{"id":45644,"date":"2015-03-03T06:01:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T11:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=45644"},"modified":"2015-03-02T18:56:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T23:56:08","slug":"first-monday-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=45644","title":{"rendered":"First Monday in October"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While the stage origins of First Monday in October<\/em><\/a> remain much in evidence in the 1981 film adaptation starring Walter Matthau<\/a> and Jill Clayburgh<\/a>, it\u2019s an early line delivered by Matthau\u2014playing the liberal \u201clion\u201d of\u00a0the U.S. Supreme\u00a0Court\u2014that appears to place the movie, at least by the standards of today\u2019s political discourse, more into the realm of fairy tale.<\/p>\n

Matthau\u2019s Justice Dan Snow\u2014who looks like Antonin Scalia and thinks like The Notorious RBG<\/a>\u2014is required to speak at the funeral of a just-deceased conservative \u201cbrother\u201d on the court with whom he had sparred on many cases. Even as he remarks on the irony that his colleague had insisted he be the one to deliver a graveside eulogy, Snow muses:<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t have to agree with a man in order to respect him. <\/em><\/p>\n

\"first-monday-in-october-02-walter-matthau-funeral\"<\/a><\/p>\n

That sentiment isn\u2019t the only one from the film that strikes a viewer as somewhat out-of-date, but when revisiting this politically-charged dramedy about the appointment of America\u2019s first female Supreme Court justice, we also find that many of the ideological rifts dramatized in the\u00a0story remain in play today. The script for director Ronald Neame\u2019s movie\u2014adapted for the screen by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee from their 1978 stage production\u2014also comes with some subtle but sharp observations about how the left-right divide can be more complex than it is\u00a0often portrayed\u00a0by the media, and how easily political opponents sacrifice, or perhaps forget, their own principles simply for the sake of taking the opposite side of a similar argument whenever expediency requires.<\/p>\n

Rushed into release a month after President Reagan rather ambushed its provocative premise by nominating Sandra Day O\u2019Connor to replace retiring Associate Justice Potter Stewart, First Monday in October\u00a0<\/em>initially mines laughs from the awkward situation \u201cthe brethren\u201d find themselves in when forced to contemplate a female voice on the court for the first time in two centuries of U.S. history.<\/p>\n

Chief Justice Crawford (Barnard Hughes)\u2014affectionately referred to as \u201cC.J.\u201d by his colleagues\u2014is so disoriented by the news of the nomination that he lies down on Snow\u2019s couch like a patient needing his therapy. Upon hearing that the president (we assume it\u2019s meant to be Reagan, as we can spot a political cartoon of the Gipper hanging in Snow\u2019s office) has chosen California\u2019s 9th<\/sup> Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ruth Hagadorn Loomis (Clayburgh) to be the newest member of the Court, Matthau\u2019s Snow decries the appointment of \u201cthe Mother Superior of Orange County\u201d and fears her intelligently written (but nevertheless very wrong in his eyes) opinions will prove to be dangerous and damaging to the court and the country.<\/p>\n

When C.J. tries to humanize her by remarking that \u201cshe plays tennis,\u201d Snow bites back with a retort that has remained a favorite, and repellent, rhetorical device\u00a0of partisans left and right:<\/p>\n

Hitler played the harmonica. <\/em><\/p>\n

\"first-monday-in-october-03-reagan-doodle-walter-matthau\"<\/a><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a politics junkie, as I am on at least a part-time basis, it\u2019s here you\u2019ll likely begin to experience First Monday\u00a0in October<\/em> on two different \u201ctracks.\u201d Yes, you\u2019re watching it on the surface level for its entertainment value\u2014but you\u2019ll also start to fight the film\u2019s ideological battles inside your own head, and tick away at any oddities or inconsistencies of the film\u2019s political content. As in: Apart from a plot consideration that the script needs to start justifying way in advance, why is Matthau\u2019s Snow getting so overly<\/em> vexed<\/em> about Loomis being a hardcore conservative? Didn\u2019t he just say at the funeral that the man she will be replacing was at odds with him at every turn?<\/p>\n

