...a
simple message, that sounds an insidious, powerful truth and one that I feel
deserves more recognition.
audio
from the DVD of the motion picture
~The Contender~
DreamWorks 2000
There
is a little story or parable that I first read at jeffbridges.com
a couple years back. I then heard it being delivered by Bridges in the "deleted
scenes" on the DVD for the movie The Contender. Jeff is portraying
a U.S. President in a difficult situation. There is an easy conventional way
out of the quandary that no one would question, but there is also the right
way out. In the scene the president uses this story when he invites in two
top advisors for a rather cryptic pep talk....