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Desmond Morgan
|No. -- Free agent
|Personal information
|Date of birth:
|September 9, 1992
|6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
|236 lb (107 kg)
|Career information
|High school:
|Holland (MI) West Ottawa
|Career highlights and awards
Desmond Morgan (born September 9, 1992) is an American football linebacker. He played college football for the Michigan Wolverines football team from 2011 to 2015. He was a 2011 ESPN.com and BTN.com Big Ten All-Freshman selection as well as a 2011 College Football News All-Freshman honorable mention for the 2011 team.
High school career[edit]
In high school, he was rated as the 24th and 42nd best high school football inside or middle linebacker in the national class of 2011 by ESPN and Scout.com, respectively.[1][2] Rivals.com rated him as the 25th best football player in the state of Michigan.[3] Morgan also played quarterback in high school.[4] Morgan was a Michigan Wolverines fan growing up,[5] and he committed to Michigan in early February 2011.[6][7]
|Home town
|High school / college
|Commit date
|Desmond Morgan
|Holland, Michigan
|West Ottawa (MI)
|6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
|225 lb (102 kg)
|Dec 23, 2010
|Scout: Rivals: 247Sports: N/A ESPN grade: 78
|Overall recruiting rankings: Scout: 42 (MLB) Rivals: 25 (MI) ESPN: 24 (ILB)
College career[edit]
2011 season[edit]
Morgan tweaked his hamstring at the end of training camp, which limited him early in the season.[8][9] Morgan is credited with starting the second game against Notre Dame on September 10,[4] however, he struggled with his hamstring in the rivalry game.[10] Brandon Hawthorne started the next five games. After seven games and a bye week, Morgan replaced Hawthorne as the starting weak-side linebacker based on superior performance.[11] In announcing Morgan's promotion to the starting lineup, head coach Brady Hoke said, "Desmond's got a great future. He's doing a lot of good things. We're excited about him."[12] In his second career start on October 29, 2011 against Purdue, he had a team-high nine tackles.[8][13] Morgan established career highs with 10 tackles in both of the final two games of the season: he posted 5 solo (including his only quarterback sack of the season) and five assists on November 26 in The Game against Ohio State and then he had seven solo tackles and three assists in the January 3, 2012 Sugar Bowl against Virginia Tech.[14] For the season, he earned 2011 Big Ten All-Freshman team recognition from both ESPN.com and BTN.com as well as 2011 College Football News All-Freshman honorable mention honors.[15][16][17]
2012 season[edit]
Morgan missed the September 15, 2012 game against Massachusetts due to injury.[18]
On October 13, 2012, Michigan designated Gerald R. Ford's former jersey, No. 48, as a Michigan Football Legend Jersey. Morgan was honored as the first recipient of the Ford legend jersey, switching from the No. 44 jersey to No. 48.[19][20] He earned Academic All-Big Ten recognition in 2012.[21]
2013 season[edit]
In week 3, against Akron during a third down and 1 goal line stand, Morgan made a key tackle for a loss in the final 20 seconds to preserve the 28–24 win.[22][23] In the fourth quarter of the fourth game against Connecticut on September 21, Morgan made a one-handed interception to preserve a 24–21 victory.[24][25] Morgan was named Athlon Sports Big Ten Defensive player of the week.[26]
2014 season[edit]
He only appeared in the season opener for the 2014 Michigan Wolverines football team against Appalachian State before injuring his hand and missing the rest of the season.[27]
2015 season[edit]
Morgan was granted a fifth year of eligibility after the NCAA approved his medical hardship waiver.[28] Through the first nine game of the 2015 season, Morgan was Michigan's leading tackler with 57 total tackles.[29] Following the 2015 Big Ten Conference football season, he was an All-Big Ten honorable mention selection.[30][31]
Professional career[edit]
Morgan went undrafted in the 2016 NFL Draft.[32]
- ^ "Desmond Morgan". ESPN. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
- ^ "#48 Desmond Morgan". Scout.com. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
- ^ "Desmond Morgan". Rivals.com. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
- ^ a b "Desmond Morgan 44". MGoBlue.com. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
- ^ Greer, Cris (2010-12-17). "West Ottawa linebacker Desmond Morgan commits to Michigan". Grand Rapids Press. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
- ^ Jon Schultz (February 2, 2011). "Desmond Morgan's signing with U-M football adds to growing legacy for Holland area". The Holland Sentinel.
- ^ Jeff Chaney (February 1, 2011). "Blizzard won't keep West Ottawa's Desmond Morgan from sending letter of intent to Michigan". The Grand Rapids Press.
- ^ a b Rohan, Tim (2011-10-31). "Notebook: Hoke likes the way Ryan and Morgan play linebacker". Michigan Daily. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
- ^ Cunningham, Pete (2011-10-31). "Brady Hoke on Iowa, road games and more from his weekly press conference". AnnArbor.com. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
- ^ Meinke, Kyle (2011-09-16). "Breaking down how Michigan's position groups are trending, including the big winner: Linebackers". AnnArbor.com. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
- ^ Meinke, Kyle (2011-10-28). "Michigan's Desmond Morgan to start at linebacker, becoming 5th freshmen to earn pronounced role on defense". AnnArbor.com. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
- ^ Alan Babbitt (October 29, 2011). "Desmond Morgan to make second start for Michigan football team vs. Purdue". The Holland Sentinel.
- ^ Alan Babbitt (October 30, 2011). "Brady Hoke calls Michigan football's Desmond Morgan 'very instinctive football player'". The Holland Sentinel.
- ^ "Team: Michigan: Year: 2011 Thru 12/31/11: Player: Desmond Morgan". National Collegiate Athletic Association. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
- ^ Rittenberg, Adam and Brian Bennett (2011-12-13). "ESPN.com's Big Ten All-Freshman team". ESPN. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
- ^ Dienhart, Tom (2011-12-12). "BTN.com's 2011 Big Ten All-Freshman Team". Big Ten Network. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
- ^ Cirminiello, Richard (2011-12-09). "2011 CFN All-Freshman Defensive Team". College Football News. Scout.com. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
- ^ Meinke, Kyle (2012-09-15). "Michigan down 5 starters with Desmond Morgan (head) Stephen Hopkins (hamstring) out against UMass". AnnArbor.com. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
- ^ "Ford Named Michigan Football Legend; Morgan to Wear No. 48 Jersey". MGoBlue.com. CBS Interactive. 2012-10-13. Retrieved 2012-10-19.
- ^ "LB wears Gerald Ford's number". ESPN.com. October 13, 2012.
- ^ "2012 Fall Academic All-Big Ten" (PDF). BigTen.org. CBS Interactive. 2012-12-06. Retrieved 2012-12-06.
