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You face them for me.
Fear is a healthy emotion.
again, off-topic, but i was hanging out playing cards in a garage with some super straight buddies of mine some time ago, a very macho kind of atmosphere and a rat ran across a ceiling beam in front of us and I swear to God, I screamed and it sounded just like Fay Wray....or Ned Flanders...
Fear is a healthy emotion is you do not get in a panic. I agree. It is what gets you out of a burning building when the alarm goes off. I have fear of large spiders. I don't need to get over this fear as they are poisonous.
However, if I were claustrophobic and lived in New York City, I would have to get over it because I am not walking up huge flights of stairs. I am taking the elevator.
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A movie that took years to make and was eventually seen by the entire world.
Next: Would you rather be a filmmaker received well commercially or well critically?
Critically, because the movie would last past my lifetime and I might get more work out of it.
A Commercial success might be horrible like Dumb and Dumber.
Next:
Would you rather make a movie based upon a (famous) play or an original screenplay that you wrote yourself?
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The Seven Samurai in Japanese and The Magnificent Seven - more than one remake
Roshamon in Japanese and The Outrage in English
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this may be somewhat neither here nor there, but i can't think of a movie that affected me so hard i actually had nightmares about it...i have various shark-related dreams periodically, but believe it or not, none of them are "nightmares"- actually I've had a couple of recurring dreams, and i swear i am being totally on-the-level where they have released JAWS 5 or done a remake of JAWS 3-D and I have enjoyed "watching" them in my head.
(full disclosure, as a small child i fell madly in love with JAWS 3-D, and I have seen it WAY MORE TIMES THAN ANY SANE PERSON EVER SHOULD.)
That said, I have read one book which was powerful enough to give me nightmares, and that was DRACULA, something that I am sure would've touched Bram Stoker greatly. When people discuss DRACULA, they mention the wolves and the bats, BUT THEY DON'T MENTION THE RATS, which is the animal that I think STOKER relies on most heavily for personifying evil. there is a scene where the men go to Carfax Abbey to kill Dracula and are overcome by HOARDS OF RATS. For real- I had a nightmare about the scene that night.
sorry if this is off-topic, i am super bored at work today.
I also ******* hate rats.
I have never been able to watch either Dracula (1931) or Nosferatu although I have tried several times. They freak me out.
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I also have a book of sheet music from Disney songs as well as a lot of Disney Vinyl Albums.
Edit: I meant to add that I could look that book up to see if the lyrics were the same or different.
I looked up the book and the lyrics to Some day My Prince Will Come is the same as in the movie.
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Yes. That is what I mean, CaveGirl.
There is no way I would try to type out all the lyrics in the sheet music that are different as it seems that the song in the movie takes place at a DIFFERENT TIME than the sheet music suggests. The sheet music suggests that she has already met the Prince and that he has gone off and left and she wants him to come back.
High Noon's lyrics, on the contrary, are just a change in focus. The story is the same in the song even though Miller is named and it is either Cooper who should not leave or Grace Kelly who should not leave.
Thanks, GPF, that's very interesting about HN.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean about the song SMPWC. Do you mean the lyrics in the film are different from your songbook. I actually have the film soundtrack [don't ask!] and will have to listen to it. What are the main diffeces and was it written at the same time the film came out?
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I agree Lana Turner is a LEAD in Ziegfeld Girl.
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Yes, I expected the song to be in The Man Who Shot liberty Valance as well.
I remember that when I saw Dr. Zhivago for the first time, I kept expecting Lara's Theme to be sung. But the lyrics were added later.
I have the music book 100 Years, 100 songs, and there are several songs where the lyrics that appear in the film are different than in the movie.
High Noon is one of them.:
The film lyrics:
The Noon day train will bring Frank Miller
If I'm a man I must be brave,
and I must face that deadly killer....
Do not forsake me oh, my darling
You made that promise when we wed
Do not forsake me oh my darling.
Although you're grieving
I can't be leaving
Until I shoot Frank Miller dead.
The sheet music:
I do not know what fate awaits me
I only know I must be brave
And I must face a deadly killer...
