I'm not dense! Cool. That and $10 will get me a double mocha latte at Starbucks.
Bruce On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Kirby McDaniel <ki...@movieart.net> wrote: > See! Bruce understands. The rest of you are dense. > > K. > > On Jun 13, 2010, at 3:25 PM, Bruce Hershenson wrote: > > Was not the "Bligh Me" an intentional "error" that was intended to be a pun > of sorts? > > I guess we should just be happy it was not an anagram! > > Bruce > > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 3:17 PM, <jboh...@aol.com> wrote: > >> Thas More like it. >> >> I gather the Pres has apologised to us for the Brit bashing as BP is >> Anglo-American...Oil be coming round the mountain... >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Richard Halegua Comic Art <sa...@comic-art.com> >> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU >> Sent: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:15 >> Subject: Re: [MOPO] OT; BLIGH ME, GUVNOR >> >> do you mean our >> >> B P >> r a >> i r >> t t >> i n >> s e >> h r >> s >> >> >> >> At 01:06 PM 6/13/2010, Kirby McDaniel wrote: >> >> Quite right; we can always learn something from our former owners! >> >> K. >> On Jun 13, 2010, at 2:28 PM, jboh...@aol.com wrote: >> >> Might I point out to our colonial cousins it is Blimey! Not Bligh Me. >> >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Richard Halegua Comic Art <sa...@comic-art.com> >> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU >> Sent: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:26 >> Subject: Re: [MOPO] OT; BLIGH ME, GUVNOR >> >> I agree David >> >> Bridge on the River Kwai being a good example. No happy ending there >> >> >> At 11:38 AM 6/12/2010, David Kusumoto wrote: >> >> I have always felt that Bolt's screenplay in "Lawrence" is not just good, >> but spectacular. There's a reason why it remains in the top ten lists of >> the greatest films ever made. It is so far ahead of its time with its >> ambiguous portrait of Lawrence that it feels timeless and undated. In fact, >> the parts that linger on the visual majesty of the desert or the battle >> scenes sometimes drags down the pacing. I've always felt (and I know there >> is debate about this), that despite my love for Gregory Peck, who won Best >> Actor that year, that Peter O'Toole's performance in Lawrence is simply >> electric and drop-dead perfect. And what an ending! It disappoints many, >> but it is an anti-climax that is faithful to the integrity of where >> Lawrence's story HAD to go. Can you imagine some corn-ball U.S.-tinkering >> happy ending tacked on to make Lawrence's efforts uplifting and redemptive? >> >> >> A generalization, but I think the Brits have a knack for making >> wonderfully written films that - as I wrote last year - are masked when >> they're budgeted by American dollars and cast (e.g., Anthony Quinn, who was >> a major star here in 1962) to draw an American audience. Astoundingly, the >> country-of-origin and first printing of "Lawrence" is the U.S.A. like >> "Bridge over the River Kwai" (which was cast budgeted to include William >> Holden) - despite being thoroughly British in tone and sensibility. Hence >> my obsession with "country-of-origin" posters which I treat like first >> edition books regardless of less than attractive art. I'm bitter that the >> beginning of Carol Reed's "The Third Man" was butchered by Selznick when it >> was released in the U.S.; the British version is superior. But at least in >> the case of the wonderfully written "Third Man" -- the country-of-origin is >> rightfully the U.K. >> >> ------------------------------ >> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:57:20 -0500 >> From: brucehershen...@gmail.com >> Subject: Re: OT; BLIGH ME, GUVNOR >> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU >> >> I think Bolt started the screenplay for The Bounty, but had a stroke and >> the eventual film contains little of his original writing. >> >> I imagine the movie with a screenplay by the Bolt of the early 1960s, and >> it would have been wonderful. >> >> I first read the three novels by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall >> (Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, and Pitcairn's Island) as a >> teen, and I know there is still a great series of movies (or an epic TV >> mini-series) waiting to be made of the entire story (only parts of which >> were addressed in the earlier versions). >> >> Bruce >> >> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Kirby McDaniel <ki...@movieart.net> >> wrote: He also co-wrote the script for THE BOUNTY (1984), the mutiny on >> the HMS Bounty story, which David Lean had always wantedto film, but was >> never able to get financed. >> This film takes a fuller look at the BOUNTY epic, and is enjoyable enough, >> directed by Roger Donaldson. But one can only imagine that tale with the >> Lean camera and editing synergy and perfectionist sensibility. Maybe the >> financiers >> remembered all too well the MGM experience with the Brando version. I have >> always liked that version. >> LEAN went on to make A PASSAGE TO INDIA, a thoroughly wonderful film, in >> my opinion. I think that'sout on BLU - RAY now. >> >> K. On Jun 12, 2010, at 7:49 AM, Bruce Hershenson wrote: >> >> Robert Bolt, who wrote Lawrence, quickly followed with Doctor >> Zhivago<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059113/>, >> A Man for All Seasons <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374856/> (from his >> earlier play), and Ryan's Daughter <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066319/>, >> a pretty amazing string of wonderful screenplays. >> Of course he didn't manage to include a tagline as great as "Get off my >> lawn!" in any of them, but he did his best. >> Bruce >> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Phil Edwards <p...@cinemarts.com> wrote: >> Odd, we nearly always think of LAWRENCE in terms of its epic scope and >> spectacular visuals, but it has one of the most literate andprecise >> screenplays of almost any film I can think of. ----- Original Message >> ----- From: Kirby McDaniel <ki...@movieart.net> To: >> MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 2:06 PM Subject: >> [MOPO] OT; BLIGH ME, GUVNOR >> Tony Hayward: I am reminded of the wonderful line Claude Rains (Dryden) >> gets in LAWRENCE: >> >> Prince Feisal <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000027/>: You, I suspect, are >> chief architect of this compromise. What do you think? Mr. >> Dryden<http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001647/>: >> Me, your Highness? 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