ValentineXavier
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> > And there's no way to force you to admit you're wrong.
> I am not wrong for me. Peter Falk plays Falk playing Columbo in a funny hat routine. It should have not been in the film.
You are, of course, entitled to your own opinion. While not my favorite scene, I enjoyed it, and found it apropos. Debra Winger cited it as one of her favorites, and said that every actor could relate to it.
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One of my favorites not yet mentioned, is Mr. Wong.
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Perhaps we are talking at cross-purposes. In your original post on the subject, I thought you meant that Cortez had dubbed them the Mexica, and I posted that "Mexica" was in fact what they called themselves, in their own Nahuatl language.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}Wiki will get you into trouble with its incorrect information.
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Not this time, Fred. I have seen the film many times, and posted quotes from the wikipedia, because I know them to be true. Also, part of what I bolded was a quote from the film, of the angel Cassiel, that their purpose is:
>to "assemble, testify, preserve" reality,
and, also cited in the film is the fact that the angels cannot affect the living in any way, except perhaps emotionally, by their presence, and they feel they have failed, if one commits suicide. That is hardly the standard behavior of an "angel of death."
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TCMfan23, I prefer physical media too, but much prefer the DVDs I burn on my two DVD recorders to what I used to tape with my SVHS VCRs. I'm not very computer literate, but didn't find the DVDRs that hard to learn to use.
But, to the real point of my reply. You should check out your public library, or any University library where you might have privileges. You will probably find a good assortment of DVDs that you can borrow for free, so long as you return them on time!
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Fred wrote:
>The lady who introduced the film said he was an angel of death. The TCM listing for this film says he was an angel of death.
They were wrong. Below is from the wikipedia, which also quotes the film, as to what they are:
>*The film is about invisible, immortal angels who populate Berlin and listen to the thoughts of the human inhabitants and comfort those who are in distress.*
>Set in contemporary West Berlin (at the time still enclosed by the Berlin Wall), Wings of Desire follows two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, as they roam the city, unseen and unheard by its human inhabitants, observing and listening to the diverse thoughts of Berliners: a pregnant woman in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, a painter struggling to find inspiration, a broken man who thinks his girlfriend no longer loves him. *Their raison d'?tre is, as Cassiel says, to "assemble, testify, preserve" reality.* In addition to the story of two angels, the film is also a meditation on Berlin's past, present, and future. *Damiel and Cassiel have always existed as angels; they existed in Berlin before it was a city, and before there were even any humans.*
>Among the Berliners they encounter in their wanderings is an old man named Homer, who, unlike the Greek poet of war Homer, dreams of an "epic of peace." Cassiel follows the old man as he looks for the then-demolished Potsdamer Platz in an open field, and finds only the graffiti-covered Berlin Wall. Although *Damiel and Cassiel are pure observers, visible only to children, and incapable of any physical interaction with our world*,
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Fred, Falk was playing Falk, the actor, who had been hired to star in a detective film because he had played Colombo. He was to play a Colombo-type in the film. So, his actions were perfectly consistent with and appropriate for,his part in the film. He was playing himself, who had played Colombo, and was hired because he had.
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> {quote:title=Sepiatone wrote:}{quote}
> Well, whatever. STILL it seems nobody in the Detroit area heard of Wolfman until MS.
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I was living in Mount Pleasant, up in the center of Michigan then. We couldn't get the Mexican megawatt stations there, but I had heard of the Wolfman.
That time, the mid 60s, was the glory days of the 50,000 watt clear channel stations. After sundown, there were a lot of them that we could get. WBZ, Boston, with DJ Dick Summer was a favorite of mine, and lots of my friends. WCIO, the "voice of labor" in Chicago kicked out some good tunes, and there was a station in Des Moines Iowa, IIRC, that we sometimes listened to.
Movie Prof. - good review, but it's Ron Howard, not Rod.
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Darkblue, good explanation of the angels. Remember Bruno's joy at finding his head was bleeding? He was so pleased to have feelings, even if it was pain.
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>The Mexica (Nahuatl: Mēxihcah, pronounced [meːˈʃiʔkaʔ]; the singular is Mēxihcatl) or Mexicas ? called Aztecs in occidental historiography, although this term is not limited to the Mexica ? were an indigenous people of the Valley of Mexico, known today as the rulers of the Aztec empire. The Mexica were a Nahua people who founded their two cities Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco on raised islets in Lake Texcoco around AD 1200. After the rise of the Tenochca Mexica they came to dominate the other Mexica city-state Tlatelolco.
Sorry, Fred, the word "Mexica" comes from the Nahuatl language. It is a point of pride to some modern Mexicans to use the word "Mexica," and never use "Aztecs."
