Tuesday, September 15, 2020

he liked this country and felt unpressed

 



One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,

That is, the madman...


~ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

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     Playing back-and-forth two romantic comedy films from the 1950s, Designing Woman and Indiscreet, led me to review other romantic films that were not comedies -- instead, straight-up Intense Love Stories, sometimes with a strange psychological twist...


       The French Lieutenant's Woman


       The Bridges of Madison County


     (Do they all have to have Meryl Streep in them?  Well -- no, but...they might...)



     Sometimes I go to You Tube to see what other people Comment about a movie...  someone Commented under a clip from The Bridges of Madison County:


~~  "There's always the attraction to what you can't have.  If they could stay together forever, they would have got bored and started to fight."


     (I was feeling like, "No!  No no nooooo!!"  LOL)


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     Old Movies:  

               To me, old movies are from Hollywood's Golden Age -- Online Knowledge Guys say that extends from "the end of the silent film era to the early 1960s."


     For "Old Movies," I think of


All About Eve -- Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, 1950

It Happened One Night -- Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, 1934

Casablanca -- Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, 1942...

     Imagine my surprise when I read a Comment on You Tube, typed in by some kid with a heartfelt attitude:  "Brokeback Mountain is my favorite old movie!"


(turning head slightly; palms up...)


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