Colpeper, who might have been less chilly and dubious if played, as originally cast, by Roger Livesey.
I hadn't heard about that. It certainly would be quite a bit different--the whole movie would've seemed different.
I haven't seen Psycho.
It's very worth watching.
Is it more appropriate to portray murderers as human than Nazis?
I don't think so. Though for propaganda purposes, I suppose it would have been more important to dehumanise Nazis.
I can't think of many examples of Nazis portrayed as human. There's The Night Porter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Porter), which I haven't seen, though I very much want to.
Says the man who slashed A Canterbury Tale . . .
Heh. I found it too easy to have pornographic thoughts about young Sheila Sim.
I'm perfectly willing to accept art and academia as causes worth fighting for without Leslie Howard's fisticuffs to hammer home the point.
Me too. Though I sort of liked how Howard let the Nazi unload his gun at him--it kind of reminded me of the climactic scene in Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stray_Dog_%28film%29), where it was done a bit better.
research is still getting done and the paintings of Picasso are still beautiful
I actually became really upset when the paintings and books were destroyed--maybe it just reminded me of all the books and art Nazis, and forces like the Nazis, have destroyed through the years.
Then I looked at The New York Times first thing to-day and saw two Picassos were just stolen (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070228/france-picasso-theft). Is it just me, or has there been a bizarre increase in mishandled great paintings lately?
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I hadn't heard about that. It certainly would be quite a bit different--the whole movie would've seemed different.
I haven't seen Psycho.
It's very worth watching.
Is it more appropriate to portray murderers as human than Nazis?
I don't think so. Though for propaganda purposes, I suppose it would have been more important to dehumanise Nazis.
I can't think of many examples of Nazis portrayed as human. There's The Night Porter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Porter), which I haven't seen, though I very much want to.
Says the man who slashed A Canterbury Tale . . .
Heh. I found it too easy to have pornographic thoughts about young Sheila Sim.
I'm perfectly willing to accept art and academia as causes worth fighting for without Leslie Howard's fisticuffs to hammer home the point.
Me too. Though I sort of liked how Howard let the Nazi unload his gun at him--it kind of reminded me of the climactic scene in Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stray_Dog_%28film%29), where it was done a bit better.
research is still getting done and the paintings of Picasso are still beautiful
I actually became really upset when the paintings and books were destroyed--maybe it just reminded me of all the books and art Nazis, and forces like the Nazis, have destroyed through the years.
Then I looked at The New York Times first thing to-day and saw two Picassos were just stolen (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070228/france-picasso-theft). Is it just me, or has there been a bizarre increase in mishandled great paintings lately?