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― Abbott, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

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― Abbott, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Your thesis would work if Capra ended the movie with George floating dead in the river. (also, Potterville looks pretty fun)

Search: Dana Carvey doing elderly Stewart on the Carson show, reading Beat poetry

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

george floating dead in the river would be a vast improvement, to me.

but otm re: Potterville!

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

(also, Potterville looks pretty fun)

violet looks pretty fun.

but yeah, it's never sat well with me that george never gets to do anything he wants to do and shows no sign of ever doing so. What's the message?

― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

"if you're nice and reliable for too long you're going to get fucked in the ass by everyone you know"

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

pretty much!

― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

favorite line: "Why do we have to have all these kids?!"

― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Awww, it's a widdle plushie Pooka!

http://store.jimmy.org/images/Harvey_125.jpg

― Abbott, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

i've probably told some of the people here about the wonderful life "christmas village" my friend's mom sets up every year.

you know those ceramic houses and tiny trees and lights and shit that crazy midwestern mothers put all on their mantles in september and leave up until february. this one is bedford falls.

the model of the bridge has A VERY TINY JIMMY STEWART CONTEMPLATING SUICIDE MERRY CHRISTMAS :D :D :D

― ghost rider, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

IAWL is as I've stated before basically the biggest most shameless piece of modern-era conservative propaganda I can think of. It's aimed squarely between the eyes of every middle american who never makes jack shit for busting their ass all day, it's okay because you know what jesus still fucking loves you amirite.

If you change Mr. Potter's name to something that ends with Farb or Berg or Man you also get the bonus of unadulterated nazi caricature!

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

that is so blood diamonds UH BEARTRAPS

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link

btw, you are missing THE NAKED SPUR and WINCHESTER '73, two of the Anthony Mann westerns! where he's usually surly!

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

that plushie also looks nothing like the real harvey btw

real harvey is a lot more like the donnie darko rabbit

considering the time travel capabilities I'd say they're likely related

ooh and donnie darko is also the inverse of IAWL! I just figured that out thank you DUH TRON

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

what on earth are you talking about?

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

i like the guy who is givin out wings.


god? or nick?

― lauren, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

either.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I know it's not a Pooka. It was for sale at the Jimmy Stewart Museum site. I like how they found some random bunny toy and called it Official Pooka.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Nick >>> God

― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.twintone.com/minies/89229.gif

― ghost rider, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm goin for rope, jimmy stewart in that is like the original columbo

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, he is very, very good in Rope. but I still dislike him.

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

the model of the bridge has A VERY TINY JIMMY STEWART CONTEMPLATING SUICIDE MERRY CHRISTMAS :D :D :D

Nothing says Christmas like a suicidal George Bailey.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

donnie darko -> he realizes he has to go back and let himself be killed so the world can be set right
it's a wonderful life -> he realizes he shouldn't commit suicide because without him bedford falls turns into baltimore

SPOILER ALERT SORRY

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Does anyone remember the U.S. Acres cartoon where Wade is contemplating suicide and the guardian angel shows him how much happier & superior the world is without him?

― Abbott, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

but see he's about to learn! He's about to be shown the horror that is having bars and entertainment in your town!

xposts

― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Stewart,%20James/Annex/Annex%20-%20Stewart,%20James%20(Ice%20Follies%20of%201939,%20The)_01.jpg

― rps, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

ok awesome

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

It puts Ferrell and Heder to shame, for reals.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

aw dude, of course IAWL is depressing! that's why i love it!
[also, i thought ghost rider was tombot...]

― stevie, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

"some terrible thing that yr gonna claim i left out"

HI DERE!

srsly, THE MORTAL STORM features an A+ performance from Stewart as he tries to save his love from the Nazis - good Borzage propaganda (Sarris said something funny about this film - something like "Borzage has an odd objection to Facism")

On the cheeseball side - AIRPORT 77

the only correct answer to this thread can be VERTIGO

― gershy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 03:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I picked Rear Window, actually, because I think Vertigo puts him almost too much in the service of Hitchcock. Stewart's big moments there -- "Did he train you? Did he tell you exactly what to do and what to say?" -- feel less like Jimmy Stewart and more like Hitch trained him what to do and what to say. In Rear Window he gets to be laid back and funny and obsessed, all in one movie, and all without walking around. It feel like it's more of him.

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 03:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, one of my favorite movies ever, so I'm biased.

