I mentioned it about a month ago, when I discovered the Powell and Pressburger Appreciation Society.
Ah. I don't think it registered with me because I hadn't seen The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp yet--which was the first movie I remember seeing him in.
As much as I like Roger Livesey, I genuinely can't imagine him in the role; I know actors can play successfully against type, but I'm not sure his Colpeper would have had that same initial, glacial charge.
I completely agree.
I just remember there seemed to be a whole slew of films where if you needed a villain, hello, Nazis! They were like cinematic shorthand for pure evil, so you didn't need to worry about the ethical implications of blowing them up, or something.
I see what you mean. It's true. I think there's something more solid about an army of Nazis than an army of Murderers.
But they're so much scarier when human . . .
Hmm. I'm not sure I agree. But I'm too dim just now to expound . . . I'll come back to this.
But that he then beats the tar out of the Nazi? A little overkill.
Yeah. Not to mention he looked too scrawny to so easily overpower the guy--I have the same problem whenever I see James Stewart or Clint Eastwood in a fistfight. That's one of the things I like about John Wayne--the guy's huge, and genuinely looks like he'd be formidable in hand to hand combat.
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Ah. I don't think it registered with me because I hadn't seen The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp yet--which was the first movie I remember seeing him in.
As much as I like Roger Livesey, I genuinely can't imagine him in the role; I know actors can play successfully against type, but I'm not sure his Colpeper would have had that same initial, glacial charge.
I completely agree.
I just remember there seemed to be a whole slew of films where if you needed a villain, hello, Nazis! They were like cinematic shorthand for pure evil, so you didn't need to worry about the ethical implications of blowing them up, or something.
I see what you mean. It's true. I think there's something more solid about an army of Nazis than an army of Murderers.
But they're so much scarier when human . . .
Hmm. I'm not sure I agree. But I'm too dim just now to expound . . . I'll come back to this.
But that he then beats the tar out of the Nazi? A little overkill.
Yeah. Not to mention he looked too scrawny to so easily overpower the guy--I have the same problem whenever I see James Stewart or Clint Eastwood in a fistfight. That's one of the things I like about John Wayne--the guy's huge, and genuinely looks like he'd be formidable in hand to hand combat.