rohanaka
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Howdy there, April...
THAT will be a "mull" worth waiting for!! I am off to go run my Saturday errands. I will check in with you later, little lady. :-)
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Congrats and best wishes to all!! Some really great films to look forward to as well!! Nice job, everybody.
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Musicals:
The Wizard of Oz
Singin' in the Rain
Meet Me in St. Louis
The Music Man
Oklahoma
Ugh...I had to come back in here and replace On Moonlight Bay with The Music Man because although I love little Doris...I think TMM is a better choice for this thread...its a tough job...but I had to do it... :-)
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Disney:
Snow White
Bambi
Sleeping Beauty
Lady and the Tramp
Dumbo
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Hi Ms Cutter...(actually...it's Rohanaka--Kathy) but I appreciate your reply...the whole Myth thing for me is some of what makes most western films seem so enjoyable. But Ford does seem to be a master.TMWSLV has always been a favorite of mine and I think the ending where the newpaper man says "print the legend" is just about the best way to sum up the entire thing. (PS...I have never gotten to see the Iron Horse yet...It is definitly on my Wanna See list.)
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The original, of course!
HA! I figured that....it does seem to be the favorite of most folks between the two films!!
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Animation: I am torn between Snow White and Bambi...(maybe it could be a double feature?)
Comedy: It Happened One Night
Drama: Mildred Pierce
Family: Yours Mine and Ours
Film Noir: Double Indemnity
Horror: Frankenstein (Karloff's)
Musical: The Wizard of Oz
Mystery: The Lady Vanishes
Romance: The Quiet Man (I like a little comedy w/ my romance)
Sci-Fi: Independence Day (not a classic...but VERY good example of sci fi)
Western: hmmmmm.... The Searchers. No wait...The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance..No...I mean...True Grit....
OH!! I should not have made fun of the Grey Guy....this really is hard!! :-)
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Animation ???
Family: ???
Musical: ???
Hey Grey Guy!! Would that be the ORIGINAL animated family musical film entitled *???* or are you talking about the remake from a few years later?? HA!!!!!
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Ok BIG surprise....I feel asleep watching Ft. Apache...I was awfully tired...but I thought it was worth a try. I got as far as the big battle...and just before they were ready to go double cross the Apaches....I must have fallen asleep. When I woke up on the couch in the wee hours....the tape had rewound itself and popped out and I was staring at a blue screen...
But what I did watch was a nice reminder of how much of a pompous jerk that Thursday was...(I hadn't seen this one in so long, I couldn't remember how long it had been) But in my new found appreciation for Fonda and his acting skills....he carried this role off quite well....and I just wanted to kick him in the pants about every other time he was on screen.
Anyway...all the other elements of this work quite nicely too and make this a really good story. Duke was great...and I LOVE Ms Temple....what a sweetie. And the music....there is something very reliable in the music in a Ford film....and I mean that in a good way.
Maybe I will pop that tape back in later and fastforward and pick up where I left off....I hope I can get that chance....I really want to see the end again....I have been thinking about it since the discussion this summer about how there is a tendency to embrace "the myth" vs reality as it pertains to westerns and I know this one is an excellent example.
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I am sorry to brag here, but I am so proud of myself I can barely even speak.....
Jackie...that is way cool!!!! I wish you would come out here and give a few of my "yard sale specials" a face lift!! And PS...when you see my little fake cast iron stove space heater.....don't get any ideas....Bronxgirl has been gunning to take that thing away from me since I told here about it, but until she gets that roaring fireplace installed.....pretend warm and cozy "flames" are better than none at all.
Way cool again, little missy. I wish I had that kind of luck when it comes to mixing paint...mine would likely have come out looking like Milk Dud Brown or something. :-)
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I'm laughing so hard at them imitating
Francis Ford and the little kids saying "Here's a stick to beat the
lovely lady..." Still, it warms the heart to see how this movie lives on...
HA!!!!!! I just couldn't call it a day w/out popping back in here one more time...My gosh my golly I laughed until I cried watching that thing....I want to go to a party like that!!!
I liked the other video too....all the right scenes...and the music wasn't exactly "Irish" but if fit really well with the editing...thanks!! You made my night!!!
Off to try and stay awake through Ft Apache now...if I do fall asleep...it won't be the movie's fault...I have been having a hard time adjusting to going back to work this week after Christmas break...my sleep patterns are all wacko!
