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Post by mstreepsucks on Feb 2, 2021 22:07:15 GMT
Or do you actually like, a Song is Born?
Apparantly one review says...Okay so this is basically Sister Act meets Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs but much more racist and much more boring. In regard to the second one i mentioned.
I definately don't believe anything is racist about it, in any way. I havn't seen either version just of yet.
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Post by petrolino on Feb 2, 2021 22:14:07 GMT
It's outta sight. "Drum boo-gie, drum boo-gie ... come drum, boogie with me, hey!"
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Post by timshelboy on Feb 2, 2021 22:33:16 GMT
BALL OF FIRE HAS a wonderful premise ( A stripper called Sugarpuss O'Shea on the run from the mob hides out with 7 staid academics studying "slang") and has a dream cast. Could have done with being 15 minutes shorter but a bit more of Dana Andrews as the vengeful mobster would be welcome....7/10  and one for Dana fans....    I didn't think the remake was half as good 3/10 I didn't experience either as "racist".... should we now all rush out and topple statues of SZ "Cuddles" Sakall because he once "culturally appropriated" a dwarf?  |
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Post by politicidal on Feb 2, 2021 23:35:32 GMT
I've only seen parts of Ball of Fire.
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Post by movielover on Feb 2, 2021 23:49:28 GMT
I liked Ball of Fire. Cute, funny movie. Billy Wilder wrote the screenplay, and you can tell.
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Post by Dirty Santa PaulsLaugh on Feb 3, 2021 0:21:48 GMT
I liked Ball of Fire. Cute, funny movie. Billy Wilder wrote the screenplay, and you can tell. With Howard Hawks directing.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Feb 3, 2021 2:23:11 GMT
Going through a Barbara Stanwyck phase right now, so Ball of Fire is one of her films I will be watching soon.
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Post by marianne48 on Feb 3, 2021 4:12:44 GMT
Iḿ sure Iḿ in the minority here, but I prefer A Song is Born to Ball of Fire. Stanwyck seems kind of mean in the original film, while thereś that fun jam session in the later film.
When Stanwyck punched the actress playing the housekeeper in the film, she actually fractured her jaw in the process. So she really was pretty scary.
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Post by telegonus on Feb 3, 2021 12:45:43 GMT
I'm not keen on either film, which is maybe while I've never been able, in one sitting, get through either, though I've seen lengthy stretches of it and the other one, A Song Is Born. The premise of these films might have been hip in their day. I simply cannot truly enjoy them.
Two other films with Cooper from the same year (1941) of Ball Of Fire, Meet John Doe and Sergeant York, work better for me. Neither is a comedy or a musical, and both are quite serious, yet I like both at their core, appreciate what they're trying to do, to get across, to the Average American in 1941.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Feb 5, 2021 17:56:56 GMT
Perhaps it is unfair, but Stanwyck makes it look so effortless that Cooper appears to be especially straining in his role.
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Post by mstreepsucks on Feb 5, 2021 18:04:11 GMT
I'm not keen on either film, which is maybe while I've never been able, in one sitting, get through either, though I've seen lengthy stretches of it and the other one, A Song Is Born. The premise of these films might have been hip in their day. I simply cannot truly enjoy them. Two other films with Cooper from the same year (1941) of Ball Of Fire, Meet John Doe and Sergeant York, work better for me. Neither is a comedy or a musical, and both are quite serious, yet I like both at their core, appreciate what they're trying to do, to get across, to the Average American in 1941. O wait you're saying it is a musical. Ok then maybe i wouldn't like it.
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