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| Joe Vitus |
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| This is the only version I've seen. That's how the restored version was released on video. Maybe that's why I didn't like it. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:33 pm |
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| One of my acquaintances in Paris did work as a subtitlist (if that's what they're called). She had another job but made extra scratch with the movie gig. She was an American and her French wasn't that great, which she even admitted, but that didn't seem to matter for the people she worked for. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 4:05 pm |
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Lassie (2005) is a British remake of the classic Lassie Come Home with some impressive actors in the cast: Peter O'Toole as the Duke of Rudling (Nigel Bruce in the 1943 version), Samantha Morton as Joe Carraclough's mother (for Elsa Lanchester) and Peter Dinklage for Rowlie (for Edmund Gwenn; Dinklage is very good here). John Lynch, an actor I'm not familiar with, is Sam Carraclough (for Donald Crisp), and Jonathan Mason, a young actor with an unfortunate slight resemblance to McCauley Culkin, is Joe (for Roddy McDowall), the kid who Lassie wants to come home too. For my money, the best of them all is Hester Odgers as Cilla, the Duke's grandaughter who identifies Lassie's need to escape for she has been displaced herself by the oncoming World War II. This role was originally played by the 10-year-old Elizabeth Taylor. O'Toole and Odgers are particularly good together.
The results get sticky sometimes, and sometimes a bit too kid-oriented (a cute scene at Loch Ness, for instance), but other times it gets surprisingly gritty, as when the coal mine closes and enlisting in the military suddenly seems like a good option despite the oncoming war, or Rowlie having to face off two homeless thieves. (You see, Rowlie's a dwarf, so he must have gold.) There is a nice contrast between the lifestyles of the Duke and Cilla, and the families of the coal miners, and Dinklage's puppeteers. And, of course, you have spectacular scenery, and, beneath it all, the same classic story.
So, possibly worth checking out, especially if you have a kid to watch it with. |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 4:12 pm |
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| I hadn't realized how little I remember the original Lassie Come Home (although I liked both novel and movie as a kid). I may have to check it out sometime. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 5:46 pm |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:29 pm |
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| I'm wating for them to make a Lassie movie called The Bitch is Back. |
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| lissa |
| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:10 pm |
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| Joe - that's good! Except for one thing: aren't the Lassie dogs actually males? |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:19 pm |
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| Yes, but obviously by the name they are supposed to be bitches. Another example of sexism in the cinema. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:34 pm |
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lissa wrote: Joe - that's good! Except for one thing: aren't the Lassie dogs actually males?
I want to see an essay on the gender-bending semiotics of the Lassie series. |
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lissa wrote: Joe - that's good! Except for one thing: aren't the Lassie dogs actually males?
I always feel sorry for Lassie when "she's" supposedly nursing a litter of puppies. |
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| Poor Lassie...a life of gender confusion and before the whole world, too! |
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| I heard they were Bi. Someone should hook them up to arousal detectors and show them some doggie porn. And there's that leg fetish that seems to infect the canine species. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 12:46 am |
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Silvio Soldini's Days and Clouds (2008) is set in beautiful Genoa and is the story of a middle-aged couple and their travails and tensions resulting from the husband losing his job, and their having to sell their beautiful apartment with a grand view of the harbor. Very good performances, and impeccable direction.
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| lady wakasa |
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Ghulam wrote: Silvio Soldini's Days and Clouds (2008) is set in beautiful Genoa and is the story of a middle-aged couple and their travails and tensions resulting from the husband losing his job, and their having to sell their beautiful apartment with a grand view of the harbor. Very good performances, and impeccable direction.
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That sounds worth hunting down. Thanks, Ghulam. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:40 am |
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Syd wrote: lissa wrote: Joe - that's good! Except for one thing: aren't the Lassie dogs actually males?
I always feel sorry for Lassie when "she's" supposedly nursing a litter of puppies.
What were they sucking on... |
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