Dargo2
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Nope, but my handy-dandy staple gun was within easy reach, anyway.
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finance, IF you just answer dpompper's question here with a simple "yup", I hope you know I'm gonna split a gut!!!
(...oh, okay...I see you didn't)
Edited by: Dargo2 on Jan 29, 2013 6:05 PM
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So, do ya do any other impressions than Gary Cooper, finance?
(...'cause ya got THIS one nailed, my friend!)
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LOL
Yep, that's a good point, alright!
(...ESPECIALLY whenever you and/or I get involved in one of 'em, huh!)
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Btw here folks, I gotta say this thread soyenly has made a "left toin at Albakoikee" here all of sudden, hasn't it?!
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>Sometimes I worry about him. And when I find myself worrying about Sea Dog, I then start to worry about myself.
ROFL
Now THAT was a hilarious line there, Tom!
(...OH, and yeah, one definitely had to let the Cap'n's cereal soak in milk for at least 5 minutes before beginning this portion of "just part of a nutritious breakfast" as the voiceover would say)
Edited by: Dargo2 on Jan 29, 2013 5:24 PM
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In a way I agree with ya about the Road Runner cartoons, clore.
There seemed to be definite dropoff in imaginative ways poor ol' Wile E. would get clobbered after the initial run of the late '40s and early '50s shorts, and NOT to mention a definite dropoff in the quality of the animation visuals, too.
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Ya know MissW, while watchin' that, I somehow got a hankerin' for a nice big bowl of Cap'n Crunch cereal!
(...gee, i wonder why that might be, eh?!)
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Yeah slayton, BUT while darkblue might've gotten the basket, I believe the scorers should at least tally me with an Assist here, don't ya think?!
(...oh, and btw, I have NO idea who this latest one is...and so I'll just hustle back on defense until the next face shows up!)
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"Yep, that's the story of my life, alright. Just about the time the goils start developin', they begin to loose interest in me!"
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Uh huh, yeah...okay.
BUT, I'll bet YOU didn't know that while the movie "Barbarella" is of course a weird 1968 Sci-fi flick starring Jane Fonda, SISTER "Barbara Ellen" was my 8th grade Math teacher at Our Lady of Perpetual Motion Junior High School back in the 1960s!!!
(...nah, not really, I'm not Catholic...I just couldn't resist this reply, THAT'S all)
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I suppose that could be a plausible reason for the box office results of the film, clore, however it seems even the film critics and historians often fail to give Flynn AND the movie itself its proper due.
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Yeah clore...but I would at least hope that you lead as "innnn-teresting" a life as Gossamer there does!
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I would agree with everything you've just said, Fred. And, as Tom here might agree with me and may have even intimated earlier in this thread, can not understand why this film selsom seems to be mentioned in the same breath as Flynn's earlier triumphs.
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>I can't help it, in Lady in the Lake as well as in The Earl of Chicago, when I hear Montgomery speak, I somehow envision Bugs Bunny.
LOL
Ya know clore, I think you're onto somethin' there!
(...though of course, and as you probably know, Mel Blanc had said he purposely made Bugs sound like a cross between a Bronx and Brooklyn accent in order make Bugs sound "streetwise")
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Fascinating read there, Tom. I didn't know of the whole "Totter/Cotter nee Meadows" connection there...which brings me to another point.
I also thought Jane Meadows overacted quite a bit in her role, and thus I never completely bought into it.
And re The Killers passage of Ms. Totter's reminisces, I have to say the studio made the right choice switching to Ava Gardner, as while Ms. Totter was indeed a very good actress, I personally would have never found her "sultry" enough to pull off the role of Kitty in that film.
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Btw, I'd just like to add that another possible reason why I might not enjoy this film as much as I maybe should is that I kind of find Robert Montgomery's voice throughout it sounding like an Ivy Leaguer trying to sound like a streetwise tough guy, where as I never get that impression when I watch Powell or Bogie or Mitchum delivering their lines.
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Oh, okay. Now I see what you were after here. Sorry, that specific question I would have no answer for you, however It seems to me that it plausible it might have been tried before in an earleir film, but that's all I could say here.
And so Re "LITL", it had been many years since I'd watched it and remembered that unlike our friend finance, I remember not being very impressed with it. I recalled it as being "forced" and trying a little too hard to be "different", And, maybe because of the actors speaking directly to the camera, I felt the dialogue seemed "unnatural", and even though I know that Chandler's stock-in-trade for his characters was to intentionally present their lines in a "clipped manner".
And then just a few months ago I happened to catch TCM's latest showing of this film, and ya know what? Well, sorry, but my estimation of this film changed very little from my original impression of it. I think it MIGHT have slightly risen in my regard, but not by much.
Edited by: Dargo2 on Jan 29, 2013 1:22 PM
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Yes, I know, but my thought was more the idea that you might have been implying that for a brief time in cinema history this camera technique was a trend the directors of a certain time were experimenting with. And, which seemed to fall out of favor within a reasonably short time.
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BRAVO, finance! Well said.
PLUS I'm impressed that you actually got FOUR whole sentences in on one of your posts!
(...sorry, couldn't resist that one, our resident "Man of Few Words"!)
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You mean kind of like how the whole "split/multiple screen" image was all the rage in the '70s, Tom?
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>And Fox certainly didn't scrimp on the (characteristic) anachronistic flourishes in the costuming, who knew you could get gold lame' ball gowns and men's tailored suits with bugle beads and sequins in the nineteenth century, whether in Madrid or La Pueblo de Los Angeles etc... ?
Well, look at it THIS way, Addison...at least there were no shots of the concreted banks of the L.A. River to be seen in it, anyway!
(...though of course THAT little engineering "marvel" wouldn't have been completed until another couple decades after this film was shot)
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slaytonf wrote:
>Zorro was great! Thanks, TCM!
And I say +1 to that.
AND I say, thanks for the heads-up here, Tom. I probably would have missed it without your initiating this thread!
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Debbie Watson ?
THOUGH, somethin's tellin' me here that that's not her, and that the young lady in question is British instead of the All-American Miss Watson.
(...soooo, how do ya like THAT for the ol' "CYA" tactic, EH?!)
Edited by: Dargo2 on Jan 29, 2013 1:47 AM
Oh, that face, that fabulous face II - Post 1950's. Whose is it?
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Carrie Snodgress
Edited by: Dargo2 on Jan 29, 2013 6:13 PM