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To Begin the World Over Again: the Life of Thomas Paine

Ian Ruskin (Actor), Elliott Gould (Actor), Haskell Wexler (Director) Clasificado:
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Formato: DVD
4.5 de 5 estrellas 31
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Género Performing Arts
Formato Color, Pantalla completa, Versión del director
Contribuyente Ian Ruskin, Elliott Gould, Haskell Wexler
Idioma Inglés
Tiempo de ejecución 1 hora y 14 minutos

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Thomas Paine's life was a great arc. He arrived in Philadelphia as a remarkably unremarkable thirty-seven-year-old only to change the world, and then have the world he changed turn its back on him. He ignited the American Revolution, defined the French Revolution, and championed the Age of Reason, yet he died largely ignored and disdained. His ideas about democracy, equality, slavery, the Bible, pensions, health-care, education, and morality would have created a very different America had the other founding fathers listened to this most radical one. In this film Thomas Paine, performed by Ian Ruskin, will take you on this journey, from his birth to his death, with all the extraordinary events on the way. This is a film in real time of the staged one man performance in March of 2015 at the Lillian Theatre in Hollywood.

Detalles del producto

  • Descatalogado por el fabricante ‏ : ‎ No
  • Clasificación de MPAA ‏ : ‎ G (General Audience)
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Haskell Wexler
  • Formato multimedia ‏ : ‎ Color, Pantalla completa, Versión del director
  • Tiempo de ejecución ‏ : ‎ 1 hora y 14 minutos
  • Actores ‏ : ‎ Ian Ruskin, Elliott Gould
  • Estudio ‏ : ‎ Thomas Paine Productions
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01FOU5J8S
  • Número de discos ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Opiniones de clientes:
    4.5 de 5 estrellas 31

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Tim Lukeman
5.0 de 5 estrellas The best that a newborn country had to offer
Calificado en Estados Unidos el 8 de julio de 2017
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This is a superb work, both in its powerful performance by Ian Ruskin, who brings Thomas Paine to passionate life, and in its presentation of the man who did so much to create & champion the still-unrealized dream of a just & exemplary America. Anyone who knows even a little bit about Paine understands that he truly deserves pride of place among the Founding Fathers ... and yet he was never granted that place, and was in fact denigrated, defamed, and nearly forgotten even within his own lifetime.

Why?

Because when he spoke of democratic ideals, he actually meant them -- not merely as vague hopes for a future conveniently generations away, but here & now. He wanted the vote for all, men & women, white & black; he wanted an end to slavery; he wanted Native Americans to have a permanent place in the halls of government, as full citizens; he wanted a fair & humane country that ensured no one would go hungry, unhoused, uneducated. If his hopes were undercut then, they've been all but abandoned today & would undoubtedly be called un-American by far too many -- oh, cruel irony!

But his life isn't simply about politics or policy. It's about personal integrity -- walking the walk & not just talking the talk. If we needed him & his humane ideals then, we need them just as much now, perhaps even more urgently. If anyone wants to know what America is supposed to be at its best, this film is the perfect starting point. Deeply moving, often humorous in the midst of being quite serious, warm & thoughtful -- most highly recommended!
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Christie Hazen
5.0 de 5 estrellas Thomas Paine lives and his essence is eternal
Calificado en Estados Unidos el 29 de enero de 2018
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Edmund Smith writing here. Thomas Paine is not historical. He is the revolution that has yet to be won. The United States of America of 2018 has fallen lame and impotent - wholly unworthy of the blessings that Paine bequeathed our infant country. Where today is the great mind that would save our country from its basest natures? That our nation could at one time command the respect of the world and such a man as Thomas Paine - how demoralizing to now see it ruled by those who would destroy the Founding if they could - so long as they profited by it? If Thomas Paine ever dies in the memory of humankind - then our species was truly unfit - and another heaven and another Earth and another being must take up Paine's cause. Wherever in the Cosmos beings embrace Paine - there will reside success, peace, liberty, justice and equality. Paine is not of flesh and blood - he is truth conquering falsehood, service displacing slothfulness, right vanquishing wrong, honesty replacing dishonesty, the hand of friendship offered eternally. Ian Ruskin was marvelous in this video.
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ocean edgar
5.0 de 5 estrellas Funny to me
Calificado en Estados Unidos el 30 de mayo de 2018
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I am a hairdresser! And a seeker of truth where ever I find it. I am so enthralled to discover Thomas Paine's ideas and story, truly remarkable and so far ahead of his time and even our time. Funny to me, I discovered him while discussing Karl Marx with a client. I find the correlation between these great thinkers fascinating. Indeed, the birth of our country had so much potential to begin the world over again, to create a civilization human kind has not yet seen. But even Thomas Paine said that the natural state of human kind is not 'civilized'. I wonder, since we can't go back to our natural state, what can we make of this 'civilization'? I look to the teachings of the likes of Buddha and Epictetus for my own inner life, but what lies in the future for the world? If only this country had followed Paine's ideas and example! Blessings to the few who admire this man and take the time to listen to him.
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Alan Reid Bishop
4.0 de 5 estrellas Thomas Paine in Person
Calificado en Estados Unidos el 9 de marzo de 2021
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This is a wonderfully judged portrayal of a forgotter man who (only) changed the world. For the better. A man who came back from youthful failure to turn history on its head. Scriptwriter and actor Ian Rankin gives a well-rounded and evocative performance which will have you running to your local bookshop (or, more likely, Amazon of course!) to purchase books by and/or about him. The world will never see the likes of him again. Ever.
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RJColorado
5.0 de 5 estrellas These are the times that try men's souls
Calificado en Estados Unidos el 17 de julio de 2019
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I've watched the play twice and am perplexed. Here is the author of Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights of Man and The Age of Reason vilified, despised and hated by nearly all, but with the belief that "man is good". He believed in a better world, an idealist world, which most were against. As I watched the play, I felt the divisions that divided the Founding Fathers towards one another and thought how can anyone today say with any certainty the intent of the documents that govern our great nation. As I listened to the words of Paine, some passages sounded more as if they were written by Abraham Lincoln, FDR or Bernie Sanders of a more just and perfect union.
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Beez Neez
5.0 de 5 estrellas A necessity for the serious student of history and politics.
Calificado en Estados Unidos el 31 de julio de 2017
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One of the most thought-provoking, relevant and deeply moving portrayals, by Ian Ruskin, of Thomas Paine whose thoughts in the 18th Century were elemental in the foundations of America and of political discourse ever since. Not to be missed, especially by any serious student of government, history and politics, as well as of philosophy in general.
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Barbara D.
5.0 de 5 estrellas Worth watching!
Calificado en Estados Unidos el 10 de julio de 2017
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After watching a shorter version on PBS, I had to get this. I do not know how I never really read any of T. Paine's' works but it is never too late!
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Louis J. Brown
5.0 de 5 estrellas A wonderful look at Thomas Paine and his work.
Calificado en Estados Unidos el 3 de agosto de 2017
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This is a wonderful one man show that convincingly captures the spirit of Thomas Paine and makes his work more accessible from a modern perspective.
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