Posted on 12/21/2018 5:16:28 PM PST by ProudFossil
Thank you for the Polar Express Movie
Another vote for creepy! The kids are creepy and the adults are scary. The santa worshipping elves too.
Good point. I forgot about that.
Agreed...the thing that got me was the strange way their mouths didn’t look quite right...were kind of black holes in their faces.
Prime Video has the colorized version of ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’.
I usually prefer the classic B&W versions, of these gems, but I really enjoyed this colorized version of IAWL.
1946 was an interesting year. My all time favorite movie won the Best Picture in 1946...”The Best Years of Our Lives”.
The war was over. Most guys were home, on their way, or preparing to go if they could. There were the Nuclear tests in the Pacific.
Interesting time.
And Europe full of DPs.
Not so good over there.
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While "It's A Wonderful Life" is more of a parallel universe than a dystopian future, it could play as a dystopian future.
And it sure does fit. There are conservatives who dislike Bailey and say Potter is the real hero as epitomized in this recent essay: Harry Potter is the Undeniable Hero of "It's A Wonderful Life" Me...I didn't care for the essay. I see the way he is trying to present it, but I think just because someone is a successful businessman doesn't mean they can't be evil enough to overcome the positive side of their success.
I don't buy it, and this Free Republic thread last week on this very essay had interesting discussion. I was glad to see most people saw it more along the lines of the way I did.
Bottom Line for me, is some people just think too damn hard about this stuff. Not everything has to be over the top political. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
I treat it as a nice story.
What does “DP’s” mean? Dead peoples? Displaced populations? (I am slightly afraid it is going to be something really obvious!)
Displaced Persons. People whose homes had been bombed to rubble.
The post now known as Hohenfels Training Area was home to a DP camp immediately after the war. Many of the DPs were Poles. A monument was set up by them in gratitude. I tool a picture or two of it while there. I may be able to find it given time and motivation.
That movie was a financial bomb when it came out.
Well. It definitely wasn’t postwar America, that is for sure.
I suspect after the war over there, there were a lot of scores to be settled. All that going on in the squalor and ruin left over from ground war and aerial bombardment. I can imagine that for many people it was a blessed relief to have the war over, but for others, it was a time of great fear and uncertainty.
Not to mention deprivation.
Displaced Persons——roaming all over Europe.
One young guy,about 14,was adopted by a family here in the USA,and a friend of mine married him in the late 50s.
I wouldn’t have wanted to be there. And on top of that, depending on where you lived, there might be mines, unexploded ordinance, an occasional body or bodies that were not immediately found.
Ugh. America had its own issues, but not like that.
Like you, I always enjoy B&W versions. They present the film as the director intended.
I accidentally watched the colorized version of IAWL on Amazon. It took me a few minutes to recall that the movie was done in B&W and I was watching a colorized version. As you say, it was really well done.
Speaking of incredible colorization, I saw “They Shall Not Grow Old” in the theater this week with my son. Peter Jackson, best known for “The Lord of the Rings” film series, produced and directed this World War I documentary. He colorized original Imperial War College movies and did a full restoration as well. The film speed jitters are gone; film speeds are correct; scratches and other film blemishes are gone. It is the most amazing documentary about WW I.
It is playing again on December 27. You or the men in your life may really enjoy it. We sure did. There is a good thread on FR about it - check it out!
I just rewatched The Best Years of Our Lives a couple months ago. It is an amazing film, isn’t it? So many different stories being told in that movie.
My great grandparents were DPs. Around 1890, they moved to Danzig, Germany (now Gdansk, Poland) on the Baltic. In 1945, the Russians invaded and they had to leave their home by sundown. They walked back to Cologne, Germany and lived completely destitute until they passed in the mid 50s. Their son (my grandfather) had brought his family to the States in 1927 and I think he never saw them again after leaving home.
I’ve been reading “The Candy Bombers.” The public health crisis in Berlin after the war was incredible.
Watched it twice and enjoyed it....Merry Christmas!
Harry Potter!! LOL
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