Off we go into the changed reality… INT. GENERAL GROVES’ OFFICE - NIGHT Groves looks up as Kelly enters. GROVES Well? KELLY There’s a squall line clear across the area. We couldn’t fly in. GROVES And no word from them? Kelly shakes his head. INT. CAVE - NIGHT
Really liking this some more, and I was still upset by the naked racism of the hotel manager. My literary introduction to US racism was in a short story I read in college, "A Short Wait Between Trains", the story of Black MPs escorting a trainful of German POWs on their way to a POW camp in the south. While the German prisoners ate in the station dining room, the Black MPs had to eat out behind the kitchen because they were not allowed inside the station..... Heather Cox Richardson wrote a book "How the South Won the Civil War", and so far she is right about that.....the bastiges.
This is great Tom. And I am probably kind of weird. But I really get into and enjoy the details of the scenes. Like “the ground squirrel climbing out of the boot sticking out of the rocks and shaking itself dry”.
If you think about the actual movie, that moment is something you'd remember. A famous Star from the Golden Age once explained to me that a movie is "a series of moments," and if the audience finds enough moments they like, the movie is successful. It's as good an explanation as any I've heard.
That makes sense. And probably why I love older movies so much more than recent ones. There was much more emphasis on the emotion and drama of the moment. Alfred Hitchcock was a master of the moment.
Really liking this some more, and I was still upset by the naked racism of the hotel manager. My literary introduction to US racism was in a short story I read in college, "A Short Wait Between Trains", the story of Black MPs escorting a trainful of German POWs on their way to a POW camp in the south. While the German prisoners ate in the station dining room, the Black MPs had to eat out behind the kitchen because they were not allowed inside the station..... Heather Cox Richardson wrote a book "How the South Won the Civil War", and so far she is right about that.....the bastiges.
That is a great book written by Heather. I highly recommend it.
This is great Tom. And I am probably kind of weird. But I really get into and enjoy the details of the scenes. Like “the ground squirrel climbing out of the boot sticking out of the rocks and shaking itself dry”.
If you think about the actual movie, that moment is something you'd remember. A famous Star from the Golden Age once explained to me that a movie is "a series of moments," and if the audience finds enough moments they like, the movie is successful. It's as good an explanation as any I've heard.
That makes sense. And probably why I love older movies so much more than recent ones. There was much more emphasis on the emotion and drama of the moment. Alfred Hitchcock was a master of the moment.
Indeed he was. I never get tired of watching them either.