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"I wasn't the one who was ranting again te new BSG for months.."
I wasn't the one licking Ron Moore's boots for months...
If anyone wants to check,my comments were that I was withholding any judgement on that project until I've seen it...
That viewpoint in Eric's view makes me "a Bootlicker"...
I rest my case..
Ford A. Thaxton
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I would like to check out the original some day, but after reading this thread, I've pretty much "spoiled" that experience. Or?
Even though I was very familiar with original's plot before I saw it (in part because I'd seen the 2000 version), I still found it incredibly moving. Especially one scene in particular between Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner.
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The ending to the mini-series is exactly the same as the original, the only real difference is that lovers are reunited, which added to the emotional impact.
Speaking of "lovers reunited," Ford, if Rhett Butler walks out into the fog, dismisses Scarlett with his "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"...and then suddenly turns on his heel and returns to her with a "Frankly, my dear, I was just foolin'," that, by your standards, is exactly the same as the GONE WITH THE WIND that's played since 1939?
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THOR: I just saw this mini-series for the first time, and WOW....incredibly moving stuff! I got that lump throat several times.
So it made you nauseous?
This thread show's it's pointless to outlaw "politics" on the board. Everything is politics, Thor....
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Well this is fun....
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I think this is one of the greatest scores of all time. I quite agree with the sentiment that this (and Moby Dick) should have gotten Gordon a ton of work.
Yavar
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The 1959 version has the same ending as the book, with Moira driving out to catch a last glimpse of the departing sub.
The 2000 version changes that.
The 1959 version was especially effective at the time, because we were in the middle of the Cold War, we were having air raid drills in my grammar school, and people were actually digging bomb shelters in their backyards. So, when Donna Anderson looks over at a calendar on the wall that says 1964, that’s a chilling moment.
Other movies were post-apocalyptic: THE WORLD THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL (also 1959) took place after a nuclear war. THE TIME MACHINE (1960) predicted nuclear holocaust in 1966. PANIC IN YEAR ZERO (1962) was about the aftermath of a nuclear strike on L.A.
In the late 50’s, one of our Pittsburgh TV channels would show FIVE (1951) about people surviving after nuclear destruction.
So there was a lot of generalized war paranoia.
The 1959 ON THE BEACH has the most stoic response to all this, and I once had a sweet conversation with Ms. Gardner about it.
But that, as they say, is another story.
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