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I haven't voted in awhile, it never seemed like I had enough time to read through all the challengers.
This was so hard, there were so many clever programming entries.
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In The Women:
Crystal Allen says, "..he's the kind that lets that old-fashioned sentiment put the Indian sign on him, and that's all," to Mary Haines.
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Jerry Goldsmith
LA Confidential
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LAC fascinates me too with the locations and that era of LA policing. How things change and how things haven't changed. It came out around the time of the aftermath of the latest LA riots and it resonated with many in 1997.
It has for me that wonderful "before they were big" appearances by many actors. Working Girl did the same.
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Okay, you mention the Hulk, you're brushing close to my fav, Mark.
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I feel validated when TOR is mentioned in a thread I started. Thank you for making a great connection.
Like MM says in a favorite scene in How To Marry a Millionaire, being asked how she likes being on the lam with tax fugitive David Wayne..
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What - no EdithsHead2?
Well, at least you didn't have a crush on Yosemite Sam. I don't know where that is on prevert scale, but it certainly would have been weird and maybe a little bit scary.
Why misswonderly, you are now misswonderly the third. Just noticed that. No harm, no foul ... so long as you stay misswonderly.
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Maybe she's miss wonderly to the 3rd power!
Since I have had to operate on another generation of identity myself, I can commiserate.
I just hope I don't forget this pw. I don't want to change movies.
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Yes, that's it. Absolutely amazing! How did that survive the rushes? I'm ashamed I never noticed that. Thanks for looking that up. I might have done that myself but I'm so damn lazy.
Yes, this thread should not be forgotten. The scenes that people love will never be all used up. They are inexhaustible.
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I find once I fall in love with a movie (like North by Northwest) these are the scenes that further endear it to me.
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Thank you all for the resurrection.
Another I love. . .
.. Noah Pretorious (Cary Grant), Prof Barker (Walter Slezak) and Deborah's father (Sidney Blackmar) playing with knotted plan of a H-O railroad on an upstairs landing in People Will Talk (1951).
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But that's the beauty of the forum, especially one like this. Threads can be recycled over and over. They never die, unfortunately. But the good news is that when you wake up at 3'o clock in the morning with a sudden realization that you love something, you can go right straight to your computer and revive this thread. People do it all the time. Ad Infinitum, in fact.
I want to complement you on bringing up North by Northwest, a movie as you know that has been shown so often on TCM that it has achieved a certain unpopularity. I love the movie myself, always have. I wish they would show it once a week.
Seriously though, there is this terrific gaff that movie makes, something to do with a little boy, a scene late in movie. I can't remember it. Maybe someone can refresh my memory, that is if there anyone here that can bear to talk about it.
There are quite a few moments in this movie that I really like (excuse me, love). For instance, when our hero is taken to that mansion against his will. He's in this room and JamesM comes in. The way the two don't talk to each other right away. You can see the wheels turning, especially in CG's mind. A long silence when they size each other up. The scene when CG meets EvaMS on the train, I can't recreate it but the dialogue is exceptional. Yes, the whole cropduster bit, including the plane flying into the truck and C makes his getaway. The scene at the auction where CG bids, "Two cents," in his effort to get someone to call the police. When James Mason punches Martin Landau, it comes as such a surprise. I know, who wants to hear all this again. The movie has some really great moments. It's sheer escape and pulpy and probably not as deep as other movies but it's a great ride IMO. It's easy to get tired of it, easier to get tired of anything these days, but I remember the first time I saw this decades ago, it was quite thrilling.
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Here, lafitte, from the imdb site about the gaffe with the little boy at Mt Rushmore. maybe the one you're thinking of..
From imdb.com: During the scene in the diner at Mount Rushmore, a young extra boy in the background anticipates the surprise gun shot, fired by Eve. The diners are supposed to be unaware this is going to happen but the young extra boy covers his ears way before she draws the gun. The young extra boy must have known there would be a loud bang from the blank-filled pistol from previous takes and therefore covered his ears on the "printed" take.
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Herrmann wasn't the only composer to Hitchcock. Rozsa composed the soundtrack to Spellbound, and included an early use of a theremin.
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There's a new movie out about Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. It's called Love and Mercy. Maybe you guys have heard of it. It did not get good reviews, but I don't care, I'll go see it just because it's about the Beach Boys.
Also, I like John Cusack and Paul Dano, and they're both in it.
Here is a deliciously lush early song by the boys. The lyrics, as usual with the Beach Boys, are slightly less impressive than the music. But I always say, in a song, the music is more important than the lyrics. (But that's something that could be reserved for an entire thread, maybe in "Chit Chat". I know a lot of people disagree with me about that.)
So sink into the soft and sweet as a toasted marshmallow world of "Don't Worry, Baby" :
My son has recommended it to me too. I will be checking it out.
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Alfred Newman
Street Scene from How to Marry a Millionaire
(with his 20th Century Fox fanfare and Cinemascope extension):
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Nero: I am surrounded by eunuchs! (Speaking to Petronius) Why do you stand aloof? You're my counselor. Why don't you counsel me?
