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Gone With the Wind. Fireball starring Barbara Stanwyck. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. The Lion in Winter. All of the main Hammer Horror Films: Werewolf, Mummy, Dracula and Frankenstein. McClintok(sp). Anything with Greta Garbo in it but mainly her talkies (didn't care much for the silents), Tell it to The Marines Starring Lon Chaney Sr. (it was a surprise because it's NOT a horror film and after seeing this film it's a shame he was stuck in horror films for most of his life). The Wizard of Oz. How Green Was My Valley. The Philadelphia Story. Bringing up Baby. There are serveral more that I love...but I'm too tired right now to recall them.

 

Last night I watched the orig (1950) Cinderella. Wow! Even with modern technology, there's not an animated film around that can hold a candle to that movie. Awesome.

 

The Best Years of Our Lives - had to get this for my collection. sides im a Myrna Loy fan

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I like exploring propaganda in movies. A few days ago by fluke I explored a low budget flick called "Prime Risk", a throwback from the mid-80s. It features a duo who for moral and ideal reasons decide to break into ATMs. On the surface it's a Bonnie and Clyde story, but underneath its sole purpose was to dissuade and discourage people from stealing from banks, especially ATMs which back then were just recently invented and popularized. The boyfriend is essentially an airhead and a bimbo, and the girlfriend superficially is technologically savvy, but then again she hacks into computers using frequency scanners which can be used to measure radio or ultrasound signals but will not hack into electronics which run on electricity. The duo also lacks any common sense, such as the escalator scene. More recently, various parts of dialogue from that flick were cut up and incorporated into other movies or hit songs such as "shut up and drive". If the liberals are pissed off today about some sexism that went on in popular culture back in the 80s and wish to have their revenge by sublimely messenging, they should direct their sissy anger at the banks that paid for production of such an artwork rather than the public in general. The public always takes it from both sides, vested financial interests on one, and wacko progressive activists on the other. Why not just lock them up together and let them do some clumsy cage fighting?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RE0z5KGIII

Another conclusion from such and other observations can be drawn. The elites are encouraging a gender war (say, as a distraction from their real aim) for the sake of advancing their selfish vested interests.

 

Oh, and i don't mean to dwell too much on the same theme b/c it's not healthy for you, but i only enjoy using the same set of tools as the big interests, merging politics with entertainment in a subliminal kind of way. So going back to "Prime Risk" one last time, the message in that flick after you work through all the cheese seems to tell you, if you must hack do it for the gov't for all sakes, to protect the Pwesident and the stockmarket. The message was not lost on all it seems, and the NSA must be recruiting amateurish street ATM hacks and then gives them unlimited powers of intrusion.

 

They don't make them like they used to.

Sure, the technology of today's movies is incredible, but the substance isn't there.

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That depends on how far back you'd go, I'd say most films prior to maybe the 60s or 70s seem very stiffly acted.

Maybe it's due to the technology of the time, they didn't do 'cuts' every few seconds, so the actors had to perform lengthy scenes of dialogue all in one take- but it came across as very stiff, like they were just reading off script.

 

TCM is one of my favorites too. Ted Turner is one of my favorite men.

Last evening The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer" was on. Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, and Rudy Valiee were among the players. What a great movie this is.

I have about every film Marilyn Monroe ever made.

Classics are a window into a time long forgotten... a time when folks had manners and knew when to hold their tongue.

 

It does seem like they all repeat the same old theme over and over again. Occasionally you get a gem like "lars and the real girl" but mostly it's the same old 7 themes in every movie.

Those old films though, the men were men (except for maybe Fred Astaire), them women were women, ladies were ladies and the gentlemen were gentlemen. They dressed the part too. And everyone could f*cking dance their asses off.... The moral values, they were never a question.

Some of my favorites

To Kill a Mockingbird
The Grapes of Wrath
Let's make Love
Gentlemen prefer blondes
Mr. Smith goes to Washington
Meet John Doe
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Scarlet pimpernel
A Raisin in the Sun

to name a few...

