Not entirely sure how I feel on this one. As a man & actor I say R.I.P. However, I am just wondering whether anyone on the anti-gun lobby reached down and whispered "I'll take that gun from your cold, dead hands now Mr. Heston!"
I think I ll have similar gun/war thoughts when Mr. Kissinger goes belly up - although I do admire him in some ways. Anyway, let his movies be remembered, the man's dead and rotting as we speak - the fate of any human.
RIP Mr. Heston. And let me add that he was able to keep and bare arms up until the day of his death, which I am sure he would be proud of. Whether or not you agree with this right, it was a right that he put quite a few of his years into and it is a part of his legacy.
It's kinda ironic, but the last episode of The Big Bang Theory, had a small tribute to him, without knowing he would pass away. Leonard, Raj and Howard went to watch a Planet of The Apes marathon to avoid Sheldon, that was sick. At one moment Raj was going to get some popcorn from Howard's bucket and then Howard says: "- Take your stinken paws of my popcorn, you damn dirty ape!" :lol: It was hilarious because they were wearing ape masks. And later, when Howard accidentally broke Leonard glasses, Raj says: "- If you leave now, you can be back before the gorillas beat the crap out of Charlton Heston" As for his death, R.I.P. although i agree with what Parris said.
Honestly I dont hate the guy. The fact is that all the things he has done for civil rights in the past far outweights his ideas about guns in the lastest years. On the other hand I see as a big irony that after JFKs assasination he supported the gun control act of 1968. I guess when you get old you tend to go right-wing...
I do feel its ok to own gun(s) but just because there's a shooting spree they shouldn't take the guns away from those who didn't do it.
I don't hate him either. I just didn't like his attitude and arrogance, specially on that Colorado situation. I think that just because he supported a point of view or an ideal, it doesn't mean he had the right to disrespect people like that. It's like a saying we have here in Brazil: "Quando um não quer, dois não brigam" ("When one don't want, two people don't fight") I agree. Gun's don't kill people. People kill people. simple as that.
That"d be like expecting an Auto Convention to be cancelled because there was a multiple vehicular homicide in the general vicinity.
Exactly. I'm not saying NRA should cancel the convention. The same way i don't think the community has the right to ban Marilyn Manson just because his music is different from the conventional. But Charlton Heston didn't need to keep that attitude and could show some respect to what happened. He could have said things like " Why those kids had guns? ", but he prefered to say " from my cold, dead hands ". Don't get me wrong, i'm not a hypocrite. I think anyone who wants a gun, could have it. Just do it legally and if something bad happens, accept the consequences.
Simply not true This is Michael Moore Propaganda. You should remember Heston as one of the rare guys who walked along with Dr. King, Bellafonte, S. Davis Jun to fight for civil rights. He did it before it became trendy. Great actor.
I'm assuming you got that from Bowling from Columbine and to be honest it is wrong. qirex-rd is right that Michael Moore deliberately edited that to make him look bad. For starters that "Cold Dead Hands" speech was given months before Columbine happened but Moore edited to look like it happened at the Denver Convention. Second, Moore also neglected to mention that the NRA massively scaled back their convention in Denver but by law couldn't cancel it entirely. This is because under corporate law you must have an annual meeting and any changes require prior notice to be given to members. That movie and Moore's complete hatchet job on Heston in particular piss me off to no end. It is total BS and when it is referenced by people who are unaware about the lies I tend to go into rant mode trying to correct them. Sorry about that.
My bad then. Sorry :redface: Anyway, here's a part of the episode of The Big Bang Theory with the funny part about Planet of The Apes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf0fLPw18ms
