What historical figures would you like to see a biopic about?
>Phineas P. Gage (1823–1860) was an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and behavior over the remaining 12 years of his life—effects sufficiently profound (for a time at least) that friends saw him as "no longer Gage." >When I drove up he said, "Doctor, here is business enough for you." I first noticed the wound upon the head before I alighted from my carriage, the pulsations of the brain being very distinct. The top of the head appeared somewhat like an inverted funnel, as if some wedge-shaped body had passed from below upward. Mr. Gage, during the time I was examining this wound, was relating the manner in which he was injured to the bystanders. I did not believe Mr. Gage's statement at that time, but thought he was deceived. Mr. Gage persisted in saying that the bar went through his head. Mr. G. got up and vomited; the effort of vomiting pressed out about half a teacupful of the brain [through the exit hole at the top of the skull], which fell upon the floor.
didn't it turn him into an asshole or something? brain injuries effecting personality is actually pretty common. A family friend's husband got brain cancer not that long ago. The most terrifying thing wasn't that he was going to die, but that the last months of his life while his wife was trying to care for him he slowly changed personality into a man she didn't even know. She didn't get to see him off like a wife would want to, she had to look at the body of the man she loved and see in his eyes that he was not the same person. Towards the end, he did not even recognize her and didn't realize he was sick, he kept getting panicked that he was in hospital because he didn't know why anymore. Scary shit.
Owen Reyes
>Mr. G. got up and vomited; the effort of vomiting pressed out about half a teacupful of the brain [through the exit hole at the top of the skull], which fell upon the floor.
I heard about a case where a guy became a child molester/rapist because of a tumor killing his impulse control.
James Long
EEL DICK
Connor Smith
that actually makes a lot of sense. I saw a lecture by a neurologist researching pedophiles and they found pedophiles on average do have a lower IQ and the potential for it to be associated with learning disorders or even genetic disorders. If that's really the case, then brain damage could potentially turn a person into a pedophile or who knows what else.
Christopher Barnes
TCAP now makes a lot more sense.
Evan Parker
>serve your country honorably for most for your life >become one of the greatest WWI commanders >celebrated as a national hero >get a simple, cushy, government job after the war >the government is struggling in the post war environment, but it isn't the end of the world >Nazi Germany swings by >decimates your entire army >much of the government flees >you are stuck in a position of power and Hitler delivers an ultimatum to you directly >"surrender or we invade the entire country" >accept and lead a Nazi puppet state for 5 years >after the war, you are imprisoned and declared a traitor >sentenced to death, but the sentence is commuted because you have dementia >die as one of the most disgraced figures in French history
Would make for a good comedy . Nice guy gets spike through his head and then becomes a jerk. Goes around and creates insult comedy but runs awful from some olde timey banditos and has to learn the true meaning of friendship Jeffery Ross as phineas gage
Josiah Nelson
King Kong’s creator Merian C. Cooper. WWI fighter pilot that shot German’s down and real life Indiana Jones
If they were smart they would’ve done it before King Kong vs GodZilla
Christian Smith
you forgot >spend years being a salty bitch towards de Gaulle
Ayden Myers
Just make it an HBO mini-series and give me the director's chair.
I already have every scene figured out in my head and my friend Elly is jewish so I can ask him how to address the race questions in a dignified and acceptable manner.
Victors are always quick to judge people in hindsight for political expediency. I'm pretty sure capitulating made more sense when you consider just how wrecked Germany was after WW2. That could have been France's fate if they resisted then.
Prison inmate study? Real strange how those guys aren't too sharp.
Luke Wood
I have some mild brain damage and it was enough to change a few aspects of my personality. I used to be more extroverted and assertive, now I have incredible anxieties when in public and will bend over backwards to please people or don't want to cause any inconveniences. I was an extremely driven person and didn't put shit off, I would just do it and shit done, but now I'm really passive and lazy about things. I have a shitty shirt term memory now and it messed up my ability to speak in some ways. I have trouble recalling words while in conversations or I will mean to say a certain word and I blurt out something completely different that makes no sense and it confuses people. Sometimes the look on a person's face when they get confused by what I just said makes me die a little inside. It's only going to get worse as I get older I'm sure.
James King
your problems sound like something 50% of the people on this board would have, including me
Jeremiah Powell
There's no way they wouldn't fuck it up for fear of being accused of "humanizing" a dictator but he's had one of the most interesting lives in human history. His arc from arguably romantic revolutionary robbing banks and organizing workers to iron fist ruler is made for Yea Forums.
