What is it with Westerns? I just find them boring, and completely inaccurate historically.
(Though I have to admit I do like the ones with Clint Eastwood. :scratch:)
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What is it with Westerns? I just find them boring, and completely inaccurate historically.
(Though I have to admit I do like the ones with Clint Eastwood. :scratch:)
Most films based on real events are inaccurate historically and most Westerns aren't based on real events anyway. I mean they're primarily entertainment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
These days we have documentary programmes that are historically inaccurate, now that's a real problem.
Can't say westerns appeal to me generally, but I've always thought 'The Big Country', took some beating and I have a DVD copy of 'High Noon' and the virtually unheard of 'The Last Hunt' with Robert Taylor (well worth a watch).
guess there is lots of reasons; there is the black v white and no middle colour of life out on the edge of the new civilization and wilds and such. a simpler way of dealing with an issue as the law was either non existant or simple. 'he drew first' sorta thing.
i guess it reminds us of our childhood too when westerns were the main staple; the saturday matinee if you like. you get wide open spaces with grand scenery;; man and horse crossing plain and fighting off the indians etc..
all great fun
That's another western I like. Strange really, as there is a lot of waiting around before there is any action.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Little Big Man, 1970..
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Director Rene Clair's 'I Married a Witch' from 1942. Reg A Bluray from Criterion.
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Veronica Lake and Fredric March did not like one another, due in part to some disparaging remarks March made about her. During filming, Lake delighted in playing pranks on March. In one scene in which the two were photographed from only the waist up, Lake stuck her foot in March's groin. In another incident, Lake hid a 40-pound weight under her costume when March had to carry her in his arms. After that incident, March nicknamed the film "I Married a Bitch".
Charles Chaplin was a fan of director René Clair. After seeing this film he told Clair, "There was no need to see the credits, in two minutes I had known it was your work."
Sol Saks, creator of Bewitched (1964), stated in an interview for Bewitched (1999) that he drew inspiration both from this film and Bell Book and Candle (1958) in creating the iconic TV series. Columbia Pictures owned the rights to both of those movies. Since it also owned the television studio that was to produce "Bewitched," Saks didn't worry about getting sued.
The Sinking of the Laconia, 2011.
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The Sinking of the Laconia is a two-part television film, first aired on 6 and 7 January 2011 on BBC Two, about the Laconia incident; the sinking of the British ocean liner RMS Laconia during World War II by a German U-boat, which then, together with three other U-boats and an Italian submarine, rescued the passengers but was in turn attacked by an American bomber.
some nonsense for saturday morning... Nuns on the Run, 1990..
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