
Butch Cassidy: What happened to the old bank? It was beautiful.
Guard: People kept robbing it.
Butch Cassidy: Small price to pay for beauty.
40 years old tomorrow. Still fantastic.
A conversation about journalism, the internet, media, trust, truth, libraries & archives, social networks
& publishing, and the democratisation of doubt - with occasional photographs and a nod to cinema.
"People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and The Great Gatsby can provide that," he told the Hollywood Reporter. "If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money', they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time, they'd be willing to."
"It takes two to make an accident."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 3

...the spy thriller later turned into a film by Alfred Hitchcock, "reimagined" for the Jason Bourne generation.