Great Movies: Courage

Courage is the most inscrutable of all the virtues, dependent entirely on the situation. Mark Twain said, “Courage is resistance of fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.” In successful movies about courageous people, audiences experience characters’ fears, as well as their triumphs. Come to hear background information before we watch, then discuss Hitchcock’s “Notorious,” Marlon Brando’s “On the Waterfront,” “Imitation Game” and “Apollo 13.”

Lynda Tisdell, a former high school English teacher, saw “Peter Pan” at the age of six and has never forgotten it. Passionate about movies, she has studied them, discussed them endlessly, and dreamed about them. She has previously taught many Great Movie courses, recently “The Power of Film,” “Great Movie Comedies,” “Children and Their Families,” “Monsters and Villains,” “The Way We Used to Be,” and many others.