- ^ Rutter, Eric (2013-09-24). "Michigan Zaps Zips". Michigan Times. Retrieved 2013-09-28.
- ^ "Akron 24 (1-2, 0-2 away); (11) Michigan 28 (3-0, 3-0 home)". ESPN. 2013-09-14. Retrieved 2013-09-28.
- ^ "Michigan Hangs On After Scare, Again". The New York Times. 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2013-09-28.
- ^ Vukelich, Liz (2013-09-21). "Notebook: Desmond Morgan, defense bail out stagnant offense". Michigan Daily. Retrieved 2013-09-28.
- ^ University of Michigan (2013-09-23). "@umichfootball status update". Twitter. Retrieved 2013-09-28.
- ^ Baumgardner, Nick (2014-10-27). "Michigan's Desmond Morgan done for the year, Jabrill Peppers' status uncertain". MLive.com. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
- ^ Rittenberg, Adam (February 10, 2015). "Desmond Morgan granted fifth year". ESPN.com. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
- ^ "2015 Michigan Football Statistics (9-game Totals)". University of Michigan. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
- ^ "Lewis, Peppers Lead Big Ten Defensive Yearly Honors". MGoBlue.com. CBS Interactive. 2015-11-30. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
- ^ "Defense and Special Teams Awards: Eight students receive individual honors, including inaugural Rodgers-Dwight Return Specialist of the Year". BigTen.org. CBS Interactive. 2015-11-30. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
- ^ Sang, Orion (April 30, 2016). "Undrafted Wolverines sign with NFL teams". The Michigan Daily. Retrieved July 15, 2016.


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Yeah we still play though... Unfortunately. Lulz
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you hitting that?
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lmao at this whole thread
also, it's not beta to go out of your way to do something to improve someone else's day. Ever. Good job OP.
Not with that attitude. You're probably one of those people who goes to church once a month and thinks that's your ticket through the pearly white gates.
Not sure why death would bother anyone....
I'm shocked at the srs responses in this thread that don't seem shocked at the fact that OP really needs to go to this Chinese buffet and every other Chinese buffet in town and then stop at every...
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Oh dear, here it is; all the information that should keep a would-be stalker occupied for… an hour or so. Any fully-fledged stalkers must provide me with their names and addresses (not so restraining orders can be obtained) before additional information can be released. Failure to comply will result in a sixteenth century curse being bestowed upon you. I think.
Does Derren have a middle name?
On Derren's DVD, Inside You Mind, he says "This is a DVD of me, DVB". The V is thought to stand for Victor.
How old is Derren and when is his birthday?
He is 44 years old and was born on 27th February, 1971.
How tall is he?
Estimates vary from 5′ 9″ to 5′ 10″.
What colour eyes has he got?
General consensus is that he has brown(ish) eyes.
Did he go to university?
He went to Bristol University to study Law and German where he gained a 2.1, though he has been quoted as saying "I didn't want to be a lawyer… or a German!"
Does Derren have a girlfriend?
Derren very quietly came out in 2007.
Who or what is Figaro?
Figaro is Derren's beloved pet parrot, but is being babysat in a sanctuary while Derren has to be away from home.
Is it true Derren likes taxidermy?
Yes, he says "…it's great: it freaks people out, people never return to your house and it wards off any unwanted sexual attention." He has a pet cat called Spasm which is a piece of taxidermy. Check out the Photos section to see a picture of Spasm.
Can Derren dance?
Derren was ranked in the top ten student dancers in the country in the category of ballroom dancing. If anyone would like to see Derren in action, so to speak, then check out the extras section of his DVD and see the 'amusing' reaction of an old lady who Derren is trying to 'mind read'. This is one clip not to miss just for he sheer comical value!"
How did Derren first start out?
He saw a hypnotist whilst he was at university and decided to learn about hypnotism. He also worked as a close-up magician for 10 years, but he said that he gained most pleasure from the psychology aspect of magic as the magic side leaves him rather cold. Derren has spent much time reading about psychology, and the rest, so they say, is history.
Is Derren psychic?
No. The techniques Derren uses may make him look psychic, but just remember his quote in Mind Control: "I control the conditions so my testers become my testees."
Does Derren hypnotise his participants?
Although he was once a hypnotist, there are many different forms of hypnosis, such as waking hypnosis (waking suggestion) and somnambulistic hypnosis. There are ways of suggesting and manipulating thoughts without formally hypnotising people, so although Derren does not hypnotise people per se, he makes use hypnotic suggestive techniques.
Does Derren use stooges?
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I want to write to Derren, how do I do so?
firstname.lastname@example.com. Derren's people will read this and will often reply very quickly. This is also the address for autograph requests. If you wish to use snail mail then the address is Derren Brown, c/o Michael Vine Associates, 29, Mount View Road, London N4 4SS., but email is preferred.
Does Derren have any another talents?
Derren paints fantastic caricatures of celebrities with a slight twist. To see some of his many paintings check out his official website. Hopefully sometime is the future he will hold an exhibition. Check out the News section for further details as and when the become available.


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Favorite hairstyles?
Almost everyone I know has a favorite one, cept the exception of this one friend I have who never makes up his mind. :? One day it's spikey and brown, the next it's lightly slicked back and blond (and his eyebrow ended up a little bleached, too. XD), and then the next day it was back to spiked, but black with red tips.
Seriously. XD
Mine depends on weather, but right now I'm keeping my hair down because it's so friggen cold in my house. -.-
I normally wear my hair in a pony tail, or in a braid. Some time's in the winter I let my hair hang.
Yeah! In summer when i have long hairs i put ponytail but now i have short hairs so i let it to hang.
I like to wear my hair in a messy bun or wavy/curly and in a half pony
my hair is long and blonde and kinda boring cause i dont know what to do with it and i hardly ever put it up
My hairstyle is my favorite. p=
Long. Shooort layers. p=
I think that I am going to get highlights that are goldan
I have natureal ones but i want them to be brighter
i want highlights but i dont know what color to do
i was thinking strawberry blonde highlights.........
I'm a hair model so I usually get all these wild hair cuts that rivals J-Rocker. XD The good thing about it is that I get my haircuts for free so its all good, the hair style I have now is a dramatic black bob with a two tones fringe (black and bright red) and I get a LOT of comments on it :D
I don't know if I have a favorite, but my hair is about an inch above my shoulders, not a bob, but not long, either....Meh. I'm thinking about growing my hair out to a little past my shoulders, getting layers, then dying chunks of my hair black (my hair's dark brown). Does that sound good to anyone?
