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Apr 7, 2023 7:52:35 GMT -5
Post by bonesaw on Apr 7, 2023 7:52:35 GMT -5
Got me thinking about how that movie is really up there in terms of having a completely diverse cast, celebrating cultures of multiple types, in some ways made light-hearted fun of all of them (black church scene and the country bar) and came off completely natural and unquestioned. Really showcases just how divisively weird things have gotten. I would LOVE to have observed how they got the black congregation actors cast and prepared for that scene. "So this is going to be very similar to a normal church service for you. Lots of enthusiasm. But we're gonna get James Brown to be the pastor and we are going to amp it up a bit. Instead of your normal enthusiastic selves, we are going have you guys doing impossibly high literal flips and splits in the air, flying all over the place. Rockin' the walls of this place. Go nuts with it. Then, John Belushi is going to do back flips down the aisle." As they are carrying trampolines into the church and positioning them next to the stainglass windows. So awesome.
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Apr 7, 2023 7:58:43 GMT -5
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Post by johnnypt on Apr 7, 2023 7:58:43 GMT -5
Got me thinking about how that movie is really up there in terms of having a completely diverse cast, celebrating cultures of multiple types, in some ways made light-hearted fun of all of them (black church scene and the country bar) and came off completely natural and unquestioned. Really showcases just how divisively weird things have gotten. I would LOVE to have observed how they got the black congregation actors cast and prepared for that scene. "So this is going to be very similar to a normal church service for you. Lots of enthusiasm. But we're gonna get James Brown to be the pastor and we are going to amp it up a bit. Instead of your normal enthusiastic selves, we are going have you guys doing impossibly high literal flips and splits in the air, flying all over the place. Rockin' the walls of this place. Go nuts with it. Then, John Belushi is going to do back flips down the aisle." As they are carrying trampolines into the church and positioning them next to the stainglass windows. So awesome. Depressing the original three hour version of the film was ostensibly thrown out after cutting. We’re lucky to have the extra 15 minutes from the extended DVD but things like Sink the Bismarck during the bar scene are gone forever. If they had managed to survive past then, they were likely lost in the 2008 Universal fire.
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Apr 7, 2023 8:00:37 GMT -5
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Post by johnnypt on Apr 7, 2023 8:00:37 GMT -5
Have to get around to watching Golden Voyage with its own special effect, Caroline Munro. Indeed. Quite. Though I can't get past the first twenty minutes of Space Crash (or whatever that Star Wars knock off was) no matter how skimpy she was dressed. They did that on the Netflix MST3K and made more jokes about Hasselhoff.
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Apr 9, 2023 7:46:00 GMT -5
Post by johnnypt on Apr 9, 2023 7:46:00 GMT -5
We started watching the Ten Commandments last night (the old fashioned way, on DVD. We're in a very weird area where we can't get the Philadelphia ABC station with our digital antenna and are three miles too far away to get the NY affiliate). We're breaking it up into three or four parts, so we got up to the point where Moses decides to stay with his family after finding out he's Hebrew. During the scene when Yochabel was almost crushed by the stone before Moses saves her, my son said "I'm more emotionally invested in what happens to this old woman than the entire Ms. Marvel series!"
I gave him the heads up to watch what happens to poor Woody Strode, king of Ethiopia in the first half of the film, then ends up as a slave during the Angel of Death scene! Pointed out to him to look out for the voice of Fred Flintstone II and see if he can figure where he'll know Moses' wife from. Still hunting for Touch (aka Mike 'Mannix') Conners.
Think I found Clint Walker, I think he's the guard with the goofy helmet during the early part of the film. He told a great story to Mark Levin about how he got the part. He was on his way to audition for CB DeMille when he saw a lady on the side of the road with a flat tire. He stopped to help her, but ended up being very late to the audition. He went into DeMille figuring he blew his chance. He started to apologize to him, then CB said "Did you stop to help a lady with a flat tire? That was my secretary, you got the part." He was already doing Cheyenne by the time it came out, but they were likely making the film before the show started, which is why he was just a backgroud player. At least he got his name in the credits.
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Apr 9, 2023 19:30:43 GMT -5
Post by Von K on Apr 9, 2023 19:30:43 GMT -5
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Apr 10, 2023 9:14:57 GMT -5
Post by johnnypt on Apr 10, 2023 9:14:57 GMT -5
This was also the odd year where ABC didn't air it on Easter weekend but on the Saturday before Palm Sunday. Remember when it used to be on Sundays? Then they moved because they didn't want to pre-empt Desperate Housewives for a weekend, ironically enough.
