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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 6, 2018 15:23:44 GMT
OR to realize that what you are, and what you have are, after all, maybe not as bad as you thought they were. Seems like The Wizard Of OZ would qualify.  "Someplace where there isn't any trouble...do you suppose there is such a place, Toto?" "If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any farther than my own backyard." Because, "There's no place like home."
As much as I appreciate the wisdom of finding as much satisfaction as you can in what you have, I can't say the limiting nature of it as delivered by the film is a message to which I can fully subscribe. But it wouldn't be the first or the last movie in which someone came up with a notion they'd never before had after a bop on the noggin. |
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Post by neurosturgeon on Aug 6, 2018 22:11:53 GMT
I think a film that fits is LOST HORIZON (1937) because the characters all have a choice to make: To stay in Shanghai-La or return to so-called civilization.
Many of my my favorite films involve characters who are trying to change their life, such as THE RAZOR'S EDGE, THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM or THE CARDINAL. Service to others is important, but doing it because you want to do it beats out doing it because you feel in will get you in good with God is another.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 6, 2018 22:31:58 GMT
"If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any farther than my own backyard."
Gotta remember that Dorothy is a little girl when she says this^^^ and, not being Peter Pan, she probably grew up, moved to Hollywood to get away from the farm, and became a BIG MOVIE STAR.
It's a theory anyway … Doghouse6 
BTW the Good Witch's Birthday is August 7th … we need a cake with strawberries !
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 6, 2018 23:16:21 GMT
"If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any farther than my own backyard."
Gotta remember that Dorothy is a little girl when she says this^^^ and, not being Peter Pan, she probably grew up, moved to Hollywood to get away from the farm, and became a BIG MOVIE STAR.
It's a theory anyway … Doghouse6
BTW the Good Witch's Birthday is August 7th … we need a cake with strawberries ! Ah, but it was Glinda who confirmed, "That's all it is." Maybe in some sort of passive-aggressive way, she was happy to get rid of any competition for the collective celebrity adoration of Munchkinland; with Dorothy and The Wizard out of the picture, she's got the territory all to herself. But about that cake, I'm afraid those confounded mess boys put the kibosh on that. Will sand do? Got a whole tureen of that left. Now, if I can only get Felix to return my ladle. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 7, 2018 12:50:06 GMT
 Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up, she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school. Forty-three year old Peggy Sue Bodell (née Kelcher) is in an unsatisfying marriage to her high school sweetheart, Charlie Bodell, a marriage which includes money issues and infidelity. They got married when she got pregnant at age eighteen. He still dreams about the musical career he wanted that never materialized. She feels he blames her for that failure. They are on the verge of divorce. At a pivotal moment related to her high school life, Peggy Sue mysteriously gets transported back twenty-five years to her senior year of high school. Initially, she is most concerned about what has happened to her, not knowing if what she's experiencing is real or if perhaps she's dead. But after the initial shocks of revisiting her youth, Peggy Sue thinks that she can rewrite her past and make different decisions that will affect her future, one she hopes will be happier than what she experienced the first time around. But she also learns some things about why Charlie made the decisions he did.
Cage at a high point of cringeworthyness. (imo  ) 
IMDb link www.imdb.com/title/tt0091738/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt |
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Post by bravomailer on Aug 7, 2018 13:09:03 GMT
This guy tried. "A man has to be what he is, Joey. You can't break the mold. I tried it and it didn't work for me."  |
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Post by london777 on Aug 8, 2018 1:54:03 GMT
Man in the Dark (1953) dir: Lew Landers *** SPOILERS ***I have just discussed this movie in the "Circuses & Carnivals" thread but other aspects fit well here. Edmund O'Brien is arrested after a heist. He serves a year and is then apparently offered a chance to earn an amnesty if he successfully undergoes brain surgery to cut the supposedly malign bits out of his brain to become a model citizen. Information is increasingly being released about experiments performed on human beings in the USA in the 1930s which would have been more appropriate to Nazi death camps, but I cannot believe the present example is realistic. Or if so, that the O'Brien character would gamble on it. But he does, and suffers total amnesia as a result. All this would be a massive issue in a modern movie. if not the main theme, but here it is quickly glossed over as mere scene-setting for the real story. I think Audrey Totter must have undergone the same process, since she had hitherto played the bad girl or femme fatale in films but is here a moral guide leading O'Brien to a new and virtuous life. Are second chances as a result of lobotomy eligible, BAT? Sounds shaky ground to me! But I see in some countries the film was called The Man Who Lived Two Lives so I guess it qualifies.  
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Post by bravomailer on Aug 8, 2018 2:18:19 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Aug 8, 2018 17:32:52 GMT
 John Frankenheimer's Seconds 1966, with Rock Hudson, sometimes a renewal/second chance doesn't work out so well. |
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Post by spiderwort on Aug 8, 2018 21:53:25 GMT
A few of my favorites, in addition to some of those already mentioned: ON THE WATERFONT (1954)  CASABLANCA (1946)  EAST OF EDEN (1955)  THE BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ (1962)  |
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Aug 8, 2018 23:28:01 GMT
Mr. Destiny
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Post by london777 on Aug 15, 2018 20:57:49 GMT
Hundreds of millions of Christians (which category does not include me, by the way) might think the choice made in this movie is the most important ever made: The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) dir: Martin Scorsese I was really enjoying it until the guy played by Willem Dafoe made the wrong choice. I still think it is one of Scorsese's best, but it would have benefited from a "Hollywood Ending".  |
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