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Oct. 3rd, 2009 10:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The garklet and I were slightly late picking
ias up from her weekend desk duty this lunchtime. Why? He was watching something on the television, and refused to leave until he saw the end. Nothing special about that, you might say, but what had captivated this particular two year was Carol Reed's 1949 film The Third Man.
When we collected ias, he then regaled her with an description of the chase through Vienna's sewers.
Attaboy, kid.
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Date: 2009-10-04 09:12 am (UTC)I'm ashamed to admit that I've never seen Citizen Kane all the way through in one sitting. I've even projected it twice, but tending machinery and peering through a small window at the screen doesn't really lend itself to an in-depth appreciation.
Hmmm. I might show him the Palm Beach Story - nothing like a good screwball comedy.
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Date: 2009-10-05 09:38 am (UTC)Kane's breakthrough technical work doesn't look like anything in 2009. The pacing, which was probably right for the period, feels slow (this is true in Dumbo but it matters less), and his audience needs to be led by the hand more of the time. I watched the (terrible) GI Joe movie last night, and it uses so many conventions that just didn't exist in 1941, regardless of whether they were technically possible, it's able to keep things moving at a relentless pace, knowing the audience will keep up even as they throw popcorn at the screen and make fun of the dialogue.
Anyway, the story also seemed a lot more relevant when it was made, and that doesn't help. I don't care about the apparent threat of Hearst and the press barons very much in an era when newspapers are dying, and the distance of history softens them into people - recently for example I learned that without Hearst there might have been a very different and uncomfortable period in the career of Ambrose Bierce (Hearst seems to have liked him very much and basically allowed Bierce to do what he pleased so long as he wrote for Hearst's newspaper)
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Date: 2009-10-05 10:30 am (UTC)Newspapers may be dying, but Murdoch (the closest we have to Hearst nowadays) is still doing very well indeed, thankyouverymuch. It's only the medium that has changed, not the outlook.
Let's do that again, with less fail this time.
Date: 2009-10-05 07:16 pm (UTC)Awesome!
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