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* Crops up memorably in ''[[Scent of a Woman]]''. Charlie Simms has been dragged around New York City by the retired, blind, and terminally irritable [[Colonel Badass|Colonel Slade]] who he is supposed to be babysitting. His fortitude pays off, however, when Slade unexpectedly [[Shaming the Mob|intercedes]] before the school's disciplinary committee which has been convened to force Charlie Simms to testify against his classmates or be expelled. The colonel's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH4p9BQ3V9o speech] is the paradigmatic movie speech, beginning a bit [[Unaccustomed as I Am to Public Speaking|roughly]], moving into a [[Hannibal Lecture|withering indictment]] against the establishment, and ending in [[Rousing Speech|thunderous applause]]. |
* Crops up memorably in ''[[Scent of a Woman]]''. Charlie Simms has been dragged around New York City by the retired, blind, and terminally irritable [[Colonel Badass|Colonel Slade]] who he is supposed to be babysitting. His fortitude pays off, however, when Slade unexpectedly [[Shaming the Mob|intercedes]] before the school's disciplinary committee which has been convened to force Charlie Simms to testify against his classmates or be expelled. The colonel's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH4p9BQ3V9o speech] is the paradigmatic movie speech, beginning a bit [[Unaccustomed as I Am to Public Speaking|roughly]], moving into a [[Hannibal Lecture|withering indictment]] against the establishment, and ending in [[Rousing Speech|thunderous applause]]. |
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== Folklore == |
== Mythology and Folklore == |
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* In "The Tinderbox," a soldier has a magical tinderbox which enables him to summon large-eyed dogs to do his bidding. He uses the dogs to get a look at the princess of the kingdom, with whose beauty he falls deeply in love, but is captured and sentenced to be burned at the stake. While in prison, he catches the attention of a boy and recruits him to retrieve the tinderbox from his room at the inn, which he later uses to escape. The boy does this for him, because he remembers the soldier buying food for his family when they were impoverished. |
* In "The Tinderbox," a soldier has a magical tinderbox which enables him to summon large-eyed dogs to do his bidding. He uses the dogs to get a look at the princess of the kingdom, with whose beauty he falls deeply in love, but is captured and sentenced to be burned at the stake. While in prison, he catches the attention of a boy and recruits him to retrieve the tinderbox from his room at the inn, which he later uses to escape. The boy does this for him, because he remembers the soldier buying food for his family when they were impoverished. |
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* In Hindu Mythology, there's a story like this in Krishna's childhood (Krishna, of course, is the 8th Avatar of Vishnu who is revered as the god of love and compassion, but like most heroes, he was a child once.) As the story goes, he was watching his mother churn butter, when a fruit seller comes to his family's door, and his father gives her a bushel of grain in exchange for some mangoes. Krishna quickly figures out how capitalism works, and, because he's hungry and ''really'' wants some of those mangoes, grabs two handfuls of grain and rushes after the fruit seller, hoping to make his own trade. But, being a small child, he stumbles and drops it. The fruit seller helps him up and gives him a few anyway. When she continues on her way, she finds the grain Krishna's father gave her has ''turned to gold'', a divine reward for her kindness. |
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== [[Literature]] == |
== [[Literature]] == |
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