Winter Musings

Six Six,

There was a movie released back in 2001 that won a
bunch of awards called 'The Fast Runner'. Here's a
quote from a web page about the movie subject:

Quote:
Evil in the form of an unknown shaman divides a small
community of nomadic Inuit, upsetting its balance and
spirit.

Twenty years pass. Two brothers emerge to challenge
the evil order: Amaqjuaq, the Strong One, and Atanarjuat,
the Fast Runner. Atanarjuat wins the hand of the lovely
Atuat away from the boastful son of the camp leader,
Oki, who vows to get even. Oki ambushes the brothers
in their sleep, killing Amaqjuaq, as Atanarjuat miraculously
escapes running naked over the spring sea ice.

But can he ever escape the cycle of vengeance left
behind?

End Quote. (url is: http://atanarjuat.com/media_centre/Atan_pres
skit.doc)

By the way, the conversation is all in the Inuit language,
so I had to read the subtitles to understand.

Part of the Inuit's costumes include what I would call
'ancient sunglasses.' Since at that time many, many
years ago when the movie was set there were no glasses
at all, tinted or otherwise, and the people wore what
looked like a type of long and skinny sea shell over
their eyes, with a small horizontal slit cut in it.
In the movie, it looked like an effective substitute
for sunglasses. So, they limited the amount of light
entering their eyes on the intensely glaring ice floes
of Canada.

I don't think the actors were wearing 'war paint' black
smudges as well.

As for a mix of the black grease smudges and sunglasses,
current day baseball players wear both as do football
players. The football players use a tinted face shield
rather than glasses, though.

Maybe this black face paint grease is something to
add to the pouch in the cockpit. Apply after releasing
from tow and wipe off before landing...