And his list of enemies that can serve as antagonists for each season is almost as fascinating as the dude himself. von Ungern-Sternberg, Trotsky, Kai-shek, that polish fag with the mustache, Hitler. It would also be fascinating to see WW2 from one of the major leader's point of view.
There’s a quote I heard in a documentary that could potentially make for a really kino scene
Hoover: could I borrow a nickel, to phone a friend? Andrew Mellon: Have a dime, call them all.
William Wilson
>what're you going to do, kill me with that axe? >-leon trotsky, shortly before dying from wounds inflicted with an axe
Ryder Lee
people have a problem with that kind of portrayal because so much focus is put on genocidal rulers already and not enough respect is paid to their victims
Colton Stewart
Exactly. History isn't kind to the losers but who knows just how much France would've been fucked up had they opted for a prolonged total war. And for what? Delaying the inevitable for a few months? Young men dying pointless deaths is the last thing Petain wanted, having been accustomed to it for so long during The Great War.
Sebastian Edwards
>losers get mad because no one wants to hear about their lives git fucking gud
this, also look at the "victims" of these "genocidal" rulers >kikes, slavs, gooks, gypsies, etc really who wants any of those things around them anyway?
Adrian Taylor
It's highly exaggerated and mostly false that his personality changed. There's a review by the American Psychological Association where they debunk it.
I was reading this and thought the same thing. What do you think causes this?
Josiah Watson
Sounds like you're simply depressed to be honest
Hunter Davis
But he died from ice pick wounds.
Kayden Howard
go fuck yourselves
Adam Anderson
FUUUU-
Gabriel Morales
>Mercader later testified at his trial:
I laid my raincoat on the table in such a way as to be able to remove the ice axe which was in the pocket. I decided not to miss the wonderful opportunity that presented itself. The moment Trotsky began reading the article, he gave me my chance; I took out the ice axe from the raincoat, gripped it in my hand and, with my eyes closed, dealt him a terrible blow on the head
But I'm sure you know better than the assassin slav or bugman detected, just be glad you weren't around when Hitler or Mao was stomping around or you'd be dead
Jayden Lewis
Yeah I thought the same thing but >The Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky is sometimes said to have been killed using an ice pick, but he was in fact murdered with an ice axe, which is a mountaineering tool.[6][7] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_pick
Probably a mistranslation that stuck
Matthew Fisher
Nobody is free of responsibility for his own fate.
What happened, user? I remember once in kindergarten i tried to recreate a Kobra 11 stunt and managed to bash my head on the wall. Remember blacking out, then feeling hazy and a bit of blood on the top of my head. Didn't ever report it to anyone, because all of the authorities there were cunts. My symptoms correspond to yours, but that might be depression though.
I have some mild brain damage and it was enough to change a few aspects of my personality. I used to be more extroverted and assertive, now I have incredible anxieties when in public and will bend over backwards to please people or don't want to cause any inconveniences. I was an extremely driven person and didn't put shit off, I would just do it and shit done, but now I'm really passive and lazy about things. I have a shitty shirt term memory now and it messed up my ability to speak in some ways. I have trouble recalling words while in conversations or I will mean to say a certain word and I blurt out something completely different that makes no sense and it confuses people. Sometimes the look on a person's face when they get confused by what I just said makes me die a little inside. It's only going to get worse as I get older I'm sure.
Jason Brooks
I want a docu-drama about the prefrontal cortex and its role in impulse control with multiple storyline about famous cases of people who behaved abnormally after sustaining injury to their prefrontal cortex linked together through a philosophical discussion about how much of our actions are mediated by the physical brain itself.
Ethan Clark
ha.
Aiden Collins
>von Ungern-Sternberg This dude deserves his own movie, he was fucking hilarious
Kevin Flores
It's more complex than that. Petain is one of the only reasons that the French lines didn't collapse in WWI. He was nevertheless treated like shit by less competent social generals like De Gaulle because of his conservatism and gruff manner.
Petain used his control of Vichy France to attempt to root out the communists and degenerates that had weakened it enough from the inside to be defeated by Germany so easily.
The man is a hero several times over and denigrated post-facto by the leftist thought leaders who dominated after the destruction of the right wing in WW2.
Jack Smith
was it a stroke? this shit is terrible, although curable
John Butler
>it's more complex than that... actually the fascist is a hero who did everything good and commies are to blame for everything bad so complex. what a complex, rich, elaborate worldview.