Snow craves a court that will tip 5-4 in his favor, rather than against him as he says it does now, but would the character really be so na\u00efve as to think that a conservative president would appoint a leftist judge? Or that a liberal could be so \u201cstealth\u201d about his (or her) inclinations as to escape recognition? There\u2019s no tipping of the \u201cbalance\u201d of the court with Loomis\u2019 appointment. So why the fuss?<\/p>\n

Ruth Loomis\u2019 confirmation hearing doesn\u2019t quite approach the circus theatrics of the real thing, although she is on the receiving end of the expected and moronic question:<\/p>\n

Will your judgments be influenced by the fact that you\u2019re a woman? <\/em><\/p>\n

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Her response is fairly brilliant, and frankly, with its talk of being able to ovulate and think at the same time, hints at an embrace of progressivism that modern viewers might regard as alien coming out of the mouth of a \u201cconservative.\u201d<\/p>\n

Loomis tries to disabuse her male interrogators of the notion that her possession of a uterus handicaps her ability to impartially dispense justice. She talks about the ability to birth children as a gift rather than a curse, only to have it then snidely observed that the recently widowed nominee bore no children of her own. Cleverly parrying the criticism by defining her ideas as her offspring\u2014requiring both conception and sometimes painful delivery\u2014she has a drop-the-mic moment that comes as a spirited defense of small-D democratic values:<\/p>\n

You may not like my children, you may find them ugly. But by God, your ideas and mine have equal rights to live together, to grow, to change, even to die.<\/em><\/p>\n

We seem to enter more recognizable political territory when the newly constituted Supremes hear their first case together, that of a Nebraska town asserting\u00a0its right to enforce community standards and have a film producer arrested for the exhibition of his \u201cdocumentary work of art\u201d (that is to say, porno), The Naked Nymphomaniac<\/em>. Clayburgh\u2019s Loomis makes the kinds of arguments that we\u2019d expect to hear from a conservative in the era of the Moral Majority, while the liberal Snow predictably attacks her views on First Amendment grounds.<\/p>\n

In chambers, Snow and Loomis even undertake a mock trial situation to test each other\u2019s arguments (with Snow play-acting the role of the movie producer and Loomis acting like a prosecuting attorney), with Snow resorting to the cheap sexism of referring to Loomis as a \u201cJust-ess\u201d and Loomis making overly florid appeals to family values and protecting the \u201cinnocent kid\u201d who would somehow gain admission to an X-rated movie and be exposed to the \u201cfilth\u201d that \u201cwashes over him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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(Oh, the quaint old days when we argued whether or not pornographic material could be available to the public. What would these scolds make of the times we live in now, when that debate has been rendered obsolete by the instant availability of free smut across the Interwebs? We could ask them, but they\u2019re probably busy trying to figure out ways to block web content from the children who know computers better than they do)<\/p>\n

But then, their politics take an unusual turn, with Snow refusing to attend the justices\u2019 screening of the film to evaluate its \u201csocially redeeming value.\u201d Snow\u2019s rationale is that his hardline freedom-of-speech position obviates the need for him to sit through a movie he knows to be \u201ccrap\u201d but still worthy of Constitutional protections,\u00a0while Loomis replies with the kind of forceful argument we can all remember hearing from liberals when religious buffoons hurled their invective at The Last Temptation of Christ<\/em>, sight unseen:<\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s essential that we see the film. <\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s an attention-getting reversal of what we\u2019d consider the \u201cusual\u201d positions\u2014in that the judge who wants the movie banned is the one who insists upon watching it, while the one who wants it to be exhibited freely refuses to make the time for it himself. With a little work, we can iron out their positions to our satisfaction: Matthau\u2019s Snow is like a female liberal who wants to ensure that abortion rights are guaranteed, but would herself never choose to have one; Loomis is the\u00a0anti-choice\u00a0conservative who arranges an abortion for his mistress.<\/p>\n

