Living Forever While Others Don't Movies

'The Hunger' with Catherine Denuve, David Bowie and Susan Sarandon...was good....a variation on the 'vampire genre'...way too over done these days.


Two of my favorite 'Twilight Zone' episodes dealt with this theme
(with BIG SPOILERS):


***One was about a man who was a professor of history at a university and about to marry his much 'older' colleague's daughter. His friend-colleague then starts to put some pieces of the puzzle together, confronts him and he admits to what he is and how he came to be immortal.

Actually...he is not immortal...just never grows old and, as he says: 'very lucky' not to have gotten hurt and the died over 'thousands' of years (?).
An old crone shows up at his home later after reading the wedding announcement and shoots him. She was his wife that he left...eccch...she got old...yet he did love her. She could not let him do this to another person and shoots him...then scurries away.
His friend (who lives across the street) runs over to find out what the shot was about and finds him aging rapidly...his daughter (the bride-to-be) comes running over as well to see a suit/shoes and dust where the head and hands would be...blowing away from a breeze through the window.

~Kevin McCarthy starred in this...really great actor ('Invasion of the Body Snatchers'...the original) who died this past year (2010)..RIP, Kevin.

***The other was about a screen actress who does an interview. at her elaborate home..but the journalist gets wise with some photos of an actress years earlier looking just liker her. Somewhere in there, he is introduced to the actress' mother who is treated with some disdain by her daughter. The 'mother' (pulling the reporter aside) explains that the actress is not her daughter, but rather her 'Mother'!! The reporter thinks she is a bit senile as she tells him "who knows how old she really is"....

When the reporter returns for another visit and confronts her, the actress laughs at any accusations and then drugs him. She then goes behind a large Egyptian-like statue and puts on an egytian head dress and gets a small box with a scarab beetle in it...places it on the guy's neck and then on her own....she feels great, he turns to bones...'Mom' cleans up the mess...

~The actress was Ann Blyth....the spoiled daughter in 'Mildred Pierce' with Joan Crawford



Man, both of these stories could have been Great movies...check them out if you have not already seen them...classics!

For TV Series, try New Amsterdam (2008).

It's about a Civil War soldier who saves the life of a Native American woman, but is mortally wounded in the process. She saves his life but at a cost: He will remain immortal until he finds "The One" and their souls are wed. Flash-forward several centuries later, and John Amsterdam is a homicide detective using his years of experience to solve murder cases, and still hoping to find his one true love to make himself mortal. Watch up until the next to last episode because it only lasted a single season (with a total of only 8 episodes), and I hated the rushed ending that they gave it in it's final episode without any closure.

Must-See 2011 Films:
Deathly Hallows: Part II
POTC: On Stranger Tides

1. "The Immortal" television series starring Christopher George.
2. "The Highlander" television series starring Adrian Paul.
3. "Forever" television series starring Ioan Gruffudd.
(Although it was never made completely clear (at least to me) whether his
character would just live a long time or "Forever.")