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Old 01-28-2007, 03:44 PM
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Yeah, "A Birth of a Nation" came to my mind, too. Its kinda comical now, its so damn blatant. Surely D.W. Griffith knew better...
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Old 01-28-2007, 04:03 PM
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"Surely D.W. Griffith knew better..."

Evidently not.

Odd guy, made BOAN but also Intolerance, Broken Blossoms and Abraham Lincoln.

Who knows what a guy thinks.
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French Connection. The gritty, grungy look of NY. The car chase that was done without permission, etc.
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Old 01-28-2007, 06:11 PM
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"Hatari"...The animal rights people would go berserk over it...Even though they were trying to preserve animals...
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Old 01-29-2007, 12:23 PM
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Political correctness would certainly change how many characters are portrayed. Could Gone With the Wind be made today with Prissy's famous line: "Lordsie, we got to have a doctor. I don' know nuthin' 'bout birthin' babies!"

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Old 01-29-2007, 03:52 PM
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All those wonderful old Sci-Fi films w/that incredibly cheesy "stop-action" animation. Nowadays it would by done by computer, seamless as can be, but the old ways DID have a certain charm...
Indeed they did.

Funny thing though. I love the original King Kong and its special effects are pretty primitive. Lots of models with stop action and a full size head and hand. It worked then and still does for the most part. But I was always vaguely aware that it was fake.

Fast forward to the remake by Peter Jackson, which was petty good IMHO. Now they use CGIs and a guy actually in a gorilla suit. Yet, despite the advances, I am still vaguely aware that it is fake.

It as if it has not really changed all that much.
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Old 01-29-2007, 06:04 PM
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"Yet, despite the advances, I am still vaguely aware that it is fake."

A pithy observation, a funny one too.
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Old 01-29-2007, 06:11 PM
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...one of us. We accept you. One of us.

Gabba Gabba Hey! Joey Ramone must have loved that movie.

I only saw it recently on IFC or TCM, I can't remember which. NASCAR driver Kyle Petty was a guest on a show and chose that film to watch. I was kind of taken aback by his choice of this movie. I figured he would want to see 'Thunder Road' or 'Greased Lightning' or some race car film, but he wanted to share with the world his love of 'Freaks'.

One thing that I could never understand was at the end when the black dude with no arms or legs was crawling through the mud with a knife in his mouth. How exactly do you stab or cut someone when you have no hands?

Stephen King calls it "suspension of disbelief".
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Definetly D.W. Griffths "The Birth Of A Nation" due to its blatant racisim which glorifies the KKK as national heroes. Oh the fallout would be tremendous!


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You just wouldn't be able to find people who would endorse it with their ticket fees and followup revenues.
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Old 01-29-2007, 06:27 PM
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"Dr Strangelove" would be kinda hard to pull off now. So would, I think, "A Clockwork Orange", & "2001: A Space Odessy", especially seein' as how this is 2007, & space travel is arguably farther off in the future than it was in '68.
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Leonardo DeCaprio, Matt Damon; I don't think so, but I haven't seen "The Departed" yet either, so maybe I'm selling the last two short.
I saw departed and it changed my opinion of DeCaprio - I believe he can act. Also, you didn't mention Tom Hanks, the one current actor who I think could hold his own against the old timers.
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