Angels With Dirty Faces is still my favorite Cagney, though.
I'll have to see that one. And now I'll have to check out Public Enemy, too. Love Cagney.
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Angels With Dirty Faces is still my favorite Cagney, though.
I'll have to see that one. And now I'll have to check out Public Enemy, too. Love Cagney.
I have, of course, seen that clip. And heard that she got hurt doing that.
Yeah. A number of the great takes caught on film have a story behind them. Karen Allen didn't know beforehand she'd have a snake dropped around her neck in the first Indiana Jones, for instance.
Just watched The Fog (the original) in widescreen on the big shiny TV. So much I'd never seen before, since I didn't see it in the theater!
But the two things I noticed this time were both things I should've caught sometime in the last 20 years of watching this movie:
- The missing fishing trawler "headed south from Whateley, around Arkham Reef"
- Hal Holbrook, as Father Malone, has an Irish surname, is addressed as "Father," wears a black cassock with a white tab at the collar, and in all ways appears to be a Catholic priest. The journal he finds in the church is the "Journal of Father Patrick Malone," his grandfather.
His. grand. fa. ther.
You know, maybe they did Catholicism differently in California in the 70s, but there's a reason you never hear of parishes being handed down father to son.
Well, I guess Ms. Clark thought JC was gonna "rub a grapefruit in her face" and fake it, right? But he didn't. He rubbed a grapefruit in her face. A bunch of times. Her nose bled terribly.
Raq, it's not unheard of for adult men, who've been widowed and had children, to chose to go into the church. Unusual, but allowable if they convince authorities that their vocation is real and sincere.
(There are also a small number of former Anglican married priests who were allowed to convert and keep officiating.)
It could also be the case that Grandpa Malone left the priesthood and then got married, had kids, et cetera.
::waves hands frantically::
I knew a girl in high school who was the daughter of a Catholic priest. I was never sure how that worked out, but I'm pretty sure they were never Anglican, since her name was Benedicta.
I saw The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Kind Hearts And Coronets over the holidays, both of which I liked for completely different reasons. I'm big with the Apatow & Seth Rogan love in the former, and the latter is great just to watch Alec Guinness (and don't get me wrong here, I love the guy) get killed over and over again.
Corwood, in your love for both those films, you and I are as one.
A number of the great takes caught on film have a story behind them.
There are, of course, the numerous takes during LotR in which Viggo was injured. All of which seemed to be the takes that PJ liked best, and made it in to the final cut.
And there's also Harrison Ford slamming Sean Young up against the window so hard that those are real tears of pain she's crying in Blade Runner.
There are, of course, the numerous takes during LotR in which Viggo was injured. All of which seemed to be the takes that PJ liked best, and made it in to the final cut.
Breaking his toe in The Two Towers probably elicited the most realistic howl of rage/pain from him, when he kicked the orc helmet. I liked that one.