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Post by malaria on Nov 14, 2019 17:41:56 GMT -5
What happened to the inexplicable brief craze about that not terribly wonderful episode, of about a year or so back? I guess it's now a Bear (Facts) market... *grrooaannnn*  |
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Post by myhomeo on Nov 15, 2019 14:37:51 GMT -5
I'm hoping the guy got therapy, or at least some other movies and TV shows to fetishize...
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Post by malaria on Nov 15, 2019 19:36:49 GMT -5
LOL. Now an overarching obsession with "Free Wheeling" or "Choo-Choo"... that I could see  . But " Beginner's Luck?" Ye gods, the best thing in it were the Cabin Kids, who, strictly speaking were not Rascalgangers at all. |
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Post by dchord568 on Nov 17, 2019 23:22:58 GMT -5
We've dealt more than enough with that one unfortunate individual and his obsession with Kitty Kelly's state of undress in this film.
But setting that aside, I have to disagree with malaria and his assessment. I love so many Our Gang films for their gentle humor and overall humanity. But there are relatively few of them that make me genuinely laugh out loud.
"Beginner's Luck" is one of them. Spanky stumbling blindly about the stage with his visor clamped over his eyes somehow just gets to me. I'm sure the scene is abetted by the laughter coming from the audience, which is contagious.
Beyond this, Spanky wanting no part of this (until his basic decency causes a change of heart), the gang giving him the business (not believing that sudden change of heart), and seeing a meddling stage mother get her comeuppance all make for a worthy Our Gang theme.
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Post by malaria on Nov 18, 2019 12:56:04 GMT -5
LOL, de gustibus non est disputandum.Truth be told, I had a sadz for poor, adorable Miss Daisy Dimple and her stage fright. As for the semi-demi-unclothed Kitty Kelly scene, I'm sure it was better than the nudie bits of Mush n' Milk (Louise Emmons), or Fly My Kite (Margaret Mack). **shudder** Happily, these passages were cut from the final versions of these two old classix.  |
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Post by myhomeo on Nov 19, 2019 13:39:31 GMT -5
Look, we saw fourteen-year-old Spanky semi-nude. Twice. That's traumatic enough for anyone.
And yeah, creeper aside, 'Beginner's Luck' is one of the better mid-period Rascals shorts.
Oh, speaking of creepers, ran across a collection of film clips, pictures, etc. of boys being denuded by or in front of girls on DeviantArt. One of the clips is the "Oh, you nasty man!" bit from 'Washee-Ironee.' I was rather amazed, really. Consider the level of determination that poor, twisted creature had to go through all the Rascals films to find the one moment that spoke directly to her perversions...
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Post by malaria on Nov 20, 2019 15:00:29 GMT -5
Probably Tom Of Finland. My mom asked me who he was a few months ago (some NY museum apparently had a *retrospective*), and I had to... well, explain. Sort of.
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Post by myhomeo on Nov 20, 2019 15:29:19 GMT -5
Somehow, I doubt Wally Albright would really have appealed to Tom of Finland...
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Post by malaria on Nov 20, 2019 17:45:38 GMT -5
I still haven't recovered from seeing him in The Grapes of Wrath (Wally, not T of F), a film which contains what may be the greatest scene in American cinematic history. Ford shot it in one take, yet. But it is (sadly!) free of Rascalian references.
"Wherever there's a guy bein' mocked for reciting 'High Up Grew The Daffydil', I'll be there..."
"It's like Casy says... fella ain't got a makeshift fire engine of his own... just a little piece of of one big fire engine..."
(weeps)
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. But "Beginner's Luck?" Ye gods, the best thing in it were the Cabin Kids, who, strictly speaking were not Rascalgangers at all. 