tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post7076216123776201116..comments2024-03-27T21:42:56.131-05:00Comments on 1001plus: Come on Baby, Light My FireSJHoneywellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-76219482571446376432018-04-07T16:04:40.346-05:002018-04-07T16:04:40.346-05:00My favorite example of a weird, inexplicable accen...My favorite example of a weird, inexplicable accent is in a movie I genuinely love--<i>Peeping Tom</i>. We're told that Mark is a lifelong resident of London, which doesn't come close to explaining why he's clearly German.<br /><br />The "piety drag" is a great way to put it. It's the same thing that happens in a film like <i>Song of Bernadette</i>, which also suffers from starring Jennifer Jones. At least this one has Bergman, who was a legitimate actress with talent. <br /><br />I recall that you aren't a fan of Ferrer. I don't mind him, although when it comes to the variety of Ferrer's I prefer both Jose's son Miguel and the unrelated Mel. <br /><br />I agree that once was enough for this, and since this is a good 45 minutes longer than it needs to be, more than enough is probably more correct.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-77584391960055033672018-04-07T15:56:11.503-05:002018-04-07T15:56:11.503-05:00Nice. I'm going to remember that.Nice. I'm going to remember that.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-80746395023808938622018-04-07T14:09:01.096-05:002018-04-07T14:09:01.096-05:00I was at a meeting recently when someone said &quo...I was at a meeting recently when someone said "if the fire is already burning, what's another log thrown into the pile?" to which another person said "well, if you're Joan of Arc..."aceblackblog.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08404695143187261837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-71448392178869117832018-04-07T13:53:52.109-05:002018-04-07T13:53:52.109-05:00Even as a true fan of Ingrid Bergman who will watc...Even as a true fan of Ingrid Bergman who will watch her in anything this was an incredible slog to wade through from a rough patch for her right after Notorious when she made the equally mediocre Arch of Triumph and the Hitchcock misfire Under Capricorn. <br /><br />She had played Joan on stage a few years previously and scored a major success but I would imagine that the separation that the stage offers made the age difference less noticeable. I can see how with that as a recent event and she being a huge star the studios would think this was a good idea but if suffers what so many of these type of films do-the piety drag. For some reason filmmmakers all became convinced that the way to show religious conviction was to have their films move at a snail's pace and everyone be solemn and portentous throughout. All they usually achieve is putting the audience to sleep, that certainly happens here. It doesn't help Jose Ferrer, that most smug of actors, has a major role. <br /><br />The varying accents within families on screen is something that happens frequently and usually once you get into the film it becomes less of an issue but sometimes it really is so apparent that it takes a real suspension of belief to make it through the movie. The movie that comes to mind with that kind of disparity beside this one is "The Strange Woman" wherein Hedy Lamarr plays a lifelong native of Bangor, Maine as is her father. The fact that she speaks with a distinct Viennese accent while her father has something of an Irish brogue and one of her main suitors, also a resident of the town, has an English one is never mentioned which is hysterical. It's actually a decent, odd little low budget affair directed by Edgar Ulmer but you would have thought they could have rethought the setting based on the cast.<br /><br />As to this, once really was more than enough. joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-63328290590611893522018-04-05T22:52:54.393-05:002018-04-05T22:52:54.393-05:00I did not see the television drama.
I would guess...I did not see the television drama.<br /><br />I would guess that jokes were being made immediately--that seems to be the trend. There's something very human about making a joke in a terrible situation like that as a reminder that you are still alive.<br /><br />A friend of mine worked as an EMT for years and said that after cleaning up highway accidents, he was always ravenously hungry, and the worse the accident, the hungrier he was. I think that's a human reaction, too. Living people eat, and when you've faced that much death, you do something that affirms you are still alive.<br /><br />44 stories. 45 with the mezzanine.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-3946888089110473282018-04-05T22:26:14.711-05:002018-04-05T22:26:14.711-05:00Love your post's title.
The first French pun ...Love your post's title.<br /><br />The first French pun I ever learned involved Joan:<br /><br /><i>On ne l'a pas crue, alors on l'a cuite.</i><br /><br />Literally, "They didn't believe her, so they cooked her." The pun, though, is that the feminine participle <i>crue</i> can also be read as the feminine adjective for "raw," as in "raw meat." (The English word "crude" comes from the same Latin root as the French <i>cru.</i>) With this in mind, a second reading of the joke could be: "They didn't have her raw, so they cooked her."<br /><br />I wonder whether jokes were being tossed around in the crowd that was watching her execution (at a guess: probably). And that thought puts me in mind of the elevator guy making Waring Hudsucker jokes right after the CEO's suicide in "The Hudsucker Proxy."<br /><br />Continuing with the stream of consciousness: there was, I think, a French drama, possibly made for TV, that came out about Joan of Arc years and years ago. Did you happen to see it?Kevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.com