I like old movies from the 1950s and early 1960s. There is a specific reason for this. I like a movie that makes me cry, either for good or bad. The ending must be tragic or unimaginably happy. You only find those kind of melodramas in the 1950s and 1960s. Oh sure, there are a few exceptions, but these days, movies are too realistic for my taste. I crave the fantasy.
One of my favorite movies is the "Imitation of Life" with Lana Turner (Sandra Dee is also in this movie, but not the way you are accustomed to picturing her). and John Gavin as the leading man. The movie is a rags to riches story, throw in some racism and good old fashioned Broadway, don't forget the romance. By the end of the movie if you don't have a box of Kleenex and new view on racism, you are not human.
Another favorite is Warren Beatty's first major role. He plays a gigolo. Vivien Leigh (played Scarlet O'Hara) plays an aging actress that has an affair with Warren Beatty. The movie is called, "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone". This movie was remade for Lifetime, need I say more? Watch the original. This movie may not make you cry (unless you are of a certain age) but it will make you think. Or it will piss you off.
I like these movies because I have never outgrown the melodramatic. It may be 2009, but the violins still play in my world. I still live in a melodrama . One day it is all happy broadway show tunes with the tinsel and the glamour, the next, there is a tragic death scene with the lights being lowered on our heroine.
I continue to hope for an incredibly happy ending...call me old fashioned, call me sentimental.
Malicious Extrapolation
9 years ago
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You want a good cry, rent Fireproof. Not an old movie but one to certainly make you think about relationships and our responsibility in making them work. I was a little turned off by all the religous stuff (me being ever the agnostic and totally against organized religion) but the whole point of the movie has something to say to anyone who ever blamed someone else on a failed relationship. I cried like a baby and even my mother, ever the non-sentimental person, was crying.
ReplyDeleteAs far as melodrama in our lives. I prefer the comedies (bridget jones' diary-one of my favorites for real life comedy). Sure it all looks good, but remember where we as woman really were in the 40's, 50's and even the 60's and it suddenly doesn't seem so idyllic.
Life has too much melodrama. IMHO
I enjoyed the oldies in my 20s; when I wanted to live the fantasy. I enjoyed teen- and chick-flicks in my 30s; when I wanted to be young and meet Mr. Right.
ReplyDeleteIn my 40s I enjoy the super hero movies; I want to belive that that good will win out in the end. And if it does; I want to see someone's ass get kicked.
just watch porn!!!!!
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