" I wish it was your chili I was gettin' fat on. "

Loved it.

Charlton Heston. Hilarious!

I pulled up this video of the Trailer.

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi33489177/

take a look.

Anyways. I did really like this movie. As far as I know it was my first time seeing an Orson Welles film. I really liked the opening shot and how long it was. There was something about it that was really eerie...I was sitting just waiting for the car to blow up. Now?...how about...now?? Then...finally.

For some reason I really liked the scene where Welles' character went to the bar where Joanna Moore is. I don't know...there's something about that scene that was interesting...I don't know if it was the joke with the whole "lay off the candy bars" thing..or if it was the strange...intriguing interaction between her and him...as if they had a past.

The scene where the wife is in that motel with the gang of guys is just plain weird..maybe not weird but...creepy and scary ?
And that obnoxious guy who couldn't stop his finger snapping and giggling around...he was just soooo into those tunes. .. Buuuuut...the part where the guys take the wife out of the room...yeah it was rather disturbing...not as disturbing as it could have been but still..

I remember in the beginning of the reading from "Lemme stay, I want to watch," it talked about the idea of fear and anxiety and then desire / fantasy. You get all of this with this film...and it really is like playing a game of tug-o-war. When watching I enjoyed it but then if you stepped back for a little bit it was easy to feel a little stressed by what was going on. For instance when I spoke earlier about the scene where the gang barges in on the wife in the motel room and takes her. Rather scary! Then, the scene where Welles and the Mexican was standing in the room with the wife in the bed...the camera angles and the shadows/ darkness of the room , then the light coming in and out from the street was just soooo cool and sooo eerie they really did a great job with this scene. You really get the sense of anxiety and I feel in a strange way you also get a sense of maybe desire and fantasy with this scene.

Blackboard Juuungle...

To be honest with you...the film didn't impress me what so ever. As sad and cruel as this may sound the only entertaining part of the film was the almost rape scene where Dadier breaks the glass in the door and runs in to the rescue and clobbers the kid who is doing the grabby grabby. What's up with the kid's face ??? I didn't think he got that messed up. When discussing this scene in class a lot of people had mentioned the woman to be a little too riskay..but I don't know...she didn't really dress the part..I mean, she was in a dress that went either to or just past her knees and that buttoned up to her neck...Although she was a little flirtatious, like when we say her and Dadier near the end of the film at the practice. Weird.
Right from the start I wasn't too keen on Dadier...in fact I didn't like his character at all. But again...I'm really not much of a fan of these type of "feel good" films...they bore me quickly...althouuugghhh...that one film where Antonio Banderas came to the school and they all danced and what not...I found that to be rather entertaining...Hah !

The relationship between Dadier and his wife was just so incredibly awkward...for them and the viewer I think. The pressure he puts on her with the baby is just plain ridiculous...

Why didn't his wife come out and ask Dadier about the letters ? I wanted her to confront him about it in the worst kind of way..Maybe because she didn't want to believe that he would do such a thing ?

I will say that my favorite character was the one older teacher...the one that kept looking at the woman teacher...I don't remember her name..the one that came on to Dadier. That whole thing with the male teachers cheacking her out...I don't know..just hilarious I guess.

I want to point out this picture I saw...why is the main image of the woman in the library during that almost rape scene??? Out of every picture or image they could have put up...they put that one..haha.

They've All Gone Crazyyyy !

Well...I think my number one most favorite scene would HAVE to be where we see his Father running around the house in the middle of the evening with an apron on. WHAT on earth is going on? It's really kind of sad and...quite comical. We see this kid, James Dean, playing this huge hard ass who is only in high school and had to move because of his reputation supposedly. Switch blades, fights, games of chicken being played on the edge of a bank with a huge drop into the water. I don't know about anybody else but I never saw these things at my school, maybe it was just too small for it, or maybe the kids back in the 50's were just soooo badass.




The funny thing is if I were involved with such things I probably would not have gotten away with it in high school, for as awesome and laid back as my parents are, I'm pretty positive they would kick my ass or have the cops do it for them. Jim's parent's are the complete opposite, they keep moving every time Jim has a problem, instead of facing the problem and taking care of it. But what is Jim's problem? He has an awesome house, and doesn't lack a thing, really. Even though they are rather awkward, they both care for his well being.



Personally...I found the girl to be really weird. Having this.."thing" for Jim right off the bat, and how convenient for her, her boyfriend just DIED PLAYING CHICKEN OFF A CLIFF. What's with the weird role play of husband and with in the mansion..that was even more awkward...and then that other kid, Plato, pretending Jim was his Dad thinking he was going to do all these things, fishing and such...weird !

I liked the movie for the most part, but goodness, the characters were so crazy, so weird and kind of awkward. I mean...with this whole rebel thing we've got strange thing happening between the characters, like Plato for instance and how he treats Jim, and then the weird relationship Jim and Judy have imitating a newly wed couple; and the strange relation between Jim's mother and father and how their roles are a little different than those we usually see between a 1950's family where it's the father who has the control, or upper hand/word.. instead of the mother. The exaggeration was pretty overwhelming too, I don't know..something about the knife fights and then the whole game of chicken thing...but I it did make for an entertaining film..



P.S. I reallyyy enjoyed the little skit, Date With Your Family, with MST !!! Hilarious.

YEAH ! SONGS !...and...DANCE !

Sooo...I'm really not a huge musical fan...the closest thing to a musical I can get would be Mary Poppins...but wow...for some reason I liked Singing In the Rain...there was something about it that was really interesting. Although, I probably wouldn't watch it again unless I was sick in bed and had nothing better to do...

I've got to hand it to them, the dancing was pretty impressive, excluding the scene where Donald O'Connor does the "fall down" scene for just...too long.
I think it would have been better if there weren't so many song and dance numbers, it was as if every chance they got they were up and dancing and singing about their feelings, it just got a little repetitive after a while.

Something else...never seeing this movie before, except for the one single scene of Gene Kelly doing his little number in the rain and singing/dancing around, I had no idea that this movie WASN'T just about singing in the rain, really..it didn't have much of anything to do with singing in the rain. Funny, because all along I had this preconceived idea that the musical was all about singing in the rain.

It was really interesting to see the split between what we (the audience) sees and what the characters see. I loved and hated Jean Hagen's character, Lina. Hilarious. What a goof personalit, or...VOICE. I guess you could say that Debbie Reynolds, Kathy, plays the role of the most "real" character? Although part of me has to disagree a little, when we are first introduced to her character we see two different sides of her. Then we see Lina who is just nutty as hell. I guess she plays part of the "real" character because for a while before the talkies come out she didn't try to act different until they told her to...but then you get the scene from when she first met Gene Kelly and she didn't want anything to do with him until he was promoted.

The love scene, again , hilarious. Not able to see them as real people they have to use all the tech stuff for the movies. But...I guess it was a cute idea...I mean...what girl wouldn't want a boy to turn on a giant fan to blow fake wind in your hair while singing to you..right? Hah.


What's up with that whole scene with Rita Moreno playing the zip girl totally doing the whole, femme fetal thing ???
Did NOT see that coming, but I liked it.