A text only post, and about history, afield from fauna and flora, sort of...and grim, so dear readers, a caution to read on...
I'll put the search strings in bold, these are the beginning of a quote, and the link(s), the ulr(s), which are highlighted too, will be the quote(s) end(s)...
I bought a $62 dollar brush for Maya, my dog, and when she holds still, it really works well...she's shedding like crazy and has that double Husky coat, though she's mixed Shepard and Husky...bought a $124 dollar harness too!...she pulls right out of the $64 dollar tactical harness...$124 is ruffwear...I have another ruffwear, both have the double straps...I'd thought the one I had didn't fit, but fiddled with it, and realized it's just right...it's a medium...sometimes I just get mind locked or something...for years I've been grumbling to myself about the plastic coffee cup covers, the white ones with the flap with the three or four little ridges...I've always been trying to bend the flap back...McDonalds' flaps fold back into a little hole and stay open...I'd thought the white ones should do that too...which of course they don't, and I'd twist them off, or get them to stay somehow, and then usually dribble coffee down myself on the first sips...opening too open!...so, so, yesterday, I happened to notice there is writing on the caps...put my glasses up on my forehead, and read the writing...the flap is made to remain down, and the weight of the coffee pouring from the tilted cup pushes past it into one's mouth!...hmmph...I...I can be very dumb...
I've watched a whole bunch of movies since last post...some on youtube, some current...a current one was Deadpool..."Deadpool!, DavidDavid?!"...in my defense, I had listened to a conversation about Deadpool among teenagers, and was curious as to what the fascination was!...as it happened, seated beside me in the theater were two female teenagers on one side, and a dating couple on the other...the whole crowd it seemed with their plush seats in recliner position...I had to sit up straight...seemed a bit much to watch such flat on my back!...seemed embarrassing in fact, and I thought to leave, but stuck it out, taken aback at the laughter at the subtext humor!...kids shouldn't know that much that young!...I didn't anyway!...
Deadpool is more DC/Marvel comic book universe stuff, stuff which I've been gathering for that post about the battles between the old Greek gods and goddesses...for sometime...and after the movie, I looked about the web for background on what I watched...and found a curios youtube...Boba Fett and Deadpool in a rap contest...I have no ear for spoken words...never could follow the lyrics in rock and roll songs...and rap is completely beyond...I have much admiration for those who can hear song lyrics, and sing them as well!...this selective 'deafness' of mine has always been a barrier to learning a foreign language!...anyway, watching the rap clip, I got to remembering Boba Fett...myself, like millions of other Star Wars fans, was immediately taken with his character....he's a bounty hunter, and his first scene is with a group of bounty hunters enlisted by Darth Vader...there is a lot about Boba Fett on the web, and the consensus seems to be that his immediate popularity had to do with the respect Darth Vader gives him...Vader expressed disdain for everyone...that, that and his helmet...it is just the coolest Helmet ever...well, not quite...thinking of Fett's Helmet, I got to studying Helmets...even thought to go to the LA Museum to see if they had one, one in particular, an old Greek helmet...the Getty museum has one...and I learned that in truth the most popular helmet ever, is the old Greek Corinthian Helmet...this is the helmet Athena wears...one can get such a helmet...reproductions of all sorts are out there...
in my youtube searches, I was happening on clips from Band of Brothers...I'd never seen it, but one character was running about shouting HiHo Silver, and another, Lieutenant Spiers, reminded me of Boba Fett somehow, so I bought the dvds...what takes me from one notion to another could be a study!...there's a scene where Sherman tanks come to rescue, tearing through the hedgerows, and they look, with the machine gunner standing, riding behind the turret, just like the Revell models I built as a kid... that, that, and they made me think: 'tanks are an evolutionary step from helmets'...which is neither here nor there, but I studied out tanks, watched a lot of midnight movie tank clips! (news today has it that the North Koreans have weapon that can turn tanks into 'boiling pumpkins')
watched helmet clips too...and learned the helmet resting on top of Athena's head is just how Greek warriors wore their's when not in combat, just marching along and such...
sometimes I find old midnight movies from some other search, or just random browsing, but last night I doggedly tried to find an old Cary Grant movie I saw once on cable, when I had cable!...Only Angels Have Wings...short clips from it on youtube...1938 or so...I thought it was earlier...and in the thumbnail column while looking, I was seeing really old silent films...got to thinking, and put Metropolis in the search box...I've never really seen this famous film, but on youtube is a recently restored full length version...I watched the first half...maybe sometime I'll watch it all...it's a marvel of restoration...and, and, it's the origin of Star Wars...the father/son plot I mean, and the helmet/head of C-3PO too!...how odd...
