What is special about films from 1930's....

What is special about films from 1930's.... Jan 18, 2021 8:53:24 GMT

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Post by Toasted Cheese on Jan 18, 2021 8:53:24 GMT

Jan 18, 2021 5:39:27 GMT dirtypillows said:

Jan 18, 2021 4:34:38 GMT Toasted Cheese said:

I have the books but haven’t read them. I have seen the Walt Disney cartoon umpteen times though. When I bought the books almost 2 decades ago from a used book store, there was a pushy condescending lady working there. She seemed judgemental of me that I wanted Alice and I think I was also after a nice collection of Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale stories with lovely illustrations. I had just seen the NZ Campion film An Angel At My Table - 91’ and there was a fairy tale book featured in that and I wanted one similar. The illustrations had a gauze page over each one in the film. She then was telling me to go for something like Treasure Island instead. How dare she undermine me. I did end up getting that too though as it was a nice looking book, but she was being a bag trolling me.

I also like The Bounty - 84, with Gibson and Hopkins.

What a cooz! That lady's attitude had absolutely no business in the workplace. If she caught me at the wrong time, I might have asked her if she could recommemd any good books about cannibalistic serial killers. What a twat.

I've never seen The Bounty - 84. Totally flew under my radar. And knowing now how Braveheart ends, I will never watch that movie. Ever.

Maybe some day I will watch "Dances with Wolves", though.

I reckon, yet I guess it was her business, so she took liberty to play the controlling matriarch. I find many women can get like that. I guess they have men issues, or struggle to live in their hormonally raging bitchy bodies at times. It is a junior illustrated edition of Treasure Island, but the pictures are beautiful, her pushy attitude wasn't. The fairy tale book I got has lovely full page illustrations in it too. The HCA one I have I think I got elsewhere, but has b&w drawings. Its nice to get inspired by something in a movie though.

In Crimes Of The Heart - 86', there is a lovely antique lamp on display in the house Spacek, Lange and Keaton live in. I managed to get one off ebay several years ago. It was an antique lamp and I didn't even make the connection at the time until the last time I saw the film. I just knew I was drawn to it and it was for pick up only in a suburb that was about 90mins drive away from where I live. Price greatly reduced too. Luckily for me I had friends that just happened to have moved there, so they picked it up for me. All providential and from one of my fav films from the 80's.

The Bounty story has always fascinated me. Once I had a dream that I was a part of it on a tropical island and I didn't want to leave it. It was so surreal, yet I felt a part of it too.