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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Dec 10, 2018 20:17:06 GMT
THAT WAS GREAT. Kirk must have been wearing his lifts
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Post by telegonus on Dec 11, 2018 9:00:41 GMT
The Band And The Beautiful and Kirk's self-produced The List Of Adrian Messenger are my two favorite "fun" Kirk Douglas pictures. I don't mean to imply that they're comedies but that they both have a lot of "light" ironic scenes, and they tend to elicit mixed feelings in the minds of the audience.
Mixed feelings seem to be a Kirk Douglas trademark of sorts. He's seldom played a 100% good or bad character. His movies play to extremes, with a blending of the good and the bad, often leaving the viewer in a kind of moral or emotional limbo. Spartacus is one such, with its charming upper class men (literally) and the rough slaves. Detective Story, a movie I don't like, is all over the place, with its tormented, self-loathing protagonist.
Lust For Life, which is all bout art, as the other film is all about crime, features Kirk Douglas as a tormented artist. There's so much torment in KD's films. He seems to play men ill at ease in society and yet passionate and full of life all the same. Lust For Life could easily have been the title of Kirk's autobiography if he hadn't already appeared in a movie with that title. Lonely Are The Brave is another good one for Kirk, in which he plays a man out of time in the modern American West of the mid-20th century.
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Post by rizdek on Dec 12, 2018 20:55:34 GMT
So what is your favorite Kirk Douglas movie? Mine is Spartacus Final Countdown
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Post by Isapop on Dec 12, 2018 23:01:44 GMT
Put me down for Spartacus.
Are you familiar with this encounter he had with John Wayne?
At the 1957 premier of Vincente Minnelli’s “Lust for Life,” Wayne upbraided star Kirk Douglas for playing the part of Vincent van Gogh like a “weak queer.” “How can you play a part like that? There’s so few of us left. We got to play strong, tough characters,” said Wayne. “It’s all make-believe, John,” a dumbfounded Douglas replied. “It isn’t real. You’re not really John Wayne, you know.” www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/john-waynes-lost-legacy/
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