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 03:13 (seventeen years ago) link

he's great in rear window.
also good in NO HIGHWAY IN THE SKY w/ DESTRY co-star Dietrich

― gershy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 03:20 (seventeen years ago) link

IAWL is way misinterpreted because ppl never view it in the context of capra's other films - espec. "meet john doe," which is certainly among the darkest classic hollywood era movies i can think of. the genuine frustration and despair makes the corniness more poignant for me.

i think the ending's supposed to be more bittersweet than ppl assume - yes george never got to live out his dreams, but that's life, yknow? most people don't get to.

despite my love for capra and "liberty valance" i'm gonna have to go with "vertigo" since it basically affected me more than any movie ever. every time i've seen it i wind up feeling like i've witnessed a suicide or something.

― J.D., Thursday, 12 April 2007 09:15 (seventeen years ago) link

without him bedford falls turns into baltimore

Jeez, I guess I should go somewhere besides Camden Yards next trip.

btw Ally, b4 you get pissed about Ice Cube remaking Mr. Blandings, you shd be aware that this Disturbia thing coming out tomw is apparently a Rear Window ripoff with 20-year-olds (ie, whoever the fuck Shia LeBouef is).

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I know! It looks like it could be funny.

― Nicole, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

ugh morbs, that news is terrible. i have no idea what movie you're talking about but everything you just said grossed me out. i mean, disturbia??

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

All the reviews I've seen say it has zero surprises, by the numbers.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link

also, my fave interp of RW is that it's really about JS trying to figure out if he wants to marry Grace Kelly (the wedding ring, the different women/couples he spies on, etc).

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link

that's an interpretation?

― gabbneb, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:21 (seventeen years ago) link

yes.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link

shia lebouef is spike witwicky in the new transformers!!!

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

it's produced by Ivan Rietman

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I read about it in the newspaper

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

but yeah disturbia is a terrible title for a film

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

or anything

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

one of my film profs lectured us on the marriage anxiety interpretation of rw. i remember him repeatedly pausing the scene in which grk wiggles her finger to show js that she has the ring.

― lauren, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i mean, i wouldn't say RW is 'about' one thing, but the settling-down theme is all over the movie and explicit. that great music thing you found - that's an interpretation

― gabbneb, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a tie!

I've never seen "Rear Window"

― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

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From the 50s/60s

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 14 August 2023 20:09 (eight months ago) link

he's the embodiment of the noble good dude in a lot of ways, but when he's unhinged in his performances (which is pretty frequently), it's believable and often frightening. he shows a deep fury in some of the roles which seems impossible to rein in.

― omar little, Monday, 14 August 2023 20:10 (eight months ago) link

even in it's a wonderful life, as things start to fall apart and he starts to lash out, he starts to act more like a family annihilator than a family man.

― omar little, Monday, 14 August 2023 20:12 (eight months ago) link

I had "vertigo" on a computerized Scrabble rack today (I think the letters were even in order) with nowhere to play it. Found an open 'n' on the board and laid "revoting."

― clemenza, Monday, 14 August 2023 20:26 (eight months ago) link

stewart is so great in conflict with himself, those flawed human moments, his reactions are really nuanced & true to life

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 August 2023 20:48 (eight months ago) link

He's more frightening than John Wayne.

― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 August 2023 20:49 (eight months ago) link

stewart is so great in conflict with himself

hell, yes. his best moments on film are sublimely nuanced and calibrated bits of facial expression or physical tension. there are various close-ups in It's a Wonderful Life that are just killer.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 14 August 2023 21:17 (eight months ago) link

I think Ebert said something about how Stewart's combat experience really shown through in most of his post-war performances.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 14 August 2023 21:28 (eight months ago) link

Oh, good point!

― No Zing Compares 2 HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 August 2023 21:28 (eight months ago) link

I didn’t really know anything about his military service until I just now read up in his Wikipedia page. Seems to me other guys worked on USO-type stuff and propaganda films but he was flying Bomber missions to Germany.

― No Zing Compares 2 HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 August 2023 21:32 (eight months ago) link

yeah his access to that idk “extra gear” that he can shift into must come from that experience for sure, or at least adds to it… he’s not afraid to explore the darker psychological stuff

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 August 2023 21:33 (eight months ago) link

It really came out with Hitchcock and Anthony Mann, but seems to have always been there to some degree.

― No Zing Compares 2 HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 August 2023 22:26 (eight months ago) link

He's more frightening than John Wayne.

Ha! But not more frightening than Lee Marvin.

― No Zing Compares 2 HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 August 2023 22:27 (eight months ago) link

ts: crazy-eyed menace vs cold-eyed menace

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 14 August 2023 23:20 (eight months ago) link


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