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I wondered why they've been running on cable this week

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DWPC

In Reply to: RE: Big John Ford at Fox boxset posted by Tom Brennan on December 12, 2007 at 09:59:20

TNT, I think. I watched "Drums Along the Mohawk" Monday night. "Prisoner Shark Island" was Monday too, iirc. "Young Lincoln" and "How Green was my Valley" (one of my all-time favs) were on last night. Great stuff, but awful corny by current stds. I love the way Ford posed his cast in his shots.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy - WB Yeats

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RE: I wondered why they've been running on cable this week - Tom Brennan 16:05:55 12/12/07 (2)
"Great stuff, but awful corny by current stds."
True enough. Which leads me to believe our standards are less honest. Here we are, in reality far less tough and inured to hardship than the generations before us yet acting the part of being more hard-boiled. Pretty funny.
Regards

Edits: 12/12/07
- RE: I wondered why they've been running on cable this week - DWPC 16:36:57 12/12/07 (1)
  I agree. And cynicism infects everything. Good and strong characters must be cut down to size with personal defects so the audience is conditioned to see that people are flawed. The public accepts this as "truth", but in fact its only Hollywood showing how little it thinks of them.
  
  There's a scene in "Drums Along the Mohawk" where Henry Fonda walks away from a barn dance alone and Claudette Colbert (his wife) covertly follows...to find him doting on their sleeping infant. As I watched it I thought how that scene could never appear in a movie now...he'd be found doing something questionable and the audience would accept it.
  
  Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy - WB Yeats
  - RE: I wondered why they've been running on cable this week - Tom Brennan 17:58:26 12/12/07 (0)
    Well said DW, well said indeed.

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