ValentineXavier

The late Paleozoic. No wars, no cars, no cigarettes, no government...

> {quote:title=cinemafan wrote:}{quote} > mark - I know you were grooving to those underwater swimming scenes with Jane! I've played those frame-by-frame before.

> {quote:title=JakeHolman wrote:}{quote} > > The South stood for free and unbridled Libertarian belief that a people who no longer want to be associated with another *have the right to leave* as inderstoon at that time in th e19th century. > Unless, of course, those people were black, and slaves.

Well, *Matewan*, *Salt of the Earth*, *Battle of Algiers*, and *Network* are the first things that spring to mind.

To the best of my understanding, and recollection, you are absolutely correct. It's been a while since I read the Constitution, but I don't remember any right of secession.

> {quote:title=DofEarl wrote:}{quote} > Holy Hannah! This is the first I have heard of a Twilo Zone (Laura, what's with all those walnuts?) . . . uh . . . Twilight Zone dramatization of the great "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"! Can you tell me the year of the episode and where it might be available for viewing? I mean, that Bierce story is the Nuts! Have you or anyone else here seen the "Creepy" magazine rendition of this classic story? TZone edited a French production, and showed that. You can find it on the IMDb, and if you click the Amazon link, see several choices of it on DVD, including a TZone collection. I believe it was in the last season of TZone, but you can find that on the IMDb too. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056300/

> {quote:title=KUNSISARAH wrote:}{quote} > Who's the better actress If the choice is between Saccharine Katherine and Sterile Meryl, I'll take Sterile Meryl.

Yep, me too.

*Psycho*'s not a comedy. *The Seventh Seal* and *Gone With the Wind* - now those are comedies!

For me, nostalgia is the score to the 1966 *Casino Royale*, and most any Nino Rota Fellini score.

My favorite scene is when a darkened corridor is formed by disembodied arms/hands holding torches, that appear from out of the blackness. Pure magic.

Also sounds like The Hardy Boys.

> {quote:title=Stephan55 wrote:}{quote} > *To me, an anti-hero is a bad guy who does good.* > > Likewise, and I also consider the term apropo for a good guy who does bad. > I guess I'd call that an anti-anti-hero... Perhaps if an anti-hero, and an anti-anti-hero met, they would have all their matter converted into energy, in a huge filmic explosion... I was a bit of a latch-key kid too, as my parents divorced when I was 14. I didn't see the film until I was in my 20's. I didn't care for the sort of character Wayne usually played, IMO self righteous heroes, so I liked seeing him play a conflicted bad guy.

*Out of the Past* *D.O.A.* *Pursued* *The Big Sleep* If you want a modern noir, *Memento*

> {quote:title=Stephan55 wrote:}{quote} > For a split second I thought you were going to mention that other Alaskan woman... Do you think she worked on the "upgrade?" That would explain a lot. Seriously, are people really having trouble with the forums? I have no problems with them, and find them marginally better. True, I haven't tried to find any really old thread pages. For me, the main thing is the schedules. The monthly schedule needs to be as it was, with synopses visible w/o clicking, and printing on fewer pages, as they used to do. Sure, I know there are lots of other issues, but the monthly schedule is the most important.

To me, an anti-hero is a bad guy who does good. IMO, Wayne is a regular, neither bad nor overtly good, guy who goes bad, thus not an anti-hero. I don't think he was railroaded. As I said, he just didn't trust his friends, thus did Massey's evil bidding. But, yes, he did finally develop a conscience in the end, and try to redeem himself a bit. But, he can't really redeem what he has done.

*Dead Sea Fobs* Palestinian ekes out a living selling trinkets on the banks of the Dead Sea. He is particularly well known for his salt-encrusted watch fobs. He has a pet Gila monster, which lives under a rock. He feeds on the burros it bites. We never see the face of the only woman in the film, as it is hidden by a huge gold hat. There isn't enough potable water in the area to support more than one female. She is heard saying something about 'stinking badgers,' as she takes all his goods. Saccharine Heartburn plays Gold Hat, Brandon Marlo plays the burro, Charles Bickford plays the Gila monster.

I saw the TZone version of Owl Creek Bridge when it was first shown. Then, a few years later, I saw the full-length version on TV too. I don't recall what show, maybe a summer fill-in.

> {quote:title=Stephan55 wrote:}{quote} > > *Reap the Wild Wind (1942)* . > > Ray Milland and John Wayne (in one of his first anti-hero roles) vie for the same gorgeous lady: Paulette Goddard. > *RtWW* is probably my favorite Wayne film, but he's no anti-hero, he's a normal guy turned villain, because he didn't trust his friends.

I love Cocteau's *La Belle et la Bete*, but my favorite Cocteau film is *Orpheus*. In fact, I like the whole Orphic Trilogy, and have the Criterion edition. Fans of Hitchcock, and fans of *EttG* should check out Truffaut's *The Bride Wore Black*. It's a great revenge film, with a female protagonist.

> {quote:title=skimpole wrote:}{quote} > Casablanca: The Letters of transit come from De Gaulle, who of course would have no authority in Vichy France. (In at least one French DVD version, the letters of transit come from General Weygrand, a Third Republic/Vichy official who was later arrested by the Germans). > Even if they had gotten the authority right, why would they let someone they wanted to leave the country, using stolen documents? I can't imagine any government doing that, except through inattention, which obviously doesn't pertain in this case. This never made any sense to me.

+1

Back, more or less, on the topic of the world coming to an end, I have an idea on how to solve three of the world's most pressing problems. First, we send Charlie Sheen, with his incredible "tiger blood" to Japan, to fix their over-reacting reactors. Then, when Charlie is hot enough to glow in the dark, we send him to Libya to negotiate with Khadaffy, contaminating him too. So, the reactors are fixed, the Libyans are free, and we are free of Charlie.

Well, this is a classic movie site. One would expect a near-unanimous belief that films shouldn't be colorized, thus the "of course." Would one go to a site discussing classical music, and expect a lot of support for making rap versions of great operas? That wouldn't bother me, but I don't like opera.

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > I was interested to hear Ben say that the real-life Sellers emulated his character around that time in undergoing kind of a hippie transformation. I did not know that. Nor did I. Interesting.