This Saturday
Motion pictures are the great American art form. I think it is what we as a people will be remembered for. Germans will be remembered for their symphonies, Italian's for Renaissance painters, Greeks their drama, Rome its oratories, and America will be remembered for its film. Film is a blend of so many other art forms. Cinematography, music, screenplays, sets, and costume. (Americans love teams) One of the stories I heard (I don't remember where) was that when the movie High Noon was finished it was awful. Test audiences hated it so they went back and re-did the music using simple Tex Ritter music and a film score by Dimitri Tiomkin. The movie ended up winning awards for Best Actor, Best Editing, Best Music for a song, and Best Music for an original Score. High Noon is now considered by many as one of the one hundred best movies ever made.
Great movies like great books are woven into the fabric of American Culture. To be a culturally literate person you should have a general knowledge of great American movies. The March 10 Saturday Matinee will have two classic American Movie Icons, a Betty Boop cartoon, and a Marx Brothers movie but one of the more unusual films included in the March Matinee will be Think Fast Mr. Moto. Largely forgotten in our repressed politically correct world today, Mr. Moto, like Charlie Chan, was a popular movie series in the 30's. They were so popular that they were used as comic references in other movies. In one of my favorite movies, One Two Three (1961) with James Cagney, Arlene Frances plays Jimmy Cagney's wife and has the best one-liners. One of her lines is a sly cutting reference to 'Mr. Moto'. When I heard that line the other day I wondered how many people would get the joke. Not many I'm afraid. Mr. Moto has been almost excised completely out of American Consciousness, so come join us on Saturday March 10 for a rare treat that includes Think Fast Mr. Moto.
March 10 Saturday Matinee
12:00 noon in the Community Room
Betty in Blunderland.
Flash Gordon: Episode 3: Captured by Sharkmen
Think Fast Mr. Moto
Horse Feathers
Great movies like great books are woven into the fabric of American Culture. To be a culturally literate person you should have a general knowledge of great American movies. The March 10 Saturday Matinee will have two classic American Movie Icons, a Betty Boop cartoon, and a Marx Brothers movie but one of the more unusual films included in the March Matinee will be Think Fast Mr. Moto. Largely forgotten in our repressed politically correct world today, Mr. Moto, like Charlie Chan, was a popular movie series in the 30's. They were so popular that they were used as comic references in other movies. In one of my favorite movies, One Two Three (1961) with James Cagney, Arlene Frances plays Jimmy Cagney's wife and has the best one-liners. One of her lines is a sly cutting reference to 'Mr. Moto'. When I heard that line the other day I wondered how many people would get the joke. Not many I'm afraid. Mr. Moto has been almost excised completely out of American Consciousness, so come join us on Saturday March 10 for a rare treat that includes Think Fast Mr. Moto.
March 10 Saturday Matinee
12:00 noon in the Community Room
Betty in Blunderland.
Flash Gordon: Episode 3: Captured by Sharkmen
Think Fast Mr. Moto
Horse Feathers
posted by Rob Finch at 10:18 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home