Creative Remixes of the Hustler
After watching the Hustler, inspired by 99 story tellings of “The Drover’s Wife,” I intended to attempt my own 3 pieces to tell the story of the Hustler.
Lipogram (no e)
This film was first shown in 1961 and is a sporting film that brought “a glorious 120 months or 3650 days of Pool.” This film’s main individual, who is a young and brilliant pool participant, stays at various pool halls to play for cash. This protagonist has a goal to win against a man by initials M. Fats, who is a most outstanding pool participant. This protagonist has a tight match with Fats and although in a profit of $18,000, his boast is, in conclusion, his downfall, and his original profit of $18,000 drops to $200. Following this shocking loss, this protagonist acquaints with an alcoholic, Sarah and has a romantic affair with this woman. This protagonist has social contact with a man by initials B. Gordon, who is a participant in various sports such as pool and billiards and lays odds for cash. B. Gordon looks at this young protagonist’s skills and has a contract with this individual. This contract says that 75% profit of this protagonist’s profits will B. Gordon’s, and this protagonist sadly is in affinity. With Sarah and B. Gordon, this protagonist stays at a pool hall in Churchill Downs, USA, and B. Gordon allows this main protagonist to play Billiards against a rich high-class man. This protagonist burns all B.Gordon’s cash and his cash. Now, B. Gordon stops supplying this protagonist cash. Sarah informs this protagonist to stop laying odds and staking and withdraw. This protagonist fails to comply, but in conclusion, profits cash that was lost. B. Gordon physically abandons this hall first and assaults Sarah. Sarah is slain by Sarah’s own hand and this protagonist is in shock. It acts as a schooling on morals in playing a sport, what is most important, profit of cash or a warm companion. This main protagonist, who grows as a human, also grows in wisdom. This main protagonist now knows what it is to win and what it is to fail. This protagonist brings his $3000 cash back to M.Fat’s pool hall to play a match of straight pool against M.Fats for $3000 a match. On this occasion, this protagonist wins, again and again, forcing M.Fats to stop playing.
Anti-Capitalist Speech
Comrades.
“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.”- Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King said this in a speech to the SCLC Board, March 30, 1967. It’s pretty obvious why he and many others would make this wise choice. We see the issues of capitalism all around us, poverty, lack of power in the people overshadowed by large businesses, a large profit drive for our actions, a large gap between rich and poor and the list goes on.
Today, I would like to tell you a story about a young talented proletariat, whose opportunities were nearly seized by some capitalist scum.
This proletariat is named Eddie Felson and he is a skilled but inexperienced pool player, a good target for being brainwashed by capitalism. Eddie Felson engages in a match between a most accomplished player in the sport of pool, Minnesota Fats in the United States, not a place a socialist would prefer to reside. His inexperience, character, and his inability to make wise decisions caused his loss, even up a lot of money. His greed, a characteristic of a regular capitalist, is the reason he lost. Eddie Felson leaves the pool hall and meets an alcoholic, Sarah and has a relationship with her. He also meets a professional gambler, Bert Gordon, and with Bert and Sarah, travel to Kentucky Derby to play against a man called Findley.
Findley is a rich man and is the typical “rich” in a capitalist society.
This professional gambler is a very dangerous man. He is the “rich” of them all, owning money, property and the like, and only wishes for profit. He harbors the traits of a rich capitalist. Eddie forced to agree because a share is better than nothing, agrees that 75% of the money earnt would go to Bert Gordon. This is the typical landowner to farmer relationship, CEO to the common worker and the like with utter control over the worker. The boss would receive most of the profit with the employees receiving very little.
Eddie Felson engages in a game of Billiards and loses badly, so Bert Gordon stops staking him. Sarah comes to plead with Eddie to leave, however, he disagrees because he still is greedy, greedy to win the money back. Eddie uses all his money to win and wins, and fulfills his desires to profit. Bert leaves the hall first and assaults Sarah, and she commits suicide because she is unable to take it any longer. Eddie is shaken by Sarah’s death, as she is one of the people he loves, and he realizes what he has done.
Just for the desire to win and to WIN, to make lots and lots of money, he has traded Sarah, a woman he loved, for a pile of $3000 of cash. To conclude this story, Eddie Felson returns and defeats Minnesota Fats once and for all. Eddie Felson learns of what it is to have a competitive nature but to keep within boundaries and make intelligent decisions.
Therefore, Eddie breaks free of control from Bert Gordon and has more control of his desires and greed.
He is the victor. The proletariat overthrows the master, Bert Gordon is eliminated, the landowners die, and a victory for the commoner, victory for all that deserve victory!
Thank you, with the utmost faith and courage, we hold our heads high, we come together, and we continue to cleanse the minds of every capitalist!
Weird Recipe
Who can cook this- any Melbourne High School student in Y10 English in Mr. Mahoney’s class.
Ingredients- wine bottles, Healthy Fats, (Pack)aged foods, flatbread, burnt, rotten white cheese, loads of cash
Equipment Required- pool table, balls, cues, knife, billiards
Preparation Time- 135 minutes
Method-
- Firstly, put the expanded, arrogant flatbread and the healthy fats together. Use the cash to do so. Make sure you place the wine bottles close together with the flatbread and healthy fats. Tools you will need will be a pool table, balls, and cues. You will see the flatbread slowly, will become very depressed, and indeed very flat.
- Place the flatbread with the (Pack)aged foods, and you will see that they combine nicely. Also use some cash here as well. For extra, add some wine bottles. The (Pack)aged foods are a great source of topping and assistance for the flatbread.
- Don’t put the burnt, rotten white cheese with rising flatbread and (Pack) aged foods. If you do so, well, you’re in bad luck, and some cash will be used wastefully. Well here, also make sure you use items for a game of billiards.
- If you do put the burnt, rotten white cheese with the (Pack)aged foods and risen flatbread you will see the (Pack)aged foods become unusable. Sadly dispose of it with a knife or any other object and put the risen, mature, developed flatbread and Healthy Fats together again to finish off. Make sure you add some cash as well.
Symbols
Healthy Fats- Minnesota Fats- the pool legend that is of “character” and healthy in the mind, but looks to be not necessarily healthy in the body.
(Pack)aged Foods- Sarah Packard- the toppings to the flatbread that in the movie, support Eddie Felson in his journey.
Burnt, rotten white cheese- Bert Gordon- the rotten white cheese that you don’t want in your food, well in the movie to stop the corruption of Bert Gordon.
Flatbread- Eddie Felson- Who has an inflated personality at the start of the movie, but Minnesota Fats beats him to keep his inflated personality deflated. By the end of the movie, he learns to be a man of “character.”
