You remember the comic strip “Peanuts?” Sure you do.
Remember there were several strips over the years where kids were lined up to see a movie? I always wondered what movie they were going to see. I figured it was a theater showing old movies like “Citizen Kane.” Why “Citizen Kane?” Because many of the characters talked about having watched it a lot. And, there were numerous references to the movie, particularly to “Rosebud.”
Yeah, the kids in “Peanuts” really seemed to like “Citizen Kane.” Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Or is there?
So, now it’s your turn. Got something you’d like to share? Anything at all, nothing is off limits. It’s Wednesday Night Open Thread.
What’s on your mind?
Everything right with Pink Floyd……………………………
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkGbB0XtH1w&feature=youtu.be
All right, Basil.
Because I trust you, I’ll watch this.
But I’ll be DAMNed if I’ll sit here and let you bad-mouth Citizen Kane.
For won’t you, by extension, be bad-mouthing the United States of America?
Citizen Kane is great but no work is without sin.
A few quick notes
(you young kids like instant feedback these days, right?)
to the Narrator:
The two styles of fences?
They symbolize two levels of penetration into the inner sanctum.
The two two species of guard animals (monkeys, Bengal Tigers)?
They symbolize two levels of penetration into the inner sanctum.
See how that works?
Seperate zones.
.
Those are Venetian gondolas, not Viking boats, Mr. Sarcasm.
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Narrator: “The snow globe doesn’t break when it falls from the bed
(onto the very visible carpet)
“but when it falls from a much shorter distance
(from the very visible carpet — which is shown in excruciatingly close close-up)
“it shatters…”
Enough said.
.
He then ridicules rear-projection fakery that “fooled the people of the forties.”
As opposed to what other special effects that had been developed before that year?
.
“In Xanadu last week was held 1941’s biggest, strangest funeral”
reads the title card on the movie.
The narrator claims it mangles the English language.
I’d ask the narrator, “How?” I might derisively add, “In what way?”
Narrator: “1925? How does this news organization have modern, for the time, footage of this Congressional investigation. . . ?”
What the hell? We have movie footage of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, riding in an open carriage at Sarajevo shortly before their assassination, June 28, 1914.
Also see Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton movies from that exact year.
And, um, William Randoph Hearst’s.
There are also pretty good recordings of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, which happened in 1932, as well as the trial in 1935, where you can hear audio of Bruno Hauptmann’s every word.
,
1:47:
Narrator: “The McCarthy-looking motherf*cker is being amplified by nothing, because he has no microphone” —
— the microphone would be out of frame, because he is being dramatically filmed from below.
I’ll grant him the fact that the speakers seem to have no wires attached. Because I’m fair.
But I stopped watching, there.
It took me longer to critique this video than to watch it.
Remember this Degenerate? (warning strong degeneracy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JlJB6o_6-E
Eh…no, as a matter of fact this particular degenerate I do not remember, and I’m happy to say I’m glad I don’t.
Chuck Essegian, one of two men to play in both a Rose Bowl and a World Series, was born August 9, 1931, in Boston.