C-3PO
Daniels initially did not agree to be cast as C-3PO but changed his mind after reading C-3PO's part in the script and seeing a concept painting by Ralph McQuarrie,[32] who based his early design largely on the Maschinenmensch from the celebrated Fritz Lang film Metropolis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-3PO
Boba Fett's Helmet
Boba watched in horror as his father was killed. Once the battle left the arena, Boba made his way into the cleared arena and took his father's helmet, pressing it against his head while swearing vengeance against Mace Windu.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Boba_Fett
:)
DavidDavid
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Two Midnight Movies
A text only post, and about history, afield from fauna and flora, sort of...and grim, so dear readers, a caution to read on...
I'll put the search strings in bold, these are the beginning of a quote, and the link(s), the ulr(s), which are highlighted too, will be the quote(s) end(s)...
Bogart Beat The Devil
It is a parody of Huston's The Maltese Falcon (1941) and films of the same genre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_the_Devil_(film)
I thought to watch a Bogart movie, and on youtube found this one, Beat the Devil movie...awhile back, I watched 20 Million Miles to Earth, and my favorite parts, being grown up, were the scenes of the fishing village in Sicily of the 1950s...don't know but I've become fond of Mediterranean fishing villages, as it was the fishing village that was the star in Beat the Devil too!...
Beat the Devil Salerno
There is an ancient legend, still recounted by tour guides in Salerno and Amalfi, that it was to Ravello, with its scenic view of the Mediterranean and the dramatic Amalfi coastline, that Satan transported Jesus during His second temptation to show the beauty of the world's kingdoms. (Luke 4: 5-8)[citation needed]
The 1953 film Beat the Devil, directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, and Gina Lollobrigida in her English language debut, was shot in Ravello.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravello
Villa Cimbrone is a historic building in Ravello, on the Amalfi coast of southern Italy. Dating from at least the 11th century AD, it is famous for its scenic belvedere, the Terrazzo dell'lnfinito (the Terrace of Infinity).
... ... ...
Right at the edge of the crag there was a terrace commanding an enchanting view; it was surrounded by horrible marble statues which, however, from afar, had a sort of appeal.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Cimbrone
I had the same thought when I saw Bogart on the Terrace...'those are really lousy statues!'...a far away dreamy place that attracts the rich and famous...hereabout, for a couple bucks bus ticket, one can go to Laguna, our kind of 'wanna be Italy' community...
Beat the Devil is a spoof, a parody, and it has some sardonic views about how the world works, and my sub conscious must have been digesting this as I got this compelling need to go watch the current movie:
Hail, Ceasar!
It's a spoof too!...and a too long sardonic view about how Hollywood worked in the fifties, and maybe now...I went to the 7pm showing in a multiplex...three other people showed up...I don't know how movie houses are going to keep going!...almost went to sleep...movie house seats nowadays are plush!...briefly got up and left, but gave it another try...best actor in the movie was the singing cowboy...and I've seen that gag where the raggedy drunken cowboy tries to embrace the moon's reflection in the watering trough somewhere before...this while the song is being sung...
and the house on the rocky beach...is that a real place?...brb....no luck...all the reviews refer to it as the 'Malibu beach house', or mansion/palace...it's a neat house...keep an eye out to see if it is real!
:)
DavidDavid
I'll put the search strings in bold, these are the beginning of a quote, and the link(s), the ulr(s), which are highlighted too, will be the quote(s) end(s)...
Bogart Beat The Devil
It is a parody of Huston's The Maltese Falcon (1941) and films of the same genre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_the_Devil_(film)
I thought to watch a Bogart movie, and on youtube found this one, Beat the Devil movie...awhile back, I watched 20 Million Miles to Earth, and my favorite parts, being grown up, were the scenes of the fishing village in Sicily of the 1950s...don't know but I've become fond of Mediterranean fishing villages, as it was the fishing village that was the star in Beat the Devil too!...
