I've seen it...it's sort of a Movement rite of passage. My people love it. I wonder what Browning would think about that.
Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.
'Shells'
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erikaj - Jun 13, 2006 7:10:18 am PDT #2276 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Hayden - Jun 13, 2006 7:12:08 am PDT #2277 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Freaks has a plot about the scheming wife of a little person (I think she's a trapeze artist or something) who is carrying on with the strongman. It's a fantastic movie with an ending that might be a little laughable by modern standards, but you can practically see many of the tv shows and movies it influenced.
Kathy A - Jun 13, 2006 7:13:59 am PDT #2278 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
"Freaks" is where the phrase "One of us!" came from. What freaked (pun intended!) out moviegoers of the early '30s is not that Browning set a film in the world of the circus sideshow, but that he used actual sideshow "freaks" as cast members.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 13, 2006 7:14:08 am PDT #2279 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
See, I thought it was famous! The person to whom I was talking thought I had two heads!
Hayden - Jun 13, 2006 7:14:10 am PDT #2280 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I thought Browning's sympathies were most definitely with the circus folk, up to the point where he thought that we should be a bit horrified by the end, but also that we should think the unfaithful wife got what she deserved.
erikaj - Jun 13, 2006 7:16:53 am PDT #2281 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah...that's probably what makes it beloved of the disability studies crowd.
Polter-Cow - Jun 13, 2006 7:17:02 am PDT #2282 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Freaks was recently mentioned in EW's Top 25 Controversial Movies of All Time list.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 13, 2006 7:17:09 am PDT #2283 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I feel like that is not quite it, though, looking at it. The one I saw had more of a documentary feeling. Perhaps I am making it up, though...
tommyrot - Jun 13, 2006 7:18:48 am PDT #2284 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I feel like that is not quite it, though, looking at it. The one I saw had more of a documentary feeling.
The Making of Freaks?
Behind the Freaks?
Polter-Cow - Jun 13, 2006 7:19:10 am PDT #2285 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Two-Legged Freaks ?