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Webster says we ned to do something....then he should secure the border with a fence and start penalizing those who employ illegals.
- 12:29 p.m. Sept. 8, 2013
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Pretty obvious that it's all about politics and winning elections from some of these folks, and they'd readily side with Satan himself if they thought it would garner them a few more votes. Rewarding invaders with a "path to citizenship" (administered by our ultra-fair, ultra-efficient, ultra-transparent Federal government, of course) is like rewarding bank robbers and embezzlers with a path to prosperity.
- 12:43 p.m. Sept. 8, 2013
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"Doing nothing is amnesty."
Doing nothing still gives the the option to start enforcing laws in the future. The promise of enforcement in 1986 and 1996 have not been kept. The fence, e-verify, interior enforcement, more judges, and a visa entry/exit system check.
TSA over enforces the airports, and forgets the 9/11 bombers were here on overstayed visas. It's business and cheap labor against the American people. Wouldn't it better serve the national interest to get our citizens off of welfare and into good jobs with rising pay?
Once passed, we will see 46 million people in the next two decades, double the green cards and 2-4 times the work visas (already at 3.2 million per year)
- 1:44 p.m. Sept. 8, 2013
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Please Republicans...or Tea Particans or Conservicans or whatever label you
Please continue to do everything you are doing, except do it even more and much faster.
Thank you!
- 10:03 p.m. Sept. 8, 2013
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Those who are here without legal paperwork or permission already have a
"pathway to citizenship". It's just that they have refused to take
it. So now they expect the US Gov't to create an easier "pathway to
citizenship" just for them because they refused to obey our laws. What
indication do we have that millions more of their countrymen will not follow in
their footsteps if we as a Nation allow them an easier path for ignoring our
laws? Can we support another 50 to 60 million unauthorized entrants over the
next 10 years?
What proof do we have that our Gov't will enforce the Immigration Laws if they are changed? They have refused to fully enforce the current ones from 1986 and 1996 for even 1 year since they were changed then.
We need to do 4 years of full enforcement and then review the results.
- 6:42 a.m. Sept. 9, 2013
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The Senate's BIPARTISAN Immigration bill is a good compromise. The House should pass it so the country can move on.
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informed voter. I wonder how much it would cost to build a fence from CA to Texas. I believe an 1100 mile fence would cost billions. And then immigrants would find a way around it. Illegal immigration is an economic not a criminal problem, a concept that that the far right refuses to accept. Ridiculous comments about immigrants carrying disease just make the anti-immigration crowd look like bigots and racists.
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Mayor Bloomberg Donates $220 Million to Fight Smoking Abroad
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who fought for anti-smoking legislation in the city, said he would donate $220 million to help reduce tobacco use in China, India and elsewhere in the developing world.
Bloomberg has already pledged money to target the low- and middle-income countries where, according to the World Health Organization, three-quarters of the 1 billion smokers worldwide live. Today's pledge brings his total to more than $600 million.
Since 2007, 60 countries have passed at least one policy to limit tobacco, including bans on smoking in any workplace, graphic warnings about the harms of cigarette use displayed on packs, prohibitions on advertising as well as taxes and anti-tobacco advertising. About 6 million people a year die from smoking, including more than 600,000 nonsmokers who were exposed to second-hand smoke, according to the WHO.
"It is a scourge, all over the world," Bloomberg said in a press conference. "Smoking kills the user, but it also can kill the people who are innocent and just happen to be in the neighborhood, if you will."
More than 80 countries have received support from the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use and since 2007, 30 countries have passed at least one of the protection policies the WHO defines as a high-level effort.
Bloomberg Initiative
"There's a long way to go on the policy side," said Kelly Henning, director of Public Health Programs at Bloomberg Philanthropies, in a telephone interview.
A significant concern is the marketing efforts of the tobacco industry, targeting young children with advertising and sweetened cigarettes, she said.
The Bloomberg initiative supports the efforts of governments to implement new laws, and works with non-governmental organizations to lobby, Henning said. In addition, the group sponsors anti-tobacco-advertising. The mayor is founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News parent Bloomberg LP.
During his first year in office, in 2002, Bloomberg persuaded the New York state legislature to increase the city's cigarette tax to $1.50 from 8 cents per pack and the city council to ban smoking in workplaces, including bars and restaurants. As of December 2010, 25 states and the District of Columbia had enacted similar no-smoking laws, along with Uruguay, the U.K., France, Italy, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
"If you go around and see the success that we've had in reducing smoking, particularly in New York City, one of the reasons we've been able to be successful is that if you smoke, it hurts me," Bloomberg said. "There's a big block of people, namely 80 percent of people who don't smoke, who wish that the other 20 percent did not smoke."
Anti-Tobacco Awards
About one-third of the world's smokers live in China, and 10 percent live in India, Henning said. In China, the state owns the largest tobacco company, China National Tobacco Corp., "and that makes it a very challenging environment," she said. Even so, cities like Shanghai and Beijing have enacted smoking bans.
Bloomberg Philanthropies recognized six organizations today during the 15th World Conference on Tobacco or Health for their efforts in fighting tobacco use in low- and middle-income countries. The Bloomberg Awards for Global Tobacco Control are being presented during a ceremony in Singapore.
The winners include Health Justice of the Philippines, for monitoring industry efforts to influence tobacco control measures, and the Turkish National Coalition on Tobacco or Health, a grouping of more than 40 organizations, for advocating for a strong tobacco control law and monitoring its implementation.
Biggest Warnings
Uruguay's Ministry of Health won an award for implementing the largest cigarette pack warnings in the world, taking up 80 percent of both the front and back of the package, and defending the move in a lawsuit brought by a major tobacco company.
A joint award went to Corporate Accountability International Colombia and Fundacion para la Educasion y el Desarrollo Social for strengthening the implementation of Colombia's tobacco advertising and sponsorship ban.
An award also went to Egypt's Ministry of Finance, for implementing a 100 percent tax on shisha tobacco, which is smoked in water pipes, and cigarette taxes that now represent 70 percent of the pack price for the most popular cigarette brand in the country, generating more than $2.2 billion in government revenue annually.


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With Lenin's Ideas Dead, Russia Weighs What to Do With BodyBreaking News
Now the inevitable question has returned. Should his body be moved? Revisiting a proposal that thwarted Boris N. Yeltsin, who faced down tanks but in his time as president could not persuade Russians to remove the Soviet Union's founder from his place of honor, a senior aide to President Vladimir V. Putin raised the matter last week, saying it was time to bury the man.
"Our country has been shaken by strife, but only a few people were held accountable for that in our lifetime," said the aide, Georgi Poltavchenko. "I do not think it is fair that those who initiated the strife remain in the center of our state near the Kremlin."
