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| High Noon (1952) |
Sony execs
should have watched High Noon before responding so cravenly to the hack
attacks. They’d have known better than to cut and run. In the classic film, the
town’s legal authority, the Judge -- who is advising Marshal Will Kane to cut
and run – says: “this is just a dirty
little village in the middle of nowhere, nothing that happens here is really important.”
Will Kane,
who does not cut and run, knows
better.
All the other
Hollywood studios – every single one -- Sony’s alleged creative partners, who also
cut like “craven cowards,” refusing
to stand up for Sony, should have watched High Noon, too. As Helen Ramirez says
to her ex-lover, the deputy Harvey Pell: “…
Kane will be dead in half an hour, and nobody is going to do anything about it
… and when he dies, this town dies, too.”
Unlike Sony,
Helen Ramirez understood what makes a democracy work; understood why a
democracy works.
In acceding
to the demands of the hackers -- in cutting and running -- Sony execs have made
it sadly clear that they do not
understand what makes a democracy work. Because what happens to one single film
studio in Hollywood – “this dirty little
village” – matters, indeed.
-John Mulholland, Writer/Director
