Cinemascope
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Um, I would take Harry Palmer instead!
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Well, as long as we have at least 2 major political parties we should at least hope they'll do the best they can while in office (if nothing else for the fear of being voted out of office) and of course when they don't people can express their discontent at the polls.
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I like The Key very much as well, and it's one of the most underrated WW2 movies I can think of, especially with such a great cast.
I do have the Mr. Lucky R2 DVD and it looks just great, obviously the French subtitles can be switched on or off.
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Well I've always believed that the poltical pendulum is bound to remain in motion, it cannot stay on one side forever.
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It really boggles the mind how prejudiced some people were in the first half of the 20th century and how easy it was to discriminate on account of race. Thank God for the Civil Rights movement!
Now, when you say JB was the first live actor hired by WD... I don't know, but I've seen some of WD's earliest films exploring the combination of live-action and animation and I'm pretty sure he'd used actors before.
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Sorry, klondike, but I disagree with you completely. If someone feels their racial or ethnic background is pertinent to the discussion, I don't see any reason why they shouldn't say so. However for someone else to assume that it *has* to be pertinent strikes me as completely insensitive, and not relevant to the discussion.
Are you (or anyone else for that matter) saying I'd be more or less eager to see this movie if I was 100% African-American? or if I was 100% Caucasian? What if I were mixed race? Please explain to me why you'd assume that it would necessarily affect how I felt about Song of the South.
I don't think this was a matter of "not understanding" someone's viewpoint, but simply of expressing disagreement with it.
You express disagreement with something I posted, and you feel free to express it.
I express disagreement with something someone else posted, and feel free to express it.
So what's the difference between the two?
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Some people just don't appreciate black and white...
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I'm really glad to see Without Reservations finally being released, I really enjoyed watching it on TCM last time it was on. Didn't realize how good JW could be with comedy as well as action.
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I'd also recommend Arizona (1940).
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I agree with that, too, MissG. I love watching RO's introductions to classic movies, but other than that, I don't usually have much info about classic movies I haven't seen before.
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Okay Cinemascope, I'm glad you and everyone else will finally get to see this movie that has been denied you for years. But can you possibly understand why others may not be so excited? That's all.
Actually, no, most people who might be interested will *not* be watching the movie because the Walt Disney Co. remains firm in its decision not to release it on home video. A handful of us may actually be able to watch the movie only because it was released on laserdisc in Japan more than a decade ago, and we've obtained imported copies.
I can certainly more than understand and sympathize with anyone who deplores the insensitive racial stereotypes of African-Americans, Arabs, Asians and Asian-Americans, Mexicans and South Americans, or any other group of people based on ethnicity and/or national origin, that were ever depicted in Hollywood movies, cartoons, and serials.
What makes you think that just because I would like to see this movie released on video, it could possibly mean that I am insensitive to these issues? On the contrary, I think those issues are worth bearing in mind, because hopefully we can avoid any such insensitivity and call other filmmakers on it if they were to do anything like that again.
I do not appreciate someone asking about people's race on the boards for the very simple reason that I am 100% color blind, and I would expect others to be too. That is to say that I would never dream of treating anybody else differently based on any real or perceived difference in color, ethnicity, or national origin.
Surely you can understand that my only concern with questions about racial origin is to make sure the person asking is himself/herself as color-blind as I am?
And having said that, please be assured that I appreciate your presence on these boards just as much as the other posters you have mentioned, if not more.
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Actually, I have had the same trouble myself.
Do you use Explorer, Opera or Firefox browser?
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Well I think that when it comes to colorization, the only consideration is whether or not it will create an additional source of revenue. At least that's how distributors probably see it.
At the very least these days it's easy for many distributors to release a DVD with both versions of a movie, which at the very least makes it possible for everyone who buys it to be happy.
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That might prove to be an interesting project for a film maker. Not making it necessarily "more PC," but perhaps "more real."
I think there's a lot more of that going on these days than there was a few decades ago, something that is perhaps in some part due to a much more globalized and interconnected world.
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klondike, I don't think anyone has even *remotely* suggested that any person wouldn't be welcome on the boards due to "backgrounds & origins."
However in the case of the discussion of Song of the South, I don't see what sense it could possibly make to ask people their race in reference to their desire the movie were to be released on home video.
Is it saying I would be less *or* more likely to want to see it released depending on whether or not I'm African-American?
In my case it is entirely irrelevant, because I am interested in the film first and foremost as an animation buff, especialy of hand-drawn animation since it's pretty much a dying art in this age of computer animation.
By all means, let people offer any kind of information about themselves when they feel it's right. But please don't assume someone's opinion on a given subject is necessarily a reflection of whether or not they might be Caucasian.
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MissG I can totally understand what you're saying, it bothers me a lot when they show a classic movie in a theater and some in the audience just snicker for no apparent reason at things that were quite normal at the time the movie first came out. It's not like these things aren't constantly in flux, all the time.
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It's got a great ensemble cast and a longuish running time but I wouldn't think so much of it as an epic but a big-time adventure yarn.
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Oh shucks, that reminds me, the 1936 Show Boat is showing this month, isn't it?
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Notice the use of the word "or" in the paragraph that you just quoted.
I think it would have been possible to remain true to the spirit of the book without resorting to such obvious caricatures, but if you don't agree that's fine, too.
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I'd say the impact of any movie can be personal depending on one's situation, not only with period pieces.
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I liked those sets, too. They add so much to the atmosphere!
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So are you saying they never really considered the title "The Man in Lincoln's Nose"?
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I agree that's one of the best parts. Just love the ingenuity of the French resistance fighters to make the Nazis look like complete morons!
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Well who'd ever think a thing like that?
I love silents and I'm NOT a geek!
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Do you have Netflix?
As for There's Something About Mary, it's one of those comedies where the humor involves a lot of bodily fluids and gross-out gags. This is the one where Cameron Diaz's character accidentally grabs a handful of a bodily fluid that can only males can produce and uses it instead of hair gel.