PS....Barb....the Doctor is recommending a Ford/Santchi prescription for those palpatations. Deep breaths....calm.....think gentle breezes...swaying palm trees...(wait..look out your window and SEE swaying palm trees.) There now....Go get your DVD and have a little Fordian fix and all will be better... :-)
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I started painting my living room "Golden Farm" by Benjamin Moore ..... It's pretty pale, the color of white cheddar cheese.... Bronxie inspired me.... maybe it will look like White o' Morn when I am done.....
AHHH....I am so jealous...if there is any left when you are done... bring it along with you when you come for your visit....I am sure the cottage needs another coat or two... :-)
April...I gotta go too...same reason as Jack...different kid...(Enjoy the Pappy flick...and then come back and ramble for us.... :-)
Maybe sooner or later that GREY GUY will show up and do the same....nahh...who am I kidding???)
'Night, All.
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and friends just can't be found....
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big bugs
That's why there are so many square dances out there in those Oklahoma towns...they are really just stompin' on the bugs!!! :-) KIDDING!!! Only Kidding!! All you Okies...and all you square dancers....sit back down.
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I seriously have the template
for the T-Shirts all ready to go, sisters
Well....start printing now....But we may have to wait until June or so to do the interview....I am afraid to fly...so I guess I will have to "walk the whole long way...just a nice stretch of the legs" :-)
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Oooooh...I have the feeling we will all be meeting soon in a little thatched cottage...
and a little man looking suspiciously like Jack MacGowran will be sitting in the corner
and the Widow Tillane will be inviting us to sit to tea... dee dooo dee dooo dee dooo
Yes...and Ronald Colman...I mean the QT... and I will be happy to put you folks up for an extended stay.... The roses are in full bloom right about now...
PS...while we are at the widow's house....Jack...let's ask that little guy by the fireplace for some ID or something and find out what the heck he is doing just standing there....inquiring minds wanna know.
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was born in Austin, TX, and raised in Norman..... cue Twilight Zone music
Hey....Norman has to be only a hop skip and a jump from Ft. Sill....
Hello, Larry King??? I met my long lost sisters online talking about John Ford Film in the TCM website...
What?? You say that's incredible?? Yeah...sure...we'll come in for an interview...can we wear our 3 Bad Men T shirts????
(Ladies....Larry said that will be just fine with him.)
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and Kathy....
HA!! Yes...and I want to live in White O' Morn!!! But....I have to have indoor plumbing installed...I am such a whimp!! :-)
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a red beetle
Ok.. Jack...Miss G....my long lost sisters....when are doing that Larry King interview??? My dad had a red VW station wagon when I was a kid... (PS....we named all our cars back then...(I still do) The VW's named....Hitler...it was a VERY temperamental little car)
Let's see...we've all lived in OK....April... I lived in TX growing up too. Jack???
(And did either of you ever live in Alabama, Kentucky or Alaska???? If you say yes, I am getting on the phone to Larry right this minute). :-)
PS...Jack....how about... miDWest???
FF....no book signings....but there are negotiations for Heather Locklear to play me in the Made for TV movie.
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Was it Olathe you are from
No...acutally...I am an army brat and I am from everywhere! Ha. I was born in OK...but I don't recall it because I was just a baby at the time. :-) We moved around a lot...but the KC area is where my folks are both from and when my dad retired we moved back here (just after I graduated from HS.) I lived on the MO side after that for a long time...but then I crossed over to the Kansas side for a while, and that is where I met the QT. We lived in a very small town on the sw corner of KC area in Kansas for the first several years we were married.
I did used to work in Olathe in the county building there. ...I think I posted a youtube of that place once on here to show Bronxgirl some snow... and that may be where you got that from...) Anyway.... we moved over to the MO side after the kidling was born. And I am thinking this is likely where we are staying (as far as I know...)
KC is one of those "sprawling" spread out and spread all over sort of areas and there are a lot of cities all surrounding the state line that are part of the metro area.
we would stop in St. Joe
I used to live in St Joe a LONG time ago when I was a shoe store manager....(that is where my "3 Mall Uncles" came from)
in 104 degree Kansas heat.
This part of the midwest gets both extremes....awful muggy miserable heat in the summer and freezing nightmare cold in the winter....aren't we the lucky ones!!! :-) But if you visit in the spring or fall....not a bad place to be. Very pleasant...that is when we aren't dodging tornadoes or rolling up our pantlegs when it floods...Gee...i should get a job with the Missouri or Kansas board of tourism...I am sure they could use someone w/ my talents to write their promos.... HA! :-)
(Ok....really...all in all....it is not a bad neck of the woods to live in. MO has a lot more intersting geology than KS....but there are some really pretty places to visit on both sides of the state line if you know where to go.)
