Yes, God damn it—I don't know what I'm supposed to say

[sovay]

Oh, dear God, classic film bloopers are a timesink. Must not stay up all night watching silliness from actors I love, even if Claude Rains blowing a line from White Banners (1938) and shouting himself offscreen with, "Oh, damn and bloody and bugger and blast!" (evidently entering that year's competition for George VI sound-alike) is one of the most peculiarly endearing things I've seen in weeks. I have to do something respectable and job-related in the morning.

Comments

[zdenka]

Well, there went an hour and a half . . .

[sovay]

Well, there went an hour and a half . . .

That's a great icon for your statement.

(Also, yeah.)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Oh man, those are great! So people have been saving and enjoying bloopers all along! It's funny to see which actors got cross with themselves and which ones laughed it off.

[sovay]

So people have been saving and enjoying bloopers all along!

I know! And I hadn't assumed they would; it's easy enough to store the best-of-worst-of in the age of digital video, but film canisters take up space.

It's funny to see which actors got cross with themselves and which ones laughed it off.

Leslie Howard in The Petrified Forest (1936) looks like an exasperated cat.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

"Oh, damn and bloody and bugger and blast!"

Now I want to put someone demonstrably British into MFP so they can say that.

[sovay]

Now I want to put someone demonstrably British into MFP so they can say that.

I would so approve of Motherfucking Claude Rains, you have no idea.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Oh, GAWD DAMN!

[sovay]

Oh, GAWD DAMN!

I love reminders that people in the era of the Hays Code still swore like anyone else.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

They seems to say, "Aw, nuts" a lot. Like Geoffrey Tennant.

Nine

[sovay]

Like Geoffrey Tennant.

Yes! A venerable theatrical tradition, evidently.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Yis, but are they talking about a plural of shell-bearing food-appropriate tree seeds, or...?