ValentineXavier
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I remember seeing this film on TV, back in the 70s. I thought it was wild! I'm looking forward to seeing it again for the first time in decades.
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> I am going to slightly disagree. I don't think he was trying to overcompensate out of guilt. I think he carried his hypocrisy forward into his later years.
I'm not a fan of his. I think he was a self righteous jerk. I think he was only adequate as an actor, who usually played the same sort of character. Politically, I'm at the opposite end of the spectrum. But, I think he was sincere. I don't think he was a hypocrite. And, he did well in a few roles, in a few great films.
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I think Pilar's explanation rings true.
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> Of course, it probably didn't do anything to help with understanding the plot, but in the case of *The Big Sleep* this hardly makes any difference.
I watched it backwards, half asleep, but with one eye open. Now I understand it perfectly!
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> > That will always be my favorite Bogie film! I wish TCM would show the original cut again, just for variety's sake.
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> original cut?
You can find some info on it on the IMDb, probably the wikipedia too. *The Big Sleep* was made in 1944, with a finished cut. Before it was released, Bacall and Bogie became a big thing in *To Have and Have Not*, so they decided to punch up *TBS* before release, amplifying their interplay, and released the version we all know and love in 1946. Both versions are about the same length, but have about 20 minutes of different material. TCM showed the 1944 version a few years back. Both are good. I prefer the 46 version, but the 44 version is more of a detective film, more cops in it. I like it too.
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> FredC, I say go with ValentineXavier's advice just do your research on which models may give you trouble with copyright protection.
The only HDD model in production, the Magnavox, is not known to have copy protection issues. That is, it doesn't find it when it doesn't exist, like some DVD recorders do. But, if the CPRM is there, it won't record.
> From what I was told having a DVR and a DVD recorder with a hard drive is pointless.
I'd say not so! I have two 250GB DVRs, and one 160GB DVDR (DVD recorder.) If you don't want to make DVDs, having just a DVR is fine. But, if you do want to make DVDs, having a DVR to feed your DVDR is very useful, especially if you want to record things from premium channels, digital channels, more than one thing at a time, watch one thing, while recording another... I set up movies to transfer from the DVR to the DVDR when I go to bed, or go to work, or just out for a while. When I come back, the movie is on the DVDR, ready to edit, and burn to disc.
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Well, I see you are not a Monty Python fan. 20th Century Vole was Monty Python's satiric take-off on the 20th Century Fox logo, with a vole, which is a small, furry animal, replacing the fox. The thread is humorous take-offs on film titles.
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This is very weird. This post was in Foreign Films last night, and I posted the answer, Rene Clement's 1952 film *Forbidden Games*. Now the post has moved here, and my reply is gone. Well, at least you got your question answered...
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20th Century Vole is far and away the most erudite and enlightening thread on the TCM board!
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That will always be my favorite Bogie film! I wish TCM would show the original cut again, just for variety's sake.
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Fred, you need a DVD recorder with a hard drive. It holds hours of recordings, and you can edit out the non-movie heads and tails before you burn to DVD, and put chapter marks wherever you want them. The only one still made is a Magnavox, sold on line only, by Walmart.
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When someone refers to our soldiers as "toy soldiers," I'm tempted to not dignify such a post by replying to it, but with such a load of equine excrement, I can't help myself...
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> I think there are a few factors involved:
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> - modern Hollywood leftist politics (very few high-profile actors and directors are pro-state and this is reflected in their choice of film projects)
Okay, so "leftists," I guess you mean mostly liberals, aren't "pro-state," but are none the less commonly accused of being 'pro big government.' Well, I guess that is a common enough bit of doublethink, but it makes no sense. Liberals are "pro-state" enough that they are proud of their country when it does good, and not so ashamed of it that they won't admit it when it does wrong, and try to fix it.
Addendum: It was arch conservative Republican Grover Norquist who said that 'government should be made small enough to drown it in a bathtub.' Is that "pro-state?
> - the issue that veterans feel as if military service makes them and their families more patriotic than others (implying a lack of tolerance for those who do not actively support the military)
I doubt the truth of that. It comes close to being a slander on military families. But, even if true, I don't see how it would keep any ex-military from going into acting, if they wanted.
> - the extreme cost on American taxpayers to support a military like this in a nuclear age (especially when toy soldiers can be replaced by atomic bombs)
So, we're just supposed to nuke anyone we have a disagreement with? We should have nuked Iraq, and Afghanistan? That is absurd.
