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Post by kevin on Jun 21, 2017 8:08:23 GMT
Don't know someone already posted them, but 'Snowpiercer' and 'Train to Busan' are two recent examples.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Jun 21, 2017 8:09:59 GMT
And don't forget Scatman Crothers... " Damn Hippies!" " Hello Chicago Hello!" OMG! How did I forget Scatman? " Damn Hippies" is one of my favorite lines. Scatman Crothers was involved in another film with a memorable train sequence. In Bronco Billy (Clint Eastwood, 1980), Crothers' character expresses befuddlement when his friend and boss, the eponymous Wild West show character played by Eastwood, says that in order to keep their traveling act afloat, he will rob a train—you know, like an Old West scoundrel or Butch and Sundance in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969). But Bronco Billy is set in modern times, which means that robbing a train while on horseback is not exactly the most plausible of tasks.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 21, 2017 11:06:51 GMT
I have not read back the additions to this thread so this may be a repeat BUT Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Has that fantastic sequence aboard the circus train. It even explains how Boy-Indy got that scar on his chin and acquired his signature hat and whip. (I do miss seeing River Phoenix !)
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 21, 2017 17:06:44 GMT
joekiddlouischama RE: Some Like it Hot. I can't help wondering if 2017 thinking isn't being read into this 1959 film just a tad. Especially as to the station steam reference you highlighted in your note. The sudden burst of steam makes Sugar jump and leads up to the jiggle line. FUNNY stuff. HERE's the train platform quote I think you are referring to: Jerry: Will you look at that! Look how she moves! It's like Jell-O on springs. Must have some sort of built-in motor or something. I tell you, it's a whole different sex!
You may be perfectly correct in your analysis but then again, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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Post by london777 on Jun 21, 2017 19:34:04 GMT
Trains figured in two movies I watched this week.
A Very Long Engagement (2004) dir: Jean-Pierre Jeunet has a number of scenes of French trains of the WWI and early 1920s period.
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) dir: Ana Lily Amirpour has a brief flash of a train in the background which is insignificant to everyone in the world except me. I had not read anything about this film before viewing but I knew it was in Farsi, and nearly all the cast have Iranian names, so I assumed it was made in Iran. In which case some of the erotic content in the early scenes surprised me, but it was only when a train with US markings thundered past that I realized it was an American movie.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jun 22, 2017 4:03:40 GMT
Back to the Future Part III
Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade
Enemy at the Gates
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jun 22, 2017 21:56:51 GMT
The Great Train Robbery (1978) (with Connery/Sutherland) Broken Arrow (1996) Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
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Post by gunshotwound on Jun 23, 2017 1:10:26 GMT
Breakheart Pass (1976) most of the movie takes place on a train
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970) the movie begins with Lee Majors & Barbara Hershey (married couple) and Yaphet Kotto arriving in a southern town on the same train and it ends with the same characters leaving town on the same train.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) the movie begins with James Stewart and Vera Miles arriving in town by train and it ends with Stewart & Miles leaving town by train.
Curse of the Demon (1957) bad things happen with a train
The Harvey Girls (1946) there are couple of scenes on a train plus Judy Garland singing "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe".
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Jun 23, 2017 6:39:06 GMT
Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959) really uses a passenger train to suggest—and release—homosexual anxiety. Just as daringly, Jack Lemmon's character desperately tries to prevent himself from receiving an erection from the touch of Marilyn Monroe's character on the berth. Along with Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder may well have constituted the most daring and subversive of Hollywood directors, and in Some Like It Hot, he proved decades ahead of his time. In that film, he uses the intimacy of a passenger train to toy with notions of intimacy. Great comments about these two provocative directors, joe. And I really meant to say "the most daring and subversive of Golden Age A-list Hollywood directors," so I have edited my post. There were some other daring and subversive directors from that era, such as Nicholas Ray and Samuel Fuller, but they tended to not receive the big budgets and prestigious projects. Hitchcock and Wilder, conversely, enjoyed their pick of the litter in terms of stars and scripts, yet they still challenged a lot of conventions and social taboos in the midst of very accessible entertainment.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Jun 23, 2017 7:22:53 GMT
joekiddlouischama RE: Some Like it Hot. I can't help wondering if 2017 thinking isn't being read into this 1959 film just a tad. Especially as to the station steam reference you highlighted in your note. The sudden burst of steam makes Sugar jump and leads up to the jiggle line. FUNNY stuff. HERE's the train platform quote I think you are referring to: Jerry: Will you look at that! Look how she moves! It's like Jell-O on springs. Must have some sort of built-in motor or something. I tell you, it's a whole different sex!
