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    The Third Man and Carol Reed

    in Films and Filmmakers

    Posted

    > {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}

    > Im sure youve seen some car races on TV where they show some CGI naming the driver, with a long arrow pointing to the drivers car? Sometimes they have several names and arrows on the screen at the same time, so everyone at home will know whos driving which car, especially in the wide shots where we cant quite make out the color or number of the car.

    >

    > Well, thats what is needed in Syriana, with names, titles, affiliations, and arrows pointing to each important guy, especially in the wide shots. :)

    >

    > And that would probably help in The Good German too. And when the film actually gets to the good German, his name box should flash red so that we will know that he is indeed the good German. :)

    Fred,

    You wouldn't believe the number of times writers want to do just about that in their screenplay! But something happens in the filming/editing. LOL..

    Adventures of Robin Hood Best picture of 1938?

    in Hot Topics

    Posted

    You Can't Take It With You was a play from Broadway, and I always feel those movies have an unfair advantage. A play running every night will go through refinements in acting, and even if the same actors are not used, it is like a movie that has had hundreds of rehearsals. The director is essentially just blocking each scene as if on stage, and with the Moss Hart material, it was a slam dunk.

     

    I agree enthusiastically that The Adventures of Robin Hood was robbed. But let me add one more consideration of the period. While we argue about comedies not winning the Academy Award by reason of their genre, in 1938 this tradition (10 years old at the time) was no where yet being established, and in 1934, It Happened One Night captured the golden statuette. In fact, with Capra again at the helm, and his background with the Keystone cops shorts was well known. So we see the argument of comedies getting no respect doesn't quite match. But, as wonderful as we see them now, action movies like The Adventures of Robin Hood had a great appeal to the youth (children). Adventures of Robin Hood may have had the disadvantage of being seen by some in the academy as being juvenile action. While it is an honor to be nominated it is interesting how these wonderful action films fared in the competition.

     

    http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1299532606746.

    Peace. It's Wonderful and other closing lines

    in Hot Topics

    Posted

    >*Good day, gentlemen. This is a prerecorded briefing made prior to your departure and which for security reasons of the highest importance has been known on board during the mission only by your H-A-L 9000 computer. Now that you are in Jupiter's space and the entire crew is revived it can be told to you. Eighteen months ago the first evidence of intelligent life off the Earth was discovered. It was buried 40 feet below the lunar surface near the crater Tycho. Except for a single very powerful radio emission aimed at Jupiter the four-million year old black monolith has remained completely inert. Its origin and purpose are still a total mystery.*

    >(prerecorded to the crew on board "Discovery")

    2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

    EPICS : Let's talk the big talk

    in General Discussions

    Posted

    > {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}

    > I agree with your other "tentpoles," but to me, *2001* is an epic, certainly far more than Star Wars, and LOTR.

    I see your point, but for me 2001: A Space Odyssey is not such a sweeping story; there are many elements, but it tells the story unemotionally for me. When the character shifts to focus on Hal9000, and little is done to engage us more with the characters on the spacecraft with "him", the story sort of drifts into the final journey for Keir Dullea. I am not faulting the director either; Kubrick gave us Spartacus a great epic! 2001 is unique unto itself.

     

    2001 is a great movie, and fascinating to watch, but I guess I mean it engages intellectually rather than emotionally. Epics engage me emotionally.

     

    I take my coffee black, others prefer creamer. Neither of us are wrong, just different definitions for our coffee.

    EPICS : Let's talk the big talk

    in General Discussions

    Posted

    h4. A Tentpole does not an Epic make.

    *Tentpole:*

    Independence Day

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    Harry Potter series

    Spiderman

    Master and Commander

     

     

    *Epic:*

    The Lord of the Rings

    300

    Dr Zhivago

    Giant

    Alexander Nevsky

     

    As good and as sweeping a story of 2001: A Space Odyssey, it doesn't feel epic to me. But what of the Star Wars series?

     

    Edited by: casablancalover on Mar 7, 2011 12:51 AM

    EPICS : Let's talk the big talk

    in General Discussions

    Posted

    > {quote:title=C.Bogle wrote:}{quote}

    > Well, there are epics and then there are epics. I'm not partial to the "sword and

    > scandal" type that seem to go on forever. But there are some movies, such as

    > Since You Went Away and The Best Years of Our Lives, that are epic in

    > terms of running time, close to three hours, but that don't deal with large, spec-

    > tacular events, but are intimate and personal in terms of subject matter.

    Good point. Both of those involve epic periods of their current history; the large, specular events take place off screen (Since You Went Away), or just after (BYOOL), or in the case of From Here to Eternity, just before the historical event.

     

    I love all the previous mentioned as well; and I really like the earlier Cleopatra with Claudette Colbert, The Sign of the Cross, Intolerance, and Lawrence of Arabia . I believe DeMille may have the franchise, but many directors handled sweeping stories.

     

    SO, how do we define epics? Swithin's book seems about right, but the Studios presented Roadshow Editions of movies and those editions were usually reserved for epics.

     

    Edited by: casablancalover on Mar 5, 2011 7:22 PM

    Dogs and Spirituality in the Movies

    in General Discussions

    Posted

    Whoa. . . Lassie Come Home came into my consciousness around 11:30am Eastern time, but didn't have time to post. I was amazed to find it posted here. Laws of attraction.

     

    I was thinking Lassie Come Home is a grail journey for the Collie and the obstacles she must overcome, including giving life lessons to others as well as learning them. I need to see the film again; it does have a ring of spirituality about it, for Lassie as well as young Roddy McDowell's character.

     

    Edited by: casablancalover on Mar 5, 2011 6:41 PM

    Favorite line from movie.

    in Hot Topics

    Posted

    Welcome, picassopal, so glad you finally posted! It's a great quote.

     

    >*As the leader of all illegal activities in Casablanca, I am an influential and respected man.*

    Sidney Greenstreet, Casablanca (1942)

     

    h5. Hollywood's Masterpiece

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