In the unending debate about what exactly the new Russia is, the subject of Lenin resembles a Rorschach inkblot test. People project their views of their state onto him and see what they wish. And so as Mr. Poltavchenko's suggestion has ignited fresh public sparring over Lenin's place, both in history and in the grave, the dispute has been implicitly bizarre and a window into the state of civil society here.
First came a rush to second the idea, from figures including Nikita Mikhalkov, a prominent film director and chairman of the Russian Cultural Foundation, who shares Mr. Poltavchenko's distaste for the relic.
"Vast funds are being squandered on a pagan show," Mr. Mikhalkov told Russian journalists, saying that Lenin himself wished to be buried beside his mother in St. Petersburg. "If we advocate Christian ideals, we must fulfill the will of the deceased."
Then came the backlash. Gennadi I. Zyuganov, leader of Russia's remnant of the Communist Party, lashed out at proponents of moving the remains, insisting that Lenin had no wish to be buried elsewhere.
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This reboot of the iconic Japanese monster movie series features spectacular special effects, a better than expected story and some good performances.
There's a special effects action shot about two thirds into "Godzilla" that made me gasp. In this era of over-the-top digital special effects, that's hard to do.
The scene involves a bunch of soldiers on a high-altitude skydive over San Francisco as two behemoth creates lay waste to the city. As one soldier hurtles to the ground, he passes Godzilla, all 30 stories of the big lizard. We get to see his teeth, scales, stubby arms and tree trunk legs as the sky diver floats by.
Director Gareth Edwards quiets the soundtrack — which is filled with Alexandre Desplat's thunderous score and ear-splitting sound effects — to let the images speak for themselves. It's a great moment. As is pretty much every moment that the iconic monster is on screen, as he stomps through Honolulu and San Francisco, destroying billions worth of real estate and landmarks along the way.
There's something satisfying about seeing the big lizard destroy the Golden Gate Bridge or obliterate San Francisco's Chinatown. Hasn't everyone built something just so he can destroy the structure at some time in their childhood? That appetite for destruction has always been one of the reasons "Godzilla" movies have been so successful for so long. And 2014's "Godzilla" sure destroys stuff in spectacular fashion.
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When's Cranston's nuclear engineer character isn't screaming, he's babbling about secret signals and electrical pulses so much he alienates his son (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), who is a weapons expert for the U.S. Navy. Those skills, of course, are to put to good use when Godzilla and the rest of the film's creatures go on their various walkabouts.
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An aside from the article: "Huang showed a demo from Facebook that used deep learning to train a neural network how to recognize a landscape painting. They then used the network to create its own landscape painting."
So long for such jobs... How about deep learning about post-scarcity economics?
Also: ""Our strategy is to accelerate deep learning everywhere," Huang said."
How about some deep learning about morality? Imagine training children (or child-like AIs) in skills like weapons use without training them in morality, kindness, cooperation, and so on... How would that end?
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Maybe AIs should not be asked to replace humans until they have been around for at least eighteen years?
A couple months ago I was emailing with RMS about how sad it was that MIT still required copyright assignment by all students, faculty, and staff. So I'm glad to see some more progress. Related:
"The FSF could start a new campaign to get foundations and non-profits to pledge that all content and software they fund or develop for the public using charitable or public dollars will be released under free licenses."
Ultimately research funders are going to need to change their policies drive this, as I suggested about fifteen years ago:
"Foundations, other grantmaking agencies handling public tax-exempt dollars, and charitable donors need to consider the implications for their grantmaking or donation policies if they use a now obsolete charitable model of subsidizing proprietary publishing and proprietary research. In order to improve the effectiveness and collaborativeness of the non-profit sector overall, it is suggested these grantmaking organizations and donors move to requiring grantees to make any resulting copyrighted digital materials freely available on the internet, including free licenses granting the right for others to make and redistribute new derivative works without further permission. It is also suggested patents resulting from charitably subsidized research research also be made freely available for general use. The alternative of allowing charitable dollars to result in proprietary copyrights and proprietary patents is corrupting the non-profit sector as it results in a conflict of interest between a non-profit's primary mission of helping humanity through freely sharing knowledge (made possible at little cost by the internet) and a desire to maximize short term revenues through charging licensing fees for access to patents and copyrights. In essence, with the change of publishing and communication economics made possible by the wide spread use of the internet, tax-exempt non-profits have become, perhaps unwittingly, caught up in a new form of "self-dealing", and it is up to donors and grantmakers (and eventually lawmakers) to prevent this by requiring free licensing of results as a condition of their grants and donations."
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Now come back to the present while I demonstrate that the identical trust placed in ordinary people two hundred years ago still survives where it suits managers of our economy to allow it. Consider the art of driving, which I learned at the age of eleven. Without everybody behind the wheel, our sort of economy would be impossible, so everybody is there, IQ notwithstanding. With less than thirty hours of combined training and experience, a hundred million people are allowed access to vehicular weapons more lethal than pistols or rifles. Turned loose without a teacher, so to speak. Why does our government make such presumptions of competence, placing nearly unqualified trust in drivers, while it maintains such a tight grip on near-monopoly state schooling?
An analogy will illustrate just how radical this trust really is. What if I proposed that we hand three sticks of dynamite and a detonator to anyone who asked for them. All an applicant would need is money to pay for the explosives. You'd have to be an idiot to agree with my plan--at least based on the assumptions you picked up in school about human nature and human competence.
And yet gasoline, a spectacularly mischievous explosive, dangerously unstable and with the intriguing characteristic as an assault weapon that it can flow under locked doors and saturate bulletproof clothing, is available to anyone with a container. Five gallons of gasoline have the destructive power of a stick of dynamite.3 The average tank holds fifteen gallons, yet no background check is necessary for dispenser or dispensee. As long as gasoline is freely available, gun control is beside the point. Push on. Why do we allow access to a portable substance capable of incinerating houses, torching crowded theaters, or even turning skyscrapers into infernos? We haven't even considered the battering ram aspect of cars--why are novice operators allowed to command a ton of metal capable of hurtling through school crossings at up to two miles a minute? Why do we give the power of life and death this way to everyone?