Beat the Devil Salerno
There is an ancient legend, still recounted by tour guides in Salerno and Amalfi, that it was to Ravello, with its scenic view of the Mediterranean and the dramatic Amalfi coastline, that Satan transported Jesus during His second temptation to show the beauty of the world's kingdoms. (Luke 4: 5-8)[citation needed]
The 1953 film Beat the Devil, directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, and Gina Lollobrigida in her English language debut, was shot in Ravello.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravello
Villa Cimbrone is a historic building in Ravello, on the Amalfi coast of southern Italy. Dating from at least the 11th century AD, it is famous for its scenic belvedere, the Terrazzo dell'lnfinito (the Terrace of Infinity).
... ... ...
Right at the edge of the crag there was a terrace commanding an enchanting view; it was surrounded by horrible marble statues which, however, from afar, had a sort of appeal.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Cimbrone
I had the same thought when I saw Bogart on the Terrace...'those are really lousy statues!'...a far away dreamy place that attracts the rich and famous...hereabout, for a couple bucks bus ticket, one can go to Laguna, our kind of 'wanna be Italy' community...
Beat the Devil is a spoof, a parody, and it has some sardonic views about how the world works, and my sub conscious must have been digesting this as I got this compelling need to go watch the current movie:
Hail, Ceasar!
It's a spoof too!...and a too long sardonic view about how Hollywood worked in the fifties, and maybe now...I went to the 7pm showing in a multiplex...three other people showed up...I don't know how movie houses are going to keep going!...almost went to sleep...movie house seats nowadays are plush!...briefly got up and left, but gave it another try...best actor in the movie was the singing cowboy...and I've seen that gag where the raggedy drunken cowboy tries to embrace the moon's reflection in the watering trough somewhere before...this while the song is being sung...
and the house on the rocky beach...is that a real place?...brb....no luck...all the reviews refer to it as the 'Malibu beach house', or mansion/palace...it's a neat house...keep an eye out to see if it is real!
:)
DavidDavid
Monday, February 8, 2016
Four Midnight Movies
A text only post, and about history, afield from fauna and flora, sort of...and grim, so dear readers, a caution to read on...
I'll put the search strings in bold, these are the beginning of a quote, and the link(s), the ulr(s), which are highlighted too, will be the quote(s) end(s)...
Suspicion ending
Ken Mogg was the first Hitchcock scholar to suggest this possibility, and it is hard to disprove, even when the scripts at UCLA show no trace of any such ending ever being put on paper. Moreover, in 'The Alfred Hitchcock Story' Mogg cites three strong pieces of evidence that Hitchcock was preparing audiences for just such a conclusion. 1) When Johnnie and Lina meet in a railway coach in the first scene, he is traveling first-class with a third-class ticket and doesn’t have enough cash to pay the stern conductor the difference, so he brashly asks Lina for help and settles for a postage stamp she has in her purse. As the conductor leaves, outraged at having to accept a stamp as 'legal tender', Johnnie fires a parting shot - 'Write to your mother' – which certainly seems to allude to the last scene of the Ur-Suspicion: Johnnie mailing the incriminating letter to Lina’s mother.
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~muffin/suspicion_c..html
An 'advanced' Hitchcock discussion group, for articulate film academics, professional scholars, filmmakers, etc., exists. Here's the URL: http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/hitchen2/
How often in literature class we would go over forshadowings!...apparently, Hitchcock movies are full of them...myself, I'm not real keen on being a detective watching detective movies...I like to be surprised, not having figured out who dunnit, or how the movie will end...but the ending of Suspicion movie, on youtube, was like wth!...all of a sudden Cary Grant owns up to being suicidal to escape his indebtedness, which explains away some of his suspicious actions, and he's going to reform from his gambling ways, and going into debt, make amends and such...'not likely!' I'd say...Joan Fontaine is shy, a social recluse, and Grant the opposite...yet they meet and marry, Fontaine totally smitten...these kinds of romances never work!...as they ride off into the sunset, after Fontaine is nearly thrown over what looks to be the cliffs of Big Sur, but no, actually pulled back into the open sports car after the passenger door opens on a swinging wild turn by Grant, I expect down the road it will be more of the same...shy folk, we've all been there!...good movie, I haven't spoiled it by telling the ending, no one knows what the ending is!...much scholarly discussion!...Fontaine won the academy award...1941...and watching her is why one stays watching!