Jackson Young
Bobby Fuller of "I Fought the Law" fame
>In the early hours of July 18, Fuller received a phone call and left his Hollywood apartment in his mother's blue Oldsmobile. Later that day Fuller's body was found sprawled on the front seat of the car, a gas can nearby. His body was doused with gasoline. The car had been in the parking lot outside the apartment for 30 minutes before his mother discovered the body. >Early news reports attributed Fuller's death to suicide by asphyxiation from the gas fumes. Los Angeles police apparently agreed; Fuller's associates weren't immediately questioned and cops on the scene disposed of the gas can without dusting for fingerprints. >The autopsy found no evidence that Fuller was beaten; the report stated that gas vapors and the summer heat probably caused hemorrhages on the body. The medical examiner checked both the "accidental" and "suicide" boxes on the report with a question mark next to each. >Three months later the official cause of death was changed to "accidental asphyxiation." But other questions were never fully answered. If the car had only been in the lot for 30 minutes before it was discovered, how had Fuller's body reached an advanced state of rigor mortis? Had Fuller died somewhere else with his body then driven to the parking lot? A variety of wild theories followed: Fuller died accidentally after taking LSD at a party; his producer had Fuller killed to cash in on a large insurance policy he had taken out on the singer; and even that Charles Manson had a hand in Fuller's death. None of these theories has been proven.
Would make a good murder mystery even if it's only loosely based on him.
>communists actually ruined France, not nazis or collaborationists d'accord marine
Noah Martin
I have some mild brain damage and it was enough to change a few aspects of my personality. I used to be more extroverted and assertive, now I have incredible anxieties when in public and will bend over backwards to please people or don't want to cause any inconveniences. I was an extremely driven person and didn't put shit off, I would just do it and shit done, but now I'm really passive and lazy about things. I have a shitty shirt term memory now and it messed up my ability to speak in some ways. I have trouble recalling words while in conversations or I will mean to say a certain word and I blurt out something completely different that makes no sense and it confuses people. Sometimes the look on a person's face when they get confused by what I just said makes me die a little inside. It's only going to get worse as I get older I'm sure.
Charles Barnes
booooooo
Brody Adams
But then you would raise questions about human biodiversity, and the people destroying science to push social justice can't have that.
Joseph Carter
I have some mild brain damage and it was enough to change a few aspects of my personality. I used to be more extroverted and assertive, now I have incredible anxieties when in public and will bend over backwards to please people or don't want to cause any inconveniences. I was an extremely driven person and didn't put shit off, I would just do it and shit done, but now I'm really passive and lazy about things. I have a shitty shirt term memory now and it messed up my ability to speak in some ways. I have trouble recalling words while in conversations or I will mean to say a certain word and I blurt out something completely different that makes no sense and it confuses people. Sometimes the look on a person's face when they get confused by what I just said makes me die a little inside. It's only going to get worse as I get older I'm sure.
Joseph Allen
Communists subverted morale and the economy long before the war, they are a big part of why France fell so quickly.
It's almost like the only people who attempt to redirect blame and rewrite history are so low intelligence that they are poor and thus resort to believing in the communism fairy in the first place.
Jose Martinez
It's almost like the only people who attempt to redirect blame and rewrite history are so low intelligence that they are poor and thus resort to believing in dumb right-wing conspiracy theories and pseudo-historiography
Oliver Rivera
Do you remember the name of the documentary? Sounds interesting.
Thomas Russell
I can't beieve how chill the guy is with a knife stuck in his eye socket. He's more outraged about the other guy not fighting him properly with his fist than the lose of his eye.
Angel Perez
>commies are to blame for everything bad If you blame communists for everything, you are right almost every time.
Matthew Foster
How? As far as we know, damage to the same part of the brain result in similar behavioral problems across all races.
Camden Green
You might be retarded
Gavin Hall
If you convince people that the physical traits of the brain are largely responsible for a person's behavior you have now brought cranial capacity back into play and the anti-racists have spent decades trying to demolish scientific racism.
Jaxon Mitchell
>The Bone Wars, also known as the Great Dinosaur Rush,[1] was a period of intense and ruthlessly competitive fossil hunting and discovery during the Gilded Age of American history, marked by a heated rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope (of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia) and Othniel Charles Marsh (of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale). Each of the two paleontologists used underhanded methods to try to outdo the other in the field, resorting to bribery, theft, and the destruction of bones. Each scientist also sought to ruin his rival's reputation and cut off his funding, using attacks in scientific publications.
Jews are notoriously racist, user. Why would you defer to one on the subject of racial sensitivity?
Camden Smith
I actually do have brain damage that's why I was interested.
Brayden Bailey
I kind of know that feel. My dad died of cancer and was going back to stages in his life before the cancer got him, all the way to forgetting the names of his children but remembering the number of the parking spot.