It should strike you at once that our unstated official assumptions about human nature are dead wrong. Nearly all people are competent and responsible; universal motoring proves that. The efficiency of motor vehicles as terrorist instruments would have written a tragic record long ago if people were inclined to terrorism. But almost all auto mishaps are accidents, and while there are seemingly a lot of those, the actual fraction of mishaps, when held up against the stupendous number of possibilities for mishap, is quite small. I know it's difficult to accept this because the spectre of global terrorism is a favorite cover story of governments, but the truth is substantially different from the tale the public is sold. According to the U.S. State Department, 1995 was a near-record year for terrorist murders; it saw three hundred worldwide (two hundred at the hand of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka) compared to four hundred thousand smoking-related deaths in the United States alone. When we consider our assumptions about human nature that keep children in a condition of confinement and limited options, we need to reflect on driving and things like almost nonexistent global terrorism.
Notice how quickly people learn to drive well. Early failure is efficiently corrected, usually self-corrected, because the terrific motivation of staying alive and in one piece steers driving improvement. If the grand theories of Comenius and Herbart about learning by incremental revelation, or those lifelong nanny rules of Owen, Maclure, Pestalozzi, and Beatrice Webb, or those calls for precision in human ranking of Thorndike and Hall, or those nuanced interventions of Yale, Stanford, and Columbia Teachers College were actually as essential as their proponents claimed, this libertarian miracle of motoring would be unfathomable.
Now consider the intellectual component of driving. It isn't all just hand-eye-foot coordination. First-time drivers make dozens, no, hundreds, of continuous hypotheses, plans, computations, and fine-tuned judgments every day they drive. They do this skillfully, without being graded, because if they don't, organic provision exists in the motoring universe to punish them. There isn't any court of appeal from your own stupidity on the road.4
I could go on: think of licensing, maintenance, storage, adapting machine and driver to seasons and daily conditions. Carefully analyzed, driving is as impressive a miracle as walking, talking, or reading, but this only shows the inherent weakness of analysis since we know almost everyone learns to drive well in a few hours. The way we used to be as Americans, learning everything, breaking down social class barriers, is the way we might be again without forced schooling. Driving proves that to me.
Mistrust is expensive. That's how I've heard it put elsewhere. And just look at unstable areas of the world to see that. More and more money goes into guarding (e.g. armed guards, steel walls and window shutters, armored cars, constant surveillance) and less and less into producing stuff worth guarding. In the same way that the natural ecology provide many vital services to the global economy (like air and water recycling), peace and general satisfaction saves us a lot of money (not just military expenses but day to day costs ranging from locks to insurance premiums).
Although, there are always some who see profit in causing unrest of all sorts -- thus "War is a Racket". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
See also "The Abolition of Work" by Bob Black:
"I don't suggest that most work is salvageable in this way. But then most work isn't worth trying to save. Only a small and diminishing fraction of work serves any useful purpose independent of the defense and reproduction of the work-system and its political and legal appendages. Twenty years ago, Paul and Percival Goodman estimated that just five percent of the work then being done -- presumably the figure, if accurate, is lower now -- would satisfy our minimal needs for food, clothing and shelter. Theirs was only an educated guess but the main point is quite clear: directly or indirectly, most work serves the unproductive purposes of commerce or social control. Right off the bat we can liberate tens of millions of salesmen, soldiers, managers, cops, stockbrokers, clergymen, bankers, lawyers, teachers, landlords, security guards, ad-men and everyone who works for them. There is a snowball effect since every time you idle some bigshot you liberate his flunkies and underlings also. Thus the economy implodes."
And, for some humor on this, the "Bee Watcher Watcher" story by Dr. Seuss:
In general, I agree the best way to prevent disasters is to have happier citizens (and healthier, more capable, and more optimistic ones). A basic income for the exchange economy may be one way towards happier citizens (and with a BI people on the edge have more to lose by criminal actions, too), but so could be an improved gift economy, improved subsistence technologies like 3D printing, and/or improved government planning through better democratic participation. I discuss those here and why they are a better answer to mass unemployment compared to other options:
And thus my sig on the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity, and also this essay by me:
"There is a fundamental mismatch between 21st century reality and 20th century security thinking. Those "security" agencies are using those tools of abundance, cooperation, and sharing mainly from a mindset of scarcity, competition, and secrecy. Given the power of 21st century technology as an amplifier (including as weapons of mass destruction), a scarcity-based approach to using such technology ultimately is just making us all insecure. Such powerful technologies of abundance, designed, organized, and used from a mindset of scarcity could well ironically doom us all whether through military robots, nukes, plagues, propaganda, or whatever else... Or alternatively, as Bucky Fuller and others have suggested, we could use such technologies to build a world that is abundant and secure for all.
So, while in the past, we had "nothing to fear but fear itself", the thing to fear these days is ironcially
AC, thanks for the additional feedback. That web page was not exactly what I sent Mozilla directly when I applied there (which was about a page or so long), although I said much the same thing as the summary, and as I put a link to it on the tb-planning list someone at Mozilla might have seen it. I could speculate they rejected my application so quickly (the next day) because they had rejected my previous application a couple years before about Thunderbird and probably just consulted a flag somewhere, but I'll probably never know.
That web page itself grew as I pasted additional emails I sent and various notes on the idea and progress at the bottom. I'd agree it is not a great web page and I should present the idea better.
You're right to suggest speaking to the appropriate level of understanding of the audience. Of course, one might expect when corresponding with a place like Mozilla it would be technical people talking to technical people.
Anyway, again, sincere thanks for taking the time to respond to my messages and for providing well-meant useful advice to always keep in mind.
Thanks for the feedback. I can easily concede that anyone who did not watch "Thunderbirds" on TV as a kid would find confusing any references to stuff like "International Rescue" or "Thunderbirds are Go": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
In any case, this is what it starts out saying after providing a contextual quote: "To deal with Thunderbird's technical debt (which Andrew Sutherland described on the Mozilla Governance thread that Mitchell Baker started), I propose Mozilla fund a "skunkworks" team of about seven people for a year to create a new server version of Thunderbird (called "Thunderbird Server", or "ThunderbirdS" for short) that runs initially as a locally-installed Node.js app providing a single-page JavaScript/TypeScript/Mithril/D3 webapp for email handling and other peer-to-peer communications using the local file system. Thunderbird Server would use Firefox (desktop or mobile) as its primary client; Firefox would access Thunderbird Server just like any other (local) web server using web standards. The most significant Thunderbird Desktop plugins (based on downloads or other metrics) would be ported by the team to this new Thunderbird Server platform (ideally, aided by a custom tool for such porting). Some of the most popular plugins might be unneeded though for Thunderbird Server given they could run directly in Firefox (like translation tools and ad blockers). This Thunderbird Server platform would, through plugins, eventually become a social semantic desktop that could change the nature of the web as we know it, reducing the significance of the distinction between local copies shared with peers and centralized content shared with clients."
Lunacy maybe.
Insulting? Well, "technical debt" was (accurate) phrasing originally from a core Thunderbird maintainer...