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Apr 10, 2023 9:41:38 GMT -5
Post by bonesaw on Apr 10, 2023 9:41:38 GMT -5
I gave him the heads up to watch what happens to poor Woody Strode, king of Ethiopia in the first half of the film, then ends up as a slave during the Angel of Death scene! Pointed out to him to look out for the voice of Fred Flintstone II and see if he can figure where he'll know Moses' wife from. Still hunting for Touch (aka Mike 'Mannix') Conners. Had no idea about the King of Ethiopia. Moses' wife is from The Adams Family right?
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Apr 10, 2023 9:47:43 GMT -5
Post by johnnypt on Apr 10, 2023 9:47:43 GMT -5
I gave him the heads up to watch what happens to poor Woody Strode, king of Ethiopia in the first half of the film, then ends up as a slave during the Angel of Death scene! Pointed out to him to look out for the voice of Fred Flintstone II and see if he can figure where he'll know Moses' wife from. Still hunting for Touch (aka Mike 'Mannix') Conners. Had no idea about the King of Ethiopia. Moses' wife is from The Adams Family right? Yvonne DeCarlo (Zephora) was Lily Munster. She was married to a stunt man who was injured so badly on the set of How the West Was Won, she had to stop working to take care of him. When they ran out of money, John Wayne hired her for a role in McClintock. She still needed a steady income so she took the role of Lily for that reason. Caroline Jones was Morticia, she was also in House of Wax and Invasion of the Body Snatchers among other things.
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Apr 19, 2023 8:32:40 GMT -5
Post by hyrkanian on Apr 19, 2023 8:32:40 GMT -5
I don't even know how many times I've seen that movie and every time I get goosebumps at the same scenes.
Yes, it’s Graham Greene.
It’s a must-see. Another Kubrick masterpiece and a huge contribution from Dalton Trumbo who wrote the screenplay.
Yes,it is.
No doubt about that, but Rod Steiger stole the show as Mexican outlaw Juan.
You definitely should, but not because of the action/shooting scenes, but because of the great interaction between the two lead characters/actors. The dialogue is outstanding and Clint and Shirley compete in acting throughout the whole movie so it's hard to say who was better.
Speaking of westerns, another one from my list is Da uomo a uomo-(Death Rides a Horse); it may be less familiar to audiences in USA, but among spaghetti western fans it is considered as one of the best of the genre. Starring legendary Lee Van Cleef and John Phillip Law. Music-the great Morricone.
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Apr 19, 2023 8:49:29 GMT -5
Post by hyrkanian on Apr 19, 2023 8:49:29 GMT -5
My son and I have done 7th Voyage and Jason, he was very impressed by the latter, liked the special effects there more than today's movies. Have to get around to watching Golden Voyage with its own special effect, Caroline Munro. Ha, ha, exactly.
If an actress were to appear in such a costume in a Hollywood movie today, she would be arrested along with the director.
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Apr 19, 2023 9:04:42 GMT -5
Post by johnnypt on Apr 19, 2023 9:04:42 GMT -5
I end up referring to Sucker/Dynamite as its most obscure name Once Upon a Time in the Revolution.
Death Rides a Horse is pretty messed up at times, but the best among Lee's 'other' spaghettis.
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Apr 19, 2023 9:10:01 GMT -5
Post by johnnypt on Apr 19, 2023 9:10:01 GMT -5
My son and I have done 7th Voyage and Jason, he was very impressed by the latter, liked the special effects there more than today's movies. Have to get around to watching Golden Voyage with its own special effect, Caroline Munro. Ha, ha, exactly.
If an actress were to appear in such a costume in a Hollywood movie today, she would be arrested along with the director.
I was just thinking how the best effects in certain Harryhausen movies are Honor Blackman, Racquel Welch, Caroline Munro and Jane Seymour (there was nekkid lady in a rated G movie...and they showed it on network television too!)
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Apr 20, 2023 5:34:28 GMT -5
Post by hyrkanian on Apr 20, 2023 5:34:28 GMT -5
I was just thinking how the best effects in certain Harryhausen movies are Honor Blackman, Racquel Welch, Caroline Munro and Jane Seymour (there was nekkid lady in a rated G movie...and they showed it on network television too!)
And let's not forget Judi Bowker
and her bathing scene.
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Apr 20, 2023 5:43:58 GMT -5
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Post by johnnypt on Apr 20, 2023 5:43:58 GMT -5
Ray and Charles really knew what the audience wanted!
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Apr 24, 2023 6:26:08 GMT -5
Post by bonesaw on Apr 24, 2023 6:26:08 GMT -5
I almost put in Clash of the Titans this weekend for my boys to see for the first time, completely forgetting about the specifics of some of the scenes. I check the parents guide and yup...plus I don't think they would handle Medusa's scene very well either. That's just the type of imagery that would freak out the young ones.
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