Luke Scott
I have some mild brain damage and it was enough to change a few aspects of my personality. I used to be more extroverted and assertive, now I have incredible anxieties when in public and will bend over backwards to please people or don't want to cause any inconveniences. I was an extremely driven person and didn't put shit off, I would just do it and shit done, but now I'm really passive and lazy about things. I have a shitty shirt term memory now and it messed up my ability to speak in some ways. I have trouble recalling words while in conversations or I will mean to say a certain word and I blurt out something completely different that makes no sense and it confuses people. Sometimes the look on a person's face when they get confused by what I just said makes me die a little inside. It's only going to get worse as I get older I'm sure.
Anthony Hall
People from communist countries fucking hate communism, and more often than not, try to escape.
Samuel Martinez
People who actually lived under communist regimes consistently say in opinions polls that they prefer the Soviet period.
Camden Bailey
That sounds great, can you recommend a book/documentary on this subject?
Chase Murphy
>Edward Drinker Cope Fund it
Matthew Smith
i miss the commie period because the minorties (gypsies) were oppressed and segregated to their ghettos, we were patriotic, criminals actually worked in work gangs during their sentence and society was more conservative. what do you think about that, mister bourgeois american transvestite?
Daniel Peterson
You're 16.
Blake Allen
you are coping. how sad
Xavier Fisher
16.
Camden Scott
This. It’s actually rather embarrassing.
Levi Parker
can you two get a fucking room already?
Thomas James
The Florida Man
Gavin Rodriguez
Yea Forums gives you brain damage.
Cameron Reed
This was slated to be an HBO miniseries starring James Gandolfini and Steve Carrell but then that fat fuck Gandolfini had to go and die.
Adrian Butler
Are you me? >tfw suffered multiple head injuries in high school that completely fucked any prospect of a successful future Your story sounds like mine mate
Fernando Maximiliano José María de Habsburgo-Lorena
was the only monarch of the Second Mexican Empire. He was a younger brother of the Austrian emperor Franz Joseph I. After a distinguished career in the Austrian Navy as its commander, he accepted an offer by Napoleon III of France to rule Mexico, conditional on a national plebiscite in his favour. France, together with Spain and the United Kingdom, invaded the Mexican Republic in the winter of 1861, ostensibly to collect debts; the Spanish and British both withdrew the following year after negotiating agreements with Mexico's republican government, while France sought to conquer the country. Seeking to legitimize French rule, Napoleon III invited Maximilian to establish a new pro-French Mexican monarchy. With the support of the French army and a group of Conservative Party monarchists hostile to the Liberal Party administration of the new Mexican president, Benito Juárez, Maximilian was offered the position of Emperor of Mexico, which he accepted on 10 April 1864
he United States however, continued to recognize Juárez as the legal president of Mexico. Maximilian never completely defeated the Mexican Republic; Republican forces led by Juárez continued to be active during Maximilian's rule. With the end of the American Civil War in 1865, the United States (which had been too distracted by its own conflict to respond to the Europeans' 1861 invasion in what it considered to be its sphere of influence) began providing more explicit aid to Juárez's forces. Matters worsened for Maximilian after French armies withdrew from Mexico in 1866. His self-declared empire collapsed, and he was captured and executed by the Mexican government, which then restored the Mexican Republic. His wife, Charlotte of Belgium (Carlota), who had left for Europe earlier to try to build support for her husband's regime, suffered an emotional collapse after his death and apparently became insane
Nolan Richardson
Oh. How does this happen?
Justin Cruz
I always wished for a young John Smith film.
>After his father died, Smith left home at the age of sixteen and set off to sea. He served as a mercenary in the army of Henry IV of France against the Spaniards, fighting for Dutch independence from King Philip II of Spain. He then set off for the Mediterranean. There he engaged in both trade and piracy, and later fought against the Ottoman Turks in the Long Turkish War. Smith was promoted to a cavalry captain while fighting for the Austrian Habsburgs in Hungary in the campaign of Michael the Brave in 1600 and 1601. After the death of Michael the Brave, he fought for Radu Șerban in Wallachia against Ottoman vassal Ieremia Movilă.[6]
>Smith is reputed to have killed and beheaded three Ottoman challengers in single-combat duels, for which he was knighted by the Prince of Transylvania and given a horse and a coat of arms showing three Turks' heads.[7] However, in 1602, he was wounded in a skirmish with the Crimean Tatars, captured, and sold as a slave. As Smith describes it: "we all sold for slaves, like beasts in a market".[8] Smith claimed that his master, a Turkish nobleman, sent him as a gift to his Greek mistress in Constantinople, who fell in love with Smith. He then was taken to the Crimea, where he escaped from Ottoman lands into Muscovy, then on to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth before traveling through Europe and North Africa, returning to England in 1604.