Anyway, I'm now too busy and with other commitments to do it now myself. Mozilla missed their chance with me (for whatever reason). But, I still hope Mozilla still goes back to supporting messaging like Thunderbird (and conceptual successors like Matrix.org). There are thousands of good programmers out there who could do a wonderful job making great messaging tools. And many are already (like with Matrix.org, Mattermost, Kolab and more) -- including dozens still valiantly maintaining Thunderbird desktop in the face of constant upstream breakages in Firefox (as Thunderbird includes an entire copy of Firefox in it -- very problematical given Mozilla's plans to abandon Gecko maintenance and move to an entirely new rendering engine called Servo). It would be great if they all got more support though -- or if everyone got a basic income.
Yes, see my earlier comment here on that: http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Or a Thunderbird local server unified messaging platform using Firefox as the client (my proposal): http://pdfernhout.net/thunderb...
Mozilla rejected my application to do that project the very next day after I sent it. The rejected a related proposal by me a couple years earlier to improve Thunderbird desktop. From an earlier poster who works at Mozilla, I now understand that situation better. I had not realized how dysfunctional the organization had become.
That Thunderbird server project is currently on hiatus as I just started a new job, but I still hope I can do some bits and pieces of that idea of a FOSS messaging platform now and then that might someday add up to it.
Meanwhile, a proprietary Slack is eating the free/standard messaging sphere: http://pdfernhout.net/reasons-...
One year of Mozilla's revenues is about the same as all the VC money that has gone into Slack. Meanwhile the Mozilla CEO says essentially that FOSS messaging tools like Thunderbird do not matter any more and kisses off Thunderbird. To my mind, at this point, Thunderbird is the more viable concept compared to Firefox (let alone any of the other ill-considered projects) -- as the success of Slack shows.
I can be thankful for Mattermost and Matrix.org as free Slack alternatives.
But imagine what such FOSS messaging software could be like with hundreds of millions of dollars a year behind it to fund a team of thousands of full-time developers.
Bottom line: Mozilla is pissing away hundreds of millions of dollars a year of money (and thousands of developer years) that should be earmarked for essential FOSS (like communications tools) on projects with near zero chance of success(a new mobile OS?) or that are unneeded (yet another programming language?) -- while paying huge executive salaries.
Posted here first this morning (couple of types fixed): https://ma.tt/2016/01/minsky/#...
Wow, sad to hear the news. Marvin Minsky and I were academic peers of a sort -- he was one of George A. Miller's first students, and I was one of George's last students.
I met Marvin Minsky once in his MIT office in 1985 as I was graduating from Princeton. I likely gave him a copy of my thesis -- "Why Intelligence: Object, Evolution, Stability, and Model". I also wrote to him once in the 1990s about getting computer time for space habitat simulations (he was responsive in a positive way, but then I met my wife and so just let stuff like that drop). And I saw him in passing about fifteen years ago when he gave a talk at IBM Research while I was a contractor there (he spoke about multiple simultaneous mental representations, and picking from the best one). A nephew of his even lived down the hall from me my senior year at Princeton in 1903 hall, too, but I never talked with him about his uncle. But we never really connected any of those times, sadly.
One of the biggest mistake I've made in my life careerwise (or so it seemed at the time) was when visiting Marvin Minsky in his office to talk to him about the triplestore and semantic network ideas in my thesis (stuff that indirectly helped inspire WordNet which George started as I graduated). I casually mentioned in passing to Marvin Minsky very early on in our meeting something about neural networks (MIT had a spinoff then of the Connection Machine), and I guess that may have put him in one of those mental states where some of the 400 different little computers activate.
So, instead of MIT, I spent a year hanging out in Hans Moravec's and also Red Whittaker's robot labs, and that was interesting in its own way. That experience also set me to thinking about the implications of most of the CMU robotics work being funded by the US military, which ultimately lead to my key insight about the irony of using robots to fight about material scarcity they could otherwise alleviate.
I sent Marvin Minsky an email in 2010, with a subject of "Vitamin D, computing, and abundance", warning about the health risks of vitamin D deficiency for heavy computer users. I also thanked him for his interactions with James P. Hogan, an author whose writings have been very inspiring to me (like Two Faces of Tomorrow and Voyage From Yesteryear), as James acknowledges Marvin in the first as a major source of ideas and inspirations, so some big ideas went from Marvin to James to me at least in that sense.
I have since some to think that, short of improved subsistence via 3D printing and flexible home and agricultural personal robotics, or a radical change to a gift economy, or broad government grants totaling in the hundreds of billions of years to any programmer who asked, about the only thing I can think of that would really fix that situation of limited time for programmers to be creative, that would really give most programmers some financial freedom to innovate, not just a few (like Marvin) who manage (often by technical brilliance of a sort, and so seemingly "deservedly") to work their way up the social/funding hierarchy, would be a "basic income" for everyone. Then any programmer who wanted to could live life a graduate student their entire life (but without grad school restrictions like pleasing an adviser) and turn out free/libre and open source software. And others might choose to do other things with that freedom (have kids, teach, write books, paint, whatever). Most such creative programming projects would fail of course, but we might still see a lot of great innovative socially-useful stuff, where programmers would have the time to really support it.
I included in that email links to my Post-Scarcity Princeton writings. That email to Marvin Minsky was also when I first created my email sig, to, as I said to him, sum up the most important thing I've learned over the past 25 years by following the road less traveled (via CMU).
It is a sad day for us and his family, but Marvin apparently had one of the most fun careers of anyone I can imagine, so I can't feel too sad for Marvin himself. I am sad though that I said the wrong thing incidentally in his office and so never got to be part of that fun. But a deep question to ask is, how can more people have a fun and creative life like Marvin Minsky had?
The below is from me originally from 2001: http://www.pdfernhout.net/on-f...
Although see also this idea from a couple of weeks ago: http://www.pdfernhout.net/pled...
Consider again the self-driving cars mentioned earlier which now cruise some streets in small numbers. The software "intelligence" doing the driving was primarily developed by public money given to universities, which generally own the copyrights and patents as the contractors. Obviously there are related scientific publications, but in practice these fail to do justice to the complexity of such systems. The truest physical representation of the knowledge learned by such work is the codebase plus email discussions of it (plus what developers carry in their heads).
We are about to see the emergence of companies licensing that publicly funded software and selling modified versions of such software as proprietary products. There will eventually be hundreds or thousands of paid automotive software engineers working on such software no matter how it is funded, because there will be great value in having such self-driving vehicles given the result of America's horrendous urban planning policies leaving the car as generally the most efficient means of transport in the suburb. The question is, will the results of the work be open for inspection and contribution by the public? Essentially, will those engineers and their employers be "owners" of the software, or will they instead be "stewards" of a larger free and open community development process?
