What is the Most Famous Movie Scene?

[The Good Michael]

Also from Casablanca: Round up the usual suspects.

Mike

[The Good Michael]

My students were so lazy today because they have finals next week. I said to them, "I see dead people."

They didn't get it and to explain it would take to long so I told them they are like zombies. That, they understood. Kazakhs (sigh).

Mike

[mariab]

The Good Michael wrote:
Also from Casablanca: Round up the usual suspects.
I thought that line was from Agatha Christie?
Has The 6th sense mot made it to Kazachstan yet? Sooo last season. :-)

[The Good Michael]

I thought that line was from Agatha Christie?
Has The 6th sense mot made it to Kazachstan yet? Sooo last season. :-)

I don't remember Agatha Christie saying anything significant.

Kazakhstan is pretty modern with movie releases at the same time as in the States. The lines are all in Russian, so they don't know the catch phrases as we do. Still, the beer is good and the bread is as good as it gets. A book store would be nice.

Mike

[mariab]

I've never been impressed by Agatha Christie as a crime author either. Some of her more comedic novels (such as They came to Bagdhad) are pleasant, though.

The great Michael wrote:
The lines are all in Russian, so they don't know the catch phrases as we do.
That would have been my next interpretation! How'bout the theater? Do they play Chekhov and such?

[The Good Michael]

Maria,

Funny you should ask. Theater isn't a big deal in Astana, but I am starting a theater group in January. My goal is to have the students direct and perform in a set of one-acts, maybe 4. I think they will have difficulty remembering lines for a full play, but I really wanted to do Uncle Vanya. The one-acts will present enough difficulty, and given the listlessness of the Kazakh people in general (as they will fully admit), it will be difficult to get any commitment from them. I have hopes, but I'm realistic about it. I'm kind of happy that I will get one crazy night in Frankfurt in a few weeks as I have a one day layover on my way to the States. Civilization will be nice..., though I wish it were Belgium, if only for the ales.

Mike

[Derrick]

Anyone who has seen Casablanca and didn't love it has no soul.

The romance lasts to the very end. "We'll always have Paris"

Citizen Kane may be technically brilliant but Casablanca is better, yet it is still, IMHO, second to 12 Angry Men for watchability.

When Henry Fonda pulls the identical knife out and sticks it in the table, the whole jury room comes alive and so do the audience. True movie magic.

Derrick

[Robert]

12 Angry Men is extremely well done. Basically it's 12 men talking in a room for 90 minutes. A miracle that they made it so gripping.

[Stephen Thomas]

I've never been impressed by Agatha Christie as a crime author

Poirot's Last Case, which I suppose will never be filmed, is fantastically clever.

I doubt that Conan Doyle could have come up with anything like that.

[mariab]

To The Good Michael:
There's a one act precursor to Uncle Vania. Just don't remember its title right now. (Something like The wild one?) It's very similar to Uncle Vania, but not very well structured, and with a different ending. It's funny, I directed Chekhov one acts when I was in high school. (That was a phase in my teens, before I discovered opera, when I wanted to be a theater director...)
Frankfurt... Busy airport, busy city.

Derrick wrote:
Anyone who has seen Casablanca and didn't love it has no soul.
I didn't even like it and I very much doubt I have no soul. I love Gone with the wind (both the book and the movie, must have read the book over 30 times and seen the movie at least a dozen times). I happen to believe Casablanca doesn't resonate in my generation, very possibly because the female protagonist essentially has no backbone or interest, and the two male protagonists are a total cliché. Why does Scarlett O'Hara (or Melanie Hamilton, or Rhett Butler) totally resonate? Why does Truffaut's Le dernier métro {The last métro}, which is essentially a story about French resistance against the Nazis, totally resonate? Because they're much more deep and nuanced than Casablanca. (And apologies, C.D., didn't feel like rubbing this to your face!)

[sleekviper]

ha! Good one Maria, I missed it totally. I just had a thought, strange as it might be, I wonder if Alfred Hitchcock was a secret, obsessed, Ripperologist? His big break comes from "The Lodger", no secret on Jack in that one, most of the films contain "A scene", that is a moment that is like the shower scene in "Psycho" which stands out, as the victims have in this case. I am not even sure how famous Doris Day would have been if it were not for her being in "The man who knew too much" singing "Que Sera Sera" in what could be "The scene". Martha is stabbed 39 times, he makes "39 Steps". The hero, like the police in Whitechaple, is usually blindsided into a situation that has them confused, and tied in is a older female, often the mother of the hero. Older female in the plots, older victims with Jack. Jack pops into a society, causes chaos, and is gone without a clue, much the same as "The Birds". Yeah, too much thinking about movies, I know.Ha!

[Tom_Wescott]

There's actually a book regarding Hitchcock's obsession with the Ripper, although I forget the name. It's one of the few I don't have.

TRIVIA: What Ripper 'suspect' has a connection to Gone With The Wind?

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[mariab]

Tom Wescott wrote:
TRIVIA: What Ripper 'suspect' has a connection to Gone With The Wind?
Tumblety? He was briefly a Union army surgeon, claiming to be friends with President Lincoln, General Grant, and a host of other well-known political figures.

I haven't seen Hitchcock's The lodger yet.

[sleekviper]

Hi Tom!
Wow, I am not the only one to notice, well that is good to know. Like to read that book if you ever think of the title. Besides my suspect, I have no idea, good question.

[Tom_Wescott]

Hi Sleek and Maria. Here's a hint, the title 'Gone with the wind' was culled from a line in a poem. The author of that poem is considered a Ripper suspect.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott