Movies and Films
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when is a sub movie not a sub movie....?
Posted by:
cate
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Date: October 15, 2003 04:37AM
<HTML>Gesundheit! :-)
Ah, I love that film. Dietrich doing 'Falling in Love Again' and Monroe's 'Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friends' used to be my party pieces - though sadly it would be beyond any blond wig on the planet to have ever made me look like either :-(
Maybe I should work on the moustache and concentrate on my Connery impression......
I'm trying to think of a good recommendation for seeing 'Hunt for Red October', beyond it's exciting, has some good acting, and I quite liked it:-)
I can never decide whether it's fair to judge films like that one as 'sub-movies' or not. They're not in the same category as Das Boot, in which the submarine is the entire focus/subject and even main character of the film (you set out and developed a very interesting idea once about the various members of the crew embodying different aspects of the body and soul of the boat), but neither are they in the same bracket as films like 'The World Is Not Enough' or 'Eye of the Needle', where subs feature in the plot but briefly. HFRO belongs to a different genre that uses the submarine as a backdrop for the main action, but has agendas to which the setting is largely incidental. Sometimes when they get critically slated for not being technically or historically accurate, I wonder if those types of film get enough credit for their strengths as movies on their own terms.
cate
ps - sounds like Davo's caught your nasty cold:-)</HTML>
Ah, I love that film. Dietrich doing 'Falling in Love Again' and Monroe's 'Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friends' used to be my party pieces - though sadly it would be beyond any blond wig on the planet to have ever made me look like either :-(
Maybe I should work on the moustache and concentrate on my Connery impression......
I'm trying to think of a good recommendation for seeing 'Hunt for Red October', beyond it's exciting, has some good acting, and I quite liked it:-)
I can never decide whether it's fair to judge films like that one as 'sub-movies' or not. They're not in the same category as Das Boot, in which the submarine is the entire focus/subject and even main character of the film (you set out and developed a very interesting idea once about the various members of the crew embodying different aspects of the body and soul of the boat), but neither are they in the same bracket as films like 'The World Is Not Enough' or 'Eye of the Needle', where subs feature in the plot but briefly. HFRO belongs to a different genre that uses the submarine as a backdrop for the main action, but has agendas to which the setting is largely incidental. Sometimes when they get critically slated for not being technically or historically accurate, I wonder if those types of film get enough credit for their strengths as movies on their own terms.
cate
ps - sounds like Davo's caught your nasty cold:-)</HTML>
