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Murder She Said (1961), George Pollock. Apr 4, 8:30pm. View count: One.
The Fountainhead (1949), King Vidor. Apr 21, 2:30pm. View count: One.
Murder She Said was an adorable 60s predecessor to the Murder, She Wrote series. The lady playing Ms. Marple was sort of a battleax in comparison to her television counterpart, but it was fun to watch her bluff her way around (as opposed to pretend innocence and obliviousness all the time). She witnesses a murder, and, when the police brush her off, she determines to solve it herself. She does, of course, and 60s music which invites one to do the Monkey plays. The end.
The Fountainhead, pardon me, I found... laughable? I suspect that not all of this need be laid at Ayn Rand's feet (she did write her own screenplay, though); Gary Cooper as the lead never quite seemed to be very much of anything. The female lead tried harder, as did the newspaperman; but really, the script is so didactic, and so simplistically so. "Why, this seems to be a world which supports my ideology precisely! What a pleasing coincidence! And everyone lived happily ever after, if they deserved it by behaving as I wish it."
The Fountainhead (1949), King Vidor. Apr 21, 2:30pm. View count: One.
Murder She Said was an adorable 60s predecessor to the Murder, She Wrote series. The lady playing Ms. Marple was sort of a battleax in comparison to her television counterpart, but it was fun to watch her bluff her way around (as opposed to pretend innocence and obliviousness all the time). She witnesses a murder, and, when the police brush her off, she determines to solve it herself. She does, of course, and 60s music which invites one to do the Monkey plays. The end.
The Fountainhead, pardon me, I found... laughable? I suspect that not all of this need be laid at Ayn Rand's feet (she did write her own screenplay, though); Gary Cooper as the lead never quite seemed to be very much of anything. The female lead tried harder, as did the newspaperman; but really, the script is so didactic, and so simplistically so. "Why, this seems to be a world which supports my ideology precisely! What a pleasing coincidence! And everyone lived happily ever after, if they deserved it by behaving as I wish it."
