Re: [MOPO] My 2014 MOPO THINK-ABOUT-IT QUESTION

[daniel strebin]

when i was 5 or 6 or so, i started conning my mom into falling asleep on the couch so i could stay up really late and watch the saturday night double feature monster/ sci-fi show, which in my little market of boring, oregon (yes there really is such a place) was called "the cat creeps" with a really sexy girl in a full black cat suit with ears and tail, pre-dating josie and the pussycats, who came on screen doing a sexy sneaky cat crawl. as if that wasn't enough to change my life in and of itself, the one night that certainly did chose to pair "i walked with a zombie" with "the day the earth stood still", which both burned their unique images and other-wordly philosophies into my hungry brain permanently, in fact it took me years later to figure out what movie emblazoned the voodoo seduction dance into my subconscious, while it it was easy to identify where gort and patricia neal came from (am i the only one who always found her sexy?) so i have always credited those 2 films with the naissance of my fascination with great, terrible, unique, indecipherable, redeeming, hopeless, etc films, as long as they are memorable, that is the one defining quality for me in film, memorable. and of course, i must also credit those first 2 memorable films for my passion to possess something tangible and definitive from every one of those thousands of unforgettable films i have seen along the way. daniel strebin aka dan the posterman

-----Original Message-----
From: Vaughn Mann
Sent: Dec 23, 2014 11:03 AM
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Subject: Re: [MOPO] My 2014 MOPO THINK-ABOUT-IT QUESTION

Kirby,

Great Question,

When I was a kid visiting my grand parents in CT while on summer vacation, my grandfather to me to Town (Mancheser, CT) and he dropped me off at the local theatre (single screen, of course) and I saw Wm.Wellman's "The Next Voice You Hear" w/ James Whitmore and Nancy Reagan.(1950) I am not sure what moved me,but that movie has stuck with me all these years and still now and then, pick it up and watch it. Perhaps as a child it opened up a great deal of questions for me and the manner it was delivered.

Number two is and early film; not sure when I saw it, but it, the love and generosity of the theme "stuck with me" again, all these years. "Sunday Dinner For A Soldier" w/ Anne Baxter, John Hodiak, Jane Darwell and Charles Winniger (1944).

Let's just say, I loved the films and didn't remember them for a week or so after leaving the theatre, but remember them until this day....................Vaughn

-----Original Message-----
>From: Kirby McDaniel
>Sent: Dec 23, 2014 10:06 AM
>To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
>Subject: [MOPO] My 2014 MOPO THINK-ABOUT-IT QUESTION
>
>Mopolians,
>
>Is there a film that CHANGED YOUR LIFE? Maybe not in a big way, but somehow affected a change in you permanently?
>
>This is not a “best-movie-you’ve-ever-seen” question, although the best movie you’ve seen may in fact qualify.
>
>And you may have more than one - but just pick one that stands out in your experience.
>
>It’s really hard to know. It’s easy to say that movies changed my life - I think that collectively they help to shape us, but that’s
>not what I’m fishing for here.
>
>I mean a film that SHIFTED something in you, maybe good, maybe not-so / maybe big, maybe small. So that you could say “after I saw X, I never liked this, or I loved this, or I never felt the same about thus and such.”
>
>Think about it.
>
>I’m not necessarily asking you to post your answer, either. This could be something private for you. It’s just a question I thought about recently.
>
>
>Kirby McDaniel
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