FredCDobbs
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, try asking a African American woman who happens to also be lesbian compared to a heterosexual white man and see who society really rewards.
One of my best sales clerks at the local Lowes store was a big masculine-looking lesbian woman. Here where I live, people of various orientations are very friendly. The state I live in has been very multi-cultural for centuries. Nobody cares who or what anyone else is, unless they are bad criminals. Consequently, we are all friendly to each other. The guy who helped me pick out my eyeglasses seemed gay and he was very friendly and professional. I'll use him again next time.
A lot of people who can't get good jobs usually have a chip on their shoulder and an attitude of rudeness and anger. I'd rather be served by a nice black female gay FRIENDLY person, than some old RUDE white straight coot.
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Well.. I'm throwing in the towel on this one. It's probably too early a film to be easily identified - there are several newer versions more widely recognized.
I recognized Virginia Bruce, but I never can remember her name, so I can't look up her list of films.
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Because that attitude isn't codified into law, nor enforced by law.
Why not?
Let alone people who get more angry about being insulted by people they usually insult.
I don't insult anybody.
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I'm sorry that you might feel threatened that you can't use the n-word like people did in earlier decades, but from the receiving end, it feels more of a threat to be considered that way, and luckily, people have spoken out, even amid the silencing of their voices.
What about , "You G.D. White jive a** Cracker M***** F******", which I've been called a number of times. Why does the media not speak out about those insulting terms?
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but it's another thing to impose your personal beliefs on everyone else's choices.
It wasn't "on everyone else". It was for the majority of movie-goers. I haven't been to a movie in a theater in 15 years because the bad stuff suddenly turns up with no warning or notice. Why would I want to pay to see someone puke, p-e-e, p-o-o-p, or cut someone's head off?
At least a warning list should be posted with each film, along with the timeline where I will know when to close my eyes.
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I'm Catholic, and I still refer to what the Catholic Church has to say about films. I find it very helpful.
That's fine, but the problem with the "Legion of Decency" and the Breen Code was that they forced their personal views of "morality" on everyone else who wanted to see a movie. When 90% of the crime and romance dramas had nearly identical endings (criminals dead or in jail / wedding bells ringing),
I don't like seeing movies in which the crazy mean bad loco killer goes free at the end, after killing a bunch of nice people. I like to see killers either shot by their victims, the police, or maybe fall off a cliff at the end of a movie.
In these modern times, if we want to go out to see a movie, we must put up with being forced to see the "views of morality" of all the slasher film producers and directors. No thanks.
I didn't go see The Exorcist because I didn't want to be forced to see some actor puking in a color film close-up. No thanks, not for me. I don't want to see anyone puke, p-e-e, or p-o-o-p on film.
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My father was one of the B24 vets of the 8th Air Force. He was one of the lucky ones. He came back in one piece even though he was shot down and spent a year in the German POW system.
Thanks for that story.
For young people:
Flak shells are filled with shrapnel and are set to explode at the altitude the bombers are flying. These shells are designed to damage aircraft and the men in them. We see the shell smoke in the movies, but we don’t usually see all the shrapnel.
Flying through German flak....... An airplane can't dodge the flak because it must stay on its straight bombing run course to the target......
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I love this film. PTSD, a bombing run at 9,000 feet. "Hey, what do we do with this arm?"
We are so lucky to have not been on any of those bombing runs over Germany.
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As a child, I knew to check the list out before asking to see a film to make certain it was a family film.
If I've never heard of a film, I usually check with IMDB or a LEONARD MALTIN review to see if such a film would be suitable for me. If he hates it, I'll usually watch it.
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Technicolor girl on the right. Drab girl on the left.
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I was just enthralled by one of them June Allyson technicolor vehicles wednesday night. Those vibrant rich technicolor hues so I say being back 1940s technnicolor richness.
I agree. I just loved those bright vivid Technicolor Betty Grable films of the 1940s.
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Take Robin Hood for example the costumes look as if they had access to laundromats & brightener laundry detergents.
