Dargo2
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Well, that's very sweet of you, Twink. Thanks.
(...and my wife would probably agree with ya...well, on one of my BETTER days, anyway)
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WOW! Well I've certainly been placed in some fast company THERE, alright!
Now Twink, are you SURE you don't have a slight typo there with that LAST guy's name, and maybe INSTEAD actually meant to say THIS guy who's in "Rocky IV"???...
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Thanks! Yeah, that's US alright!
(...the viable alternative to all those "Friends" and "Everybody Loves Raymond" reruns!)
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Okay, Tom...Mystery solved....
I mean, wouldn't YOU be appreciative and thus maybe a little more inclined to like somebody who'd pull an arrow out of YOUR shoulder after those pesky Indians put it there?!
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Lavender, you probably remember me tellin' the folks around here that a few years before Vinny's death, he(and Art Linkletter) sat right behind me and my wife at the Director's Guild Theater in L.A. during a showing of this film. And then later on after the showing, we walked up to him in the lobby while he graciously sat and discussed the film and signed his autograph with his fans, and I told him how much I always enjoyed his over-the-top but perfect for the movie performance and how when I'd tell others about how funny he was in it, almost everyone I said that to would react in an astonished manner because they would never think of him being in a comedy.
He laughed and told me how much he appreciated hearing my comment, and said one of the things he regretted in his life was that he didn't do more of that genre, as he really enjoyed doing that role.
(...and ya know, as a spoof of "The vast wasteland of television", this film IS still quite fresh in some ways)
Edited by: Dargo2 on Jul 10, 2013 10:51 AM
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>And, of course, no matter how many low angle shots they have of Clift and no matter how relatively short the fight, Monty Clift hold his own in a fist fight with John Wayne? Gimme a break!
Oh, I don't know, Tom. I mean if Jimmy CAGNEY could always beat up guys twice his size, then WHY couldn't Monty CLIFT???
LOL
(...saaay, maybe THIS is why CAGNEY only ever made one Western too, HUH?!)
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Well, I always DID like a broad that's lady-minded...WAIT...sorry.
I meant, I always DID like a lady that's broad-minded!
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>Anyway, in a fiction story, there are many ways to get out of a bad marriage.
Yep! According to Paul Simon there's about 50 of 'em!
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Wow! Now THAT'S sure a "diverse group" of fellows you have there, GG!!!
(...sooooo, I take it you don't have one "particular type" of guy that strikes your fancy, eh?!)
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Nicely done photo sequence of what I was talking about, Tom! And of course, you could do the very same thing with the other two gentlemen in question here, also.
(...AND all three of 'em could summon those tears on command also, and yet is something we seldom actually recall remembering because of our primarily thinking of 'em as "tough guys")
Edited by: Dargo2 on Jul 10, 2013 9:23 AM
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Actually Sepia, the whole cinematography in "Kane" was revolutionary, and thus probably the very reason why the argument COULD be made that to remake THIS film would be a very questionable endeavor to undertake for ANY latter day director, because while the story of ANY man told in flashback format has been successfully done many times since, the story of one Charles Foster Kane will ALWAYS be associated with how revolutionary the camera work was of Gregg Toland's.
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You folks DO realize that all three of these giants of film acting had one thing in common, don't ya?!
It's all "in their eyes". All three of 'em possessed that knack of being able to use those spherical bodies to project their characters' inner emotions like few actors ever have.
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While "Red River" is my favorite "John Wayne movie" and right up there on my list of all-time favorite Westerns, I too have always felt that despite Clift's very good acting in this film, he did lack the "physical presences" for the role he plays in it. It's always seemed to me as if he's a "New York dandy" dressing up in cowboy attire. And so, yes, I know what you mean here, Tom.
The only idea I can come up with as to why Dru's character might fall for him is that Clift through his good acting IS successful as coming across as the "cool and unflappable one", and so much like how Steve McQueen in his many roles created a similar persona on screen, many women(and men) find that to be an attractive trait.
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Well, I'm certainly glad SOMEBODY finally answered my earlier question here, anyway!
Thank you for supplying a possible "logical" reason for its use, araner.
Yeah, I suppose it really isn't that big a deal in the grand scheme of things, BUT I'm sorry, this new practice just seems a little "weird" to me. and almost "pretentious" in its use. Ah, but that's just me, I suppose.
However, your explanation DOES have me thinking of a comparison here...the "comparison" of say watching Gene Kelly dancing a whole routine in one take, as compared to more recent films which might include some dance numbers but are cut in short sequences because(I'm assuming) of the possibility that a modern dancer wouldn't have the ability to dance a full number all in one take like he did, and so they film a dozen or more different shots and then edit it all together later.
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>Who says you need violence and gore to provoke fear in a viewer?
Well Eugenia, EVIDENTLY most of the generation born after 1980, THAT'S who!
(...and so, thank the heavens above I was born in 1952!!!)
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THOUGH, isn't it true your favorite ROCK band is still Rush, MissW???
(...uh huh...and so why would THAT be, HUH..err..EH?!)
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Then I suppose Jack Palance must have been the sexist guy to have ever walked the earth, eh finance???
(...followed closely by Lee Van Cleef, of course)
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Yeah slayton, and not only all THAT, but maybe the second sexiest overbite in all of Hollywood after Gene Tierney's TOO!!!
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Here ya go, cb.
(...you had put one too many exclamation points at the beginning and at the end of your url address, THAT'S all...you only need to place ONE of those at each end)
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cb, while I may NOT be "a gentleman", I urge you to PLEASE not fall into the trap of thinking that the threads you might start "are yours" and yours alone!
I've seen WAY too many members around here who believe this fallacy, and then start believing "their thread" is some kind of "personal blog" which almost always does nothing but inhibit a "free exchange of ideas" between all the extremely knowledgeable and passionate folks at this website.
There ARE of course many instances of someone's thread being "hijacked" by some others and that will turn into a discussion of topics that had no bearing upon its original premise, AND which is ALWAYS easily rectified my a simple sentence such as, "Well, getting back on-topic...", but as I said, PLEASE don't fall into that trap of thinking that the threads you my start are your "personal blog".
(...thank you for listening)
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HEY now, lady! I TOLD ya already, EVERYBODY was wearin' those suckers back then!!!
(...man, some things ya can NEVER live down, huh!)
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Yep, except of course when it's TOO MUCH fun to kid people about their tendency to occasionally be presumptuous and/or pretentious!
And THEN of course ALL bets are OFF, and there's NO "age limit" to mind!
(...btw, I of course have SOLELY been referring to that mean old bitty of a character that Gladys Cooper played in this flick...uh huh)
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>Do you know why everyone puts up with that mean old lady??
Now Fred, I'm SURE you know that it's just "good manners" to always be deferential to those in their senior years, and thus it would always "poor form" to, say, kid them about their tendency to sometimes be less than open to new possibilities?!!!
(...and something of which I'm SURE you're still cognizant enough to have noticed that unfortunately I often fail to comprehend!!!!)
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>Well I do call the town Frisco. Anyone that would be offend with that, well, I put them in the same category as those that find remakes offensive!
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Right on, Brother! Right on!!!
(...his could mean I might need to purchase yet ANOTHER six-pack of that beer, ya know!)
Movies About Magicians And Magic
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>Jack Palance's character in The Silver Chalice is a sort of magician.
I know after he once placed ads in the newspapers about this film, Paul Newman had hopes that this film would "magically disappear" anyway.