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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 at 11:49 am17 Tourists
Filed under Movies, Sitely, Life, Screencap Heaven
So it’s been three weeks, and what, two days? since my last update? That’s alright though. In the last few weeks I’ve probably spent a total of half an hour on the computer…I just haven’t wanted to come on. We leave for Cuba on the 21st, so just under two weeks from now, and we’ll be away for two weeks. There’s actually not much else going on, so I think I’ll talk about the many movies. :-P
Since my last update I have watched a total of 15 movies. Anyway, they were: The Holiday (2006), The Marrying Kind (1952), Nancy Drew, Detective (1938), Nancy Drew, Reporter (1939), Nancy Drew, Troubleshooter (1939), Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939), Gandhi (1982), Gigi (1958), Flying Down to Rio (1933), A Child is Waiting (1963), Brigadoon (1954), My Favourite Wife (1940), Her First Romance (1951), The Mating Season (1951), and I Know Where I’m Going (1945). The horrible thing for me is that all but two of them were made before 1965, so it’s going to be a big paragraph. :-P I won’t be discussing I Know Where I’m Going, because I have before. Alrighty now, enforcing my rule of on the home page only discussing the movies made in or before 1965, here we go! The Marrying Kind stars Judy Holliday who has a classic “brooklyn” voice, so kind of gruff. It’s about a man and a woman who are telling their story to a judge because they want a divorce. So the movie is all about them, but we know that they’re telling the story. They’re story is sad in a few places, heart breakingly so. It’s well acted, and quite realistic for a family though, but not for everyone. Nancy Drew, Detective is the first of the four Nancy Drew movies made by Warner Brothers in the late 1930’s, starring Bonita Granville. This one is based on one of the books, and is about this: an old woman is planning to donate a large sum on money to a girl’s highschool, but then she goes missing. Nancy sets out to find out what happened to her, while getting into some scrapes of her own. It’s funny, and well acted, and I do believe that Bonita Granville is the *perfect* Nancy Drew. Nancy Drew, Reporter is about: Nancy is one of a few students participating in a competition on a newspaper, and her goal is to win by writing the best story. The takes someone else’s assignment and is investigating a murder, when she discovers that the one accused is not the guilty party, so she sets out for the truth. I also have to mention here that John Litel who plays her father is just excellent, and I think Frankie Thomas as Ted is wonderful. Nancy Drew, Troubleshooter is about: Her uncle Matt has been charged with murder, but Nancy is sure he didn’t do it. She and Ted discover who the real murderer’s are, but are then put in a lot of danger themselves. Nancy also finds herself hating the woman that her father seems to “like”. Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase is about: Two elderly women are living in a house which was left for them by their father. The catch is that they have to live in it for 20 years, and every night at least one of them has to be at home, or else the house is taken from them. They are approaching the twenty year mark when a man seems to have been murdered in the house (Nancy discovers that very quickly), and other strange things are occurring that make the women want to leave. The house is supposed to go to a children’s hospital (because the women want it to), but if they leave, then it can’t. So of course Nancy decides to find out what’s happening so that the women are okay with staying put. I think all four of the movies are great! They’re funny, tense, but fun to watch. Gigi is a classic musical made in the late 1950’s and is based in Paris. It’s about a young French girl, and it’s a very, sort of, daring movie in the sense that it exaggerates. A young man, Gaston, and Gigi have a platonic relationship, but then Gaston discovers that Gigi has matured into a woman. I think it’s absolutely sweet and funny, and just wonderful! An excellent movie! Flying Down to Rio stars Gene Raymond as a man who seems to fall for girls and ruin his band’s opportunities, and Fred Astaire as his best friend. Gene Raymond’s character falls for a Brazilian woman and when the band goes to Brazil for a job, he discovers that she is already engaged. It’s a funny movie, and also has some great dancing by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (the first movie they were in together)! A Child is Waiting is the second to last movie that was made by Judy Garland, and it also stars Burt Lancaster. The movie is about a woman (Judy Garland) who goes to work at a school for disabled children, and how she encounters one specific little boy who is having a very hard time, an no one ever comes to visit him. It’s a really sad movie actually, but extremely touching. Brigadoon is a great Gene Kelly musical. Two American men are on a hunting trip in Scotland when they come upon a small village that was not on their map. When they arrive in the village, everyone is behaving as if they lived two hundred years in the past. As well as this, Gene Kelly’s character has fallen in love with a woman, played by Cyd Charisse. It’s a funny movie (especially Van Johnson’s cynical, miserable character), and it’s also such a famous musical. My Favourite Wife stars Cary Grant and Irene Dunne in a movie about a woman who arrives home 7 years after everyone had thought she died in a shipwreck, only to discover that her husband has just gotten remarried. When he finds out that she is still alive, he is so happy and wants to break the news to his new wife, but he finds out that his old wife had spent the last 7 years on a deserted island with antoher survivor: an attractive man. Through his jealousy, he has to determine which wife he loves most. A funny movie. Her First Romance is about young teens and children at a summer camp, and one particluar girl played by Margaret O’Brien who has a crush on on of the boy’s, who is also liked by a lot of the girls. It’s a funny movie in general, and just good entertainment. I love Jimmy Hunt who plays her little brother…he is such a great character. The Mating Season is about a man and a woman who get married, but the woman is from a higher “class” while the husband is not. The husband, Val, is worried that his new wife will not like his mother because she’s not upper class, so he doesn’t introduce them. This turns bad when his wife, Maggie, hires her to be their cook, and Val is angry at that. To top it off, his mother in law movies in, and she hates him and their “cook” so much. It’s a really funny movie, but also a little sad in places. I enjoyed it. (To read about the rest of the movies I watched, click here.)
Screencap Heaven has not been updated again yet, but that’s because I haven’t felt like being on the computer much at all. I have had a lit of requests, so I might start on some of those at some point. Sitely updates do not include any new art (sadly), but I have updated the movie challenge 2 page in the girl section, and I’ve also finally put up the artistic interview which was done for the month of june, and it was done by the amazing JF, so check it out, and check out their site. Okay, that’s that. :-)
I’m thinking of adding another section to this site, but I don’t know if I want to make a new section, or a new site for this thing I’m thinking about, but I’ll let you all know.
Tata! Oh, and I really don’t like this layout anymore, but I’ll wait to change it when I get back from Cuba. And Once more I apologise for my super long blog entries. :-P
Thanks to Heather, Gina, Ivana, Zara, Sarah, Ragnhild, and Lia for commenting!