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> {quote:title=ginnyfan wrote:}{quote}
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> BTW, who would win an IQ contest between Sgt. Matthews and The Runt?
>VX wrote:The Runt, by 3 points.
After today's installment, I'd say Faraday beats the Runt by 4 points, no more. **** getting himself a night sleep in the drunk tank was pretty funny...
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Fred, if TCM reruns *Wings of Desire*, I hope you'll give it another chance. I want to reaffirm what others have posted - Bruno Ganz is just an angel, not an angel of death. I'm a very big Fellini fan, and I find little resemblance to Fellini, or Bergman. I do see some influence from Bunuel's *Un Chien Andalou*, and from Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, and *Beauty and the Beast*, when the film is at its most surreal.
You seem to have missed that we see Peter Falk early in the film, if only briefly. I'm not a Colombo fan, but I consider this to be Falk's greatest role. As others have said, he is himself in the film, cast as a Colombo-like detective in a film within the film. He is also an angel who became a human. The date given for his becoming human in the film coincides with his first real acting role. He helps Bruno Ganz with his transition to being human. His role is integral to the film, and not just added to put in an American star.
Debra Winger said in the intro that *WOD* is her favorite film. It's definitely in my top ten. I think it's a classic, in every sense of the word. My old Laser Disc copy has laser rot on one side, so I am grateful to TCM for showing it. Films like this prove that TCM is doing the right thing in showing modern classics.
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Fred, actually Mexica is the word in Nahuatl that they called themselves. "Aztecs" is a word applied to them by Europeans.
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No, not *Blacula*. I think this one also involved voodoo. TCM has shown it at least twice, once within the last few weeks, IIRC. Just can't quite recall the title. There were three main characters, the Dr., his woman, and his chauffeur.
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A couple of quotes from *The Night of the Iguana*, between Deborah Kerr and Richard Burton:
>*Hannah Jelkes:* There are worse things than chastity, Mr. Shannon.
>*Lawrence Shannon:* Yes: lunacy and death.
>*T. Lawrence Shannon:* I'm panicking!
>*Hannah Jelkes:* I know that.
>*T. Lawrence Shannon:* A man can die of panic!
>*Hannah Jelkes:* Not when he enjoys it as much as you do, Dr. Shannon.
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TCM has shown blaxploitation films on TCM Underground, including an interesting one I had never seen, about a black doctor who is apparently a vampire, of sorts. I can't recall the name. TCM has also shown Bronze Buckaroo films.
Currently, MGMHD is showing blocks of blaxploitation films once or twice a week.
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I'll bring a nose plug...
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I have never thought of his talents much as a director except for AG, and never understood WHY he felt compelled to personally direct all three films in the newer SW trilogy, instead of getting a different director for each one.
I read back then that Lucas tried to get Lawrence Kasdan to write and direct the new trilogy, offering him gobs of money. But Kasdan wouldn't accept. I wish he had. Have you seen *THX 1138* ? I think it's Lucas' best film, with *AG* his second best.
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When it happens to me, I like to call it a synapse misfire. I'm waiting until I'm 70 to call it a "senior moment."
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Oooh! Ooooh! Godzilla's tail - lashing across the audience!
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Mmmm, Arturo, I think you better check who you listed as the male lead in *Rear Window* and *Vertigo*.
glad to be of help...
Edited by: ValentineXavier on May 22, 2012 8:31 PM
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}BLOWUP may have been considered racy, but it was turgid as turgid can be.
I'm sure David Hemmings got a little "turgid" with Vanessa Redgrave around... I'm not a die-hard Antonioni fan, but *Blowup* is a great film. Much as I like many of the things that the studio system gave us, if it had to pass to get us films like *Blowup*, so be it.
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Expano, lots of HDTVs are 1080p now. Of course, practically the only source for 1080p is BluRay. Perhaps some service providers have a channel or two that sometimes has a 1080p program, but that takes more bandwidth, and 1080i is the broadcast standard.
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Fred, there are two sides to everything. Click the link, and you will find side-by-side versions of the Cholula massacre, from the Spanish point of view, and the Mexica (Aztec) point of view. I have separately read the Aztec account as being the accepted one.
http://www.historians.org/tl/lessonplans/ca/fitch/cholula.html
Captain From Castile (1947) 8 PM Eastern, 5-20-12
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>The "Mexica" was the name the Spanish called the small Aztec dictatorial tribe on the island.
I interpreted the above statement of yours to mean that the term "Mexica" originated with the Spanish. That's why I have repeatedly pointed out that it is what they called themselves, in their own language. I guess what we have here is a failure to communicate...