Ever see a film and identify with one of the characters for all the "wrong" reasons? I was enjoying the 2009 Woody Allen opus, Whatever Works and was frightened by the possibility that my current "track" may well lead me to Boris Yellnikoff territory. I haven't had that jarring realization since seeing Max Von Sydow's character Frederick ranting about society in Hannah and Her Sisters.
"You missed a very dull TV show on Auschwitz. More gruesome film clips, and more puzzled intellectuals declaring their mystification over the systematic murder of millions. The reason they can never answer the question "How could it possibly happen?" is that it's the wrong question. Given what people are, the question is "Why doesn't it happen more often?" Of course, it does, in subtler forms.
"You see the whole culture. Nazis, deodorant salesmen, wrestlers, beauty contests, the talk show. Can you imagine the level of a mind that watches wrestling? But the worst are the fundamentalist preachers. Third rate con men telling the poor suckers that watch them that they speak with Jesus, and to please send in money. Money, money, money! If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up."
If I don't actually turn into Schmidt, and if it's OK to mention the telly, I sometimes fear that I may soon actually be a mixture of Alan Partridge and Saxondale. But maybe I'm exaggerating my own brilliance. I don't really want to think about me.
Up until i was about 14 there might have been some characters in movies that as a kid i really should not have like. For a shortwhile[Thank God]when you are teenagers many us have a knack to become either too amoral or maybe a bit immoral. But as an adult i don't worry about that happening much. However to turn the question around a second. There are movie characters who at times maybe i wish i could be. Also. I would like to say, don't get the wrong impression, as a kid Superman was my hero, among other admirable characters. It is just as a kid i was not imformed enough to quickly throw away some dubious ones.
Up until i was about 14 there might have been some characters in movies that as a kid i really should not have like, for a shortwhile[Thank God]when you are teenagers many us have a knack to become either too amoral or maybe a bit immoral, but as an adult i don't worry about that happening much, however to turn the question around a second, there are movie characters who at times maybe i wish i could be.also i would like to say, don't get the wrong impression, as a kid Superman was my hero, among other admirable characters, it is just as a kid i was not imformed enough to quickly throw away some dubious ones.
Jim, I am becoming Spike the dog from tom and jerry.
I have a noisy neighbour and it makes me feel like when he used to grab Tom by the throat "Listen Pussycat, Im trying to take a nap, see? And you're driving me nuts. Now if you make one more sound, I'll skin yer alive, geddit?"
Jim, I am becoming Spike the dog from tom and jerry.
I have a noisy neighbour and it makes me feel like when he used to grab Tom by the throat "Listen Pussycat, Im trying to take a nap, see? And you're driving me nuts. Now if you make one more sound, I'll skin yer alive, geddit?"
The Warner Brothers version had both an English Bulldog as well as the regular Brooklyn kind. I think Chuck Jones reused the gag, but changed the accent.
The wicked witch of the west-from the Wizard of Oz-39- When i was a little child my mom told me when that bitch melted away i started to cry, to this day i can't believe it and don't know why, after all the misery she brought to Dorothy and her friends i would have liked to tie her on a rack and let her die like Boris Karloff in the black cat.Which maybe is a good comparision since Horror icon Vincent Price once said the Wizard of OZ was the scariest horror film ever made,
