![]() ![]() 6 would be a “new Independence Day” as it becomes in the film.Īs a piece of evidence, the scene from the 1996 blockbuster is not particularly convincing, perhaps because seemingly everyone in the courtroom laughed through the entire proceeding, and because “we will not go quietly into the night” is a popular phrase said by a lot of people. Fein then accuses Greene of lifting rhetoric from the film in order to communicate to her followers that Jan. The court plays Pullman’s monologue, which is famous among a certain sect of science fiction, Will Smith, and Bill Pullman fans, but perhaps not general knowledge among the broader populace. “I don’t remember, but you’re going to show us,” Greene responds.Īnd then, he does. “And there’s a scene in that movie where the president addresses the fight pilots who are about to go into battle. ![]() “You are giving us quite the entertainment today, thank you,” Greene says. “This is the one about the aliens come to the world, and then there’s a big battle on July Fourth to ward them off.” “Well, that’s something that you borrowed, from a movie script, right? You borrowed that line from the movie Independence Day, right?”Įveryone in the court room, including Greene, laughed. “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Greene responds. “That isn’t something that you came up with on your own,” Fein says. At one point Friday afternoon, Fein asks her about a video in which she says conservatives “aren’t the people who will go quietly into the night.” The whole thing has played out more or less like the carnival it is. ![]()
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