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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. |
| Funny how some movies pass the test of time, while many popular ones don't. For instance, a dark movie like It's A Wonderful Life didn't do so well originally. However, it's now hailed as a masterpiece, and is replayed more than most movies, and has been redone, both seriously and comically, by dozens of newer filmmakers. The appeal is that it makes all of us think about how or if life would be different if we had never been born. It's not just a holiday tradition. Another one that did well the first time, but has enjoyed rerun status, and is finally getting some critical acclaim is The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. It is a grandiose film that tackles a lot of subject matter, but you feel like you're watching something artistic. Sometimes I'm not sure, but there are some magical moments. There is the cemetery scene near the end that takes almost inaction and stretches it out in a breath-holding, intense passage with music that builds the suspense to great heights. The camera darts all around catching the nervous thumbs on the guns, the twitching eyes, (no one has narrower eyes than Lee Van Clief) to beads of sweat to clenched teeth. Actually, the camera work is excellent there. The editing weaves the rest of the spell. The sound and the music are not only from that time period but they help make the movie an epic. The story is long and dramatic and has a lot of surprises. But I never got the title. Not even in the early 70's, did it make sense. There's the bad, okay. We all get the bad. Who is the ugly? It's easy when you're young; you pick the one you're least attracted to, Eli Wallach. As you get older, you realize, he's someone's husband and there are probably lots of women who thought he was kind of cute. I wouldn't call him ugly. Maybe he had an ugly personality, but it was no worse than Lee Van Clief's character. But the good? No one in the movie is good! Clint Eastwood was good-looking, but that's a far cry from good. Maybe by contrast to the bad; naw, a thief is still a thief. Yet, even with the peculiar, non-sense title, it's a spectacular movie, and deserves to be seen every couple of years. |
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