Spellbound movie 1945 youtube
Ingrid Bergman isn't shy, but she isn't dating either...wrapped up as it were in her studies and work as a psychiatrist...but it's love at first sight with Gregory Peck, who she quickly discovers isn't who he says he is, he has amnesia...and he may be a killer on the run, and Bergman runs off with him, using her psych skills to try to jog his memory, and innocence...Hitchcock has taken the suspicious relationship from Suspicion movie, and re dressed it...don't know but that's the trick in North by Northwest movie too...(Grant and Eve Marie Saint)...Bergman sticks with her guy, and it works out...though a weak ending...Dali's bent wheel a revolver?...really?...in the throws of his amnesia, Peck bristles when Bergman's questions are too pointed...a habit I have in response to prying manipulative questions!...a normal response in psychoanalysis, the story explains...whole story is like an illustration of an intro to psychology...Bergman carries the film...(she was psychology student, German, and would pester the heck out of me!..:)
Purgatory movie western youtube
I just watched a lecture on youtube about Jason and the Argonauts that concluded that the story is archetypal...heroes gather for a quest and adventure...Penn university...and I can see that in this film, which I've seen before...famous gunslingers have all gathered in a magic twilight zone town to refrain from gun slinging, and swearing, and such, for ten years, at the end of which a stagecoach comes along and takes them to Heaven...if they fail, an old Indian, who spends his time sitting in front of an iron gate of a graveyard, comes for them, and escorts them to a fiery canyon...Hell...the movie has the power of the sermon in Moby Dick!...(which come to think of it is another Argonaut crew)...if one is evil to being beyond redemption, the Indian slings the corpse (all the bad guys meet their just ends...the gunslingers are good 'bad' guys!') over a wobegone horse and tips them over into the canyon, where they all scream a lot...some wonderful horse riding in the beginning...over the top western ware...way too much on Black Jack...oh...it's a curio that the Kid discovers the Nature of the town from having seen the residents in his dime novels...the bad guys learn it when the residents blow holes in them...and the residents, well, they're a bit like Jack Sparrow's crew (another Argonaut crew!)...grumpy, but tolerant and obediant to the circumstance they can't do much about, and which leaves little doubt!...
Jason and the Argonauts movie youtube 1997
I've seen the 1963 movie many times...I saw it in the theater when it came out!...a favorite...but I watched one I hadn't seen on youtube made in 1997...the costumes and sets look to be authentic reproductions, though I think the ancient Greeks were more into painting everything bright colors...there's a lot of attention to detail, like in the hairdos, jewelry and such...Dennis Hopper is awful, but all the other actors do very well I think...Fleece were really used to pan gold, trapping gold flecks in streams, hence the notion of golden...and Colchis was where a lot of gold mining took place...the most complete version of the Argonaut story comes from a Librarian at Alexandria, like 300 BC...and there are fragments elsewhere, and many different versions in the retelling...it is just the best story ever...
:)
DavidDavid
I'll put the search strings in bold, these are the beginning of a quote, and the link(s), the ulr(s), which are highlighted too, will be the quote(s) end(s)...
Suspicion ending
Ken Mogg was the first Hitchcock scholar to suggest this possibility, and it is hard to disprove, even when the scripts at UCLA show no trace of any such ending ever being put on paper. Moreover, in 'The Alfred Hitchcock Story' Mogg cites three strong pieces of evidence that Hitchcock was preparing audiences for just such a conclusion. 1) When Johnnie and Lina meet in a railway coach in the first scene, he is traveling first-class with a third-class ticket and doesn’t have enough cash to pay the stern conductor the difference, so he brashly asks Lina for help and settles for a postage stamp she has in her purse. As the conductor leaves, outraged at having to accept a stamp as 'legal tender', Johnnie fires a parting shot - 'Write to your mother' – which certainly seems to allude to the last scene of the Ur-Suspicion: Johnnie mailing the incriminating letter to Lina’s mother.
