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At 01:06 PM 6/13/2010, Kirby McDaniel wrote:
Quite right; we can always learn something from our former owners!
K.
On Jun 13, 2010, at 2:28 PM, <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] wrote:
Might I point out to our colonial cousins it is Blimey! Not Bligh Me.
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I agree David
Bridge on the River Kwai being a good example. No happy ending there
At 11:38 AM 6/12/2010, David Kusumoto wrote:
I have always felt that Bolt's screenplay in "Lawrence" is not
just good, but spectacular. There's a reason why it remains in
the top ten lists of the greatest films ever made. It is so far
ahead of its time with its ambiguous portrait of Lawrence that it
feels timeless and undated. In fact, the parts that linger on the
visual majesty of the desert or the battle scenes sometimes drags
down the pacing. I've always felt (and I know there is debate
about this), that despite my love for Gregory Peck, who won Best
Actor that year, that Peter O'Toole's performance in Lawrence is
simply electric and drop-dead perfect. And what an ending! It
disappoints many, but it is an anti-climax that is faithful to the
integrity of where Lawrence's story HAD to go. Can you imagine
some corn-ball U.S.-tinkering happy ending tacked on to make
Lawrence's efforts uplifting and redemptive?
A generalization, but I think the Brits have a knack for making
wonderfully written films that - as I wrote last year - are masked
when they're budgeted by American dollars and cast (e.g., Anthony
Quinn, who was a major star here in 1962) to draw an American
audience. Astoundingly, the country-of-origin and first printing
of "Lawrence" is the U.S.A. like "Bridge over the River Kwai"
(which was cast budgeted to include William Holden) - despite
being thoroughly British in tone and sensibility. Hence my
obsession with "country-of-origin" posters which I treat like
first edition books regardless of less than attractive art. I'm
bitter that the beginning of Carol Reed's "The Third Man" was
butchered by Selznick when it was released in the U.S.; the
British version is superior. But at least in the case of the
wonderfully written "Third Man" -- the country-of-origin is rightfully the U.K.
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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:57:20 -0500
From: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
Subject: Re: OT; BLIGH ME, GUVNOR
To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
I think Bolt started the screenplay for The Bounty, but had a
stroke and the eventual film contains little of his original writing.
I imagine the movie with a screenplay by the Bolt of the early
1960s, and it would have been wonderful.
I first read the three novels by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman
Hall (Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, and Pitcairn's
Island) as a teen, and I know there is still a great series of
movies (or an epic TV mini-series) waiting to be made of the
entire story (only parts of which were addressed in the earlier versions).
Bruce
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Kirby McDaniel
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
He also co-wrote the script for THE BOUNTY (1984), the mutiny on
the HMS Bounty story, which David Lean had always wantedto film,
but was never able to get financed.
This film takes a fuller look at the BOUNTY epic, and is enjoyable
enough, directed by Roger Donaldson. But one can only imagine
that tale with the Lean camera and editing synergy and
perfectionist sensibility. Maybe the
financiers remembered all too well the MGM experience with the
Brando version. I have always liked that version.
LEAN went on to make A PASSAGE TO INDIA, a thoroughly wonderful
film, in my opinion. I think that'sout on BLU - RAY now.
K.
On Jun 12, 2010, at 7:49 AM, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
Robert Bolt, who wrote Lawrence, quickly followed with
<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059113/>Doctor Zhivago,
<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374856/>A Man for All Seasons (from
his earlier play), and
<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066319/>Ryan's Daughter, a pretty
amazing string of wonderful screenplays.
Of course he didn't manage to include a tagline as great as "Get
off my lawn!" in any of them, but he did his best.
Bruce
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Phil Edwards
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
Odd, we nearly always think of LAWRENCE in terms of its epic scope
and spectacular visuals, but it has one of the most literate
andprecise screenplays of almost any film I can think of.
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From: <mailto:[email protected]>Kirby McDaniel
To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 2:06 PM
Subject: [MOPO] OT; BLIGH ME, GUVNOR
Tony Hayward: I am reminded of the wonderful line Claude Rains
(Dryden) gets in LAWRENCE:
<http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000027/>Prince Feisal: You, I
suspect, are chief architect of this compromise. What do you think?
<http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001647/>Mr. Dryden: Me, your
Highness? On the whole, I wish I'd stayed in Tunbridge Wells.
<http://www.theonion.com/articles/massive-flow-of-bullshit-continues-to-gush-from-bp,17564/>http://www.theonion.com/articles/massive-flow-of-bullshit-continues-to-gush-from-bp,17564/
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