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March 26th, 2018.
My buddies and I were 9 and 10 years old when this came out. It stayed at our neighborhood theater all summer long and we went back to see it every weekend. We'd usually go and sit through at least two showings. We thought it was pretty cool how the kid who played Bobby Brady was in it. It was nice to have a character roughly our own age to identify with. After the movie, we would re-enact the story in the apartment building where a couple of us lived. I was always the fire-chief played by Steve McQueen. I haven't actually bought a copy, but every time it comes on, I watch it. It's a very nostalgic movie for me. Brings me right back to my pre-teen years.
I recall deliberately deciding NOT to see it because it took place on modern Earth.
This post was deleted because it was a little post, a silly post--greedy, barbarous and cruel, as you are.
Reading between the lines of your statement, it's easy to come to that conclusion. You stated that Jim Jones did not do something awful that you imply the maker of Apocalypse Now did. You made no qualifying statement to the effect that "Jim Jones was a horrible person, but at least..." You just basically defended Jim Jones and implied he was better than Coppola.
As I see it, you have two options: 1, don't watch American movies. 2, convince movie makers in your own country to make heroic themed movies about your own nations accomplishments. Complaining about an established tradition that goes back over a century now is just futile.
Wow... You're basically implying that you think Jim Jones, who was responsible for the deaths of nearly a thousand people, was a better person than Francis Ford Coppola.
As far as parallels, in each one we have a respected American leader who goes into the jungle and goes rogue, establishing his own kingdom far away from any authority, where he abused his power and commits atrocities and is worshiped as a god by his people. Willard also has a parallel in Congressman Leo Ryan, who went to Jonestown to investigate the reports of Jim Jones' cruelty and control over the people living there.
He would not have been a soldier if he was JW. The go to prison willingly rather than be drafted.
McQueen as Willard, Lee Marvin as Kurz. It would have been an entirely different movie, but it also would have been a great one.
It wasn't exactly 'quiet' but I quite enjoyed the Dwarf Jousting at Joffrey's wedding feast.
I guess you never watched an old western.
"And Alan Rickman has a brief appearance and one line at the funeral!"
Sorry, but I doubt that very much. Rickman would have been about 21 when this film was made and based in Britain, not New York. His first appearance was in a 1978 British TV version of Romeo & Juliet. He did not begin acting until the early 70s. Must have been a look-alike.
I was four years old in 1969. That was the year long-haired unwashed Hippies showed up in my city of Ottawa. Before that the teens and twenty-somethings looked more like the mod, Beatle era.
I remember my mother taking me downtown shopping one day that summer and being scared and disgusted by the throngs of dirty, messy looking hippies sprawling up and down the Sparks Street Mall. Every few feet one of them would beg my mother for change. There was a band playing loud psychedelic rock that I had never heard before and it was pretty scary. One of the hippies must have been tripping on LSD and he jumped in a fountain and started screaming and the cops took him away.
That was a frightening time for me as a small child. Even though I was only four, the memories are very vivid. My mother, from the Silent Generation was not happy with it either. Hippies seemed to be trying to destroy civilization. It seemed to me that the world was going crazy in those days.
Yes, but the thing is, they kind of "Disneyfied" the look of the makeup. A realistic depiction of Treacher Collins would not be appealing. The makeup is much softer and cuter, symmetrical and muppetlike than the real disorder.
In "Mask" the character suffered from a different condition, Craniodiaphyseal dysplasia. No effort was made to soften it or make it look cute. It was very realistic. I don't think today's audiences would support a movie with a realistic looking character suffering facial deformities. They need to have it look cute and cuddly like a muppet or they would not see the film.
An interesting fact is that the exterior of the El Paso train station was used as the Police Station.
They had to make him cute and lovable like a muppet so today's audiences would relate to him. If they showed the unpleasant truth of facial deformities, modern moviegoers would hate him and the movie would backfire.
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I actually thought that was a no-name Morgan Freeman lookalike they had hired. I did not know it was the real guy until I read the credits here. Encore did not list him as far as I remember.
Thanks very much, Ken! That is definitely the movie I was thinking of.
Color. I saw this movie on TV in the 1990s.
Except for this movie, that is...
Imagine the outcry if a heterosexual director and star made a movie about totally dysfunctional and out-of-control homosexuals with the one heterosexual couple in the film shown as happy and stable by contrast? What would that be called?