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25/10/2007 09:49:01
 
 
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Movies
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Box office
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
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>>>>>>>>>>>Based on Joseph Conrad's "The Duel" ("Point of Honor" in the US?). Others of his stories gone to film include:
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>>>>>>>>>>And don't forget Secret Agent ( Bob Hoskins and Robin Williams in a particulary good role as 'The Professor' who walks around at all times with his finger on the dead-man switch of the bomb he has strapped to his body. ) Interesting how comedians make some of the best dramatic actors - e.g. Jerry Lewis who isn't funny to anyone but the French but who does what should have been and Oscar turn in Scorcese's King of Comedy - which should also be on any list of truly great movies.
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>>>>>>>>>Speaking of Bob Hoskins, another terrific movie is Mona Lisa.
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>>>>>>>>Yes, and the Long Good Friday
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>>>>>>>I'm not familiar with that one. I'll have to look it up.
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>>>>>>That's the film that brought Hoskins to fame, esp. over there. He's a London gang boss - lots of violence and black humour at the suffering of those who crossed him. I think it also features a young Pierce Brosman, esp at the end - but not sure on that. I understand that when the film 1st crossed the Pond it needed sub-titles so the Cockney could be understood.
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>>>>>Also worth noting is the performance of Helen Mirren !
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>>>>I don't think anyone ever noticed her performance back then! :-)
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>>>Ah - Age of Consent ( 1969 ) Remember it fondly.
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>>>Another exquisite Mirren performance that is often forgotten is in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) since it was a Peter Greenaway film and a lot of folks find his stuff pretty impenetrable. ( my personal favorite being The Draughtsman's Contract
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>>That was really a love-it-or-hate-it movie. In either case, though, Ms. Mirren's charms were unmistakable ;-)
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>In Age of Consent the charms were definitely the attraction. Otherwise very forgetable.

Which gets me back to "I don't think anyone ever noticed her performance back then"! ;-S

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>The Greenaway stuff is often fun to look at but the narrative line is always ... quirky? I recently bought the DVD for Draughtsman's Contract after not having seen the movie since it was released. Have to admit I had a hard time getting 3/4 of the way through it before I went on to something else.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
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