Emmett has decided he needs to see all the original horror movies. Thanks to TCM, AMC and TiVo that's not a problem this time of year. We already watched Frankenstein - which he liked a lot. Now he's watching Dracula (with a score by Philip Glass?!) and digging it. I have to say - the sets are The Best Gothy Sets Ever. Excepting, of course, anything by Tim Burton. (I mean, obviously we'd all love to live in Halloweentown, particularly Jack's pad, but even Batman Returns has got the supergothy abandoned zoo in the winter. Plus Edward's castle.)
We've also got The Mummy (the first one with Boris Karloff doing his Dracula impression, basically) and Bride and Son of Frankenstein.
Has he seen Young Frankenstein yet? I was just quoting that to my sister not two minutes ago, when she jokingly called our mom "a bag"--"Igor, help me with the bags." "Fine; you take the blonde, and I'll take the one in the turban."
"Ten years dead."
"Five years dead."
"One year dead."
"I...ain't got no-boooooody, 'cause nobody cares...for...me. Brroommchicka, broom-chicka!"
"Do you vant a roll in the hay? Roll, a-roll, in the hay..."
Prestige: I went on a drive this afternoon. We saw a place called the Redstone Castle. Then, I saw it again,
as the hotel. Apparently it was shut down for a while, and no one knew why.
It was funny as Hell to watch it with
a local, as she was all with the "That's no Colorado Springs!" and "I know that train!"
I think
the wife knew, but not Olivia. We had substatinal debate about this, but, had she known, the line would have been something like "When you're here, she's not your wife," rather than the "leave them at home."
It's also kinda sad that
the one that loved their wife lived. You know, in the whole Insult to Injury way.
Can I just
"ew" the keeping of the bodies? Because ew.
I called more or less all of the twists,
apart from the cats and hats, before they were revealed.
In conclusion,
never trust a man with facial hair.
Skipping over all the whitefont (really, I need to get out to a real movie theater one of these days) to ask the buffista movie hivemind for some fast ideas.
I've just been asked if I want to teach a new film class this Spring and I need to respond ASAP. I could use the extra cash, but new classes are always extra work. An additional catch is that this would be in the freshmen seminar program, which focuses primarily on the non-Western world. They are a bit desperate, however, so I was thinking I could use my base in European and Hollywood film to do something on "literature and cinema" that would focus on genre across cultures.
Some possibilities:
Myth:
Orfeu Negro, Orphée
Western: YTD Hollywood Western,
Yojimbo, A Fistful of Dollars
Crime/Noir:
The Postman Always Rings Twice, Ossessione
And I think I would study musicals as a distinctly cinematic form, that would allow me to bring Bollywood (and Jacques Demy) in.
I would also love to do a Western literary classic that has been interpreted by different cultures. Has there been a good African/Asian/Latin American adaptation of Shakespeare?
Othello,
maybe? Then I could also do
A Double Life,
which I love.
Is this a good idea? If so, anyone have suggestions for the above, or for different categories? Anime? Horror?
ETA: line breaks, as per usual
Don't forget about Kurosawa's Ran, which is King Lear with samarais. Also, his Throne of Blood, which is Macbeth.