 

I think my favourite classic movie is either "Breakfast at Tiffany's" or "Funny Face". I bet you can't guess who my favourite actress is?

 

Big Trouble in Little China

 

Goorin brothers hat company is now selling Walters hat. I tried it on and frankly, it made me look good. I set the front brim down, what a 'tude.... It's a pretty nice hat too, good wool, selling at about $140 bucks. You'd look real good in it Tom.

I decided on a wool fedora though, matches my dress coat.

 

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Evidently, Vivian Leigh thought so too!!!

 

or Burt Lancaster!

 

A Streetcar Named Desire... domestic violence, poverty & mental illness at it's best.

 

Gilda
The Big Sleep
To Have and Have Not

My fav 3

 

Restored version of Metropolis is on TCM tonight. Tune in to marvel at how far we've come toward making ourselves that futuristic society!

 

I LOVE Garbo and Kate Hepburn. Rita Hayworth was good too. Haven't seen any Jean Arthur films but Davis? NEVER liked her though I will admit she was a hell of an actress. Probably the only actress who could make me forget what she really looked like and actually convince me that she was who she was portraying unlike Crawford who never let you forget she was acting. Another one of my favs was Marion Davies. She was a good actress and GREAT comedian but who's worth was (sadly) never recognized and she is know mainly for being William Randolph Hearst's mistress...such a shame.
ETA: Didn't see that you had included another of my favs Barbara Stanwyck. Didn't like Stella Dallas though. I much preferred her in Christmas in Conneticut and Ball of Fire. (and of course the Big Valley!)

My dad was born in 1910 so I was given a good intro into the classic film actors/esses and their films.

As for the gentlemen...I've always like Lon Chaney Sr. If you ever get the chance watch "Go Tell It To The Marines"....he was a GREAT actor who was never recognized except for his horror film portrayals. I also like Cary Grant, Tyrone Powers, Errol Flynn, Jimmy Stewart and Gregory Peck.

 

The one with Stuart Damon as Prince Charming and Lesley Anne Warren as Cinderella? I remember as a girl I used to LIVE for the one night a year when that film aired and also The Wizard of Oz. Those were magical years when you really wanted to see a film because they weren't shown every week...unlike today when you can see TWOZ on cable and/or rent or buy any film you want.

 

Or how about "Suddenly Last Summer" with Elizabeth Taylor and Katherine Hepburn. Nowhere do they ever say that Sebastian was gay/homosexual but it is certainly implied that something funny went on during the vacation that Catherine and Sebastian went on. I also believe there may have been a bit of cannibalism after Sebastian was killed but again it was never said outright! Tennessee Williams was a master of that. In The Glass Menagerie it was certainly implied that there might have been something between the brother and the sister and that her collection of glass figurines was merely a sexual outlet for frustration that she couldn't relieve physically. And in "Long Days Journey into Night" again there was a bit of sexual content between the mother and the son that was alluded to time and time again but NEVER specifically mentioned. And if I remember correctly...the word "Opium" was never mentioned either (on film).

 

Ok...I didn't realize what was meant by "classic" films so I didn't go far enough ahead and mention that Vanessa Redgrave is one of my favorite actresses. Don't care for her politics but as long as she wasn't/isn't preaching in her films...I can overlook her politics.

One of my fav silent screen actresses that I forgot (though I don't know how) was Louise Brooks.Seriously if Louise had stayed in films/Hollywood I think (acting wise) she could have been Garbo's ONLY real competition. Louise has a certain something that is very hard to define but man does it come through on screen. I watched Pandora's Box and I was mesmerized! (I don't like many of the old silent films but any Louise Brooks film could have been made today that's how real they are.) I think Louise was an actress born before her time . But in any film era she could have and should have been a STAR of the highest magnitude. Shame she made even less films than Garbo. However, I have to give her credit for turning her back on the back stabbing Hollywoodites. Little known fact: Louise was married to Eddie Sutherland.
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How do you post a pic so that it comes out? I thought you could just go to the pic you wanted and "copy" it but when I do that, I get the url address and no picture. Thank you.