Who did he chose?
I adore Grace Kelly but I never saw the end of this movie. So i would love to no who Clark Gable's character ends up with, Ava or Grace.
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He treated her like sh it during that affair, I read somewhere. I came here to bash this movie, even though I understand what society was like during this time. I didn't enjoy it at all. Gable was over the hill, and Gardner and Kelly were, BLAH! Thank god I live now, where there is much more variety as equally or even more so degrading to women as some of it may be.
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not quite sure you know what you are talking about !! keep to your shallow movies you so prefer from your own era ...research also helps avoidance of looking a fool ...kiramischka !!
shareIt's sad that you are attacking my intelligence over a statement I think I made almost two years ago. I stand by my original statement completely. This movie is so bad, if I could wipe my a$$ with celluloid, I would choose this movie for my first swipe]. This movie is a victim of the era it was made in. This was a throwaway movie, plain and simple. If not for the Icons in it, it wouldn't be remembered.
Some classics I love, like: On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, Pinky, Imitation of Life, Brigadoon, Now Voyager, Citizen Kane, Death Takes A Holiday, Sayonara, the original Cape Fear. However, this movie is not true classic, but a work of ego, and nothing will ever change that.
I won't even get into the racial implications of this mess of a film. Everything I said about it and the actors involved is true. This is actually one of the worse back lot remakes ever attempted by a major studio.
kiramischka, obviously, you disliked the film, but it wasn't a back lot remake. It was filmed on location in Africa
shareActually, most of the jungle footage -- the early scene with the trapped cat that escapes, then most of the shots of them sneaking up on the gorillas later -- was in fact shot on sound stages at MGM's British studios. (A few interiors were also filmed in Britain.) Since most of the film was indeed, as you say, filmed on location in various parts of central Africa, these studio sets look particularly phony -- fake foliage, bad lighting, mismatched topography -- not to mention the actors' voices echoing off the studio walls.
As to the original thread topic, he was much better off with Ava.
And in my opinion, kiriamischka's views are pretty harsh, apart from the fact that I disagree with her assessment of the film. Compared to most films of that era, the two women in this one were pretty independent, in their different ways.
Oh boy, another stick up the ass who enjoys talking out of that very ass. It's just too bad that changing times had to create so many people self-righteous windbags like you who are so "thankful for the times you live in" due to the fact that you can't understand anything that differs from it, which makes you hypocritically feel that you're in a place to arrogantly dismiss it all and peg yourself as being of higher standing. If you hate the past so much, you shouldn't be watching ANY movies from that era, don't you think, crybaby? Get over yourself, you are NOTHING special for being another successfully brainwashed product of PC indoctrination, trained to take offense anything you're not used to in the name of oddly enough, "tolerance".
Some great enlightened times these are, yeah.
Oh, I notice you also didn't give a single supporting explanation in the first place for your "sexism" accusation (other than some snide comments about the "horribly repressive" old days). How typical. For a modern day feminist, all it takes is a mere "gut feeling" that sexism/misogyny has occurred order for it to be deemed as having occurred. Problem is you're all too insanely self-obsessed, paranoid, and stifled with one-sided perception in order for your gut feelings to be trusted.
Three things: Get a life, get some exercise, and read a history book. Oh, and as an aside, look in a mirror.
The past is called such for a reason. I am actually astounded by your creativity. Someone with such a skill- to be able to sum up my entire being based on some half assed post I made about a movie that no one remembers should be quite useful to society, shouldn't they?
"I won't even get into the racial implications of this mess of a film."
And yet you like Sayonara? Talk about a movie being a victim of an era it was made in.
I will be the first to say that Sayonara is a victim of its era, but not for the same reason as this useless fluff. At least the makers of that film were trying to be progressive...
share"Thank god I live now, where there is much more variety"
Four out of five movies is about comic book characters. The fifth is an action movie sequel full of CGI. Thank God for the variety.