True, true, true, but I would not want to see a dirty, stinky, wrinkled Robin Hood.
Back in the 1940s and 50s, some young women would use vivid Technicolor type makeup and brightly colored dresses, and they usually looked fabulous.
The other drab girls looked homely to me.
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Nice tall hat. Nice Western necktie. Nice black Western clothes.
Beautiful Spanish-style gun belts and holsters.
Nice shiny six-shooters.
A handsome cowboy.
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These films need to be restored.
Harlem Rides the Range (1939)
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I wish Hollywood made movies for the mainstream but many today are driving a political agenda. They had one of the top hollywood guys complaining about guns yet he has made all his money off of gun violence movies.
Gun violence, car chases and crashes, vulgarity, etc., for the youthful demographics of the audience. Then when there is a mass shooting, they blame the NRA.
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Kid,
I just thought I would let you know that I worked for two hours straight on that Algerian Café photo yesterday, including searching scenes from THE RAZOR’S EDGE, several Jean Gabin films, and many other early French and North African films.
Fred
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I just was thinking with the way Hollywood loves to go against the mainstream this time they seemed to follow the leader so to speak.
I think just about all of the anti-War films about WW I and WW II came AFTER the two wars. I think there were some anti-war films made DURING the Vietnam war. Others, such as LITTLE BIG MAN, showed the US Army killing women and children in the Indian-wars days of the 19th Century, as a parable about the ongoing war in Vietnam.
The 1957 film, PATHS OF GLORY, might have had an effect on a lot of young American men so that they decided, a few years later, to revolt and NOT be drafted to go off and fight in Vietnam, but that film was one of the main ones and first ones about bad and corrupt military commanders.
The great genius of ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT was because all the good young men were on the German side, so that the US military was never condemned in that film.
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The sexual situation wasn't brought up in that scene.
I think it was brought up, as much as it could have been in the 1950s, during the entire bedroom scene. That’s where he told her that she was too lustful, and she just went along with whatever he said. She realized that he realized that she had already been thinking about jumping into the sack with him, and now she felt bad because it was so obvious. Remember, this was still a code-era film. A film today would have a different type of scene. Such as him going to bed with her and then killing her and laughing.
Frankly, I didn’t think of the impotence thing until after having seen the film many times. Because normally, a lonely-hearts killer in real life takes advantage of the older women, and woos them via sex, so he can get at their money. Similar to Charlie Chaplin in Monsieur Verdoux, and Joseph Cotten in Shadow of a Doubt.
But in this particular case, with the Laughton movie, the villain seems to be impotent but is still interested in the money, and hates the women because of his impotence. (Note the statements of the Santa Barbara killer from yesterday. He blamed the girls for all of his own personal sex problems.)
By the time of the death scene, Willa is totally confused, wiped out, and distressed by all that has happened, including the hanging of her first husband and the bad judgment of thinking that her last husband was a nice guy. She didn’t know what to do and she had nowhere else to go, so she just gave up.
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Vivien Leigh was a very good actress, but I think Hitchcock was right--I can;t see her in the role either, even if they "uglied" her up--she had too much star quality or screen presense to be convincing in the role of a shy, mousy girl who lacked confidence.
Vivien seems much too strong in that screen test. I can imagine her marrying Max and within a few months she would have him opening a department store in Atlanta, running a lumber mill using Southern prisoner labor, and causing Max to go out and get shot and killed while cleaning out Shantytown, while she is chasing after their next door neighbor, Ashley.
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The House on Haunted Hill 1959
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That looks like Alfred Hitchcock's original
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, 1934
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Great Expectations
A Note from the Legion of Decency
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Oh, I haven't INSULTED you. I have merely disagreed with some of your point of view.
I don't even know WHAT you are. Male, female? I don't know. Young, old? I don't know. Gay, straight? I don't know. Race? Unknown to me. Age? I don't know. Nationality? Beats me. Part of the world you live in ? I don't know.