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Aug 11 10 2:43 PM
delgadosaur wrote: Some of the scenes, like when the powerline guy talks about the desert as a character, really ring true as classic Bradbury.
Aug 11 10 2:52 PM
Rakshasa wrote: I like the part where Barbara Rush points her tire pressure gage thingy at Richard Carlson and the laser comes out of it...THEN the music goes "oooo-OOOOOOOOOOOO......"
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Ted Newsom wrote: Looks like Dick Carlson is doing the Xenomorph stomp.
Aug 11 10 3:57 PM
Ted Newsom wrote: OK then... he was a closet Upton Sinclair supporter. And Upton Sinclair would've been a good choice to write IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE if'd he'd been alive in 1953 and would work for 300 bucks a week. How's that for getting things back on track?
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delgadosaur wrote: Both of the speeches referred to above, whether recited correctly by my lousy memory or not, are fantastic, and to me are the kind of poetry that separated Bradbury from the other writers. Some of his writing on Something Wicked this Way Comes with regard to the father in the story, is so touching, and to me that emotional connectivity is what attracted me to Ray's other works. There are other writers who have contributed seminal stuff, and I love it all, but not a lot of it has the child's heart that Bradbury has in his prose. Heinlein, Wells, Herbert moved me in their own way, but not with the emotional resonance of Ray. It's interesting to me to see how It Came from Outer Space connects with Close Encounters of the Third Kind, at least from the tale of Spielberg telling Bradbury that Ray's story influenced Steven's, since it seemed to me in hindsight an introduction to a sense of wonder and awe that I associate with childhood, and that's why I love the classic Bradbury and Spielberg stuff so much.
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Ted Newsom wrote: I avoided listing Heinlein's later books because this is supposed to be about IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE, which was made in 1952-53.
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Ray has certainly written more than a couple of novels, but I think I know what MP is saying. Much of Bradbury's famous stuff, often referred to as novels, really aren't. THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES and THE ILLUSTRATED MAN both have a stucture of sorts holding them together, but they're not novels. Even DANDELION WINE, which I guess you'd have to call a novel, is really more a collection of connected incidents. Ray's forte has always been the short story.Speaking of those Bradbury-esque moments in ICFOS, as an actor myself, I try to imagine Joe Sawyer's reaction to his dialogue. After years of playing dumb brute tough guys, and dumb brute comic foils, he must have had some strong reaction when he read through his part. I can imagine him either saying, "What is this &%$%&! It's like a !*&^#+* poem or sumthin!"or, "Wow, look at this--they finally give me something decent to say." I would love to have heard Sawyer's thoughts on that.And what makes it so important that we stay on subject here when every freakin' thread on the board descends into chaos eventually?
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