slaytonf
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Debra Paget.
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No need to defend John Agar. He was a solid actor with a number of good roles. But even John Wayne made some bad movies.
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Moses to Pharaoh: Let my people go.
Pharaoh to Moses: You will have to pry them from my cold, dead hands.
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3 hours ago, scsu1975 said:
At this point, I couldn't tell if that was Agar under the makeup, or someone else who just needed a paycheck.
Maybe it was Agar who needed the paycheck.
But seriously, how did you do that copyright symbol? So cool.
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You can search the other actors' names and find photos of them to see which is the one you are looking for..
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We don't see his movies so much now as some years ago. Weren't most of his movies at Paramount? Maybe that's why. I'm sure lots of them can be seen on other venues, paid or not.
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Wasn't he always cookin'?
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7 hours ago, Allhallowsday said:
The original GOJIRA (1954) is stunning. Any other film or the USA cut of the original are inferior.
Another movie, like Frankenstein (1931), that is a victim of its own success. It spawned an entire genre of take-offs and sequels, fun enough to watch in their own right, but which were essentially campy exploitation that robbed the original of due respect for its more sober elements. A fine movie, exciting, well-crafted, and at times moving. The identification of the scientist (Dr. Serizawa) who develops the doomsday weapon with the monster, who both share the same fate, sends a powerful cautionary message. Its open discussion of atomic weapons and parallels with Hiroshima and Nagasaki must have been a shock to Japanese audiences. The monster's morphing from destroyer to ally and protector of the Japanese people, notwithstanding his continual leveling of Tokyo, must be a way for them to feel in control over the horror of nuclear weapons.
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9 hours ago, LsDoorMat said:
Woke folk do make me anxious because they naively feel like they are at the peak of human moral superiority. Like Bill Maher said - and I can't find the exact quote - 20 years from now the woke of today will be horrified by what they once considered normal.
With so much anxiety-inducing wokeness all around, it was regrettable you were expending any on a false perception. It was my aim to ally your fears so none of your anxiety would be wasted on faux-wokness, so that you may more appropriately direct it at real sources of woke concern.
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6 hours ago, LsDoorMat said:
Actually, that is probably a worse reason for not watching a film than having your sensibilities offended.
Just didn't want you to get woke anxiety.
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1 hour ago, LsDoorMat said:
Will His Royal Wokeness now have to move his limit to films made in 1976 or later?
His objection is to moviemaking style, not content.
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7 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
The original Tweet stated that he won't watch any old movie made before 1975 (not sure if that is the year he was born, or an arbitrary date) and then went on to say that watching Citizen Kane is like trying to read hieroglyphics.
I wonder if he won't read any books before then. Or look at sculpture or painting before then. Are Boccaccio, Chagall, Cervantes, Twain, Raphael, and--oh, yes, Shakespeare--hieroglyphics?
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6 hours ago, NipkowDisc said:
Rush's death brings out the true face of liberalism: ugliness and Hate (what they say they oppose)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rush-limbaugh-talk-radio-dies_n_5fe4e082c5b66809cb30ad57
The Song of Envy. Wait, a non-conservative will die, and you can be hateful, too.
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5 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
Yes. RETURN OF THE JEDI, And STAR WARS if you count the stupid Lucas edit.
In a cameo? As an Ewok?
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But was he in a movie?
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Ilsa tells Rick in his office that night that she will never have the strength to leave him again. She intends to stay with him, because the pull of her love for him is too strong. Up to the last moment, she expects to stay in Casablanca with Rick, which is the basis for his hill-of-beans speech.
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Re the airing of Casablanca (1942) yesterday. I actually watched it. I end up doing so about once a year, because despite the adulation it gets, it's actually a good movie. Something makes me wonder, though. I think there's little doubt Rick and Ilsa slept together in Paris. A vital love like theirs cannot grow or be maintained otherwise. And it's hard to imagine Rick plunging into such an abyss of disillusion from something solely platonic. But the night they reunite in his office in Casablanca, we see them kiss, but would that be all? We see the tower with the rotating searchlight, not the usual surrogate for sex. And later, as Ilsa recounts the parallel events to their affair, they are clothed. That doesn't mean much, though, as it's not possible the censors would allow even the merest hint at undress. But is it possible they could have gotten Paris back with only a kiss?
Or is is sacrilege to consider?
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Pity. So much beauty devoted to interests outside of conservatism.
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Lucky dog. Not everybody has such a great source of guilt.
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4 hours ago, txfilmfan said:
There's also this thesis, that there are only really 6 basic plots in all stories...
I got it down to four:
https://forums.tcm.com/topic/261447-the-four-basic-story-schematics/
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Movies over the years have shown a combination of both new material and adaptations of literature and theater. It's a lot easier to make an argument for lack of creativity by pointing to the movies that are original--and bad, than to point to the instances where works have been adapted.
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You mean, forgive me, NipkowDisc.
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It's nice to have fresh perspectives.
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Damn, what makes the Muppets so great?
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"The Pawnbroker"
in Information, Please!
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