oh cmon Kirby, "your reckless oil company"?
what BP does has nothing to do with the British people
some 38% is owned by Americans
hey wait.... where did you get 27% the Kuwaitis??
38% US ownership & 45% UK ownership is in itself 83%
At 02:25 PM 6/13/2010, you wrote:
Adrian,
Your reckless little oil company is 27% owned by the Kuwaitis! I'm sure
Osama Bin Lube is at the bottom of it (no pun intended) somewhere or another.
We may take your 12% dividends and build a soccer stadium with it.
K.
On Jun 13, 2010, at 3:17 PM, <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] wrote:
Thas More like it.
I gather the Pres has apologised to us for the Brit bashing as BP
is Anglo-American...Oil be coming round the mountain...
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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
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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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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.
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