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Post by bravomailer on Apr 9, 2020 5:58:55 GMT
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Post by morrisondylanfan on Apr 9, 2020 17:03:36 GMT
Hi there l ondon777...and to all old Classic friends and new. It has been a torrid time down here in OZ ,drought, fire, flood and now the virus ! and to top it off a relocate with no service, At last back online and some time to catch up with all the good folk here... The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) " Robin Hood: Give way, little man.
Little John: Only to a better man than meself.
Robin Hood: He stands before you..." Great to see you here Man Hope you and family are doing OK during this torrid time,on Planet X.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 9, 2020 17:20:48 GMT
The Fall (2006) written and directed by Tarsem (Singh) begins when a "silents" stunt man falls from a railway bridge and is seriously injured. Your mention of this one brought The Stunt Man to mind, in which a bridge stunt gone awry sets the main story in motion, and is recreated at the conclusion of Richard Rush's wry, sly and eccentrically poetic rumination about the natures of reality, illusion and the human tendencies to buy into both.
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Post by london777 on Apr 9, 2020 19:31:44 GMT
We have already touched on the unreliability of rope bridges. Those who rely on one over a century old and already known to be fraying deserve what they get. Or do they? That's what under-employed Friar Juniper spends five years investigating, only to get roasted for his trouble. Thornton Wilder's tedious novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey has been filmed three times under the same name. (1929) dir: Charles Brabin (1944) dir: Rowland V. Lee (2004) dir: Mary McGuckian and starring Gabriel Byrne, Robert De Niro, and Harvey Keitel. Those three should have stuck to casinos and heists. I watched this film. It is only two hours long but seemed like twenty. The final words of the novel does illustrate a metaphorical meaning of "bridge" to which I alluded in my OP: "There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."
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Post by london777 on Apr 9, 2020 20:00:17 GMT
The climax of Selma (2014) dir: Ava DuVernay also takes place near a bridge which is both actual and metaphorical. The Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights marchers are violently stopped by Governor Wallace's forces after their crossing of the Edmund Pettus Bridge outside Selma. They have metaphorically entered "new territory". (Two weeks later they succeeded on their second attempt). Note that this poster shows Lee Daniels as the director, whom DuVernay replaced. Daniels was proposing to use Hugh Jackman, Liam Neeson, Robert De Niro, Cedric the Entertainer, and Lenny Kravitz. DuVernay changed all those casting decisions, retaining only David Oyelowo as MLK.
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Post by london777 on Apr 9, 2020 20:43:58 GMT
Ken Annakin had a modest career in the UK, then went to the US and was entrusted with some big budget movies, with patchy success, before his career petered out. But he was capable of great work when not interfered with. His favorite effort, and rightly so, was Across the Bridge (1957) based on a Grahame Greene story. It is also my favorite Rod Steiger movie, and Steiger was very happy with the results. Again the bridge (which plays a big part in the story) is actual and metaphorical, the frontier between two worlds. In this case Mexico (played by Spain) and the USA (played by the UK, with some glaring prop goofs). Bitch Dolores also has a key role, normally a turn-off for me, but not here. Improbably, the same story was (very) loosely remade as Double Take (2001) dir: George Gallo with an all-black cast, a broad buddy-buddy comedy in the style of Martin Lawrence. Grahame Greene meets Big Momma. No idea if a bridge features in it, though.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Apr 10, 2020 0:42:29 GMT
Le Pont du Nord , The North Bridge (1981) Jacques Rivette . An unconventional and intriguing story a mystery thriller without a plot ? a modern-day Don Quixote/Sancho Panza tale. With a sense of magic realism the filming is entirely outdoors portraying an evocative scenic backdrop. Crisscrossing the streets of Paris the city is transformed into a giant board game, playing are the two female protagonists, Marie and Baptiste, real life mother and daughter Bulle Ogier & Pascale Ogier. Their quest is driven by an obscure map it is a cryptic maze with mysterious traps and puzzling clues, many Bridges importantly feature throughout , symbolic and physical the films climax is upon Le Pont du Nord crossing the Canal de l'Ourcq ...