Over the course of the movie, we see just how readily Snow and Loomis play both sides of the ideological fence when it comes to the central case the plot revolves around. That case concerns the ominously-named multinational corporation Omnitech, accused of buying up the patents for, and then burying, a \u201cmomentum engine\u201d that would eliminate the need for powering automobiles with gasoline.<\/p>\n

When Snow insists that he wants desperately to see the firm\u2019s long missing-in-action CEO come out of hiding and appear \u201cin the flesh\u201d to defend himself, Loomis makes the case that it\u2019s the corporation<\/em>, not the person<\/em>, being sued. At one point, Loomis even goes so far as to suggest, during the second mock trial the two conduct with each other (with her taking up the persona of the businessman) that a CEO\u2019s \u201cright of privacy\u201d entitles him to avoid a subpoena! (He) <\/em>is Omnitech, <\/em>Snow answers, maintaining that there should be\u00a0no distinction made\u00a0between the company and the person.<\/p>\n

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But when the two are arguing over the case at dinner, having just examined a prototype of the momentum engine at the Smithsonian and engaging in the usual back-and-forth about how my experts are right and your \u201cexperts\u201d are wrong,<\/em> Snow launches into an attack\u00a0that embodies\u00a0how he now sees\u00a0the government’s role as\u00a0vitally intrusive,\u00a0to defend the citizenry from the machinations of \u201clarge,\u201d not \u201cgreat,\u201d corporations.<\/p>\n

And then, in the most shockingly still-relevant moment of First Monday\u00a0in October<\/em>, she says it:<\/p>\n

Aren\u2019t corporations people?\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Owned by people? Run by people? For the benefit of people? <\/em><\/p>\n

Once you\u2019ve recovered from just how immediate<\/a> in our past political discourse those words are, you observe that both Snow and Loomis have come full circle with some measure of hypocrisy. When it\u2019s convenient to argue so, Snow wants to make no distinction between a person and a company. And when it helps her own case, Loomis tries to suggest that any judgment rendered against a private business entity, whatever their dishonest or harmful activities, is tantamount to tyranny against the individual. Except, of course, when it\u2019s that government\u2019s job to keep\u00a0Americans\u00a0from \u201cgoing to Hell\u201d by watching people screw.<\/p>\n

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The clashes between Snow and Loomis are so demanding of the court\u2019s great liberal \u201cdissenter\u201d that he both wrecks his marriage and suffers a physical trauma that gives both robed gladiators pause to reconsider their roles in each other\u2019s lives. Snow is forced to grapple with the fact that the person he considers \u201cdangerous\u201d might actually be\u00a0essential<\/em> to his own clarity of thought, while Loomis discovers that it\u2019s easy to mount a moral pedestal and consider yourself \u201cincorruptible\u201d\u2014as long you keep yourself cozy in a bubble of ignorance.<\/p>\n

The film may indeed\u00a0drape itself in a flag of fantasy idealism when it comes to how political appointees and their ideological foes actually behave<\/em> when one of them becomes tied second-hand to scandal\u2014does anyone<\/em> think the last important conversation between Snow and Loomis would shake out in real life the way it does onscreen?\u2014but, in a way, the extremity<\/em> of the resolution between these two fascinating characters brings them, and us, back to the sentiments Snow expressed at the memorial service for his just-departed b\u00eate noire:<\/em><\/p>\n

Like a pair of flying buttresses, leaning against opposite sides of a Gothic cathedral, we helped keep the roof from caving in. <\/em><\/p>\n

How things wrap up between Dan Snow and Ruth Loomis at the end of First Monday\u00a0in October<\/em> may appear\u00a0overly\u00a0tidy to jaded viewers today, but the kind of relationship they settle on has a real basis in the country\u2019s not-so-distant past, and should point the politically-motivated to the country\u2019s necessary future.<\/p>\n

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