From: Valuemetaphysics@aol.com
Date: Mon Jun 28 2004 - 21:27:45 BST
Part I.
Dear forum,
Robert Redford directed the movie A river runs through it. Here is a
synopsis:
Theatrical Release: October 1992.
Shot on Seeley Lake, near Missoula, Montana. The film could not be made on
the Big Blackfoot River, where the story was set, due to environmental damage.
The novella A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT was published by the University of Chicago
Press in 1976. Work began on the script for the film in 1988. Many filmmakers
had already tried to option the novella, written by Norman Maclean, a
University of Chicago professor and three-time award winner for excellence in
teaching. He allowed Robert Redford to make the book into a movie on the condition
that he would maintain Maclean's focus on fly-fishing.
"In our family, there was no clear line between religion and
fly-fishing."--Norman Maclean (Robert Redford, narrating)
"If our father had had his say, nobody who did not know how to fish would be
allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him."--Norman Maclean (Robert Redford,
narrating)
"...A mesmerizing family memoir fueled by sense of place, force of memory and
love of nature....[Pitt] makes himself so like the young Robert Redford that
the effect is astonishing..."
- New York Times 10/09/1992"...It's the best movie ever whose raison
d'etre is the spiritual glorification of fly-fishing..."
- USA Today 10/09/1992"...Poetic, elegiac....The movie was shot on
locations that suggest the bounty of the Western states in those days..."
- Chicago Sun-Times 10/09/1992
http://www.videoflicks.com/titles/1041/1041897.htm?14107
MOQer's will be familiar with Redford's interest in ZAMM and Quality. MOQer's
may explore the parallels between ZAMM and A river runs through it for
themselves. I wish to note the central issue of fly fishing and coherence in the
MOQ.
Maintaining a relationship with the sweet spot is crucial to good fly
fishing. In The edge of chaos the sweet spot is described in MOQ terms as exceptional
tension between patterns of static Quality such that Dynamic Quality becomes
more influential: Coherence.
Coherence incorporates all static patterns, Inorganic, (Mountain, river, sky)
Organic, (Human, fly, fish) Social (Kin) and Intellectual (Symbolic
relationships representing rod/line mechanics). This process begins with the
relationship between Human and fishing rod; in ZAMM it begins with the relationship
between Human and Motorcycle.
Sandstrom identifies the rod's "sweet spot"—its most comfortable casting
distance—at about 40 to 50 feet. If required, however, this medium-fast rod can
launch at whole line.
http://www.abelreels.com/pages/rra.htm
All Quarrow rods, including the Dream Catcher series, are hand splined by a
technician at the plant. Hand splining ensures the angler that the guides are
placed on the 'sweet spot' of the blank, utilizing the full potential of the
blank. This is why all Quarrow rods of the same size and action feel the same.
You never have to worry about two or three of the same rods having two or three
different feels, they are consistent.
http://www.hotspotfishing.com/public/articles/fish-83.asp
Part II follows.
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