Posted on 03/11/2010 8:50:27 AM PST by PJ-Comix
I have a HUGE pet peeve. It is western movies in which the characters are wearing embarrassingly modern clothing. Most often it is the hats. If you look at photos or illustrations of the Old West at the time, the hats look very different from what we usually see in the movies. For example, yesterday I watched "September Dawn" about the Mountain Meadows Massacre but I couldn't get over the fact of the silly looking hats that folks back then did NOT wear. One IMDB commenter stated that those hats looked like something people wear on their way to a Garth Brooks concert.
One of the few movies that seemed to get authentic Western look was "Tombstone" which helped in appreciating that excellent movie. Unfortunately most of the Western movies are completely off-base in their costuming. Another thing that really bugs me about Western movies is when they have women dressed in jeans. Back then women ALWAYS wore dresses. NEVER pants. Any exposure of female legs or even outlines of their legs was considered as nudity back then. Oh, and when women rode horses...they only rode side-saddle.
Okay, sorry for the rant but way too many Western movies are RUINED by costume designers too lazy to research for authentic clothing.
Aren’t you the sweet classy lady, for what it is worth, in my county, buying a “trailer” on a lot can cost a million dollars, and many working people buy them because in the east county they can have a nice home on a lot for $200,000.00.
That doesn’t qualify as a trailer park. And I really don’t care what you think of me but it is obvious that you have no more class than you think I have. I would say that you would have to be nuts to buy a lot costing one million dollars. Generally speaking a lot is under 1 acre and I don’t see any place on earth being worth a million dollars an acre.
You may want to read this book.
The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats
By the way, why doesn't that qualify as a trailer park, I didn't say that it was an individual unit, it is in a trailer park, the trailers just happen to be more expensive than your home, I'm guessing.
Then stay away from WW2 renactments. Imagine over two hundred men wearing woool uniforms in the heat of summer smelling like smoke from the fire the night before, stale sweat and booze sweat. Not to mention that you can only take a “whores Bath” meaning you fill up a wash basin with cold water and wash under the arms, wash your face and naughty bits with a sliver of soap. Change of underwear depends.
The German Uniform, while it looks great, sucks. Jackboots with hobnails are lethal to the wearer in concrete, the wool breaths like an Asthmastic and the leather straps digs in to your shoulder.
You know, you have a point, and when that happens the director will be assailed for too much “unnecessary” realism. You can’t win.
No wonder you never called me back, lol!
When I was in the 4th and 5th grade, my dad was a switchman on the Southern Pacific RR. We lived in the SP trailer park in Tucson, AZ.
I thought I was the only person on this earth who used the phrase, “smelling like a goat”
No wonder you never called me back, lol!
>That couldn’t have been you Larry. I think I had a cold that night.
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