Dargo2
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"I was drinking water and eating these little appetizers, threw down a piece of cheese and it just didn't work," John said Friday. "I was looking at him and couldn't breathe. He recognized it immediately and saved my life."
Clearly John is not a man who "knows his limitations".
(...I WAS gonna say Clint "made his day", but I thought I'd go with the line from "Magnum Force" here instead)
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Yeah, I think that was his..ahem.."Five Year Plan"!
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>I find it funny, as the only one, as far as I know, who has admitted to being an addict in the past, that anything I contribute seems to have been IGNORED.
HEY! Speakin' o' which, Sepia...Do ya think Glenn here MIGHT have been helped with some kind'a drugs or somethin'?
SOLELY prescribed by a board certified doctor, of course, and which would mean Conrad Murray shouldn't be consulted at all.
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It truly is amazing how small they can make turbine jet engines now days, isn't it!
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WOW! Cool B-52 R/C model there, Ham!
(...and speakin' o' "Slim"...I wonder if while he's workin' the controls the guy there listens to "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" on his iPod?)
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Could that have been 'cause he looked an awful lot like "Uncle Joe you-know-who"???
(...in fact, didn't Oscar play the guy once or twice in his career?)
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Good point about the "Continental Eurpean" accent being used a lot back in studio era films for delineating the "evil" characters in a lot of films back then, as with maybe Conrad Veidt being a prime example of such.
However, disregarding the thought that many a WWII Hollywood war movie had Nazi officers speaking in Brit accents, could that whole "Continental European/Evil Character" thing have been due to the Brits being our allies in WWII and to many an American's ear "all those Europeans accents sound the same", and thus the stereotypical "Euro accent" would have naturally been the fallback one to use in this genre of film during these years.
Gotta say though Sepia, I'm a bit surprised you haven't noticed the trend in recent times for Hollywood films to use Brit actors as the villain, and for(IMO, and I'm pretty sure I'm right about this) the very reason I stated earlier...that accent subconsciously signifies to American audiences the idea that the character "thinks too highly of himself" and that it goes against America's "populist ideals". and thus MUST be an "Elitist".
(...and I think we've recently seen many occasions in "real life" in which the "Elitist" term has been thrown at others, and often incorrectly, and in attempts to marginalize and subtly "vilify" others in the minds of the American public, haven't we?!)
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>ANYBODY with a haircut like this looks scary.
Well, ya know, one CAN "soften the effect" of that IF they just add a nice little ribbon bow to the look!
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>If I was the Blockbuster manager, I would have said, "Figure out the f****ing plot yourself".
I take it any of your attempts at employment within the Retail Industry probably didn't work out quite as well as you might have at first hoped, eh finance???
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So, this morning on the "Today" show, Kiefer Sutherland is on it plugging his new movie "Pompeii" in which he plays an evil and conniving Roman Senator of the 1st Century. They then show a clip of him in the film, and I'll give you folks three guesses as to what kind of accent the Canadian actor affects in this thing.
(...yep, you guessed it...he plays the character using one of those snooty upper-crust British accents, alright!..."shocking", isn't it!)
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I'm starting to get the impression that your definition of a "pure comedy" is somehow only light in tone and primarily containing elements of slapstick and/or lighthearted banter.
And if that's the case, then yeah, every "pure comedy" from many of Chaplin's short films to Bob Hope movies to Will Farrell movies today are primarily filled with 2-D characters.
However, once again I question why it seems you would prefer to exclude more, let us say, "sophisticated" comedies such as from directors Preston Sturges, Ernst Lubitsch or say Billy Wilder as "not pure" comedies, and of which often featured characters very well "fleshed-out" and believably "real" and not just "2-D".
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>Part of my problem with them is that I don't think they really "rocked".The Stones rocked. The Who rocked.
Oh yeah, they "rocked", finance, they "rocked" a lot. "Revolution", "Get Back", "Day Tripper", "Help", "Back in the U.S.S.R.", ":I Saw Her Standing There" among just a few. BUT, unlike The Stones who basically did a lot of Mississippi Blues based Rock and The Who doing primarily Three-Chord Power Rock, The Beatles successfully branched out to many other genres, including Rock and Roll, Hard Rock, Country, Blues, English Music Hall, Psychodelia, Instrumentals, Soul, Folk, Indian, and Symphonic.