Do not forsake me oh, my darling
You made a promise as a bride
Do not forsake me oh, my darling
Although you're grieving
Don't think of leaving
Not when I need you by my side.
But the largest difference is from Snow White and the seven Dwarfs. The song "Someday My Prince Will Come" bears no resemblance in the lyrics.
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Well, there have been a lot of biopics about various composers/lyricists of various genres, but here are some;
Henry Mancini
Johnny Mercer
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As far as I know, there are three versions of "Of Human Bondage", and, while they do differ in terms of quality, the story itself is intrinsically fascinating - because it explores the ever-mysterious guestion of sexual attraction - it really is a "mystery".
I have seen two versions of the story Of Human Bondage. The Bette Davis-Leslie Howard film and the Kim Novak-Lawrence Harvey film.
Both actresses I enjoyed as well as Leslie Howard. I found Harvey a bit wooden in comparison to Howard.
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Who's last film? Cooper? He starred in some British film after that (I've forgotten the name now) I think Deborah Kerr was in it........
Cooper was in three films after that. The only one I have seen of these , apparently the second last;
The Wreak of the Mary Deare.
That was in 1959.
There was a movie released in 1961 whose name escapes me, but Coop died in January 61 so it would have been released after he died.
Edit:
Coop died in *June* Sad irony of timing:
Gable died at 59 in December
Further edit:
Sapphire pointed out the dates mix up. I made another post about Gable and Cooper and added Jeff Chandler - three leading men who died within a year of each other.
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Wednesday April 20, 2016
Spencer Tracy & Robert Wagner on Amazon Prime
BROKEN LANCE with Katy Jurado
THE MOUNTAIN with Claire Trevor
Broken Lance also stars Richard Widmark who considered Spencer Tracy to be the greatest actor of all time.
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Although I do like the film, I'd suggest you forego a viewing if you suffer from bouts of vertigo or motion sickness..
Sepiatone
Thanks, Sepia.
I do sometimes get motion sickness unless I have taken some gravol, so I might skip it.
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I tend to not tell people when I am watching with them any spoilers unless asked for (such as in The Yearling which is sad).
The Blair Witch Project was mentioned by someone earlier in this thread. I never tried to watch it.
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TCM is tired of hearing complaints about how the quality of their version of Frenchman's Creek is poor and that they will continue to air the same print quality regardless of complaints.
They point out that they have a great quality version of The Birds which was written by the same person.
To counteract TCM viewers complaints about Frenchman Creek's quality, TCM will be showing The Birds once a week in the hopes that it will catch up with its North By Northwest viewing total.
In the meantime, TCM suggests viewing look up the imdb credits of al the actors and order the movies that they were in to watch in their own time.
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I voted by private messenger so as to not influence anyone. But I keep checking this thread to see if someone posts a vote in the thread.
Glad to see that fellow nominees enjoy each other's programming choices.
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The Music Biopic Collection About Musicians Who Knew Each Other in a Tragic Way
1. La Bomba - Ritchie Vallens
2. The Buddy Holly Story
*No third movie since there isn't a movie about The Big Bopper who sang Chantilly lace.
Maybe some day there will be a picture about The Big Bopper and that can complete the set.
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The "Dumb & Dumber" movies (I feel there are way too many of these films released and they all do not fall under the umbrella name of "Dumb & Dumber" as indicated by the next group of movies)
The "Ace Ventura" movies
The "American Pie" movies
It has always annoyed me that there is a gross out movie called American Pie.
American Pie was the name of the airplane that went down with Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. Don McLean made a song about the tragedy called American Pie and is about ten minutes long and famous. Now because of this gross out movie, people younger than a certain generation don't associate American Pie" with those musicians.
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Love the use of the famous quote as your reply Gipper!
And I'll have to go with Clark Gable due to his supposed sense of humor.
Next: Would you rather be in a car chase or chase on foot (in a film?)
Foot chase. I might actually be able to get away.
Next:
Would you rather be in a play that ran for a long time or in a movie that took years to make but eventually was seen by the entire world?
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Earlier tonight I watched A Taste of Honey on TCM as part of the guest programmer night. It was the first time that I had seen the movie.
