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| Befade |
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Is that any relation to The Devil in Miss Jones?
 (That's a porn movie I saw as a double feature with Deep Throat.)
........and it is a suicide movie.......well ploted for porn. |
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| Marilyn |
| Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 2:56 pm |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 2:58 pm |
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Marilyn wrote:
Quote: Safety Last! was a bit of a disappointment on second viewing. It really is just a stunt film, rather like a Keystone Kops film, but not as manic. I admire Lloyd's dexterity in the apartment and department store scenes, but there really wasn't much to the film. I didn't find the climb up the building to be either funny or frightening, though it is original.
I agree with you whole heartedly, Marilyn. While I thought Lloyd had great timing and dexterity, I thought the movie was one pretty predictable physical gag after another. I wanted to give him points for inventing these gags but since they only made me squirm, I just couldn't. And since it said it was written by Hal Roach, I have no idea whether he invented the gags or not.
And where was Lloyd's character? I did some research afterwards and found that he invented his little/everyman character after finding that his attemps at a tramps character failed. But I just found Lloyd to be dull if not altogether dumb!
The climb was the only thing that held my attention, though it too was neither frightening nor funny. Just interesting, I suppose. |
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| Marilyn |
| Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:07 pm |
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| I really did like when he and his friend hid in their topcoats from the landlady. I also enjoyed the ambulance ride and how he slipped under his boss's arm to serve the demanding customer. I like those double-take moves of his. |
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| Marilyn |
| Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:10 pm |
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| What 1930s film was credited with singlehandedly making the bottom drop out of the men's undershirt market? |
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| Marilyn |
| Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:10 pm |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:11 pm |
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What 1930s film was credited with singlehandedly making the bottom drop out of the men's undershirt market?
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT. |
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| Marilyn |
| Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:12 pm |
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| You're right, Marc. You can ask a trivia question on the trivia forum now! |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 5:04 pm |
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Quote: I really did like when he and his friend hid in their topcoats from the landlady. I also enjoyed the ambulance ride and how he slipped under his boss's arm to serve the demanding customer.
Funny you should mention the same scenes I liked too. Especially the topcoat scene. Now that was original! |
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| Marilyn |
| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 9:44 am |
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For the second time in less than 24 hours, I have come across the name of director Alan Clarke. A review of some of his films on DVD was published in the current issue of Cineaste, and now Senses of Cinema has a Great Directors article on him: http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/05/clarke.html
He has been compared with Mike Leigh as among Britain's greatest directors, but eclipsed because most of his output was for television. Has anyone seen his stuff? It seems quite raw. He gave Tim Roth his start in film, apparently, as a skinhead in Made in Britain. |
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| jeremy |
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Marilyn,
Alan Clarke really deserves a better researched post, but I don't have time to remind myself of his achievements or properly collect my thoughts at the moment. He died about 15 years ago and was a very British type of filmmaker. People often bemoan the state of the British film industry, often overlooking the fact that a lot of the best talent was working in TV. Alan Clarke did most of his best work for the BBC. I suspect most Americans associate BBC drama with costume dramas, Shakespeare, etc.. What they never got to see were the regular contempory dramas (the BBC used to have something called the Wednesday play) often featuring writers of the calibre of Pinter. Clarke was a regular director of such plays and other, often gritty, social dramas. Like Leigh and Anderson, he tended to wear his socialism on his sleeve. As well as Tim Roth, he also gave Ray Winstone his first major part in the made for TV film called Scum about boys in a borstal (boys prison). I enjoyed it, but its not an easy watch.
If you want to get a feel for this type of BBC drama, I'd recommend a series (not directed by Clarke) called "The Boys From The Black Stuff" written by Alaln Bleasedale. Written at the peak of the recession in eighties, it features the disintergrating lives of a group of unemployed Liveruddlians. Devastating stuff.
Alas, the BBC no longer shows this commitment to genuine drama. |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:20 am |
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| Of course, the BBC is legendary for the high-quality television plays it produced. We in the States certainly are familiar with Dennis Potter. I just found it interesting that Clarke is suddenly big on my radar screen. I read about Scum and sense it would be very hard to watch. The review of Made in Britain said that Roth's character was an indictment of the kind of people Thatcherism produces. It would be nice to see a corrective to the pablum of the winner-take-all movie of 80s America. |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:33 am |
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| BTW, Jeremy, the Senses of Cinema article is one of the most thorough they've ever published. |
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| I don't know if it is true, but I was told that the expression, "Who's the daddy," originated or was popularised by its use in the film Scum. |
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