For those of you have not seen the movie the Godfather, this clip was intense. Let me catch
you up even if you have seen the movie.
Story goes like this Don Vito Corleone a boss of one of the crime families in New York receives a request from a fellow boss, Sollozzo. Sollozzo wants to expand his influence and increase his cash flow by selling heroin, and wants Don Corleone to front him some money to get his business going.
Don Corleone refuses, so Sollozzo has him gunned down in the street. Sollozzo kidnaps Vitos consigliere while Vito's son Sonny assumes command after Vito was wounded. Sollozzo tries to convince Sonny to fund his business.
Vito recovers and Sollozzo makes another attempt on Vito's life, this time his younger son Michael ( Al Pacino ) stops the attempt, and gets his jaw broken by the captain of the NY police, Mc Cluskey,
McCluskey is one of Sollozzo's politcal ties ( when you're selling drugs I suppose a crooked cop would come in handy ), and is the other guest at the table. Michael agrees to meet them to sort things out, and knows that Sollozzo isn't going to stop until he gets what he wants, so he's got to whack him.
I chose this scene for it's setting, this is probably the most famous dinner scene in any movie that I can think of. You usually don't whack people at the dinner table, I suppose it depends on how hangry you are, but typically the dinner table is a pleasant place.
Which leads me to the title of this blog, "Motivation".
Motivation - the reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way.
At the dinner table ( unless you're Michael Corleone ) you are motivated to fill that belly, and satisfy those taste buds. When it comes to food you will typically follow your nose.
Food is sort of a pleasure, some people eat to live, and others will live to eat. We are motivated by survival instincts, whether it's carnal or sophisticated.
Hedonism is the school of thought that your well-being is surrounded about seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. The school of thought was initially established under Aristippus of Cyrene, an early Socratic school. The idea was that intrisic good was surrounded about pleasure. Not in the erotic sense you perverts. We make our decisions by how we gauge its worth.
What an easy way to tell whether or not you are doing it right...right? Do I like it, does it make me feel good, how painful was it to get it? Well along with this concept is ethical hedonism, and basically how this goes "is this proposed idea that we are going to introduce generate more pain than good for the masses", if it's not too painful let's do it.
Let's do it.
Story goes like this Don Vito Corleone a boss of one of the crime families in New York receives a request from a fellow boss, Sollozzo. Sollozzo wants to expand his influence and increase his cash flow by selling heroin, and wants Don Corleone to front him some money to get his business going.
Don Corleone refuses, so Sollozzo has him gunned down in the street. Sollozzo kidnaps Vitos consigliere while Vito's son Sonny assumes command after Vito was wounded. Sollozzo tries to convince Sonny to fund his business.
Vito recovers and Sollozzo makes another attempt on Vito's life, this time his younger son Michael ( Al Pacino ) stops the attempt, and gets his jaw broken by the captain of the NY police, Mc Cluskey,
McCluskey is one of Sollozzo's politcal ties ( when you're selling drugs I suppose a crooked cop would come in handy ), and is the other guest at the table. Michael agrees to meet them to sort things out, and knows that Sollozzo isn't going to stop until he gets what he wants, so he's got to whack him.
I chose this scene for it's setting, this is probably the most famous dinner scene in any movie that I can think of. You usually don't whack people at the dinner table, I suppose it depends on how hangry you are, but typically the dinner table is a pleasant place.
Which leads me to the title of this blog, "Motivation".
Motivation - the reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way.
At the dinner table ( unless you're Michael Corleone ) you are motivated to fill that belly, and satisfy those taste buds. When it comes to food you will typically follow your nose.
Food is sort of a pleasure, some people eat to live, and others will live to eat. We are motivated by survival instincts, whether it's carnal or sophisticated.
Hedonism is the school of thought that your well-being is surrounded about seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. The school of thought was initially established under Aristippus of Cyrene, an early Socratic school. The idea was that intrisic good was surrounded about pleasure. Not in the erotic sense you perverts. We make our decisions by how we gauge its worth.
What an easy way to tell whether or not you are doing it right...right? Do I like it, does it make me feel good, how painful was it to get it? Well along with this concept is ethical hedonism, and basically how this goes "is this proposed idea that we are going to introduce generate more pain than good for the masses", if it's not too painful let's do it.
Let's do it.
Author: admin
Obviously my interests include philosophy. I think thinking and thought are the beginning of every great thing. It’s how we understand and perceive the world. Periodically I’ll change things up and blog about something math or computer science related or even a blog about mythology. I am not political, trendy, or savvy, but I do like a good story. That is why I try and find a movie clip that hints or encompasses what I want to blog about. Sometimes the relevance is there, sometimes it’s a reach and I just really love the movie that I put in the post. The intent and purpose of my blog is to make you think, make me think and together our thoughts can be shared in a collection of material.