Open source software is typically eventually of much higher quality ( http://www.fsf.org/software/re... ) and reliability because more eyes look over the code for problems and more voices contribute to adding innovative solutions. About 35,000 Americans are killed every year in driving fatalities, and hundreds of thousands more are seriously injured. Should the software that keeps people safe on roads, and which has already been created primarily with public funds, not also be kept under continuous public scrutiny?
Without concerted action, such software will likely be kept proprietary because that will be more profitable sooner to the people who get in early, and will fit into conventional expectations of business as usual. It will likely end up being available for inspection and testing at best to a few government employees under non-disclosure agreements. We are talking about an entire publicly funded infrastructure about to disappear from the public radar screen. There is something deeply wrong here.
And while it is true many planes like the 757 can fly themselves already for most of their journey, and their software is probably mostly proprietary, the software involved in driving is potentially far more complex as it requires visual recognition of cues in a more complex environment full of many more unpredictable agents operating on much faster timescales. Also, automotive intelligence will touch all of our lives on a daily basis, where as aircraft intelligence can be generally avoided in daily life.
Decisions on how this public intellectual property related to automotive intelligence will be handled will affect the health and safety of every American and later everyone in any developed country. Either way, the automotive software engineers and their employers will do well financially (for example, one might still buy a Volvo because their software engineers are better and they do more thorough testing of configurations). But which way will the public be better off:
* totally dependent on proprietary intelligences under the hoods of their cars which they have no way of understanding, or instead
* with ways to verify what those intelligences do, understand how they operate, and make contributions when they can so such automotive intelligences serve humane purposes better?
If, for example, automotive intelligence was developed under some form of copyleft license like the GNU General Public License, then at least car owners or their "software mechanics" would be assured they could have access to the software in source form to ensure safe operation. What might be "street legal" in terms of software modifications might be a different story -- in the same way people can't legally drive with a cracked windshield or a broken headlight. For example, software changes might need to first be proven safe in simulation before being provisionally "street legal". But, the important thing is, foundations or government agencies funding code development could insist on some form of free licensing terms for automotive intelligence as a matter of public policy.
There are many other areas of human activities that the exponential growth of technology will effect. Automotive intelligence is just one of them that is here now and which I am familiar with from tangential interactions at universities with people developing it. In enough time similar issues will arise for the software behind household robotics or intelligent devices that assist the elderly or handicapped. The IBOT wheelchair by Dean Kamen using complex software to balance on two wheels is just the beginning of such devices.
Note the IBOT wheelchair was developed entirely with private funds it seems, so the reasoning in this essay does not apply directly to it. Also, in general Dean Kamen is a role model of a socially responsible for-profit inventor. Still, the issue arises of whether "Johnson & Johnson" should be funding such development, as was the case, as opposed to, say, the "Robert Wood Johnson Foundation", as was not, given the public policy issue of whether individuals should be continually dependent for personal needs on proprietary software. In either case it would be worth it to pay billions for such innovation, and the public will pay that in the end as a toll on for such devices.
There is a real question here of how our society will proceed -- mainly closed or mainly open. It is reflected in everything the non-profit world does -- including the myths it lives by. The choice of myth can be made in part by the funding policies set by foundations and government agencies. The myth that funders may be living by is the scarcity economics myth. How does that myth effect the digital public works funding cycle?
On ageism, it's not just whether programmers work, it is the quality of the work and the independence of the workers. Where might that matter? Consider the democratic need for programmers to follow ethical standards about privacy and democracy and openness and user empowerment (in their designs) that much centralized proprietary behind-closed-doors big data CS just ignores.
As I found in academia (for example in the PU CE&OR department in the late 1980s), when half or more of the graduate students in an academic department are foreign nationals being paid by their governments to get degrees, where when going back home without a degree would be a huge disgrace and maybe loss of career, the atmosphere of the place changes. That might explain why dealing with systematic financial risk was not a big topic at the time then.
So, if most programmers are nervous about their jobs with tons of H1Bs and cheap young labor, what effect is that going to have on taking a stand for important issues? And these are not just ethical issues, they are even issues like pushing back on inefficient or brittle designs, or designs users won't like, or whatever. It takes a certain level of confidence to do that (a confidence that includes knowing you can always easily get a job elsewhere, which may be true for a fifty year old civil engineer but is less true for a fifty year old programmer). And I'm not talking the brash confidence of youth or even a willingness for self-sacrifice like Snowden or Manning -- which is a different thing. I'm talking about a well-earned confidence in the context of a supportive community which is the basis of day-to-day successes by a democracy accountable to the needs of citizens.
See also:
"Smile or Die" (which discusses the financial crisis in part resulting from no one being able to point out systemic risks without losing their jobs)
And even my other post here mentioning John Taylor Gatto who talks about compulsory schools as being designed specifically to shape compliant workers.
My latest folly is based on remembering what computers and our democratic culture were like in the 1970s and 1980s, is to want to help create software that respects a citizen's needs for private data controlled locally and shared peer-to-peer (like via email) instead of a typical web business' needs (like Slack or gmail) to centralize and control other people's data:
I started that with the news that Mozilla, supposedly about internet freedom and privacy and user empowerment, is going to kiss off Thunderbird, meanwhile billions of dollars are poured into the web space to make the opposite of Thunderbird (and some of those dollars are going to Mozilla in a way as a conflict-of-interest). See also my post here:
The USA should be funding thousands of people to work on such FOSS tools. Meanwhile, Thunderbird suffers for lack of a funding model. Volunteers and open source go together well -- but relying on volunteers is problematical when you have literally one gigabyte of legacy C++ and XUL source code that need to track every security issue in Firefox.
If this was really about increasing interest in computers, just give green cards instead of H1Bs, insist on overtime for programmers, require every employee have a window (like in parts of Europe) and do basic stuff like that. It might also help if we reduced the churn in "new" technologies that are often not as good as the old one (still waiting for something a lot better than 1980s Smalltalk, for example). Getting rid of software patents would also be a big help in the USA, as would reducing copyright scope and duration to make building materials more available.
LOL! Thanks for your moral support -- I think?
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Ben Duce:
June 24, 2012 at 11:25 am
Three clicks in and I'm over this site... clicking isn't the new scrolling.
Matt Sheumack:
June 24, 2012 at 1:07 pm
If you must have a "one at a time click-n-display", then please spend the time to develop a flash app that preloads a few slides either side. Every time I advance, the screen wipes, and it takes a second to reload. It an incredibly unfriendly format.
