[Vision2020] Moscow's fortune cookie crumbles?

[Phil Nisbet]

Actually Joan, Richard Greene starred in the lead role of the 1951 version 
of Lorna Doone.

In the plot the bad old guys ride out to rob and take taxes from the 
surrounding country side, but the good guy, stops them and marries the girl, 
who gets shot in the final act, but lives.

Significance of the 1869 Blackmore Book was that he ‘froze it in time’ by 
writing the whole of the speech and style in 17th century English.  There 
have been ten remakes of the movie and a mini-series over the years.

In the movie version the nasty old Doone’s are high grading tax funds and 
living in a castle, which they have actually stolen from its rightful owner, 
none other than Lorne, who is really the daughter of the displaced nobleman, 
though nobody knows it.  It seemed pretty similar to the state of affairs 
claimed by some for the current situation here in Moscow.

However, if you want to use Brigadoon as an example of a small community 
frozen in time, which only appears once every hundred years, feel free.  I 
prefer the Exmoor, Devon example myself.

And Joan, very soberly, how about yourself?

Phil Nisbet

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