Re: [MOPO] premier magazine article-around the world in 80 days

Sun, 05 Mar 2006 05:26:12 -0800

Hi, Zeev, et.al.,  from Joe Bonelli.
 
I too agree (along with my friend Al) that GIANT is the film that should have won the Oscar for Best PIc that year (or just about ANY year) ;  KING AND I would have been most deserving as well.
 
But 80 DAYS is a wonderful entertainment.  I saw it twice-- once on each coast-- in 1957 in its original road-show engagement.  Todd-AO, gorgeous theatres, big-time stereo sound and.... a parade of the world's top stars in a fun film with (gasp!) REAL locations and people, places and things NOT generated by computer.
Teriffic entertainment-- the type that often "pleased" and won awards.  Maybe "next year" those who voted it the BP Oscar might regret-- as surely some did. (That's why actors get those "career" awards the year after they gave a great "losing" performance.)
 
And I stopped reading PREMIERE regularly when articles tended to "dish" the quality of films made before 1990 simply because they were considered by the Hollywood-Historically-Impaired writers to be "old fashioned."
 
Joe Bonelli

lobby card invasion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Alan
 
Sorry, but I have to disagree with you on this one. 
I'm old enough to have seen 80 Days when it was originally released.  At that time ( I was 11 or so) I thought it was just delightful.  Less that a year ago it was on TV, and I looked forward to enjoying it once again, however, I foun! d it to be so juvenile as to be embarrassed for the actors.  It was pretty bad.
Premier mag was right on this one.  Comparing 80 Days to Giant ???  Please...
 
Zeev
 
 
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Hello MoPoers   Oscar time is great...provides plenty to discuss and debate...i subscribe to Premier Magazine and you would expect the issue published at oscar time to analyze every last detail...compare! this to that etc....well i wasn't disappointed and as usual found one thing that bothered me..unfortunately i left the magazine at work and can't refer to it as i write this...but as i remember it they list 10 worst wniners for best picture over the years and 10 times when the academy got it right...the one that got me going was 1956's winner around the world in 80 days, which was included in their list of mistakes...the competition that year was Giant, the Ten commandments, the King and I and Freindly persuasion...now i'm not going to debate whether around the world was the best choice, but what got to me (and again i don't have the article in front of me) is they intimated the movie had no redeeming values particularly they mentioned it wasn't funny...now i was 3 yrs old in 1956 and while i doubt my mother took me to the film that year( she loved to go to the movies and shlepped me along all the time) i 'm sure i saw it as an early 60's re-release...and friends i've watched ! the movie many times since then and i think it is very funny...what could be funnier than pairing Cantinflas and David Niven..in my mind the original odd couple...the bullfighting scene just to name one was a bit lengthy but very funny imho...as regard other aspects of the film it introduced me to david niven and shirley maclaine and i became a life long fan of their movies..i also think the subplot of wether fogg stole the money from the bank of england and his persuit by mr Fix was just perfect againt the travelouge an adventures portayed in the movie. Finally and perhaps subtle as summerized by john Vogel in the imdb plot summary...Mr. Fogg has to cope with the fact that he seems to have lost the bet..but gained something he never seemed to have:emotion 
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