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By that you mean no swearing or sex?
So right.
At thirteen when I first saw this, I knew intuitively that I was seeing a style of acting I had never seen. Although I didn’t have the words for this (naturalistic acting), it made quite an impression. Even then I understood completely what Phyllis was trying to do, and that the actress playing her was not playing to the audience but to her friend Mari. Honest moment indeed.
Because not flashy.
Academy, dey luuuuub da flash.
Not a chance.
Where would they put the big explosions and car chases?
No, but I wouldn’t have done it anyway.
When crazy people threaten your life I say tell them whatever nonsense they want to hear, especially if they won’t be in power long. By February 1943 most Germans knew the war was lost. Sophie hears the Americans will come in 8-10 weeks. That estimate was about 46 weeks light, but still. The very imminence of defeat led the Nazi’s to expedite her trial and execution — no more 99 days. All she has to do is stall until defeat and she lives to see the day when, as she predicted, her accusers stand where she stands. Most sad that she didn’t live to see that.
But I still remain in awe of her bravery.
It looked like what the future was imagined to be in the 70’s, much as with other contemporary sci-fi like Soylent Green. There were actual ahead-of-their-time items like Alex’s cool turntable and speakers, and stereo Deutsche Gramophone microcassettes (ooooooh!). I don’t believe those last were ever a real music format, but it was a credible leap. And the Durango 95, that record shop, and of course, the Korova. There’s a reason that scene comes first — to really orient you in this future world and make you believe.
Update: Turns out, there *were* “high fidelity” stereo microcassettes — in 1982. So this 1971 flick correctly predicted a future tech development 11 years prior.
James Woods is one of the very few actors who can shine even in a terrible movie.
Not that Cat’s Eye was bad, but Cop and a few other stinkers were. But he was still memorable.
I had a Belgian M.D. as a roommate in college who told me a story of a cat in his town in Europe. He and his friend bought a whole beef tongue (maybe 12-18” long) and were bringing it home from the market when they apparently set it down outside for a moment. Came back and a stray cat was dragging the huge tongue away and out of sight. They usually saw this cat every evening, but after this did not see him for three days. He apparently ate the entire thing.
So yes.
Yes.
Nice tabby.
Yes, but know that while it gets more resonant with time, it’s also more painful.
The exposed truth about society, conformity and psychiatry in general is saddening.
The scene with the self-impressed, college-educated fool of an Indian doctor pompously calling McMurphy “very sick” makes me furious.
Actually, she’s sumpn of a cunt, don’t you think?
Freedom, yes.
The nominees for Run-On Sentence of the Year are ...
But can’t complain.
“we were supposed to think they were totally badasses taking out the evil man but I just thought they looked like a bunch of buffoons trying to act tough.”
Agreed. It’s one of the worst-acted scenes, mostly by that “You can go straight to hell” guy.
The problem is this:
“The day players’ll kill ya.”
Yes.
“Gordon got me all my clients.”
At least she didn’t botch the job like that Ukranian bitch.
A day player who couldn’t act.
(See “The day players’ll kill ya.”)
He’s not in the credits because he doesn’t speak a word.
The site gives no detail at all.
What’s a DVD?
Think I saw one in a museum once.
Seriously, DVD is a quarter century old (23 years, to be exact).
We are *two* disc formats past it already.
Netflix currently has only the uncut NC-17 version.
At this point many years after the death of Blockbuster, you probably can’t even find the R-rated cut anywhere. Nor would you want to.