Whew!! ( The hardback version of Rohanaka: My Life Back and Forth Between the State Line is on sale now at Barnes and Noble and other fine book stores everywhere!) NOW aren't you sorry you asked??????????? :-)
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Dr. Rohanaka. Is Three Godfathers going to cure me as well as 3 Bad Men?
HA! I recommend the Three Godfathers to all my patients...4 out of 5 doctors surveyed do too. As for me....I recorded Ft. Apache over the holidays and did not get to watch it...physician heal thyself! :-)
(PS....our offices are actually located on the Missouri side of the state line (instead of Kansas) ...but we do assist patients from all surrounding areas.) :-)
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I believe tonight is the night I am going to finally try to sit and watch Two Rode Together,
Woo Hoo! Enjoy. I wish I had a copy so I could watch it again and see if I could figure out what I was yammering about w/ regard to TMFL....oh ...that old timer's disease is getting me down! I will keep a watch out for it as I am sure it will be on sometime...but by then...I will need to watch Laramie again too.... it's a never ending cycle trying to keep up with my fading memory. :-)
Pappy-withdrawal
You know I read in the paper the other day that due to Ford's overwhelming popularity on these boards...that is now an officially recognized condition covered by most major medical plans...
The prescribed treatment: Watch Two Rode Together and/or Three Bad Men. Relax and Ramble in the Morning... (or evening....or whenever suits your fancy.) :-)
Ok...yet another lame joke...but by now at least you are likely getting used to them!)
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I just watched most of The Big Sky
Aw man!! I need to start paying better attention to the schedule....I look in there every few days...but I missed that one completely...and here you were chatting about it...I still did not know...I could have been recording it.... Oh well...will try to catch it again sometime. :-) Glad you caught it though.
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When tears are in your eyes... I will dry them all.
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Hiya April...very well "mulled over" ramble!
I think I may be a bit goofy in that whole comparison idea I had..I STILL am trying to recall why I ever said the two films (this one and TMFL made me think a little bit of one another in some way...I am giving up on that and perhaps one day when I finally reach the old folks home and have nothing but time to sit in my rocking chair and "mull"...maybe the thought will return...I am sure it was nothing that noteworthy...but it bugs me just the same.
At any rate...I have to agree with you about Stewart's character in this film....what a jerk. VERY few redeeming qualities...at least at the beginning. I think he did eventually overcome a lot of the "cushy" self serving attitudes that made him seem so distasteful...but maybe only on certain levels. Perhaps he was meant to be portrayed as a guy who used to know how to get things done....and had become a guy who just wanted things done for him....and he eventually had to be more or less dragged back to the level of "getting things done" even if his heart might not have been in it.
I liked the exchange between him and Widmark early on by the river...if you didn't "get" either man before this scene....they are perfectly laid out and set up after this....each man's character and motivation. This scene brings out Jimmy Stewart's seemingly natural ability to take a piece of dialogue and just make it sound so very "conversational"...in no way does he ever appear to just be "speaking lines" and this scene is a fine example of that .... (and PS...I can't believe I found it so easily on here...but I think youtube must have some sort of magic genie inside each computer and you just wish...and whammo..there it is.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQNkB6axY8A
Ken Curtis and Harry Carey, Jr. round
out the stock company features, but in perhaps the
least appealing roles of their entire careers!
I remember thinking in the scene w/ the missing mom in the teepee...that Stewart and Widmark were almost doing her as much a kindness in not telling her about what losers her sons turned out to be as they were in promising her to not tell her family where she was. Better to let her live on with her fond memories of them than to face such a let down in seeing what a couple of idjits they'd become. Those two "boys" needed a kick in the pants to be sure.
The bit w/ Shirley Jones and the music box when they are leading the brother away screaming "mine" was almost heartbreaking...but one of the few moments where REAL emotion gets tossed into the mix of this film. And I too liked the scene where Stewart "sets everybody straight" at the dance.
I liked the end of this film too. And that may be why I think it could be possible that Stewart's character really did seem to have "breakthrough" and step up a notch or two on the ladder of humanity....but some have further to climb than others....and maybe he just started too far down on the bottom for it to seem like that big of a deal in the end. :-)
As far as my impression of the movie as a whole...maybe the things you said about it not being "top of the line" Ford fare might be among the reasons I did not recall having watched it before or recalling what the name of the film was. I liked it well enough to pass the time....but I don't think I would put it on his "A" list to be sure.