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~muffin/suspicion_c..html
An 'advanced' Hitchcock discussion group, for articulate film academics, professional scholars, filmmakers, etc., exists. Here's the URL: http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/hitchen2/
How often in literature class we would go over forshadowings!...apparently, Hitchcock movies are full of them...myself, I'm not real keen on being a detective watching detective movies...I like to be surprised, not having figured out who dunnit, or how the movie will end...but the ending of Suspicion movie, on youtube, was like wth!...all of a sudden Cary Grant owns up to being suicidal to escape his indebtedness, which explains away some of his suspicious actions, and he's going to reform from his gambling ways, and going into debt, make amends and such...'not likely!' I'd say...Joan Fontaine is shy, a social recluse, and Grant the opposite...yet they meet and marry, Fontaine totally smitten...these kinds of romances never work!...as they ride off into the sunset, after Fontaine is nearly thrown over what looks to be the cliffs of Big Sur, but no, actually pulled back into the open sports car after the passenger door opens on a swinging wild turn by Grant, I expect down the road it will be more of the same...shy folk, we've all been there!...good movie, I haven't spoiled it by telling the ending, no one knows what the ending is!...much scholarly discussion!...Fontaine won the academy award...1941...and watching her is why one stays watching!
Spellbound movie 1945 youtube
Ingrid Bergman isn't shy, but she isn't dating either...wrapped up as it were in her studies and work as a psychiatrist...but it's love at first sight with Gregory Peck, who she quickly discovers isn't who he says he is, he has amnesia...and he may be a killer on the run, and Bergman runs off with him, using her psych skills to try to jog his memory, and innocence...Hitchcock has taken the suspicious relationship from Suspicion movie, and re dressed it...don't know but that's the trick in North by Northwest movie too...(Grant and Eve Marie Saint)...Bergman sticks with her guy, and it works out...though a weak ending...Dali's bent wheel a revolver?...really?...in the throws of his amnesia, Peck bristles when Bergman's questions are too pointed...a habit I have in response to prying manipulative questions!...a normal response in psychoanalysis, the story explains...whole story is like an illustration of an intro to psychology...Bergman carries the film...(she was psychology student, German, and would pester the heck out of me!..:)
Purgatory movie western youtube
I just watched a lecture on youtube about Jason and the Argonauts that concluded that the story is archetypal...heroes gather for a quest and adventure...Penn university...and I can see that in this film, which I've seen before...famous gunslingers have all gathered in a magic twilight zone town to refrain from gun slinging, and swearing, and such, for ten years, at the end of which a stagecoach comes along and takes them to Heaven...if they fail, an old Indian, who spends his time sitting in front of an iron gate of a graveyard, comes for them, and escorts them to a fiery canyon...Hell...the movie has the power of the sermon in Moby Dick!...(which come to think of it is another Argonaut crew)...if one is evil to being beyond redemption, the Indian slings the corpse (all the bad guys meet their just ends...the gunslingers are good 'bad' guys!') over a wobegone horse and tips them over into the canyon, where they all scream a lot...some wonderful horse riding in the beginning...over the top western ware...way too much on Black Jack...oh...it's a curio that the Kid discovers the Nature of the town from having seen the residents in his dime novels...the bad guys learn it when the residents blow holes in them...and the residents, well, they're a bit like Jack Sparrow's crew (another Argonaut crew!)...grumpy, but tolerant and obediant to the circumstance they can't do much about, and which leaves little doubt!...
Jason and the Argonauts movie youtube 1997
I've seen the 1963 movie many times...I saw it in the theater when it came out!...a favorite...but I watched one I hadn't seen on youtube made in 1997...the costumes and sets look to be authentic reproductions, though I think the ancient Greeks were more into painting everything bright colors...there's a lot of attention to detail, like in the hairdos, jewelry and such...Dennis Hopper is awful, but all the other actors do very well I think...Fleece were really used to pan gold, trapping gold flecks in streams, hence the notion of golden...and Colchis was where a lot of gold mining took place...the most complete version of the Argonaut story comes from a Librarian at Alexandria, like 300 BC...and there are fragments elsewhere, and many different versions in the retelling...it is just the best story ever...
:)
DavidDavid
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