Newton W.Gulick.Ballon Seller, Buenos Aires Argentina 1921.National Geographic
via La Coca Negra
Newton W.Gulick.Ballon Seller, Buenos Aires Argentina 1921.National Geographic
via La Coca Negra
Tim Curry was 29 in 1975, the very year that he took his iconic role of Dr. Frank-N-Furter from the stage to the screen in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It was the future star’s first-ever film role.
I’m sure I haven’t seen this since I was a kid. The first reimpression is they don’t play the Vangelis song nearly as much as I might have remembered/expected.
Secondly I thought what an odd duck of a movie. Well done mind you and full of the expected athletic struggle and triumph to be expected. But the rivalry set up between the two main characters leads to neither a final show down nor any reconciliation as one might expect.
And strangely given how much of its themes are about insider/outsider status with its two parallel characters being a child of Jewish refugees and an Evangelical Scot in England, it feels oddly ambivalent about authority. It can be pretty explicit that insider authority types (Cambridge Dons, Royals, etc) are wrong and out of line. But there’s no real challenge to them at all. But maybe that’s too much for a movie about people who run fast.
House of Wax (1953)
Warner Bros.
Dir. Andre DeToth
Vincent Price as Professor Henry Jarrod
Phyllis Kirk as Sue Allen
Dandelions have a symbiotic relationship with little kids who make wishes
this is... not entirely false, actually