Posted on 07/22/2012 1:01:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin
“The Dark Knight Rises” is on track to earn $160 million after a shooting that left 12 dead and 58 wounded at a midnight screening of the Batman sequel in Colorado.
Hollywood studios joined “Dark Knight Rises” distributor Warner Bros. in publicly withholding their box-office numbers for the weekend. Box-office tracking service Rentrak also did not report figures this weekend.
An opening of $160 million would give the 2-D “Dark Knight Rises” the third-highest opening ever after the 3-D films “The Avengers” with $207.4 million and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2” with $169.2 million
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All true, and in this case, it’s a good thing. Just came back from the film and it is 100% anti-Occupy Wall Street. Nolan clearly portrays the path by evil and jealous people decide that everything belongs to “the people,” which always means them. Hathaway’s Catwoman, who begins the film with the same sentiments, well let just say she matures. I don’t think I’ve seen a film as pro-capitalist as this one other than Atlas Shrugged. So if more people see it, goodie.
“Up until the mid 60s the American film industry was under a strict production code so even much Shakespeare could not be filmed uncut. A word like ‘navel’ would have been regarded as too suggestive.”
I grew up watching “I Love Lucy.” Even though Lucy and her husband, Desi, were married, they had seperate beds...twin beds in the same room. lol
Alice and Ralph might have argued about trivial things, but you never saw their bedroom, they weren’t abusive towards one another, and they always made uo and kissed at the end.
Today...kids are exposed to gorey throat slashings, dismembering, porn, raunchy reality shows, and are shown that homosexuality is normal. Movie, TV producers, and video game creators are scum.
Holy windfall profits, Batman!
BTW, I'm going to send you something in Freepmail: after watching about 12 trailers---EVERY ONE with the same mindless explosions, and quick-change editing---I came away thinking if this trailer that I'm sending you had run, it would have been the ONLY one that people would have remembered.
That stuff was around back then too it was just underground. There were some really racy films made before the 1934 Production Code went into effect.
Disney did indeed butcher much of what he got a hold of. Recently, I re-read Felix Salten's classic story Bambi, translated by Whittaker Chambers, back when he was a rising left-wing literary star. Then I rented the movie, which I previously saw in 1957 at the Sundown Drive-In Theater in Whittier, Calif. Disney absolutely made hash of the story. If you want to know the Bambi story, don't rent the movie--read the book, particularly the Chambers translation, which is still widely available in libraries.
Speakng of Hansel & Gretel (that means Jack & Maggie in German), a theme in that story that is arguably more disturbing than cannibal cookery is child abandonment--and I felt that way when I heard the story as a kid.
Disney’s Bambi may not have been faithful to the source but it was a tantalizing work of Art nonetheless. Quite disturbing. So was Pinocchio for that matter.
Throat slashing, blood, gore, and rape in all stories long before the invention of movies. Porn, homosexuality, zoophilia (ever really think through the implication of most of Zeus’ seductions).
I said there’s been that stuff in entertainment as long as there’s been entertainment. My forever goes all the way back to the earliest stories ever told. At certain points in time certain forms of story telling had to soft pedal. So of course on TV in the prior to cable you didn’t have that stuff, at least not outright shown, pay attention to implications though; in spite of the 2 bed rule on TV at the time you always know when watching an episode of the Addams Family that Gomez and Morticia have sex, wild crazy dirty sex all the time.
But even during that same time frame while TV and the movies had to imply even normal marital relations Lolita was being published. This kind of stuff has always been out there, always a part of entertainment.
I always pick on the Grimms because it was such a shock when my German teacher had us translate some of their stories in class. The stories were so different from what I had grown to expect thanks to Disney and the other sanitized versions I had grown up with. But definitely there were plenty out there, and the stories were a lot more intense and “grown up” than the uninitiated would ever expect.
To me, "Bambi" was an exciting movie when I first saw it in 1957. However, since Disney strayed so far from the original story, he should have entitled it something else.
My introduction to Hansel & Gretel was in a "Little Golden Book" and I picked up on the theme of child abandonment as being pretty scary in itself.
The original Bambi is nothing like the Disney version, I agree.
Compare Grimm's version of Cinderella with Perrault's version (Disney's version is closer to the Perrault version) -- it's pretty brutal and bloody.
I've wondered about folk stories about "changeling" children -- elf children who were left in place of kidnapped human infants -- was this a way to explain birth defects? It also makes me wonder if a woman with a defective infant would explain to her other children that this was a changeling baby, not a human baby, and she was going to take it to the woods (i.e. abandon and expose it) so the elves could take it back and perhaps the original child would turn up in a basket on the doorstep some day. Unhappy thought but I can't help but see this as a plausible scenario.
This was not the fault of the movie. At all. It deserves its success. And I hear it was written from the conservative viewpoint. Get all your youths to see it.
A few years ago, I read the Perrault and Grimm versions of Cinderella and saw the movie--and came to the same conclusion.
Oh dear...
According to your responses, you and I are from different generations! You have no clue what I was talking about! lol
That’s okay...you still tried to fake it but you were not successful.
Peace.
The fact that you think generation matters shows you didn’t actually bother to read what I wrote. This kind of stuff has been out there in entertainment consistently since the age of Greek Mythology and before. The only person faking it here is you, pretending that just because TV was “clean” means there wasn’t other entertainment out there that wasn’t. At the same time TV couples weren’t allowed to be in the same bed Russ Meyer and “friends” were inventing the Nudie Cutie. The world was very different than you imagine.
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