the time. Her uncle Billy (Robert Wisdom) and cool-as-ice trumpet-playing friend (Michael K. Williams) have some level of insight into what exactly is happening to Brooklyn’s poor black population, and they become allies. It must be noted that scenes in nightclubs are handled perfectly, feeling like the close, crowded, smoky places that jazz clubs should be.

The second is a ragged man with a frantic voice named Paul (Willem Dafoe), who appears at meetings and angrily whips the crowd into frenzies against Moses. He lays out what crooked deals are going on, but encourages Lionel to be the one to stop it; he cannot, for reasons that will be revealed. I found him the most fascinating supporting character on the canvas, and a perfect role for Dafoe. In movies, most of the good-aligned characters we meet will eventually abandon all self-centered interests and heroically join the cause at great self-sacrifice. Film noir is decidedly unsuited to such sentiment, but in the old days often suffered from it nonetheless. Paul is the apotheosis of that: he is legitimately angry at the conspiracies he sees, but has been too hurt by his own failures to fix them in the past, and now wants to pass the buck so he does not have to suffer any more losses. In our heart of hearts, most of us know we are more like Paul.

Earlier I mentioned the look of the jazz world, but I must mention the look of the rest of the world, as well. Regular Mike Leigh cinematographer Dick Pope films a mid-century New York reproduced by production designer Beth Mickie, that is lost, where boat-sized cars rumble down narrow streets and dark shadows are hidden in the eaves of bridges and corners of doorways. Lionel is at one point invited to meet with Moses to strike a deal, and Moses’ office is as spacious as the rest of the city is not; in an excellent wide shot, he patrols this throne room as a king, passing judgments and decisions entirely as it pleases him. This is not a man who will fall like a typical movie crook, and indeed the film leaves open whether Lionel succeeds at all.

Norton, who is friends with novelist Jonathan Lethem, has, with the author’s consent, done what a filmmaker should: used the parts of the book that suit, and changed those that did not. Most notably, he has moved the 90’s setting (this project has been long gestating) to the 1950’s and wrapped up the plot in one of our great modern national stains, the New York housing discrimination that still affects the African-American community today. The parallels are both obvious and buried, and though Norton has discussed the connections between Moses and Donald Trump, this is not an overtly political picture. It is instead a deeply involving mystery with highly engaging characters and an intriguing world, that happens to have greater points under the surface for those who are looking.

Verdict: Highly Recommended

Note: I don’t use stars, but here are my possible verdicts.

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Highly Recommended

Recommended

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Round 13

THE SEA EAGLE

MAKING RUGBY LEAGUE GREAT AGAIN!!!

Round 13

Manly Sea Eagles      22

Defeated by

NZ Warriors             26

The sooner that the NRL move Manly home games away from Home of the Gayamaygal and Garigal Peoples, and back to Fortress Brookvale the better. Manly are now in recent times, 0-2 at this venue after going down to the Warriors and the Sea Eagle implores Manly management to address this urgently before all hope is lost for season 2020. Even playing at the dreaded Central Coast would be a better option.

The game started horribly when Cherry Baby was bundled into touch from the kickoff. As Rex Mossop used to say the sideline is a precipice that should never be crossed (generally referring to inept wingers), so on this basis Cherry Baby, who is on the big bucks should know better than to put himself in such a position in the first place.

And talking about inept wingers, Horhay Taufua was again found wanting in this fixture with the Warriors seeming to target his side with great success on numerous occasions leading to at least 3 of their tries. The not so young Horhay is next to useless under the high ball (as he cannot get his 110 kg frame off the ground), he has the turning circle of an Abrams M1 tank, and his propensity to come in, in defence to try and deliver a bone crushing tackle is now exposing his outside flanks. Sure, when it comes off it’s great to see (just ask Cameron Munster), but this is becoming all to rare and opposing teams are now exploiting Horhays deficiencies. As indicated last week, surely its time for a move to the forwards for Horhay, or alternatively to acquaint himself with the reserve grade coach.

In soggy conditions the undermanned and under siege Warriors leapt out of the blocks and within 15 minutes had racked up a 16-zip lead. Let’s face it in recent times Manly have very a very poor record when playing in wet conditions so such a performance was not totally unexpected.

Manly managed to hit back with tries to Tevita Finua and Moses Suli, when the Warriors had a player in the bin, but a further try to the NZ based team on the strocke of half time gave them a 20-10 lead at the break.

