slaytonf
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It is a scene from Viva Maria! (1965), directed by Louis Malle, and starring Jeanne Moreau, and Brigitte Bardot. It is a comic political satire set in 1800s Latin America following the adventures of a traveling minstrel show that gets caught up in local revolutionary activity.
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I don't think he'd look good with red hair.
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9 hours ago, NipkowDisc said:
this is an outrage!...what about Skelton Knaggs?!!!
For Azerbaijan maybe?
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A well-merited honor.
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I believe so. Of course, I'm not a lawyer, and I don't even play one on TV. You can edit it, show the original in public venues, create a new sound track, colorize it, reinterpret it. And you can make money off any of these enterprises (if you can) and you don't even have to ask your mama--unless you want to.
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Are you sure a stated preference for truth isn't simply cover for the desire to take celebrated people down a couple of pegs so one can feel less uncomfortable with one's own lowly station in life?
I say, lie to me. Varnish it up. I won't read them either way.
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9 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
So Trump should be allowed to sue SLN or films like Vice can't be made? How about Feud, and what multiple courts have found with the Olivia DeHavilland lawsuit? (that she didn't have such rights as a public person).
I can't see were the rights of DEAD people should be more than those granted the living. (but I could see it the other way around).
This is the area where 'fair use' comes in. Any number of limited uses of copyrighted material is permitted for purposes including, but not limited to, scholarship, journalism, and entertainment--just so long as a 'significant' amount of the material is not used in profitable undertakings. Public figures have a difficult time about their treatment in the media, as they are considered, to put it bluntly, 'fair game.' Movies with characters depicting them in it, or about them are protected from action by the disclaimer every movie carries, and which I am sure you are well familiar with. The one about none of the characters in the movie being intended to represent anyone who ever existed. The way anyone can take action is if a copyrighted image (say, Shirley Temple--who I guess is still not public domain), person, or something is used without permission in money making enterprises.
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Oh, go ahead and be snarky.
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Looks like we're having a plan for the next New Year's Eve programming.
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One Way Passage (1932), and it's remake 'Till We Meet Again (1940) both end, wistfully, on New Year's Eve.
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So does Showboat (1936, 1951).
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Or has this already been done?
Anyway, my suggestion for TCM's annual New Year's Eve moviethon is to show Hayao Miyazaki movies. As many as possible. All of 'em.
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Actually I just tossed that out as a bit of the jolly ol' levity. I never thought I'd hit on the right one. But it's good to see you're someone with such discrimination.
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8 hours ago, Dargo said:
Ah! And now Sans my dear, you've inadvertently touched upon the very theme of one of my favorite all-time movies?
Can you guess which movie that is?
(...I'll give ya a little hint here...it's a British film)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943).
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My motto: Always operate from a position of strength.
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Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). Good choice.
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11 hours ago, Dargo said:
Well SURE, if ya wanna get all "technical" about it here, slayton!
And so YEAH, with Pop bein' a little bigger and havin' the reach on his brother Tom(and which made him my UNCLE Tom of course) I suppose the ground rules before such a match would have had to included such things as "no biting" and maybe "no rabbit punching"(never could figure out why they called it that) for Pop to have had a clear advantage over his brother Tom.
(...and which once again made him my UNCLE Tom)
Biting won't win fights. And from what you say, I doubt your uncle could get around in position to deliver a rabbit punch. But declaring that unfair, while not deeming taking advantage of a longer reach as unfair is an example of just what I was saying. A real fair fight would have both equally vulnerable.
For your sad observation about human nature, if we for the sake of discussion decline to accept it, maybe it will bring up some other points. Maybe our thinking of Scrooge and Grinch are influenced by the amount of time in their stories they are the baddies. The parts of the stories after their reformation are short in comparison. It's understandable. Evil is dramatic, all sorts of exciting events can happen. Good is, well, boring, no? There's only so much you can heap on the icing. Once Tiny Tim is well, then what? There's no more tension. Once evil is defeated, history ends.
Or maybe there is not so much forgiveness in our culture. Or the culture of the entire world, as Scrooge and Grinch remain universal personifications of mean-spiritedness. Or that the two in their bad modes are more delicious and appealing.
The almost-saintly figures they become, while we praise them, are maybe intimidating to us, we not being so perfect in goodness and charitableness. And while we don't necessarily admire them in their dark avatars, at least we don't feel morally challenged. We can feel safe in our imperfection.
It's hard to see how Uncle Tom came to be so dreadfully misrepresented. Maybe someone has done a study of the popular conception of him over time. The only thing I can think is that his deep piety, and the Christian forbearance, and tolerance it inspired mistakenly led people to see him as a contemptible compliant negro. But this wasn't so at all. He defies his white masters in many ways, leading to punishment, beatings, and his eventual murder.
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Fair fight: any of a number of physical contests in which the rules of conduct are skewed to favor the strengths of the party proposing the fair fight.
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Watching A Christmas Carol (1951) tonite, it occurred to me that notwithstanding his rehabilitation, Ebenezer Scrooge remains the archetype of sour, mean-spirited miserliness. The same holds for the Grinch. In the public consciousness, his heart remains two sizes too small. When someone's called a Grinch, does it conjure up the image of a neo-Santa, sledding down the mountain with Christmasy bounty? No, we hear:
Yer a mean one, Mr. Grinch. . . .
And as for Uncle Tom, one of the noblest, principled, and heroic of men, who lays down his life for the freedom of others, is used as the type of a spiritless, self-betraying sycophant.
Redemption doesn't seem to take hold. But degradation does. Think of Dorian Gray. We don't remember the unblemished, model of modern manhood, full of promise. We savor his corruption, especially the moment its physical effects are transferred to him from his portrait.
(BTW, does it seem to anyone that the good Doctor had a copy of Dickens' work at his elbow while penning his tale?)
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And they don't end up together.
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7 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
I never lived in a big city like NYC, L.A. or Chicago, living in the burbs in So Cal;
But I do know the terms 'uptown' and 'downtown'; I assume these relate to the street numbers in cities that use mostly a numbering system; e.g. one is going 'uptown' when going from street #30 to street #60.
I believe the terms are also used (based on films I've seen???), to indicate the relative wealth (niceness), of an area. I have always assumed that going 'uptown' meant the better part of town. But hey, I could by way off!
Anyhow, I never noticed that 42nd Street lyric but to me it implies the more sleazy part of town has the higher street numbers (uptown?).
Well, Harlem was around 125th St., so my guess is that going uptown was going down--the socio-economic scale, that is. But Hell's Kitchen is around the 50s. And Wall St. is below the numbered streets. But so is the Bowery, a traditionally down-and-out area. So I don't gotta clue.
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2 hours ago, TOASTnJAM said:
slaytonf
I've seen Something Of Value and it's not it but thanks.
I'm pretty sure he majority of the movie takes place in the house.
Dang!
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Maybe there was! But I am not familiar enough with the cultural geography of Manhattan to say if the relationship would be proportional, or inversely proportional.
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