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BarkellWH
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 RE: What side are you on??? (in reply to El Kiko)
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When you guys tire of playing with your light sabers you can go see a very good film entitled "In the Heart of the Sea." Based on the book published in 2000 by historian Nathaniel Philbrick, it is the story of the whaling ship Essex, out of Nantucket, that was on a voyage in 1820 when it was attacked and damaged beyond repair by a whale. The crew abandoned ship for life boats, and one of the crew that eventually made it to safety recounted the story to Herman Melville, who used it as the source for his great novel "Moby Dick." It was an incredible real-life story, and the movie does it justice.
Bill
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And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East."
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Date Dec. 18 2015 20:34:09
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Richard Jernigan
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RE: What side are you on??? (in reply to estebanana)
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ORIGINAL: estebanana
...seriously, you would think Japan is an easy place to get things, but it's very difficult to get English language films here, other than Disney crap blockbusters.
When I lived in Palo Alto my Japanese girlfriend and I were regulars at the art film houses in San Francisco. She lived at the top of Twin Peaks in the City, with the view down Market Street all the way to the Ferry Building. She referred to Palo Alto as "the farm." So I was surprised when she said she wanted to see "The Lady and the Tramp" when it was revived at the big cinema in Mountain View. She was usually the high culture, maybe kind of snooty girl. I didn't immediately display enthusiasm, so she started telling me about the famous people voicing various characters. To please her, we went. It was in the afternoon, a lot of kids with their parents. Afterward we were sitting in a sidewalk cafe in Palo Alto, while she went on about the film. I finally hinted that Disney was often seen as a perhaps a little kitschy in the USA.
She said, "In Japan Disney's a big cultural thing! There are university courses studying his stuff, academic people write books about Disney."
But that was the old-time Disney, I guess: Snow White, etc.
RNJ
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Date Dec. 20 2015 1:22:04
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BarkellWH
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RE: What side are you on??? (in reply to Richard Jernigan)
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But that was the old-time Disney
When I was growing up in Phoenix, around the period 1954-1956, I would really enjoy Walt Disney's series of nature films when they came out in theatres. There were about five over the years, and I don't remember all their titles. Two I do remember were "The Living Desert" and "The Vanishing Prairie." They were very interesting, and, to a young boy, a good introduction to the flora and fauna in different natural environments.
Bill
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With the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East."
--Rudyard Kipling
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Date Dec. 20 2015 10:33:09
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BarkellWH
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RE: What side are you on??? (in reply to estebanana)
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I remember the old Disney productions too, some were quite edifying in a popular intellectual way. Good stuff. But Disney has since left behind the idea of raising the intellectual level up and panders to a low goal. Remember Leopold Stokowski conducting the music in the Sorcerers Appentice?
Walt Disney Studios depended upon the genius of Walt Disney, and with his guidance they produced first-rate films that have not been surpassed before or since. Since Walt Disney's death, the studio just churns out mediocre crap. You mentioned Stokowski conducting music in the Sorcerer's Apprentice section of Walt Disney's "Fantasia," which came out in 1940. Stokowski conducted the music in all six or seven (I forget) segments of "Fantasia." I thoroughly enjoy watching "Fantasia" today as much as I did when I was a young boy.
Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" was the first animated, full-length, feature film ever made (1937). Both Disney's wife and brother tried to talk him out of it, thinking it wouldn't go over. Disney disregarded their advice, and it was a huge hit, and rightly so. Disney had a stable of prime concept artists and storyboard artists. They produced amazing work.
And for all the hype about Johnny Depp and the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series of films, nothing yet approaches Disney's film of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island," which came out in 1950. Bobby Driscoll as Jim Hawkins and Robert Newton as Long John Silver were perfect in their roles. All the hype about "pirate talk" ("aaarrrgh!" and the like) is a result of Robert Newton's role as Long John Silver. I recommend it next time it appears on Turner Classic Movies.
Bill
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white,
With the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East."
--Rudyard Kipling
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Date Dec. 20 2015 18:24:13
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BarkellWH
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RE: What side are you on??? (in reply to El Kiko)
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Aaarrrgh, Mr. Kiko. If ye'd be so kind as to request a mug o' grog from the serving wench fer an old sea dog, I'll tell ye the tale o' how we rounded the 'orn in '94. Three o' me hearties with fingers frozen to the mizzenmast, a chest o' Spanish doubloons below decks, and a Spanish corsair adrift behind, its crew left with the mark of our cutlasses across their bloody throats.
Ay, that's a good wench. One more mug o' grog me pretty. Mr. Kiko there's payin' the bill.
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white,
With the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East."
--Rudyard Kipling
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