Over the years, "Bonnie and Clyde" emerged as the movie that changed the movies, at least in the United States, the movie that finally freed Hollywood of the old studio-system mentality and ushered in a golden age that ended, depending on your taste, either with "Jaws" and "Star Wars," or never.
"They were wrong as they didn't take into consideration the U.S. political system and mentality.
It happens when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge.
Mr. Youngman said there were still some kinks to be worked out of the system, including an eBay mentality of online advertisers to make extremely low initial offers.
The star system and the committee mentality, which methodically iron out the quirks from high-minded studio films, make it next to impossible.
"Competitiveness on a national level is affected more by factors like bureaucracy — which is fed by complex regulation, state intervention, the tax system, corruption and antibusiness mentality rather than wage costs," they said in the letter.
OutKast embody the product of such a system, with their pimp/player mentality and southern lifestyle musings.
The current system has built a mentality that if there is no W-2 or 1099, it's not reportable income," says Phoenix CPA Edward Zollars.
The question is how in biological systems the micro-mentality of elementary particles combines in a coherent way to generate higher levels of experiential properties as we move up the evolutionary tree from prions to cells to plants to animals to human beings.
"But people resent being treated as ripping off the system if that is the mentality".
