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Simulation, Revelation
The surest way to appreciate a work is to try to recreate it.
Toddlers help us to appreciate the difficulty of drawing or painting by their laughable scribbling. One might first pity the child’s lack of eye-hand coordination, lack of patience, or lack of barest attention to detail (“Is it an airplane? Oh, a cat! Of course, it is. It looks great!”). But few adults can sketch anything worthy of pride either. The more we advance in skill, the more we recognize the full challenge.
This line is spoken by Paul Beigler, a fictional small-town lawyer brilliantly played by Jimmy Stewart in the courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder. I don’t want to have to summarize the whole movie (if you haven’t seen it, though, please make sure to do so; it’s a great flick and also features George C. Scott in what I believe was his film debut), so I’m going to oversimplify the context of the scene.
The Expendables movies are good, silly, manly fun. The many references to classic action movies are rewarding. The older actors poke fun at themselves and harass each other, as men are wont to do. And there’s a lot of cool guns, hard hits, and big explosions. It’s G.I. Joe for adults.
