Gary
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Post by Gary on Mar 2, 2018 2:18:52 GMT
I read that David Lynch emulated a scene from Erich Von Stroheim's 1929 silent movie 'Queen Kelly' with Gloria Swanson in his movie 'Inland Empire'. I was already a fan of Swanson, who also could have been a professional singer and pianist, and she probably did that often. She sings some songs in her movies. I took 'Queen Kelly' out of the library and quite liked it. I thought Swanson in her middle years was quite beautiful, as many others did, so it is easy for me to enjoy this film. Although 'Queen Kelly' has a strange plot, a prince falling for a convent girl with both subsequently reviled and punished by the Queen and Kelly ending up being a madame in a brothel, I thought the film was fun to look at with it's elaborate scenery. And the scene that inspired Lynch, a candlelit Kelly praying, I find moving. I'm still not sure I will ever buy this, but I will probably check it out of a library again.
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