Only minutes into the second half, the Warriors crossed again, this time via former Manly man, Peta Hiku and at this point the Sea Eagle was reaching for the valium. There was a late surge by Manly when Warriors forward Jack Hetherington was binned for KO’ing Marty Tapau with a shot that surely warranted a sending off, but at the end of the day it was too little too late as Manly went doen 26-22.

The plight of the Warriors this year has been well documented. Having to leave NZ and relocate to Australia (normally not such a bad thing), their coach being sacked, and being severely undermanned as many of their playing group gradually pull up stumps and return to their families in NZ. There was even talk of Paul Gallen coming out of retirement to join their roster. On this basis there is no shame in losing to the Warriors, there was only embarrassment. A number of Manly players need to visit the room of mirrors after such a performance, particularly also bearing in mind this was coach Hasler’s 400th game as a coach – he deserved much better!

As was the case last week, with Manly now languishing even further down the table, the Sea Eagle now implores the NRL to pull stumps on season 2020 and put us all out of our misery. Games are becoming more meaningless each week and whoever takes the premiership this year (if we get that far) will forever be remembered as winning a title that no-one really gives a flying f#$k about.

Talking of the NRL, it has been noted that they have yet to formalise the appointment of a CEO to replace Todd Greenberg. Whilst the acting CEO, Andrew Adbo is doing a sterling job (by basically staying out of the way and letting Chairman Peter V’landys get things done), surely the NRL world deserves the certainty a formal appointment for this all important role.

Whilst the Sea Eagle as always stands ready, if called upon, there is another prime canditate waiting in the wings to take the reigns at the NRL. That being none other than Victorian Premier Dan Andrews whose handling of the COVID situation in that state is a shining example of administrative and managerial excellence that once was the exclusive domain of rugby league senior management. 

The NRL have a proud history of appointing ex state ALP premiers to key positions, and come the next election its likely that Premier Dan will freed up for new opportunities and will be on the radar for a new challenge.

The Return of DFI

Only a month ago, Paul McGregor stood alone as the only remaining DFI (i.e. Dark Force Influenza for the young kiddies who were not reading the Sea Eagle back in 2005) infected non-premiership winning ex Dragon in the NRL coaching ranks, and he was only hanging on by a thread as the Dragons season was in free fall. A few wins later and he at least looks like seeing out the season.

Then we had the news that the DFI infected non-premiership winning ex Dragon/Shark Trent Barrett had been appointed to the head job at the Bulldogs for next season. There is no need for the Sea Eagle to make further comment about this appointment that has not already been said.

And now to top it off, it has been reported that the DFI infected non-premiership winning ex Dragon, and coaching failure at the Knights, Nathan Brown has been appointed to the head job at the Warriors next season.

 As was the case in Barretts appointment, surely those in charge of this decision at the very least should have sought explanation and clarification of the following questions and issues, during the interview and appointment process. Namely; “Nathan:

Have you won an NRL premiership as a player?

Have you won an NRL premiership as a coach?

Have you ever been coached at NRL club level by a premiership winner?

As a player were you ever coached by DFI patient zero, Brian Smith?

Is it possible that as a consequence of the above question, that you are infected with DFI which is still transmittable to players that you coach?

As a coach, did you ever publicly slap a player (who was also a DFI infected, ex-Dragon, non-premiership winner?) and who now coaches the Dogs?

Will you and said new Dogs Coach create a new Cup the next time the Warriors play the Dogs, known simply as the DFI Cup? Will there be a slap off in the case of a draw?

Were you sacked from your previous NRL head coaching role?

Has any team since your sacking, under a new coach improved (to wit the Newcastle Knights?)?

The fact that these three, McGregor, Barrett and now Brown will all have NRL head jobs, beggars belief and highlights the ignorance and lack of rugby league acumen by so many in Club NRL management positions. The fact that the Clubs in question (i.e. Dragons, Bulldogs and Warriors) have become perennial bottom feeders is no coincidence.

