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Post by manfromplanetx on Feb 16, 2019 20:31:44 GMT
Walls a topical issue, a building obsession for some .. Do you have any memorable dividing, seemingly impenetrable, privacy, security walls or fences that feature in a classic film. Intolerance (1916) , The ancient "Babylonian" segment from the story is set in (539 BC), depicting the conflict between Prince Belshazzar of Babylon and Cyrus the Great of Persia and the eventual fall of Babylon. A feature of the story is the impressive life-size set, especially the Great Wall of Babylon , at 300 feet high it was the first such exterior set ever built in Hollywood. 
It Happened One Night (1934) Ellie Andrews: That, I suppose, makes everything quite all right? Peter Warne: Oh this? Well, I like privacy when I retire. Yes, I'm very delicate in that respect. Prying eyes annoy me. Behold the walls of Jericho!  |
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Post by mattgarth on Feb 16, 2019 20:44:32 GMT
The Berlin Wall in THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD
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Post by teleadm on Feb 16, 2019 20:56:59 GMT
I couldn't find a pic but:  James Cagney and the Berlin Wall in Billy Wilder's One Two Three 1961 |
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Post by bravomailer on Feb 16, 2019 21:03:49 GMT
Bridge of Spies - in another scene, a movie marquee displays the aforementioned "One, Two, Three".  |
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Post by bravomailer on Feb 16, 2019 21:06:28 GMT
Kingdom of Heaven  |
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Post by bravomailer on Feb 16, 2019 21:10:37 GMT
The English Patient  |
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Post by bravomailer on Feb 16, 2019 21:14:56 GMT
The Cooler had walls  |
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Post by bravomailer on Feb 16, 2019 21:16:52 GMT
The Godfather  |
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Feb 16, 2019 21:25:45 GMT
...have ears  |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Feb 16, 2019 21:49:12 GMT
...have ears Certainly the case here in the excellent Czechoslovakian film, Ucho , The Ear (1970). Ludvik, a Communist official has fallen out with the party. When he arrives back home after spending the evening at a function he is suspicious, once inside he discovers that his house is bugged and that 'The Ear' of the government has been listening in on him...  |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Feb 16, 2019 22:02:47 GMT
The seemiingly impenetrable sheer stone walls of the Edo Castle fortress no obstacle to the "Band Of Assassins" Shinobi no mono (1962)  The Vikings (1958)   |
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Post by morrisondylanfan on Feb 16, 2019 22:03:31 GMT
LOTR:The Two Towers:  Atomic Blonde:  |
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Post by mikef6 on Feb 16, 2019 22:18:31 GMT
Mur (Wall) / Simone Bitton (2004). Documentary. Bitton, a Jewish film maker from France, also considers herself a Palestinian. The subject of her documentary is the security fence that Israel is putting up (contemporary to the film) to close off its borders. Bitton interviews the General in charge of the construction. The man is abrupt and borders on rude as he answers her questions, but is the only person in the film who says outright that the wall will stop suicide bombers and therefore is worth whatever other hardship it causes. Most of the rest of her time is spent with both Palestinian and Jewish residents who live along the construction route. Local residents of all persuasions who reside under its influence seem to be against it. The film ends with a long sequence showing Palestinians climbing over and through on their daily commute to work on the Israeli side.  
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Post by teleadm on Feb 16, 2019 22:43:50 GMT
 It's in the title, no hornblowers there, 1948 |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Feb 16, 2019 23:49:41 GMT
Desperate , over-the-wall... The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1965)  |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Feb 16, 2019 23:55:54 GMT
Feeling fenced in … a beautifully composed image, an iconic still from Les Quatre Cents Coups , The 400 Blows (1959)  |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Feb 17, 2019 0:05:46 GMT
Another trapped by the chain mesh fence... Ore ni sawaru to abunaize , Black Tight Killers (1966) Yasuharu Hasebe  |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Feb 17, 2019 0:07:17 GMT
The Moon and Sixpence (1942) Misanthropic and obsessive artist Charles Strickland's (George Sanders) final canvas are the walls of his Tahitian home, seen only at the film's finale in Technicolor inserts, before being destroyed after his death by his dutiful widow.   The Raven (1935) The walls close in - quite literally - on Irene Ware and Lester Matthews in Bela Lugosi's functional basement shrine to Poe. 
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Post by manfromplanetx on Feb 17, 2019 0:19:21 GMT
AKA as the Rabbit Proof Fence, The State Barrier Fence of Western Australia is a pest-exclusion fence constructed in remote inhospitable country between 1901 and 1907. The ambitious project aimed to control the movement of rabbits and other agricultural pests from the Eastern States, blocking entry to the vast Western Australian pastoral areas. When completed in 1907, the 1,139-mile (1,833 km) No. 1 Fence was the longest unbroken fence in the world... The Rabbit Proof Fence (2002) The fence an essential navigational guide for the young runaways...  |
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Post by bravomailer on Feb 17, 2019 1:40:52 GMT
A scene that sold a million motorcycles  |
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