"This movie needs way more gay"
Indeed.
Oh, Pacey! You blind idiot. Can't you see she doesn't love you?
Spike ,'Help'
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§ ita § - Feb 05, 2008 8:17:06 am PST #3844 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Polter-Cow - Feb 05, 2008 8:19:02 am PST #3845 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Did you read the alt-text?
i wanted more MANLY ADVENTURE NARRATIVE and less WEAK ROMANCE WITH ILSA where the breen censorship code at the time forbade depicting a woman leaving her husband for another man anyway! we already know you will stay with your husband, ilsa! can we cut back rapid-fire quips between the captain and rick now please
P.M. Marc - Feb 05, 2008 8:20:46 am PST #3846 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
On a completely different war-movie note, I have to ask if anyone else saw 1927's Wings last night on TCM. Not only was it an amazing film with incredible aerial sequences, and not only did Clara Bow kick all kinds of ass with a tremendous performance, but it had the single slashiest scene I've ever ever seen in an ostensibly heteronormative movie. A tender, mournful, genuinely moving and wrenching and utterly slashtastic death scene (right after this moment, when I groaned, "Oh, just kiss him already!", he kissed him already -- according to Wikipedia, the first known M/M kiss on film ever, anywhere)
I didn't, but back when AMC used to be allowed to show classic movies, I watched that one a couple of times, and I less than three it SO MUCH.
Sparky1 - Feb 05, 2008 8:31:19 am PST #3847 of 10000
Librarian Warlord
JZ, I just sent you the NYT review of the picture from Aug. 13, 1927. The word, "HoYAY!" does not appear in the article.
I just love the name on the byline: Mordaunt Hall.
Tom Scola - Feb 05, 2008 8:35:42 am PST #3848 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The NYT review is online.
Polter-Cow - Feb 05, 2008 8:39:59 am PST #3849 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The last chapter, that concerned with the return of Powell to his home in this country, is, like so many screen stories, much too sentimental, and there is far more of it than one wants.
Things haven't changed since 1927, have they.
JZ - Feb 05, 2008 8:46:25 am PST #3850 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oooh, thanks!
Caught the NYT in an error -- Arlen's character is named David Armstrong, not Bruce. I'm sorely tempted to email the ombudsman about this. A big old gross error like that, out flapping in the wind for 81 years; they'd better get on it right away!
lisah - Feb 05, 2008 8:49:15 am PST #3851 of 10000
Punishingly Intricate
JZ, I bet the omsbudsman would get a kick out of that!
Jessica - Feb 05, 2008 8:56:59 am PST #3852 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
(Wait for the end - you need to see the sign-off. And then tell me this kid wasn't the original inspiration for McLovin.)
Strega - Feb 05, 2008 9:09:46 am PST #3853 of 10000
I don't know how you can ask Casablanca to be more gay when it's already got Renault saying things like "She was asking about you earlier, Rick, in a way that made me extremely jealous."