And Finally Some Controversy

It was reported during the week that the appropiately named Bronco’s winger Katoni Staggs was involved in some form of leaked sex video featuring himself and a busty teen.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8600463/NRL-Kotoni-Staggs-sex-tape-scandal-Teen-allegedly-involved-identified.html

In normal circumstances it would be fair to assume that the leaking of said video would have been the handy work of the NRL player in question (think Tyrone May, Big Papi etc). However in this instance it has been revealed, following extensive viewing by the NRL Integrity Dept, that young Staggs was the victim of what has been termed “revenge porn” as the video was released by the female participant in response to being jilted by Staggs who apparently refused to partake in a threesome with her and a friend. Surely it remains now for the NRL Integrity Dept to get to the bottom of why such a reasonable request by this young lady and her friend was declined by young Staggs!

Whilst, this is fairly lame in terms of controversy, its as good as it gets in season 2020, and we can only hope that the 2020 competition is brought to an end asap with that the mother of all off-seasons will follow.

  Rules are not Rules

Last week the Sea Eagle reported NRL Supremo Peter V’Landys edict that there needs to be flexibility in rules interpretation. The Sea Eagle never thought however, that many in senior positions in rugby league would take this to heart.

Here is the tale of the tape of this week’s Covid 19 protocol cluster breaches (in and of themselves they are basically meaningless, but in these challenging times, with the game’s TV revenues on the line, it still does beggar belief that somethng so simple can be flouted in the misguided belief that no one would find out):

South Sydney coach Wayne Bennett fined $20,000 for breaching NRL's coronavirus protocols - Wayne Bennett had already been stood down for two weeks by the NRL after it was revealed on Thursday 6 August he and his partner had lunch at a restaurant in the inner-west Sydney suburb of Leichhardt

The Broncos Alan Langer and two other football staff members - Ryan Whitley and Blake Duncan - attended a private function in Brisbane to mark Langer's birthday - with only a few people in a private dining room upstairs at the Caxton Hotel in Brisbane. NRL breach notices have followed.

Dragon Prop Paul Vaughan was stood down and forced into a 14-day isolation "hold" after he was spotted dining at an Illawarra café ahead of his side's 24-16 loss to the Roosters on Thursday 6 August 2020. Vaughan apparently admitted to Nine News that he was at the cafe, although he has denied using a false name at the venue to escape detection.

Broncos star Tevita Pangai jnr will be fined for breaching the NRL's biosecurity rules after being caught up in a police raid on a Brisbane barber shop, after the 24-year-old Tongan international allegedly attended the opening of a barber shop which has been linked to a notorious bikies group.

Brisbane Broncos head coach Anthony Seibold has also joined three of his Broncos assistants (see above) in being placed on a "COVID hold", meaning he will be away from the team for 14 days. The Broncos played in Sydney on Friday night 7 August 2020, and Seibold allegedly stayed behind to attend to "a serious family matter”. He is expected to return to Brisbane in the next two days but will then have to isolate for two weeks.

Sea Eagle Comment

With the exception of Coach Siebold, who surely must fall into the Peter V’Landys exceptional circumstances justification for breaking rules category, the rest is not much more than what would be expected.

Although the Wayne Bennett breach is rather distressing. Of all people, one would have thought Wayne Bennett had the capacity to understand. Still it just goes to show that none of us are perfect.

And for Coach Siebold, a 2 week break might be just what the Broncos need to stop their slide to the spoon.

The Sea Eagle of course considers the whole Covid 19 protocols for NRL teams as nothing short of a farce. Witness Victoria, who had all the resources in the world but still couldn’t stop private escort (sorry security) guards in quarantine hotels from having sex and generally close contact with those they were supposed to be guarding. It’s a bit much to demand perfection from NRL participants if that is the benchmark from an Australian State government.

Frankly, and the Sea Eagle has said this before, a new town needs to be created. The Sea Eagle now calls on the NRL to buy some cheap land out in outer Western NSW and just call it Chatswuhan , with the motto – No Eating of Bats Allowed.

This would be a town where rugby league and NRL officialdom go, for the sole purpose of completing the 2020 season. Persons from outside said Chatswuhan bubble could of course enter, but the usual rules apply, i.e. big Maroon sign at the border – Warning Chatswuhan is an NRL sanctioned Non-Bat Eating town - enter at own risk”.

Mandatory self isolation would also be required if anyone chose to leave (a bit like the Eagles song Hotel California, i.e. the reality is you can check out but you can never really leave).

Inside the said Chatswuhan bubble it would be a veritable free for all, a bit like Dodge City in the days of the wild west (with the exception of course – no eating of Bats).

As the man on the fat aka Sam Kekovich famously said, you know it makes sense.

 THE SEA EAGLE