I found it fascinating and I have known people who remind me of these characters. The mother who is not really a mother figure, the drunken boyfriend of the mother, the too young girl left alone who ends up pregnant and does not know where to go, the gay friend who lives with the girl while she is pregnant but seeks out her mother - this is all true to life. I have known people who are like these characters.
It reminds me that I am glad I have a cat and not children, and that really, being single isn't that bad...
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"Garden of Evil" (1954)--20th Century Fox film starring Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward, and Richard Widmark. Cooper and Widmark's boat breaks down on the way to the California gold fields--they have to stop in Mexico. They head to a local cantina--Hayward comes in and says she is offering one thousand dollars in gold to anyone who will help her save her husband, who was trapped in a cave-in. She says the mine is right in the middle of cursed country called "Garden of Evil"--film proceeds from there.
The uneven screenplay is credited to Frank Fenton. Bernard Herrmann contributed a score that supplies more drama than the screenplay; the handsome cinematography is credited to Milton Krasner and Jorge Stahl. Jr.
Widmark is especially good as the man who's not used to being a good guy. Cooper and Hayward are as effective as the script allows. The rest of the cast is adequate. Look for a young Rita Moreno in the cantina.
Critics yawned when the film was released, but GoE made a healthy profit, especially considering GoE had cost around two million dollars to film. GoE is maybe the most beautiful film Cooper made in the 1950's, and the most underrated. A fine watch in spite of the choppy script; 3/4.
I love this movie. Not a big surprise since I love Richard Widmark, Bernard Herrmann, and have grown to love westerns.
I first saw this on a DVD that played only on my computer since a fellow Richard Widmarkfan had made a DVD of it for me from England and it would not play in my regular DVD player.
Great film.
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**Spoilers** The story ended up being that the town leader, played by Toby Jones, had foreseen an apocalyptic event coming, so he created a massive storage facility that held supplies and enough people held in suspended animation to rebuild society some point in the distant future when the world was livable again. All of the footage in the mysterious town where Matt Dillon wakes up is actually 2000 years in the future, and the town is a mockup of an old town to help acclimate the newly awakened. The leader keeps everyone in the dark because they are the second batch of people that have been awakened. The first batch were immediately told about their whereabouts and the destruction of the outside world, and they went crazy and killed each other. So those in charge try to keep the new townsfolk from learning the truth. They eventually do, and the mutated cannibalistic mutants that live outside of the town's walls break in, and everyone is in peril, but they find sanctuary at the end, although Dillon sacrifices himself to save everyone. The next season is supposed to follow this group as they try to live in the new world, and they also have a problem with children that have been raised in this new world being fascists. It's rather dopey.
Thanks, Lawrence for explaining what the ending of the season was. You mean there will be another season?
I tried really hard to watch the whole season of Wayward Pines because I live near Agassiz and I was on set and wanted to see it through because of this. But after a few episodes, I could not get through it.
I actually got sick to my stomach watching it.
If I had continued being an extra on that show, I do not know what I would have done with all that gross and dopey stuff going on.
I prefer the stage where everything is done chronologically.
Even if things get screwed up in a live production it has to keep going on.
When I was in a production of The Wizard of Oz - and this was in 1998 - we never actually got through the whole show in one evening until opening night. Everything would come to a standstill while people decided how to do the tornado scene.
We had a good opening night, but really, that was a close call.
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And a further comment about Wayward Pines MissW:
I didn't talk much about the TV series because I thought it would irritate people to hear about what I thought of being an extra on a television show.
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I knew I'd get the exact dates mixed up here because I was going by memory and not looking up my book of classic stars..
Gable died at 59 years old of a massive heart attack likely brought on by doing his own stunts in the Misfits.
I have The naked Edge on my to-see list.
The last movie made that I saw of Cooper's career is The Wreck of the Mary Deare.
So. Cooper died in May 1961.
Gable died at 59 in 1960 in November.
Then another Hollywood leading man's death happened a month after Cooper died:
In June 1961 Jeff Chandler died in his 40s as a result of medical misadventure.
He had broken discs in his back during the filming of a war movie: Merrill's Marauders.
He was in peak physical shape when he went in for back surgery. He should have been up and about in 2 or 3 months. Instead he died.