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1. Daddy-O of the 7 Wonders (daddyo@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 02:59:16 JST Daddy-O of the 7 Wonders

   In one of the more unique categories of films, I'll enter "My Favorite Wife" with Cary Grant and Randolph Scott in the "Awkward use of a Slide Whistle in a Classic Movie" category along with "D.O.A."

   • Daddy-O of the 7 Wonders (daddyo@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 02:59:10 JST Daddy-O of the 7 Wonders

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     My favorite staging of "Taming of the Shrew" set it in 1950s America, with Petruchio being a Texas oil tycoon. Hearing Shakespeare with a Texan drawl was somehow perfect.

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   • Daddy-O of the 7 Wonders (daddyo@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 02:59:11 JST Daddy-O of the 7 Wonders

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     That's definitely part of it. I often think a lot of the Oscar bait movies are similar to action movies, only instead of watching the spectacle of CGI explosions one watches the spectacle of an actor emoting all over the place. It's rooted in "feeling" and not reason - it's why I can't stand a lot of modern stagings of Shakespeare where the actors drown the lines out by emoting all over them.

   • Leyonhjelm (leyonhjelm@breastmilk.club)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 02:59:11 JST Leyonhjelm

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     To me the worst way to do Shakespeare is pretentiously. The crowds his plays were written for were of all classes - and most people regardless of class weren’t into that shit in their entertainment.

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   • Daddy-O of the 7 Wonders (daddyo@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 02:59:12 JST Daddy-O of the 7 Wonders

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     I think a big part of the prejudice against old movies is first an inability to appreciate the black & white aesthetic and second a problem with modern attention spans. Modern movies since at least the 80s have focused more on spectacle and emotion and "the experience" and less on actual narrative and complex characters. I started my own kids on silent movies (Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd) and lots of classic 30s/40s cinema. They've grown up enjoying the old movies as much as the new ones.

   • Leyonhjelm (leyonhjelm@breastmilk.club)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 02:59:12 JST Leyonhjelm

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     I think a lot of it is lack of literacy in the stage roots of acting as an art. Nobody acts anymore, they try to emulate reality

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   • Temporary Name (restful@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 02:59:14 JST Temporary Name

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     @DaddyO Good point. I hadn't thought of it in those terms. My Favorite Wife was an adaption of a stage play and there was a lot of that too. I think the reasons today are basically the same though: it worked before, so it'll work again. Also people refuse to watch movies that are too old for some reason.

   • Daddy-O of the 7 Wonders (daddyo@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 02:59:15 JST Daddy-O of the 7 Wonders

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     Remakes made more sense back in the day, before home videos and broadcasting old movies on TV was a thing. Most audiences either didn't have access to the original or never saw it or probably didn't remember it that well.

     Now-a-days it's just the acme of laziness.

   • Temporary Name (restful@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 02:59:16 JST Temporary Name

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     @DaddyO I looked up the plot and it seemed very familiar. I realized I'd seen the 1963 remake Move Over Darling. I guess Hollywood has always recycled stuff they know works rather than creating anew.

   • Leyonhjelm (leyonhjelm@breastmilk.club)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 02:59:36 JST Leyonhjelm

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     How to cast shakespeare:

     At least one greasy slimy man

     At least one man who can’t get over himself

     At least one man who is crippled by love

     At least one man who just wants to get his dick wet

     At least one man who will exist only to die

     One and only one total retard

     At least one woman you would never marry but can handle bawdy banter

     At least one woman who doesn’t mind getting her tits out

     At least one woman you’d like to have children with but has a lovely wit.

     These can overlap as needed. No fake british accents allowed.

     @restful

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