Movie moments
I watched a few good movies this past week - oldies, but goodies.
I started with A Summer Place, the theme of which I expect many know even if they don't know it (everytime I sing it, I sing it with The Simpsons lyrics that Jasper used in that ep where they were trying out for some music thing? Was it maybe the ep with the B Flats? Curses..) and it was pretty okay. Sandra Dee really was the cutest. Everyone did well in that show except the boy/man SD falls for. He was pretty much an unactor. Good otherwise.
Blue Hawaii was my very first Elvis picture. I'd found it playing on some cable station while I was in Red Deer a few weeks ago but only recently got around to finding out what I'd seen to see if the rest of the movie was filled with as many sexual innuendos as that one particular scene (where Elvis meets the sexy schoolteacher bringing 4 girls around to tour Hawaii), but alas no. I take it the movie was the first time any one would have heard Elvis singing "I Can't Help Falling In Love With You" right? Always hard to remember that those old songs were once brand new. A fun romp, anyway.
I found It Happened One Night at my library too (always can find the oldies there as everyone scoops up recent stuff instead) and that was a really excellent show. Anyone who'd into the classics once in a while should give it a go. I'll offer up a trivia tidbit about that one that I only remembered as I got to the scene: there's a point in the movie where Clark Gable is taking his clothes off and when he strips off his shirt and that scened pretty much killed the undershirt business because Clark wasn't wearing one. Prior to that movie, any guy without a shirt on had an undershirt on. I have no idea why I know that. On the music side (since I've mentioned music in the other two) I wonder if that "Man on the Flying Trapeze" was written for that movie. I hadn't heard that in years.
I also watched Gilda. Wow, I say. Rita Hayworth was some dazzler, all right. What a beauty. The picture was quite good too. I liked it far better than Casablanca. The leading men weren't really great looking guys but isn't that how the joke goes anyway? Ugly men always get the beautiful women? Her singing was really nice, too.
I think I like movies were people break into song. Maybe not as often as Elvis did, but it's sure a different style of movie than the "Top of the Pops" driven soundtracks of movies now.
I started with A Summer Place, the theme of which I expect many know even if they don't know it (everytime I sing it, I sing it with The Simpsons lyrics that Jasper used in that ep where they were trying out for some music thing? Was it maybe the ep with the B Flats? Curses..) and it was pretty okay. Sandra Dee really was the cutest. Everyone did well in that show except the boy/man SD falls for. He was pretty much an unactor. Good otherwise.
Blue Hawaii was my very first Elvis picture. I'd found it playing on some cable station while I was in Red Deer a few weeks ago but only recently got around to finding out what I'd seen to see if the rest of the movie was filled with as many sexual innuendos as that one particular scene (where Elvis meets the sexy schoolteacher bringing 4 girls around to tour Hawaii), but alas no. I take it the movie was the first time any one would have heard Elvis singing "I Can't Help Falling In Love With You" right? Always hard to remember that those old songs were once brand new. A fun romp, anyway.
I found It Happened One Night at my library too (always can find the oldies there as everyone scoops up recent stuff instead) and that was a really excellent show. Anyone who'd into the classics once in a while should give it a go. I'll offer up a trivia tidbit about that one that I only remembered as I got to the scene: there's a point in the movie where Clark Gable is taking his clothes off and when he strips off his shirt and that scened pretty much killed the undershirt business because Clark wasn't wearing one. Prior to that movie, any guy without a shirt on had an undershirt on. I have no idea why I know that. On the music side (since I've mentioned music in the other two) I wonder if that "Man on the Flying Trapeze" was written for that movie. I hadn't heard that in years.
I also watched Gilda. Wow, I say. Rita Hayworth was some dazzler, all right. What a beauty. The picture was quite good too. I liked it far better than Casablanca. The leading men weren't really great looking guys but isn't that how the joke goes anyway? Ugly men always get the beautiful women? Her singing was really nice, too.
I think I like movies were people break into song. Maybe not as often as Elvis did, but it's sure a different style of movie than the "Top of the Pops" driven soundtracks of movies now.