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Post by yankee on Oct 14, 2019 19:02:32 GMT
"Tombstone" was on TV last night and I watched it for probably the 20th time.
Its a travesty that Val Kilmer was not even nominated for an Oscar.
One of my favourite scenes is when Doc Holiday (Kilmer) meets the infamous Johnny Ringo (Michael Biehn).
Its a rare (and intelligently written) western that shows two gunslingers trading insults in Latin.
Below is a rough translation of what they were saying, if you time it to the dialog and their actions it seems to make sense:
Doc Holiday (Val Kilmer): "I'm Batman"
Johnny Ringo (Michael Biehn): "I'm Corporal Hicks of the Colonial Marines"
Doc Holiday: "Yeah well I have Private Hudson in my corner." (actor Bill Paxton played Hudson in "Aliens" and Moran Earp, one of Doc Holiday's mates.)
Johnny Ringo: "Damn. Game over man...by the way your woman is hot, I'd like to show her my pistol."
Doc Holiday: "Stay away from her you b!tch!"
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Post by profbooboo on Oct 14, 2019 21:52:58 GMT
The Artist. The scene where they redo the shot 4 times became they keep messing it up is so beautiful. It's sweet and funny and romantic but the last part where they look at each other and realising his feelings aren't purely platonic, George leaves. Heatbreaking.
The the dance at the end is so fun.
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Post by yankee on Oct 15, 2019 13:56:39 GMT
I love films about film or that have a film-within-a-film.  |
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Post by Delia on Oct 23, 2019 9:50:38 GMT
I loved The Artist from the moment I first saw it: a triumph.
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Post by Delia on Oct 23, 2019 9:55:30 GMT
One of my favourite scenes is in "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid" where they are trying to escape the ever closer posse chasing them. They come to a cliff above the river and decide to jump off - Sundance says "No, I can't -- I can't swim!" Butch says "Hell, it don't matter - the fall will probably kill you!!"
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Post by yankee on Oct 23, 2019 14:39:16 GMT
They don't make em like this anymore. Gotta love a resourceful Southern Belle. One good-looking rich bloke dumps you and another one is just the other side of the room. She t'werent alone for 2 minutes.  |
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Post by Delia on Oct 23, 2019 19:04:21 GMT
That's rather odd: after I wrote my post about Butch Cassidy etc, I thought about it and decided on another scene from a film. I picked Gone With the Wind, but my choice is the scene where Rhett whisks Scarlett across the dance floor, laughing at her, because she has been sulking about having to wear black as a newly widowed young woman.
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Post by yankee on Oct 23, 2019 19:11:02 GMT
Its interesting that in most of the scenes where Scarlett is with Rhett she is acting the spoilt debutante Antebellum Belle.
But her character grows and becomes strong and self-sufficient when she is left to survive a rather feral lifestyle in her war ravaged homeland.
Yet when she later reunites with him she reverts back and is once again playing the vulnerable, shattered, helpless woman who needs a man, until he leaves her again and then she becomes strong and independent once more. Perhaps it was all about keeping up appearances, how she felt a woman of her station should properly act towards a man.
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Anymore to come?
