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Post by sgev1977 on Nov 16, 2018 0:02:19 GMT
This should be enough:
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Post by mllemass on Nov 16, 2018 0:37:17 GMT
Good! He said the right thing in that apology.
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 7, 2020 18:01:48 GMT
I don't think we should judge movies without watching them but the actors look extremely different to the characters they are supposedly playing. Both are talented and sometimes is exciting to see actors being cast against type but it seems the producers didn't make any effort to help them to fit the "type"! Hammer looks very young and too traditionally hot and James seems modern, fun and dynamic. They are like the cool kids! It's kind of bizarre!
Maybe went for some original new angle of the story!
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Post by queenzod on Aug 7, 2020 22:59:04 GMT
This, with the exception of KST, has disaster written all over it, lol! She’s way too pretty, he’s like a lump with no undercurrents, and it just looks all wrong. I’ll be watching, tho, just for the laughs. Hitchcock’s version is one of my favorite movies of all time! Anyway, here’s a funny thing: www.youtube.com/embed/Tr59DKnFKx0
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 8, 2020 0:38:53 GMT
That sketch is wonderful and says the truth! I love the film and how not to fall in love with the mysterious tormented but charming Olivier but in real life someone like his character is a big no! I mean the guy kills his wife and tries to justify it saying she was just evil and deserved it but don't worry now he found his true real love and would never hurt his second wife in a rage attack! I always thought that the nameless protagonist should just run away!!!
It's like Sherlock, doesn't? So sympathetic and beloved in fiction but in real life he would be very questionable!
I am actually wondering how they would present the killing in the new version. It's not exactly very politically correct nowadays to justify the killing of a woman by a man saying she just deserved it! Although, of course, the book was written by a woman! It's similar to Jane Eyre: also written by a woman and also justifying the awful treatment of a first wife by the male protagonist with a "she deserved it". Lol.
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 8, 2020 1:18:51 GMT
OT a few years ago I watched a movie directed by William Wyler and starred by Laurence Olivier called Carrie that apparently was a huge failure at the time because it was considered very depressing but it's wonderful and I would like to see BC in a role like that! Olivier actually gives a very subtle and cinematographic performance in it. There is nothing theatrical there! He plays a mature man with adult kids who just abandons everything: his wife, his kids, his work and, in general, a respected life for an attractive young woman. She isn't evil or anything. The film is actually very fair in her portrait although the actress is not very good. Still it's surprising that she isn't presented as a femme fatal at all. She is nice, decent and genuinely in love with him but she is young and quickly and naturally gets tired of him and just decides to follow her own ambitions without understanding that he doesn't have anything anymore. He gave everything to be with her. I understand he kills himself in the original version but that ending was censored so it ends in a very open suggestive way.
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Post by queenzod on Aug 8, 2020 1:44:02 GMT
I love Carrie! I love depressing movies about cruelty & loss. I’m just sick that way, lol. Olivier was perfection, and I don’t mind his hammy style. I just adore a great actor who can steal scenes and chew scenery and be so blatant about it. There’s a charm and a power to doing that and BC has that in spades, too. His fellow actors basically just stop and stare in admiration at the cheek. 😂
Peter Ustinov on Johnny Carson many years ago told a hilarious story about working on Spartacus and described Olivier just hamming it up and stealing a scene. Apparently Olivier was on a horse and after Ustinov’s supplicant line kneeling at his feet Olivier had to say, “where are the slaves?” or something like that. Ustinov said Olivier refused to come out with the line. He just sat up straighter on the horse, looked around slowly, imperiously, counted to a million, and then uttered the line, just to eat up screen time.. Meanwhile, Ustinov had to keep groveling away on the ground until Larry decided to come out with his line. I was on the floor laughing. I’m probably not remembering it very well, but that’s okay. Ustinov was a great story teller, very funny.
The actress In Carrie is Jennifer Jones, not a terrific actress, but she was married to David O. Selznick and got a lot of roles that were beyond her abilities. Amazing cheekbones. Still, I thought she was very good in Madame Bovary and The Song of Bernadette, another couple of my fav movies. I expect many of those old movies, made under the Romantic system of old Hollywood, to be a bit corny and overacted. I find it part of the charm. And the costumes! 😍
I don’t see Carrie on tv very much anymore. It’s a delicate little film, though, and definitely a bummer. 😃👍🏼
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