tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post6380440495105153959..comments2024-03-12T04:51:46.468-05:00Comments on Blue Gal: So why do I think of Cheney when I see this?Fran / Blue Galhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18293627981248346055noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-9043137732328663702007-06-28T15:22:00.000-05:002007-06-28T15:22:00.000-05:00I watched this again a couple months ago for the f...I watched this again a couple months ago for the first time in years. Frighteningly relevant. A great, great film.<BR/><BR/>As to <I>Barry Lyndon</I>, Quakerdave, I like it (and it's beautfully shot by John Alcott with a great deal of natural lighting) but it drags a bit for me at times and the end leaves me a bit unsatisfied for some reason. It's been a few years since I've seen it, though, and I'm overdue. Fantastic soundtrack, too. <BR/><BR/><I>Paths of Glory</I> is another great one.Batocchiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02193752396025012825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-22586716107506275002007-06-28T00:18:00.000-05:002007-06-28T00:18:00.000-05:00So why do I think of Cheney when I see this?It's t...<I>So why do I think of Cheney when I see this?</I><BR/><BR/>It's the rubber glove - keeps Dubbya's dinner out from under The Dick's fingernails.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-62403086328121989182007-06-27T17:34:00.000-05:002007-06-27T17:34:00.000-05:00Got to watch this again. Very funny. One of the li...Got to watch this again. Very funny. One of the lines was changed in the film. The president gets a pie in the face and the line was suppose to be "our beloved president has been cut down in his prime", or something to that effect. They changed the line due the proximity of the films release to the Kennedy assassination.<BR/><BR/>As an aside, Kennedy encouraged the making of 'The Manchurian candidate' and 'Seven days in May' in order to highlight to the public the dangers of a military and corporate takeover of the U.S. He did more than encourage it, he arranged to be out of the oval office at specific points to allow them to film.<BR/><BR/>See David Talbot's new book 'Brothers'John Geraghtyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00742528456558678538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-25432747996733825822007-06-27T02:38:00.000-05:002007-06-27T02:38:00.000-05:00When I think of Cheney, I think of Richard Nixon a...When I think of Cheney, I think of Richard Nixon and Dr. Strangelove rolled all into one.<BR/><BR/><I>Dr. Strangelove</I> is one of my favorite films of all time. The only Kubrick film I dislike is <I>Eyes Wide Shut</I>.Comrade Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11393718048145784837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-52607236137963841082007-06-26T20:51:00.000-05:002007-06-26T20:51:00.000-05:00Barry Lyndon is one of the most beautiful films I'...Barry Lyndon is one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen. Did you know he took a lens off a 35 mm SLR and attached it to a film camera to shoot the scenes with only candles and available light? <BR/><BR/>There is a transition shot where you see a ship sailing across the water. The scene is composed entirely of triangles: the ship, its rigging, the sky, the water. To top this off, the ship moves from right to left, bottom to top across the screen. Since the eye naturally tracks left to right & down, this made the viewers pull their gazes upwards towards the triangle shapes that moved away from their sight path.<BR/><BR/>It built such a feeling of foreboding that not a word was necessary for the audience to know that whatever came next was not going to be good.<BR/><BR/>Yeah, I remember that flick.<BR/><BR/>OGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-46208760853927923172007-06-26T16:25:00.000-05:002007-06-26T16:25:00.000-05:00Yup. "Dr. Strangelove.""2001.""A Clockwork Orange...Yup. "Dr. Strangelove."<BR/><BR/>"2001."<BR/><BR/>"A Clockwork Orange."<BR/><BR/>How about "Barry Lyndon," anyone? Even with Ryan O'Neil? I liked that one a lot, too.QuakerDavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10727729821155579518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-53728008558075002232007-06-26T10:31:00.000-05:002007-06-26T10:31:00.000-05:00too beautiful. i just watched this this weekend.too beautiful. i just watched this this weekend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-76235895072142675312007-06-26T09:26:00.000-05:002007-06-26T09:26:00.000-05:00So why do I think of Cheney when I see this?I don'...<I> So why do I think of Cheney when I see this?</I><BR/><BR/>I don't know. Same reason <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUiqgRzfkgM&mode=related&search=" REL="nofollow">this Kubrick</A> reminds <A HREF="http://imissfaf.blogspot.com/2007/06/friday-pie-political-science.html" REL="nofollow">some people</A> of Cheney, maybe?C-Nihilisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16593930492411196818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-88034508958668690682007-06-26T08:55:00.000-05:002007-06-26T08:55:00.000-05:00"No fighting allowed in the war room!""No fighting allowed in the war room!"Dr. Monkey Von Monkersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14370062692837972451noreply@blogger.com