Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers )
Last Night’s Saturday Night Drive is exactly what we had hoped for when we first came up with the idea of a ‘live blog Post’. In attendance: Molly and DS#1 and Ms AKH ( all three, en el tablero de instrumentos ), driving conditions optimal, light traffic and good (cell phone) signal strength throughout the Drive. We even ‘ran long’ but no one seemed to mind, except, of course, those of us left behind when Molly announced Dinner! *
What made last night’s Drive so enjoyable was the mix of causal with the informative, a free-ranging conversation with the Wakefield Doctrine as the underlying theme. And like all good conversations, the topic went from A to B to M to (paragraph 4.3) back to A (with modifications)!
Last night was no exception! We started with the fun of writing blog Posts when you don’t have a clue as to how to finish what you have started and then touched on a Post from earlier this week in which a Comment thread that Molly started (and DS#1 fueled) took the participants into unexpected areas and then (somehow) to women’s fashions in the 1940’s and 50s to the differences between the clark-roger relationship and the scott-roger relationship on to how to use certain ‘predictive’ aspects of the Doctrine to get new Readers interested in wanting to learn more about the Wakefield Doctrine, finally on to practical application of the Wakefield Doctrine in a “difficult-to-deal-with-but-they’re-family-so-what-are-you-gonna-do?” situation which is something that we all encounter at one (or more) points in life.
You should call in next Saturday Night! ( write this down: (no, that’s alright I’ll wait!…… (try the other coat!!)….. ) ok, ready now? 218-339-0422 when our hostess asks you: 512103# ) There! So make a note on your Calendar: Saturday 8:00 pm EST )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFbCOA0C-1c* Pork chops and rice…which got everyone to remberfying porkchop-centric food groups…the meters all went into the red when someone ( probably DS#1) went to ‘porkchops and onion gravy on rice
About clarkscottroger
Of course – a classic clark, scott roger situation. But some of us out there…..Molly!….have never seen the film. Go Molly! Now! and watch Casablanca.
Me, got to go look up the recipe for those damn porkchops. Wait! It was one of those verbally passed down through the ages, told to children half paying attention, slip the scribbled half recipe on a slip of paper and just shove it in that book…yeah, the one over there. (of course that’s a cookbook!)
…for our (younger) Readers… go see it and/or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca_(film) ” read about it and remember this is not a test, nor is it totally by the numbers…let me explain…
in the ‘feature’ photo there is Victor, Ilsa and Rick ( one of each of the three personality types) and throughout the movie there are other clarks, scotts and rogers, of course. What is fun about using a well-known movie like Casablanca is that we can reference characters and see them interacting, thereby illustrating the personality types, for example Rick and Louis ( scott-scott) Rick and Sam ( scott-clark) and so on…
So have fun and tell us who is which
Yes. What better learning tool than film/cinema.
Now here’s a question: the scene in the bar in which the energy is being amped – enter one of the main characters (clark, scott or roger?) who is able to unify via extreme emotion….
Allons enfants de la patrie,
Le jour de gloire est arrivé !
Contre nous de la tyrannie
L’étendard sanglant est levé ! (bis)
Entendez-vous dans les campagnes,
Mugir ces féroces soldats ?
Ils viennent jusque dans nos bras
Égorger nos fils, nos compagnes !
Refrain
Aux armes, citoyens !
Formez vos bataillons !
Marchons ! Marchons !
Qu’un sang impur
Abreuve nos sillons !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM-E2H1ChJM
Allons! Give me an r, give me an o, give me a g-e-r!
a very interesting scene…
(nationalism is very much a rogerian thing… a big, big herd with guns and school systems)
while the scene is a set piece for the rogers… watch the scott(s) and the clark!
especially pay attention to Ilsa’s expression (in contrast to the weeping rogerian woman)…. Ilsa is there, among the crowd, but she in not singing, she is not standing and if you watch her eyes, she seems to be spending some time somewhere else…while all the rogers are singing!
as so often we see, the eyes are the key to mind, ie what kind of world is the person seeing? Victor is totally singing…but he is more about getting the herd to sing with him…and it may be my imagination but I would swear that, if you look closely, Victor’s eyes are looking in separate directions (the better to see the whole herd, I suppose)
‘course, the scotts are sitting this one out…plenty of time to feed later as the rogers bask, half-asleep in the glow of fellowship, like over-fed cattle…leaning up against the fence totally satisfied, completely oblivious
We all know the phrase “the eyes are the windows to the soul”. Think about it. So it follows that the eyes reveal how each of us views the world. Look at the clip from Casablanca, no, not simply look but see. Everyone’s face. Louis in particular, Rick of course and as mr. csr alludes to – Ilsa. Look at Ilsa’s eyes – no way she is thinking about whether to sing or not……it’s all in the Doctrine. Huh…..
…seeing it’s Monday morning and all…lets get all academic on our own damn asses!
@DS#1 Your statement to totally true, but lets shift the perspective, just a little. The eyes are, as you point out, primary identifying characteristics for the three personality types. If I may add, we are not just looking into the souls of these people, we are looking out from from inside of them too!
You have captured the evidence of a clark (in Ilsa) perfectly with “…no way she is thinking about whether to sing or not.”
Good work!
Now the rest of you Readers out there, would anyone care to address the issue of what the hell is the deal with Victor Lazlo’s eyes?
About Lisa (from Wikipedia): Film critic Roger Ebert calls her “luminous”, and comments on the chemistry between her and Bogart: “she paints his face with her eyes”.
As to the picture I’m looking at of Victor: the smile is to make you comfortable while the eyes say “You’re Mine Motherfucker”.
This was one of the best calls! It was very useful and fun.
Love the song on this post… and yes, I’ll have to find that movie.
It was a great call!! You will love the movie:)