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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 26, 2021 21:34:38 GMT
By the way, I just checked Kidman and Bardem ages because in the movie they said she was 7 years older than him and seeing the real people photos it’s kind of clear because he had the face of a little boy! Bardem has much stronger features. It’s difficult to know the difference of ages between the actors because, well, her surgeries but yeah, she is older than him but only for 2 years.
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Post by mllemass on Dec 26, 2021 22:11:26 GMT
Lucille Ball was huge in our house because my mother loved her. My mother didn’t speak English, so she preferred the slapstick comedies like I Love Lucy and all the other sitcoms Lucille Ball did later. You didn’t need to understand English to follow the zany plots! And we didn’t get a colour tv until I was 12 or 13, so everything was in black and white for us.
My mother also worked in a candy factory, so the I Love Lucy episode where Lucy and Ethel got jobs making chocolates was a favourite of hers.
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Post by mllemass on Dec 26, 2021 22:59:20 GMT
I decided to watch Don’t Look Up the other day. It was forgettable - in fact, I forgot to come here to talk about it! Jennifer Lawrence’s character was so irritating that I wanted to scream. She was supposed to be this intelligent astronomy student who discovers a comet that will destroy the entire planet, yet every time she has the opportunity to explain what is happening, she suddenly can’t express herself. Or she flies into a rage and is hauled away before she can say what she’s supposed to say.
I guess everyone else in the movie was ok. I know it’s a comedy/satire, but I’ve seen it done before and better. Even the old Twilight Zone did an episode in its first season, called The Third From The Sun, about us destroying our planet.
When the movie ended, I decided that I should have watched TPOTD for the 10th time, instead.
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Post by roverpup on Dec 26, 2021 23:09:48 GMT
I was 16 when my family finally got a colour TV. I remember I Love Lucy. It wasn't a favourite of mine - hockey was! Since we only got 3 TV channels there wasn't much choice as far as TV went (we didn't have cable until much later). We weren't allowed to watch TV during the week so any shows that were run on weekdays we had to only watch them during the summer months.
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Post by mllemass on Dec 26, 2021 23:46:38 GMT
I was 16 when my family finally got a colour TV. I remember I Love Lucy. It wasn't a favourite of mine - hockey was! Since we only got 3 TV channels there wasn't much choice as far as TV went (we didn't have cable until much later). We weren't allowed to watch TV during the week so any shows that were run on weekdays we had to only watch them during the summer months. I remember when we got our very first tv ever! I’m pretty sure we were the last of our relatives to get one. It was pretty exciting, though. I remember a house full of people over for the big event, and I remember that I was the same height as the tv. We had that black and white tv until someone thanked my father for a job he had done by giving us a “portable” colour tv! We put it in our basement rec room for me and my sister to finally be able to watch whatever we wanted - and in colour! But my father decided he wanted to watch colour tv upstairs, too, so he replaced the old black and white set. And while we were upgrading, my father finally agreed to get cable! Yay! Until then, we had to hope that the few local stations would show the popular shows everyone was talking about. When Happy Days first came on, I used to invent excuses to go to my friend’s house on Tuesdays (I think?) to “do homework” so that I wouldn’t miss it. I’m certain that we were the last people in our city to get cable. Those old TV sets were huge, heavy pieces of furniture, made of wood to match our other furniture. My father hated getting rid of that nice wood, so he repurposed them. He removed the actual tv parts and fitted shelves into the empty wooden cabinet. My mother has one in her kitchen, and we have one here in my basement, too. We have a small tv sitting on top of the wooden cabinet, and a bunch of components sitting on the shelves below.
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Post by queenzod on Dec 27, 2021 2:28:23 GMT
I don’t think Lucy was that much of a bitch in real life. She was GREAT friends with Buster Keaton, and he was not one to suffer fools gladly. He was about as corn pone and down to earth as you could get, so I don’t see him taking a shine to Lucy if she was that much of a jerk. I think this was one of those “woman is serious about her craft and so she must be a bitch,” kind of thing that men write. They don’t understand strong women or how to portray that outside of making them unpleasant.
Another woman that Buster liked very much was Garbo. They were on the same lot for years in the 30s and he had an enormous St. Bernard named Elmer (the first of many Elmers). Every lunch she would swing by his dressing room, pick up Elmer, and take him for a long walk in her isolationist, lonely way. Then she’d drop him off without saying a word and go back for more shooting. I have this image in my head of this beautiful, amazing woman wandering the back lots of MGM with a giant dog by her side.
Sorry for the aside, but I adore Buster and stories about the silent days and Old, Old Hollywood.
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 27, 2021 3:04:53 GMT
I love Buster Keaton, too! He was not just a great comedian but a great filmmaker! Chaplin was very intelligent but clearly more interested on stories than images. Keaton was the real thing. A true auteur!
I don’t know how Lucy was in real life but one of the very few things I read about this movie, is that the family agreed with their portraits and that Kidman in particular tried to involve them in the production. I remember that her daughter said that her mother was a very difficult woman in real life and that it didn’t bothered them how they portrayed her because it’s true.
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Post by gingerale on Dec 27, 2021 3:09:37 GMT
Hi! How is everyone? I've been offline the past few days busy with holiday/family gatherings, but I was able to relax and catch up with movies.
I watched Don't Look Up. While I don't think it's a disaster like critics are saying, I thought it was too mediocre (in terms of writing, acting, and editing) to be effective. There were some jokes I genuinely laughed at but ultimately it wasn't funny enough to justify the heavy-handed ending.
Another movie I watched was The French Dispatch. Again, I'm surprised by the low rating on RT/MC, it was actually quite lovely. I get the criticism that it's "too much" Wes Anderson, but that's why I enjoy watching his work after all. Jeffrey Wright deserves all the praise he's been getting. So effective in such a short time.
And I love Buster Keaton, omg!
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 27, 2021 3:13:19 GMT
I’m searching the quote and found this paragraph that make totally sense of why he chose Kidman for the role, www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/aaron-sorkin-nicole-kidman-lucille-ball-javier-bardem-being-the-ricardos-interview-1235045467/I let the second paragraph because that’s an issue with the movie. I mean the characters straightforwardly said those points as lines in the film. I guess that’s the difference between a writer and a filmmaker. Sorkin is 100% a writer and if he wants to say that Desi never could accept to be “second banana”, he would literally have a character telling another character that “Desi doesn’t want to be a second banana!” EDITED Here is the quote but yeah, it’s by Sarkin himself:
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 27, 2021 3:46:58 GMT
This made me laugh! deadline.com/2021/12/being-the-ricardos-javier-bardem-desi-arnaz-music-interview-1234900080/Most Latin American countries have a strong connection with Spain! You know, like the USA with the UK! There are obviously other nationalities AND native people but that’s also the case in the USA! The main difference is that as one teacher used to said, Latin America is the real “melting pot” in the continent (with its own conflicts and problems, obviously) The USA is just a group of ghettos. In the case of Cuba, most people descend directly from Spaniards and/or African slaves and it’s very obvious that Desi Arnaz’s ancestors were mostly if not all from Span so people criticizing Bardem casting should probably also criticizing when British actors play Americans!
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