> - propaganda (a lot of the heroism in WWII, as represented on movie screens, was intended to bolster a war effort that more knowledgeable citizens would not have actually supported)
So, "more knowledgeable citizens" would have been fine with Hitler, Hirohito, and Mussolini owning the world, including the USA? That too is absurd.
The real reasons that there were many actors who had served in WWII, but not now, are:
The Axis powers were an existential threat to the US. Virtually everyone felt it their duty to support the war effort, in part, of course, because of US propaganda asking them to. None of the conflicts since then have been a threat to the existence of the US. And, in the 'war on terror,' the public was pointedly NOT asked to volunteer, or help support the war effort. Except for dubious security precautions.
There is no longer a draft. When there was a draft, many would enlist, to get more favorable terms of service.
Also, not mentioned by others, is that I think people plan their careers earlier, and more thoroughly now than in the WWII era. Going to college is far more common. More training is needed for good jobs. Even though that isn't as true of actors as say, engineers, it is still a norm, even for actors.
Edited by: ValentineXavier on Oct 11, 2010 9:57 PM
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> Both of these series scream BOX SET to me!
I've seen the Falcon films so many times, and they play regularly, so I hadn't planned on recording them. But, then I guess I heard that scream... I will put the 8 films on 4 DVDs, and put those DVDs in a case that holds 4 DVDs, so I'll have my own boxed set!
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For me, *Double Indemnity* is definitely a "Fred" movie, regardless of the other stars. When I think of it, I see him, and no one else.
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I think you are looking for Rene Clement's 1952 film *Forbidden Games*.
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It would be a good film to run on TCM Underground. As for trivia, the IMDb says that the average shot length in the film was 8.4 seconds. That's 665 shots in the film.
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I think I have about as broad a definition of film noir as anyone. But, off hand, I can't think of a noir that doesn't involve crime. I'd say that it is theoretically possible to be a film noir, without any crime, but it would be very difficult. I think many people would say that to be a noir, a film must have crime.
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I don't know the film you are looking for, but from your description, I think you might like *The Fountain*.
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It might be *The Sleeping Dictionary*, with Jessica Alba, Bob Hoskins, and Hugh Dancy.
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I'm not so sure about that. I think that showing clips in that situation would be considered "fair use," but that's just a guess on my part.
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I've read that the name "Hornblower" was inspired by producer Arthur Hornblow, who did NOT produce this film. I guess C. S. Forester was just taken with the name.
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>... the Depression, that most people around the world were ill prepared to deal with and they wanted to do something to make a difference and that mattered..
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> Many were blacklisted in the 1950s because of their affilliations/flirtation with the CP when they were young and idealistic.
When you remember that big businesses hired goon squads to beat, sometimes shoot, or even kidnap and kill workers organizing to improve their working conditions, and get a living wage, remember the US Gov. supported the goons, with police and sometimes soldiers also beating the union workers, you can see that progressives really had nowhere to turn. So, yes, the Communist line sounded good to some of the idealists, who didn't really know how the USSR behaved. It is understandable, and IMO, honorable, that even when they found out what Soviet Communism was all about, people didn't want to rat on their friends who had been in the same boat.
I have had two good friends who were communists. Both would say that there has never been a truly communist state, and that one would work. Without commenting on that belief, I'll just say that form of idealism still lives. When I explained to one that I think both communism and capitalism are dinosaurs and should become extinct, and that the workers in major corporations should own a controlling interest in the stock, therefore not needing unions, and running the businesses in such a way as to profit the workers most, he told me that made me an "anarcho-syndicalist!"
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I'd add *Captain Horatio Hornblower* to the kid-friendly film list.
Looking for an OLD French war movie. (1900-1960?, has been aired on TCM b4)
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No, I didn't think you were copying my answer. Even if you had, it would be no foul, since there was no answer posted here. I'll admit I had to rack my brain for about 5 minutes until I remembered the film title, so I was disappointed to see my reply had vanished.
I checked my daily "Forum Watch Digest" e-mail, and my post was indeed listed in it. When I clicked the link, I found only my reply, not the original post, and it was in the Foreign Films forum. And you saw it in yet another forum. Truly weird, the floating post!
And, yeah, I also wonder if the original poster will find where it migrated to.