Petronius: Let them enter. We shall all die. All except you. You, of course, being a god, are immortal.
Nero: Your levity is ill-timed, Petronius.
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Interesting to see, James, that even though you're not a fan of zither music, you still think it works well in the case of The Third Man. With that we are in complete accord. It was a bold and unusual decision by Carol Reed to experiment with his light entertainment thriller by deciding to have zither music for its soundtrack but I think the gamble paid off.
Certainly, with the great popularity of "The Third Man Theme" heard everywhere at the time of the film's release, the zither score helped to propel the film at the box office, making a star of zither artist Anton Karas in the process.
I think the unusual sound of those zither strings adds to the distinctiveness of this production in a positive way. It draws me even more into this tale of dark streets and men with twisted values. This European-set noir's music reminds me more than ever that naïve innocent American Holly Martins is far, far from the familiarity and safety of his home, in a foreign land half way around the world where there is a feeling that anything might happen. The very "foreignness" of that zither music only enhances that feeling.
Very good points, Tom. I always thought the Kara's charming zither music being juxtaposed to the much darker plot of the story, created a tension all its own.
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I know this thread is a poll, but I love charts! I believe this one is based on a poll.
Does anyone know what this one signifies?
Try to tie it Classic movies or Tor Johnson please.
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Coincidentally, this is the EXACT face I make when it's morning and I discover that someone has used all the Half and Half.
Myself, I love the Bailey's coffee creamers (Creme Brulee) <3
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I never liked the word "levity." It's sort of like "bemused." The sound and meaning don't seem to go together.
I always thought, a spirit levitating, as being light of heart.
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I enjoyed Helen Mirren as Ayn Rand in THE PASSION OF AYN RAND.
I don't believe it. Helen Mirren looks way too pretty here to be mistaken for Ayn Rand.
And yup, The Fountainhead has the overkill metaphor of power chisels being used in the scenes juxtapositioning Neal and Coop.
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Ah, the old "keeping a straight face" ploy. When I do that here on the boards, sometimes I use that "plain face" emoticon. It's the closest thing (to being straight-faced.)
I have a feeling people don't really know how the hell to respond to this thread. That's all right, I really only introduced it to celebrate amusement in all its manifestations. And to say that it's ok to be talking about a film, even a "serious" film, and make a joke. As long as it's not a bad joke.
Well, if it's the best one can do, even then.
I was actually in a humor writers group and I had to leave cause they wouldn't find my writing funny. Then I would go home and watch Funny Bones again.
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Petronius: To Nero, Emperor of Rome, Master of the World, Divine Pontiff. I know that my death will be a disappointment to you, since you wished to render me this service yourself. To be born in your reign is a miscalculation; but to die in it is a joy. I can forgive you for murdering your wife and your mother, for burning our beloved Rome, for befouling our fair country with the stench of your crimes. But one thing I cannot forgive - the boredom of having to listen to your verses, your second-rate songs, your mediocre performances. Adhere to your special gifts, Nero - murder and arson, betrayal and terror. Mutilate your subjects if you must; but with my last breath I beg you - do not mutilate the arts. Fare well, but compose no more music. Brutalize the people, but do not bore them, as you have bored to death your friend, the late Gaius Petronius.
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One thing that really helps the film is the great title, which doesn't really apply to what is happening in the film. (I know it's close to a line Mayo utters.)
I hear Marie's declaration as an "on the nose" statement about irony in the subtext; this is about the juxtaposition of bitter and hopeful. It was to be the best years of their lives, but look what happened -- the war.
The men who fought and families left behind were in the best years; if not in age (like Fred and Homer) then by their careers (like Al's banking job). The families were growing and developing their own lives while they were gone.
After reading Five Came Back, I have a new appreciation of Wyler and what he went through in the war. This movie was his return message and trying to get his life stateside back on track.
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Nice to know, Slaytonf, that I am not alone getting choked up watching this movie. But what does me in is a scene not mentioned yet, the one with Harold and Hoagie at the piano. I mean, how can they do that? Both of them doing the scene without a hitch, one with the best musical hands, the other with no hands. Probably the most poignant scene in any movie I can recall, and I also feel its the best movie ever.
But, like so much of the story, there is much more going on.
As light-hearted and fun as that appears (Homer can't stop grinning), it is shot in deep focus. Simultaneously in the background, Derry is on the telephone, breaking his own heart in telling Peggy it's over.
There is a brief cutaway shot of Al looking at Derry during "Chopsticks", but I didn't think it was necessary.
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Oh yeah, I love this movie. I get all verklempt when Al rings the door bell and has Peggy & Rob to be quiet and Millie is asking who was at the door and she feels his presence and runs into his arms. I get all funny feeling just typing this.
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You got the whole point in that scene.
Charlotte's Favorite Movie Music
in Your Favorites
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Patrick Doyle
Henry V
Battle of Agincourt:
Amazingly, this was his first major motion picture soundtrack composing.