PumpkinSeed
2004-12-25 X-Mas
16:56
sittin @ granny & aunt's place - watchin Turner Classic Movies
Seems every time I catch a movie on this channel, I get a pleasant surprise, and get stuck watchin at least 2 movies, and tend to relate to something in each of them.
6:00 pm
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
Fanciful musical biography of wild West sharpshooter Annie Oakley. Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Edward Arnold. Director: George Sidney. C-107m
Frank: I can jump a hurdle.
Annie: I can wear a girdle.
Frank: I can knit a sweater.
Annie: I can fill it better!
Frank: I can do most anything!
Annie: Can you bake a pie?
Frank: No.
Annie: Neither can I.
Frank: Anything you can sing, I can sing sweeter.
Annie: I can sing anything sweeter than you.
Frank: No, you can't. (Sweetly)
Annie: Yes, I can. (Sweeter)
Frank: No, you can't. (Sweeter)
Annie: Yes, I can. (Sweeter)
Frank: No, you can't. (Sweeter)
Annie: Yes, I can. (Sweeter)
Frank: No, you can't, can't, can't (sweeter)
Annie: Yes, I can, can, can (Sugary)
Annie: Yes, I can!
Frank: No, you can't!
heh heh - so that's where that song came from!
I was surprised I enjoyed this film so much.
even more surprised I felt I could relate to some of the part about luvin....or not bein with the one ya luvin Huh?
Never seen a monolog before like the one Annie did when she was trying to figure what would happen if her dude came on board....kinda reminded me of the insanity I let loose in my Intuition Journal at times.
8:00 pm
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
When he inherits a fortune, a small-town poet [Longfellow Deeds]has to deal with the corruption of city life. Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, Lionel Stander. Director: Frank Capra. BW-116m
"either he's the most dumbest stupidest man in the world, or else the greatest man alive"
"all my life I just wanted somebody to talk to....
I always hoped that imaginary girl would turn out to be real"
"afflicted with halucinations of grandure..."
"he walks in the rain without a hat, and wistles, and sometmes he sings"
he appears to be manic depressive
"why shouldn't he keep quiet, everytime he spoke people laughed at him....
he could never fit in with our distorted view points"
"Mr Deeds, not only are you sane, you're the sanest man to ever walk into this courtroom"
This is a Columbia Picture
oh no! Meet John Doe is coming up! I saw that movie a long while back - that one stuck.
10:00 pm
Meet John Doe (1941)
A reporter's fraudulent story turns a tramp into a national hero and makes him a pawn of big business. Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold. Director: Frank Capra. BW-122m
"I know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber"
"wake up, John Doe, you're the hope of the world"
"My wife kept me up all night, saying "that man's right - nobody in this world gives a hoot about their neighbor""
"how about we make a place to get together to know one another"
"I never worried about poele before - they were just people to fill up the bleachers"
"Maybe thet're just lonely - just waitng for someone to say to come over"
"I think she's in love with anothere man - the real John Doe - the guy she made up"
"your a fake...
we're the ones who belive in what we're doing"
"Oh John - if it's worth dying for, it's worth living for"
Currently Listening to: There's No Business Like Show Business...
Currently Reading: TurnerClassicMovies.com
Currently Watching: oh nothing
Currently Feeling: retroinactive
Whadduya feelin?
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