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(DIR) Post #AdVMKQszN3FiMFd2ES by DaddyO@noagendasocial.com
2024-01-04T14:20:58Z
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In one of the more unique categories of films, I'll enter "My Favorite Wife" with Cary Grant and Randolph Scott in the "Awkward use of a Slide Whistle in a Classic Movie" category along with "D.O.A."
(DIR) Post #AdVOV7vuNSbcfcDmgy by restful@noagendasocial.com
2024-01-04T14:45:18Z
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@DaddyO I looked up the plot and it seemed very familiar. I realized I'd seen the 1963 remake Move Over Darling. I guess Hollywood has always recycled stuff they know works rather than creating anew.
(DIR) Post #AdVP5gbkvyUudbECWG by DaddyO@noagendasocial.com
2024-01-04T14:51:55Z
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@restful Remakes made more sense back in the day, before home videos and broadcasting old movies on TV was a thing. Most audiences either didn't have access to the original or never saw it or probably didn't remember it that well.Now-a-days it's just the acme of laziness.
(DIR) Post #AdVPA6w6zJaPS4rKHw by DaddyO@noagendasocial.com
2024-01-04T14:52:42Z
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@restful But I will vouch that the original "My Favorite Wife" is a lot of fun and very charming. Never saw "Move Over Darling" - but I haven't watch a whole lot of 1960s/70s cinema.
(DIR) Post #AdVQGWdKSZ5GqEhDwu by restful@noagendasocial.com
2024-01-04T15:05:04Z
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@DaddyO Move Over Darling is quite sweet. It's James Garner and Doris Day and they have good chemistry. I'll definitely watch My Favorite Wife. Anything with Cary Grant is worth watching.
(DIR) Post #AdVQRGIRXY6RMK2wrI by restful@noagendasocial.com
2024-01-04T15:07:01Z
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@DaddyO Good point. I hadn't thought of it in those terms. My Favorite Wife was an adaption of a stage play and there was a lot of that too. I think the reasons today are basically the same though: it worked before, so it'll work again. Also people refuse to watch movies that are too old for some reason.
(DIR) Post #AdVQvoA6C4oH4ui1o0 by DaddyO@noagendasocial.com
2024-01-04T15:12:32Z
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@restful I think a big part of the prejudice against old movies is first an inability to appreciate the black & white aesthetic and second a problem with modern attention spans. Modern movies since at least the 80s have focused more on spectacle and emotion and "the experience" and less on actual narrative and complex characters. I started my own kids on silent movies (Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd) and lots of classic 30s/40s cinema. They've grown up enjoying the old movies as much as the new ones.
(DIR) Post #AdVTw7vJ1MyOEIdKZE by leyonhjelm@breastmilk.club
2024-01-04T15:46:13.177665Z
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@DaddyO I think a lot of it is lack of literacy in the stage roots of acting as an art. Nobody acts anymore, they try to emulate reality@restful
(DIR) Post #AdVUV8qPaY1pDo2Zqi by DaddyO@noagendasocial.com
2024-01-04T15:52:32Z
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@leyonhjelm @restful That's definitely part of it. I often think a lot of the Oscar bait movies are similar to action movies, only instead of watching the spectacle of CGI explosions one watches the spectacle of an actor emoting all over the place. It's rooted in "feeling" and not reason - it's why I can't stand a lot of modern stagings of Shakespeare where the actors drown the lines out by emoting all over them.
(DIR) Post #AdVUeDkshR853gmbtQ by leyonhjelm@breastmilk.club
2024-01-04T15:54:11.277884Z
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@DaddyO To me the worst way to do Shakespeare is pretentiously. The crowds his plays were written for were of all classes - and most people regardless of class weren’t into that shit in their entertainment. @restful
(DIR) Post #AdVUm4obp0TheHGxoe by DaddyO@noagendasocial.com
2024-01-04T15:55:36Z
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@leyonhjelm My favorite staging of "Taming of the Shrew" set it in 1950s America, with Petruchio being a Texas oil tycoon. Hearing Shakespeare with a Texan drawl was somehow perfect.@restful
(DIR) Post #AdVV0hFBk24It4fz1s by leyonhjelm@breastmilk.club
2024-01-04T15:58:15.017768Z
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@DaddyO How to cast shakespeare:At least one greasy slimy manAt least one man who can’t get over himselfAt least one man who is crippled by loveAt least one man who just wants to get his dick wetAt least one man who will exist only to dieOne and only one total retardAt least one woman you would never marry but can handle bawdy banterAt least one woman who doesn’t mind getting her tits outAt least one woman you’d like to have children with but has a lovely wit.These can overlap as needed. No fake british accents allowed.@restful
(DIR) Post #AdVV8Rs6mMPNWmZqKm by leyonhjelm@breastmilk.club
2024-01-04T15:59:39.055803Z
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@DaddyO Oh you also need a mom. There’s always a mom or nurse. Unless it’s one of his histories, in which case it’s optional@restful
(DIR) Post #AdVVBGLu43d4fZr5vs by DaddyO@noagendasocial.com
2024-01-04T16:00:09Z
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@leyonhjelm @restful An a priest who thinks the solution to the problem is to lie and pretend you're dead.
(DIR) Post #AdVVKuMGh1F5LscpWa by leyonhjelm@breastmilk.club
2024-01-04T16:01:54.183821Z
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@DaddyO That too, always a priest. But also can be substituted with a monk. Especially if he likes drink and mischief.@restful
(DIR) Post #AdVnQTByPHfy0hbz8K by restful@noagendasocial.com
2024-01-04T19:19:34Z
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@leyonhjelm @DaddyO My favorite Shakespeare is Jarman's version of The Tempest but I have a soft spot for Jarman. I try to see every film adaption I come across. I don't think it fits in to the casting mentioned. There are so many bad adaptions. I actually like Wheedon's Much Ado About Nothing. Why is it when a stage actor comes to the screen they are still so well liked? Stewart in STNG, Malcovich in Dangerous Liasons. They act like the actors in 40s-60s movies.
(DIR) Post #AdVnQU3rAwmGhop17Y by DaddyO@noagendasocial.com
2024-01-04T19:24:35Z
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@restful @leyonhjelm Have you ever seen John Barton's "Playing Shakespeare" series? I thought it was fascinating.There aren't a lot of film versions of Shakespeare that I really like. I did think that the Burton/Taylor Shrew was good. I find most of Branagh's directing distracting in his various efforts. I really liked Olivier's Othello, even if it was a film of a stage version. Haven't seen the Jarman Tempest, or really any film version of the Tempest.
(DIR) Post #AdVyNspniBHeALD4qm by restful@noagendasocial.com
2024-01-04T21:27:22Z
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@DaddyO @leyonhjelm No, I'll have to look that up. The cover is enticing. I like the Burton/Taylor Shrew. It's of it's time. Olivier is good in anything, even playing a Nazi in a cage in a popcorn movie. I like his Othello and Hamlet. There's nothing wrong with basically filming a stage play imo. If anything it's more authentic. The best filmed versions of Death of a Salesman I've seen Hoffman/Malcovich was basically that. It's different from watching a live production but it works.