The 1940 version of Waterloo Bridge is available as an import that will play on region 1 DVD players. Amazon.com retailers sell it for as low as $7.98.Penelope wrote:flipp525 wrote:Damien wrote:Whenever I want to cry, I always go with Waterloo Bridge.
I've never seen it, Damien, but I'll put it on my Netflix queue. Terms of Endearment, Ghost, The Hours, and The Shop on Main Street are guaranteed tears for me.
The version of Waterloo Bridge available on DVD is the 1931 James Whale original starring Mae Clark and Douglass Montgomery and not, sadly, the marvelous 1940 Mervyn LeRoy remake with Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor. Still, the Whale version is a wonderful film, with terrific performances and a much grittier milieu (and it's more faithful to the Robert E. Sherwood play).
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Thanks guys for the clarification. I guess I am officially clueless now.
Wow, there really are not a lot of straight characters in that film. Claire Danes and John C. Reilly?
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Wow, there really are not a lot of straight characters in that film. Claire Danes and John C. Reilly?
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I read the novel 4 years ago, and I also thought it was pretty clear that Laura Brown was a lesbian.Damien wrote:My memory may be faulty (it's been 8 years since I read the novel), but I believe in the book it's fairly clear that Moore's character is a lesbian.
Could this possibly be the only element of the story that's more explicit in the novel than in the film? :p
The version of Waterloo Bridge available on DVD is the 1931 James Whale original starring Mae Clark and Douglass Montgomery and not, sadly, the marvelous 1940 Mervyn LeRoy remake with Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor. Still, the Whale version is a wonderful film, with terrific performances and a much grittier milieu (and it's more faithful to the Robert E. Sherwood play).flipp525 wrote:Damien wrote:Whenever I want to cry, I always go with Waterloo Bridge
I've never seen it, Damien, but I'll put it on my Netflix queue. Terms of Endearment, Ghost, The Hours, and The Shop on Main Street are guaranteed tears for me.
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"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable." - Jodie Foster
I've never seen it, Damien, but I'll put it on my Netflix queue. Terms of Endearment, Ghost, The Hours, and The Shop on Main Street are guaranteed tears for me.Damien wrote:Whenever I want to cry, I always go with Waterloo Bridge
"The mantle of spinsterhood was definitely in her shoulders. She was twenty five and looked it."
-Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
-Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
My memory may be faulty (it's been 8 years since I read the novel), but I believe in the book it's fairly clear that Moore's character is a lesbian.
Whenever I want to cry, I always go with Waterloo Bridge .
Whenever I want to cry, I always go with Waterloo Bridge
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I was re-watching The Hours this weekend (I needed something that would make me cry) and I have a question about Julianne Moore's character. It struck me this time around (and, mind you, it's been almost 9 years since I read the novel) that she might've been a lesbian. Before I just thought she was a generally unhappy 1950's housewife but I couldn't figure out why. That kiss with Toni Collette and how worried she seemed to be right afterwards got me thinking that maybe that was the real reason she wanted to kill herself. "There are times you don't belong and you think you're going to kill yourself," she says at one point. Am I way off-base here? What else are we supposed to think her motivation was for running off to Canada and leaving her family?
There also seemed to be a hint of envy when she told Meryl Streep, after learning that Clarissa had been an artificially inseminated lesbian, that Meryl was a "lucky woman".
And for the record, I'm one of the few on this board who actually like this film.
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There also seemed to be a hint of envy when she told Meryl Streep, after learning that Clarissa had been an artificially inseminated lesbian, that Meryl was a "lucky woman".
And for the record, I'm one of the few on this board who actually like this film.
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I could have done without the Traci Lords bit, but otherwise I thought it was hilarious and I liked the movie even though I could understand why others didn't. Despite Ed Harris' usual overacting I thought it was one of his best performances, but I'll never be able to watch him go out the window again without thinking of the parody. I can just see myself cracking up in a room full of people who've never seen the film or the parody and are either gasping or crying their hearts out.
I couldn't stand The Hours, but that parody was just stupid. Traci Lords? oh the wit is worthy of Noel Coward. Nay, it's positively Shavian
There's nothing more embarrassing then a supposed parody that's not funny or clever. It ends up being worse than the object of ridicule, and is just rather sad. Because you know the clowns behind it are bursting their britches with misplaced pride.
There's nothing more embarrassing then a supposed parody that's not funny or clever. It ends up being worse than the object of ridicule, and is just rather sad. Because you know the clowns behind it are bursting their britches with misplaced pride.
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