You may be perfectly correct in your analysis but then again, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. I was not referring to the steam or the platform; I agree that those images and lines just make for good laughs. But here is what, I would argue, Some Like It Hot unquestionably suggests through its narrative, imagery, and dialogue: Sexual attraction and even marriage are not contingent upon being a member of the opposite sex or appearing to be a member of the opposite sex. The film clearly toys with the notion of gay marriage some forty-five years before the concept would penetrate American social consciousness and almost fifty-five years before it would become a legal practice across the country. As the Tony Curtis character tries to explain to the Jack Lemmon figure after the latter announces his engagement to an older man, "There are laws, customs, it just isn't done!" Or as the Curtis character also puts it, "Why would a man marry another man?" Then, later on, after the Curtis character gets behind the idea, the now-skeptical Lemmon character parrots some of those same lines, pointing out, "There are laws, customs." When, in the film's final scene and shot, the Lemmon character believes that throwing off his drag and revealing his true sex will finally put the kibosh on the whole crazy scheme, his older male suitor memorably suggests that he still wants to follow through on the engagement —which is funny yet incredibly daring and shocking. Marriage is not necessarily about romance or sexual attraction. (And therefore, why can a man not marry another man, irrespective of sexual orientation?) Sure, this idea is hardly novel, but it still flies in the face of conventional wisdom and romantic mythology (to say nothing of classical Hollywood cinema's primary imperative), even now. As Some Like It Hot suggests, marriage can principally constitute a matter of economic self-interest ("security," as the Lemmon character puts it)—and also, perhaps, sheer companionship. But even now, most people seem loathe to acknowledge, or simply do not understand, that marriage often amounts to an economic transaction of sorts. Gender is a malleable construct that is not contingent upon the sex that one was born with. Not only do the Lemmon and Curtis characters spend most of the movie dressed in drag, altering others' perceptions of them and their perceptions of others, but the Lemmon figure, in particular, starts to relate to his adopted feminine identity, however farcical it may be. In order to try to avoid the aforementioned erection, the Lemmon character has to tell himself (echoing what the Curtis figure had told him), "I'm a girl, I'm a girl, I'm a girl." Shortly thereafter, on the beach in Florida, when Sugar (Marilyn Monroe) tells him, "One thing I envy about you is you're so flat-chested; clothes hang better on you than they do on me," the Lemmon character initially appears genuinely hurt and speechless, as if he had instinctively absorbed his constructed female identity. In effect, he is now thinking like a woman and acting like a woman, as may also be the case later when he accepts Osgood's marriage proposal. Thus, after the Curtis character's prompting, the Lemmon figure now has to remind himself, "I'm a boy, I'm a boy." Given that we are in an age of gay marriage and self-selected gender options, some of these motifs may be more noticeable now than they would have been to audiences at the end of the 1950s. But as a writer and director, Billy Wilder was all about transgression and licentious temptation, and I believe that he knew exactly what he was doing in Some Like It Hot. Indeed, the film does not bother to disguise much of its intention; as I indicated, some of the dialogue, for instance, spells matters out pretty clearly in terms of laws, taboos, and subversion. But Wilder knew that because of the comical context (plus his own stature within the industry), he could make an iconoclastic film. After all, if people are laughing, they tend not to mind.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Jun 23, 2017 7:25:21 GMT
Breakheart Pass (1976) most of the movie takes place on a train
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970) the movie begins with Lee Majors & Barbara Hershey (married couple) and Yaphet Kotto arriving in a southern town on the same train and it ends with the same characters leaving town on the same train.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) the movie begins with James Stewart and Vera Miles arriving in town by train and it ends with Stewart & Miles leaving town by train.
Curse of the Demon (1957) bad things happen with a train
The Harvey Girls (1946) there are couple of scenes on a train plus Judy Garland singing "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe". Breakheart Pass is very atmospheric, and the framing device for Liberty Valence is indeed memorable.
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Post by outrider127 on Jun 23, 2017 18:13:49 GMT
The Narrow Margin(1952) with Charles McGraw
and the remake with Gene Hackman--Films are set almost entirely on Trains
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Jul 1, 2017 6:04:56 GMT
Chuk and Gek (1953), children's film from the former Soviet Union. Part of the film depicts the three main characters (young boys Chuk and Gek plus their mother) travelling by train. I watched it just now, it's a nice film to watch when I want to relax.
Another film which comes to my mind is It Happened to Jane (1959), one of my favourite Doris Day films, and I'm shocked it bombed at the box office.
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Post by Eλευθερί on Jul 3, 2017 0:39:00 GMT
Nicholas and Alexandra Biloxi Blues Europa The Incident Gandhi Risky Business
The Greatest Show on Earth Union Pacific The Good Earth
Transsiberian
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Post by Eλευθερί on Jul 3, 2017 0:40:37 GMT
Eurotrip (lol)
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Post by Eλευθερί on Jul 5, 2017 19:12:24 GMT
49th Parallel
definitely to be avoided: Terror Train - Jamie Lee Curtis & David Copperfield (as a magician) Night Train to Paris - Leslie Nielsen
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Post by Eλευθερί on Jul 5, 2017 21:32:06 GMT
Dressed to Kill - brief but very important scene on subway train
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Aug 9, 2017 0:19:41 GMT
The train scenes involving Richard Harris' "English Bob" in Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992) are quite rich in terms of nationalism and colonialism, race and class. And they are acted with real panache by Harris.
Incidentally, as I just noted in the Westerns forum, Unforgiven is showing in certain theaters tomorrow.
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Post by DigWeed on Aug 11, 2017 2:44:23 GMT
No mention yet of...?
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Aug 11, 2017 9:33:27 GMT
The introduction of Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) to James Bond (Daniel Craig) on a train in Casino Royale (2006) is one of my favourite scenes in my favourite Bond film.
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