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This is a way of making myself write something coherent and grammatically correct almost every day. I'm opinionated and need an outlet. I'm also prone to flights of fancy. Thanks for stopping by. |
| I love old movies. Tonight I watched Shenandoah with James Stewart. He was the only actor I remembered from the first time I saw it at the drive-in. That gives my age away--I actually went to a drive-in theater. But now that I've watched a lot more movies, I recognize a young Katherine Ross and Doug McClure, who was a TV star at the time of the movie. I remember that I liked it a lot when I was young. So did my friends and my parents. My parents loved anything that Jimmy Stewart did. My friends all sang or hummed the theme song or played it on piano. Most of the acting was done by Stewart, and it wasn't his greatest part. All the others were supporting players with minor roles. They did little speaking. McClure and the actor who played the only daughter did more with facial expressions and limited action than with words. The sixteen year old son had the next most important role, and he had very little dialog. At the end he walked with a crutch and when he reunited with his family, he was crying. I cried along with him. Maybe I've gotten old and cynical. In theory I could sympathize with a man who remained neutral in a war, made no comment on it, and refused to provide supplies to either side, yet lost two sons and a daughter-in-law, and had a 3rd son kidnapped. I thought it was sad that the couple were split apart at their wedding ceremony; I remarked that it was nice they got to have a honeymoon night much later. I thought the other murders were unfortunate, but the only true emotion that crept up on me was the final scene with that teenager who had been so brave and scared and made it back home on his own under horrendous circumstances. He kept all his feelings pent up until he was back in the arms of his father, then it all came pouring out. So now I'm wondering it it really wasn't that moving a film after all, or maybe I have gotten hard-hearted. |
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