Vincent Mariani:
June 25, 2012 at 10:58 pm
Its a mobile shenanigan in itself...
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June 24, 2012 at 8:23 pm
1. Go to the top of the page and find the From the Editor headline.
2. Click on the word "here" in the paragraph.
3. Read the comments about their being in the process of redesigning.
June 24, 2012 at 10:00 pm
Vasily - Point taken, but the days of "Read the operating instructions" died with flat pack furniture. It's no longer acceptable to launch an incomplete site. Sure, put it up as a "Beta" site with a voluntary link from the original page, but implementing a semi-redesigned site isn't good practice.
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June 25, 2012 at 2:57 am
it was the random "Well, I'm off to Chicago!" that made me lol...
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Indeed, it is a uniquely dreamlike, lushly romantic, highly erotic and prototypically Coppolaesque version of the story - a movie that does for the vampire genre what "The Godfather" did for the gangster saga, and what "Apocalypse Now" did for the war movie: raises it to the level of grand opera. [13 Nov 1992, p.5]
Francis Ford Coppola's lavish version of Bram Stoker's classic novel is a visual cornucopia, overstuffed with images of both beauty and grotesque horror.
Interestingly, Coppola has eschewed state-of-the-art special effects in favor of a panoply of archaic film-school tricks -- reversing the film, multiple exposures, playing with the shutter speed -- that give his Dracula a stylized, almost hyper-real clarity and a wonderfully singular weirdness.
Oldman and Ryder and Hopkins pant with eagerness. The movie is an exercise in feverish excess, and for that if for little else, I enjoyed it.
Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, is decadent, overpoweringly erotic campiness coupled with soft-core pornography - blood, breasts, buttocks and big teeth. It's daring and those with a taste for the sexily sanguine will find it delightful. But it's not for the prudish. [13 Nov 1992, p.C1]
Dracula has the nervy enthusiasm of the work of a precocious film student who has magically acquired a master's command of his craft. It's surprising, entertaining and always just a little too much.
It's sexy and bloody and, to my amazement, R-rated, but in a stylized, Grand Kabuki manner that lifts the action (including the sex and violence) from our normal sphere of reality to the realm of timeless, primal tales.
Coppola brings the old spook story alive -- well, undead -- as a luscious, infernal romance.
Francis Coppola's ambitious 1992 version brings back the novel's multiple narrators, leading to a somewhat dispersed and overcrowded story line that remains fascinating and often affecting thanks to all its visual and conceptual energy.
Coppola has raised the stakes, promising the definitive version of the vampire story. What he has created, however, is fresh and original yet boring, an exercise more in art direction than storytelling. [13 Nov 1992, p. C]
Dracula, which also stars Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves and Anthony Hopkins, is an evocative visual feast. But the meal is spectral, without the dramatic equivalent of nutritional value.
Francis Ford Coppola's take on the Dracula legend is a bloody visual feast. Both the most extravagant screen telling of the oft-filmed story and the one most faithful to its literary source, this rendition sets grand romantic goals for itself that aren't fulfilled emotionally, and it is gory without being at all scary.
The director has dressed up a classic tale in mesmerizing visual overkill without coming close to its dark heart. [13 Nov 1992, p. 56]
There was so much potential, yet when it came down to it, Coppola made his Dracula too old to be menacing, gave Keanu Reeves a part and took out all the action. So all we're left with is an overly long bloated adaptation, instead of what might have been a gothic masterpiece.
Coppola decided that he really wasn't making a horror film after all, but rather a love story, a comic burlesque, a costume drama, a piece of erotica, whatever. But no matter what else you do with it, a Dracula that cannot manage to be more scary than silly is as pitilessly doomed as that elegant old Transylvanian himself. [13 Nov 1992]
Shots of blood and naked bodies clash bizarrely with Coppola's more quaint and engaging notions; the result may be intended as a dialectical encounter, but seems more like a head-on collision.
Bram Stoker's Dracula is a lovingly made, gorgeously realized, meticulously crafted failure. It has big names, a big budget, big sets, a big, thundering score and even big hair. But it doesn't do it. It doesn't excite or fascinate but just lies there on the screen. [13 Nov 1992, p. C1]
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Feb 2, 2013Francis Ford Coppola gives the ageless vampire a terrifying new update in 1992's DRACULA. Coppola uniquely adapts the letters and journalFrancis Ford Coppola gives the ageless vampire a terrifying new update in 1992's DRACULA. Coppola uniquely adapts the letters and journal entries from the original novel onto the screen in this stylish retelling. DRACULA may be the single most horrifying film of the 90's. Its lavish set pieces drip Gothic allure while its abominable creature designs have escaped from a world of nightmares. Why, then, did Coppola decide to drag it through the mud by hiring such an inappropriate cast? Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder couldn't have been worse choices as Jonathan Harker and Mina Murray. Judging by the film, one might think that Dracula drains his victims of talent. Their despondent performances dispel the romantic fantasy that is unraveling all around them. The great Anthony Hopkins has his hands in the matter too, with a boisterous take on Professor Van Helsing that comes across as a drunken fool. Despite his dramatic overacting, Gary Oldman proves himself the actor of the bunch, and puts forth a performance that is chilling to the bone. Just one look at his withered old Count is enough to make the skin crawl, and the buxom brides that stalk his chambers are none less frightening. From a visual standpoint, Francis Ford Coppola has directed a masterpiece of Gothic cinema, but for all of its lurid style and grace, DRACULA lacks soul.
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Apr 6, 2012I loved it! I would think of it as a 'romantic-horror- although is not very terrifying. It doesn't follow the same lines of other DraculaI loved it! I would think of it as a 'romantic-horror- although is not very terrifying. It doesn't follow the same lines of other Dracula movies but it is good in its own way. So similar to the book! The big flaw of the movie: Keanu Reeves...I think they could have picked someone better to play his part for he was a bit stiff. The best: Gary Oldman!..and Wynona Rider? she doesn't do much for me anymore, but she did okey! Lucy, was the real star there! The vestuary and Photography are absolutely stunning too, perfect! I can't believe some people are giving this movie a score a 0 for this movie...it means they don't find anything good about it...c'mon, even if you don't like the story line, there are great elements there! The Aesthetics! ...Delightful, truly delightful! ...By the way, seeing Monica Bellucci as a female vampire was fantastic! Great choice, even if it was just a minor role!… Full Review »
Sep 27, 2013Coppola does pretty well with this movie, and includes all he original Dracula elements into this on, except he makes it even more enticingCoppola does pretty well with this movie, and includes all he original Dracula elements into this on, except he makes it even more enticing and dramatic.… Full Review »