I just watched the most excellent movie “Point Break,” and I don’t quite know how this happens because I think Keanu Reeves is actually rather lame as an actor but, damn, he’s in some great films.
Tax Returns? We don’t need no steenkeeng tax returns.
Anyway, there’s a scene just after their 1st parachute jump, the one where Keanu Reeves actually had a parachute although he already suspected that they knew he was an undercover agent and therefore they had a seriously strong motive to kill him. The guy who had been wearing the LBJ mask during the robberies is lying dead, in the desert, in Mexico and dollar bills are blowing away in the wind, and it put me powerfully in mind of another one of my favorite films, “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.”
There’s a scene in that film, back when they’re still up on the mountain, before Bogart goes nuts, but after they’ve discovered gold. It’s the scene everybody knows, the one that always gets quoted. The bandits are coming up the mountain and they say they are the police and somebody, probably Bogart, says ‘let’s see your badges’ and the guy says “badges….we don’t need no steenkeeng badges.”
And that puts me in mind of the Romney campaign, and in fact the whole Republican attitude.
Tax Returns? We don’t need no steenkeeng tax returns.
Plans? We don’t need no steenkeeng plans.
Facts? We don’t need no steenkeeng facts.
It is the most bizarre campaign ever. They should be running at about 1 or 2%, like the libertarians or the greens. You couldn’t even get elected to the student council by answering questions with “I’m not going to tell you.”
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