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I could listen to "Here Comes The Sun" AND "What Is Life" all day long myself, Mr.R.
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>The Brits seem to be able to easily project that sly, devious, snooty , (etc,etc) personality to us Americans.
AND which brings us to the REAL reason Hollywood often uses them to portray the "Bad Guy" in movies:
They personify the antithesis of what "America supposedly stands for"...Populists Ideals, and the thought that no one is any better than anyone else in the grand scheme of things! And if you somehow project that mentality of being "above" to others by use of "highfalutin" talk, you're going to be "suspect" in the minds of all "REAL" Americans.
>I can only imagine what they may think of us sometimes.
Oh, while I'm sure I'm overstating the following, I think most of 'em think of us as fairly "unsophisticated cowboy" types over here, but ALSO fairly nice people in general.
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Could it have been the little known "fact" that George's first attempt at writing a certain song that supposedly he wrote while his trusty companion was lying next to him at his desk was originally titled: "My Sweet Dog"???
(...and which as the story ALSO goes, he wrote while the radio in his study was quietly playing "He's So Fine" by the Chiffons in the background?...doo lang, doo lang, doo lang!)
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Okay, then right off the top of me wittle head, how about...though I still question your use of the word "pure" here...
"When Harry Met Sally"
Seems to me both Crystal and Ryan's characters were fully fleshed-out in that one, along with, and surprisingly for a fairly "modern" film, Kirby and Fisher's supporting roles.
(...though I'll admit Meathead's Mom only sayin' the line, "I'll have what she's having" really doesn't give her the opportunity to "stretch", now does it?!)
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C'mon now, finance. Don't you really think that despite the fact you like Mick and the boys more than the Fab Four, you'd have to admit that cultural significance which The Beatles had upon American culture, i.e. being the "vanguard" of the British Invasion and their subsequent effect upon certain appearance styles AND even life styles, AND the fact that yes, they DID make a few movies which some people look upon as just a little "ground breaking" in style(would not the Monkee's TV show and how it mimicked the Beatle's movies be just one aspect of this?) than any "Musicals" which came before them?
And thus, if TCM COULD have attained the rights to show these movies, then it would not have been "against" TCM's "prime objective" to in fact present them?
(...I know you're just playin' the "devil's advocate" here, aren't ya)
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Ah, I see what you mean. But then again, "Airplane" is a satire. And once again, satires are usually filled with nothing but 2-D types, right?!
In other words, I'm sayin' even though SOME comedies might indeed be filled with 2-D types, it doesn't necessarily follow that ALL comedies, be they sending a more serious message or not, contain only or primarily 2-D types. But, if they're NOT sending that "more serious message", then yes, I would agree with you that the tendency in that style comedy is toward the easy laugh by means of the 2-D character.
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OH, you mean "You Light Up My F****n' Life"???
(...I DO have the right amount of these little suckers here-->*, don't I?)
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Well, MAYBE...but not OUR favorite comedy, right ol' buddy?!
(..you know, the one about a certain ladder-climbing schlemiel who falls in love with an elevator operator?!)
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Well, OF COURSE they do, finance! That's part of their whole SHTICK, dude!
(...makes 'em sound SO "sophisticated", ya know...and the chicks ESPECIALLY eat it up!!!)
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OR, as the sign on Douglas MacArthur's church used to read:
"Jesus 'faded away' for your sins"???
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Well, yeah SURE, Ham!...when he isn't doin' "The Time Warp" again, anyway, 'cause somehow the guy doesn't seem all that intimidatingly "Badguy British" when he's doin' THAT!!!
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Ah, c'mon now Jake..."All I am saying, is...ahem...give John a chance"!
(...and don't just dislike the guy JUST because I have a feelin' you didn't care for his politics...that really IS it, isn't IT?!...now fess up now, dude!)
June Allyson as SOTM May 2014
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She wasn't suppose to be a "glamour girl". She was supposed to be the "girl/wife next door", and in those kind of roles she's "adequate".
(...but that being said, that hoarse voice o' hers always has driven me a little nuts too...I'm always hoping one of her co-stars asks her: "Care for a lozenge, lady?"...but alas, it never happens)