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misskait
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One of my favorite black and white comedy films of all time is Some Like it Hot with Marilyn Monroe. She's and inspiration to me, but she was just amazing in that movie. Not to mention it was HILARIOUS! =D
But some others would have to be:
Tootsie (Dustin Hoffman is just awesome)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Marilyn again ^^)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (HECK YEAH!)
Double Indemnity (Anything film noir is just... awesome)
How to Marry a Millionare (I think that was what it was called. Blind Marilyn=win)
I really love Marilyn Monroe, can you tell?
And who doesn't love Gone With the Wind? Sure the heroin is annoying as hell, but it's still a pretty awesome movie man!
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misskait
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Oh! Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window and the Birds! Those were so great =)
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` "Gone With the Wind" is of course, a classic--but frankly, I don't give a damn. ) I would like read Margaret Mitchell's original novel sometime to see how it compares to the film. Hitchcock was quite a genious with a penchant for dark humor in a lot of his films, like Stanley Kubrick did. The thing I like about Hitchcock was that he was able to to convey suspense and fear without resorting to a lot of graphic gore and violence for violence's sake like horror movies do. The scene in "Rear Window" where Jimmy Stewart is watching Raymond Burr apparently cutting his wife into pieces and burying her in the courtyard, or the shattered pair of glasses falling to the ground as the schoolkids are attacked in "The Birds" are classic examples of this technique. If you ever see the 1925 silent Russian film "Battleship Potemkin", the falling baby carriage down the steps scene is a film classic, too. By the way, Marilyn Monroe's last film, "The Misfits" (also Clark Gable's last film), was shot in Dayton, Nevada, not far from where I live (Carson City).
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misskait
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`That is pretty great! I haven't seen The Misfits yet, but I've been wanting to. =)
And I know what you mean. Hitchcock's abilities to be scary without being gorey has always just fascinated me.
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