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Post by london777 on Apr 10, 2020 22:51:07 GMT
In Excalibur (1981) dir: John Boorman, Arthur first meets Lancelot when the latter is challenging all comers to fight him if they wish to cross the bridge he is defending. Arthur accepts the challenge but comes off worse.
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Post by spiderwort on Apr 10, 2020 23:07:31 GMT
London, I couldn't help myself with this. Hope you don't mind. I think it's a good choice for this difficult time.
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Post by london777 on Apr 10, 2020 23:31:07 GMT
Six Bridges to Cross (1955) dir: Joseph Pevney combines the story of the Brink's robbery in Boston, the largest robbery in US history (until the '1980s), with a moral tug-of-war for the soul of the gang leader, Jerry Florea (played by Tony Curtis). George Nader plays the cop who tries to reform him. Sal Mineo makes his screen debut as Jerry Florea as a teenager. Away from the sword-and-sandal and transvestite comedy stuff, Curtis could really act, and he is at his best as a big city artful dodger as he proved two years later in "Sweet Smell of Success". He does well here. I cannot remember where the bridges come in (sixty years since I watched it).
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 10, 2020 23:33:12 GMT
London, I couldn't help myself with this. Hope you don't mind. I think it's a good choice for this difficult time. A few years back, I caught an excellent documentary aired on PBS called The Harmony Game, a meticulously sourced examination of the conception and recording of that landmark album in all its aspects, from the artistic and thematic to the technical and professional, and including the personal comments of Paul and Art, the producer, other musicians and engineers. I found it fascinating. It's online from only one source, if you're interested and have a free hour-and-a-quarter. ok.ru/video/1851459637I post the link rather than the video itself so that the benefit of a larger display can be had.
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Post by london777 on Apr 11, 2020 0:33:22 GMT
Bridge to Terabithia (2007) dir: Gabor Csupo is a better than average Disney film sticking fairly closely to Katherine Paterson's novel. Screenplay is by her son, David Paterson, and Jeff Stockwell. The book was written to help children cope with the death of a loved one, and the film does the same with the minimum of sentimentality. It is the only Disney feature film in which a major juvenile character dies. The bridge replaces the fatal rope swing by which the children entered their fantasy land of Terebithia (nod to Narnia in the name).
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Post by london777 on Apr 11, 2020 0:37:13 GMT
London, I couldn't help myself with this. Hope you don't mind. I think it's a good choice for this difficult time. OK, so long as there are no songs about meat tenderizers.
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Post by london777 on Apr 11, 2020 20:30:38 GMT
Muerte de un Ciclista [Death of a Cyclist](1955) dir: Juan Antonio Bardem, ends when the "femme fatale", María José, played by the beautiful Italian actress Lucia Bose (who died a few days ago), swerves her car on a wet road to avoid a cyclist and plunges off a bridge. It leaves her looking at the world from a new angle. I have just watched this movie. It is excellent.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 11, 2020 21:44:19 GMT
A few years back, I caught an excellent documentary aired on PBS called The Harmony Game, a meticulously sourced examination of the conception and recording of that landmark album in all its aspects, from the artistic and thematic to the technical and professional, and including the personal comments of Paul and Art, the producer, other musicians and engineers. I found it fascinating. It's online from only one source, if you're interested and have a free hour-and-a-quarter. ok.ru/video/1851459637I post the link rather than the video itself so that the benefit of a larger display can be had.
Oh, thank you, doghouse! I can't wait to see this. I love this song (and S & G). It will be a joy to revisit the beauty of their voices and experience their creative process. Thanks again, so much.
My pleasure. I hope it'll soon be yours. I'll be eager to compare impressions if you're so inclined.
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Post by teleadm on Apr 13, 2020 7:34:46 GMT
Stand by Me 1986, the railway bridge they had to cross:
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Post by Stammerhead on Apr 13, 2020 18:22:26 GMT
Bad Timing is a pretty sordid tale of bad love between Theresa Russell and Art Garfunkel but there’s this scene with Russell and Denholm Elliott on a bridge...
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Post by bravomailer on Apr 14, 2020 1:04:28 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Apr 16, 2020 18:36:43 GMT
Another from Apocalypse Now
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Post by Stammerhead on Apr 18, 2020 13:15:33 GMT
John Wayne after jumping Tower Bridge...
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