Why did the gardener get fired?

His master died

One of the better endings of any movie

For the religious folk, he is the Christ figure and of such pure spirit he must be divine.

For the empty vessel folks, he is so dumb / innocent / pure and the normal laws of reality do not affect him.

For the theatre set, he is breaking the 4th wall wall with the viewing audience as he has spent the entire production "watching" TV the way the audience has "watched" him through the film.

For the conspiracy crowd they deflect to the "All seeing eye" on the tomb at the end and an Ilumanatti cabal picking him as the next POTUS.




Louise: It's for sure a white man's world in America. Look here: I raised that boy since he was the size of a piss-ant. And I'll say right now, he never learned to read and write. No, sir. Had no brains at all. Was stuffed with rice pudding between th' ears. Shortchanged by the Lord, and dumb as a jackass. Look at him now! Yes, sir, all you've gotta be is white in America, to get whatever you want. Gobbledy-asian!

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the empty vessel

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Depends on the view ...

Shakespeare said "The empty vessel makes the loudest sound" to imply silence carries more weight than sound but if this is true, why is watching a Gary Cooper movie as a male (no homo) so difficult?

In Western thought at least 500 years ago it seemed to mean those with the least knowledge spoke the most or the loudest in volume. This seems like the Political Board.

With Buddha, the phrase is revealing in his teaching
There is a story in the Buddhist canon which tells us of a person rowing a boat across a very large lake. It is just before sunrise and there is a heavy fog. A fog so thick that the rower cannot see past the bow of his own row boat. Suddenly there is a SLAM and he has run into another boat head on. Our boatman is furious and begins yelling and screaming obscenities at the other boat. As he rows alongside, his angers dissipates as he realizes the boat he has run into is abandoned. There is no one there to get angry at, and thus…his anger subsides.

In the West the thought goes back to Plato but what did he mean in making the statement may be lost to time.




While I am an old school Catholic (pre Vatican II) I do find similarity in the monastic life of both the East and the West and may defer to Taoism and their concept of the "Uncarved Block" and some would claim both Winnie the Pooh (pre Disney) and Homer Simpson (especially the early years when Conan O'Brien was still writing the scripts) are examples of this train of thought.

Course, it could just mean the beer bottle is empty and time to get another cold one from the fridge.

So much to unpack here, from Gary Cooper homoeroticism to Tracey Ullman Show cartoon characters named after ancient Greek poets.

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those with the least knowledge speak with the loudest volume

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his anger dissipates as he realizes the boat he has run into is abandoned

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You're something else, Mr. Grits.

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I’m in.

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So I'm thinking we take some Jungian psychology, a dash of Eastern soteriological philosophy, cram it all into the mythological structure set out in Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces, run the whole escapade through an online translator or maybe ChatGPT, and basically come up with like the next perfect epic post from MercerBears.

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Gary Cooper homoeroticism

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To be fair, GC was no Bard



As for homoeroticism, it was more the "drill scene" in "The Fountainhead" with a total hottie (Patricia Neal) looking on. Much like Brad Pitt in "Thelma & Louise" sold tickets to women, same could be said about Gary Cooper in this movie (sadly no gif to post for full effect).

Patricia Neal for those who never watched her in a movie.