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They Shoulda Been Contenders!

That is so true. Movies with a lot of intricate dialogue are likely to lose so much in the translation that the chance of them being mega-hits is small. So the whizbang movies keep getting made because the subtleties of any particular language are unimportant. My Japanese friends know that Hollywood movies are usually goofy eye candy, they just don’t expect much more from Hollywood these days.

» Posted By whatsthatsound On September 22, 2009 @ 8:39 pm

I was commenting from the perspective of Swanson representing Hollywood, and what it could, potentially, “do” for Holden. It was just one fantasy built on another. Holden knew the Salome movie idea was crap, but he fed Swanson’s illusion because it kept him in his comfortable surroundings. Their whole relationship was based on lies, and that seemed a little to me like your comments above about current Hollywood’s “intimacy issues”.

» Posted By whatsthatsound On September 22, 2009 @ 8:35 pm

Wow! So we’ve come full circle! Because what you’re describing is basically the same dynamic of the relationship between Swanson and Holden in Sunset Boulevard!
Or not!
Turning into Ken Burns is contagious, it seems.

» Posted By whatsthatsound On September 22, 2009 @ 7:27 pm

Not recently, but just recalling it, I’m thinking I can see what you’re saying. But I really loved it and “Manhattan” when I first saw them.

» Posted By whatsthatsound On September 22, 2009 @ 6:53 pm

And off to the rental store I go!

As for artwork, the posters for “King Kong” and “Metropolis” are fantastic. And all of those old monster movies like Dracula and The Wolfman had great posters. But “Metropolis” (the poster, movie too I guess) is in a class by itself.

» Posted By whatsthatsound On September 22, 2009 @ 6:27 pm

“Capitalism – A Love Story” is one I can’t WAIT to see!

» Posted By whatsthatsound On September 22, 2009 @ 5:56 pm

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» Posted By whatsthatsound On September 22, 2009 @ 5:56 pm

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» Posted By whatsthatsound On September 22, 2009 @ 5:55 pm

Hi KQ. Yes, “Double Indemnity”! My brother prefers it to Sunset Boulevard. I haven’t seen “Witness for the Prosecution” but have heard lots of good things about it.

Thanks for the great comments. It is fun to talk about movies!

» Posted By whatsthatsound On September 22, 2009 @ 5:54 pm

Thanks for the welcome and the comments, Adlib! Good to be here. I’m with you, about Woody. He is very inventive, but he somehow seems to keep repeating himself in spite of that, so the earlier movies far outshine the later ones.

» Posted By whatsthatsound On September 22, 2009 @ 5:52 pm

Thanks for your comments, V-Babe! I consider Cabaret to be a phenomenal movie. The first time I saw the Hitler Youth boy singing, “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” ( and the way it goes on to enthrall the whole Octoberfest crowd ), it chilled me as much as any movie scene I’d ever seen. I’d put it up for Best Picture in any number of years, but not the same one that gave us The Godfather.

» Posted By whatsthatsound On September 22, 2009 @ 4:13 am

De nada, Q! Seven’s my lucky number!

» Posted By whatsthatsound On September 22, 2009 @ 3:44 am

Thanks, Kalima! It’s nice to be here!

» Posted By whatsthatsound On September 22, 2009 @ 2:26 am