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MikeTheMook	Re: THE MAZE (1953)	#21	[-]
Jul 23 06 12:56 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Bill: *Quote:* a largely propitious confluence Tom: *Quote:* The simple word "fluke" suddenly has a nice ring to it Now, if this last exchange between Bill and Tom doesn't sound exactly like a typical comic book dialogue between Reed Richards and Ben Grimm, I'll eat my hat! LOL!
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TomWeaver999	Re: THE MAZE (1953)	#22	[-]
Jul 23 06 1:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	"It's clobberin' time!!"
Bill Warren	Re: THE MAZE (1953)	#23	[-]
Jul 23 06 5:27 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* << a largely propitious confluence << The simple word "fluke" suddenly has a nice ring to it! ; ) Not if one is, as was I, attempting to embrace rather than eschew obfuscation.
TomWeaver999	Re: THE MAZE (1953)	#24	[-]
Jul 23 06 5:41 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Guy, you with your Necromonicon-like dictionary where "sure" means "unsure" have got a LOCK on obfuscation around here!
Bill Warren	Re: THE MAZE (1953)	#25	[-]
Jul 23 06 5:46 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* Guy, you with your Necromonicon-like dictionary where "sure" means "unsure" have got a LOCK on obfuscation around here! sigh
TomWeaver999	Re: THE MAZE (1953)	#26	[-]
Jul 23 06 6:06 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	One of these days I'm gonna work up the courage to ask what "unsure" means!
Bill Warren	Re: THE MAZE (1953)	#27	[-]
Jul 23 06 6:13 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* One of these days I'm gonna work up the courage to ask what "unsure" means! Look, what's that on the couch?
Monsterpal	Re: THE MAZE (1953)	#28	[-]
Jul 23 06 7:03 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Is it Michael Pate on the couch or the old gentleman himself, sometimes known as his lordship?
Bill Warren	Re: THE MAZE (1953)	#29	[-]
Jul 23 06 7:53 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Well, an old something, anyway.
skelton knaggs	Re: THE MAZE (1953)	#30	[-]
Jul 23 06 11:11 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Gentlemen.......I just gotta tell ya's...I've just slowly read this thread from the beginning....And it's a million dollar property.A real page turner! it's got laughs! It's got tears! It's got drama! I tell ya's ..it"s got it all! Great work fella's...got an agent?
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Rick	Re: THE MAZE (1953)	#31	[-]
Jul 23 06 11:19 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I dunno. It might have possibilities. I'm...unsure.
skelton knaggs	Re: THE MAZE (1953)	#32	[-]
Jul 24 06 12:03 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Aw come on...It like My Dinner with Andre meets Sisters meets the Lewton Body Snatcher..Just listen to the rhythm of the dialogue.It's there, I tell ya it's there!
Rapfred	Re: THE MAZE (1953)	#33	[-]
Jul 24 06 12:24 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	>>One visual element in particular which runs through his work as both a director and a designer is his use of the 'post fence'.>> It even runs through his work as producer, e.g. REIGN OF TERROR, where the production design is nominally by Edward Ilou but the 'post fence' tableaux are clearly the handiwork of Menzies.
Renfield	Re: THE MAZE (1953)	#34	[-]
Jul 24 06 11:09 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* he simple word "fluke" suddenly has a nice ring to it! Perhaps "serendipity" has a nicer ring? Joe "Renfield" Meadows HORROR-WOOD Webzine http://www.horror-wood.com
carruthers40	Re: THE MAZE (1953)	#35	[-]
Jul 24 06 12:20 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hiya Rap, thanks for tryin' to bring it back around...whenever things go south like this, I can't help but think of the CHFB as a big ADHD kid who needs a dose of Ritalin... ;)
Rapfred	Re: THE MAZE (1953)	#36	[-]
Jul 24 06 1:22 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	>>whenever things go south like this, I can't help but think of the CHFB as a big ADHD kid who needs a dose of Ritalin... ;) >> To me, it seems more like a schoolyard where the insufferable hall monitor lumbers about wearing a sign that says "KICK ME!" in big, bold capital letters... and his classmates can't help but oblige.
luluthebeast	Re: THE MAZE (1953)	#37	[-]
Jul 24 06 1:48 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Getting back to the movie, I thought it was great when I saw it on one of the late shows back in the sixties, but I got a copy of it on ebay a year or two ago and it sure had seemed to lose a lot in the last 35-40 years!
Tim Lucas VW	Re: THE MAZE (1953)	#38	[-]
Jul 24 06 6:40 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* What do you see that makes you regard THE MAZE as being "Menziesian"? I would say "Menzian," but to list some common traits of THE MAZE and INVADERS FROM MARS: Field of depth used for the purposes of disorientation and reality-bending and allure (the first shot of THE MAZE beckons us into a "Do Not Enter" area that recalls the beckoning power of the fence in MARS' backyard), actors shown looking straight into the camera to distinguish them from the "normal" characters (the narrator of THE MAZE, the possessed characters of MARS), the color green being a common denominator of the "other" element, and stories involving familiar secrecy and distrust.
MikeTheMook	Re: THE MAZE (1953)	#39	[-]
Jul 24 06 6:56 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I didn't see this brought up yet, though I may have missed it, but, wasn't this shot in 3-D?
Jameson281	Re: THE MAZE (1953)	#40	[-]
Jul 24 06 8:02 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Yes, it's a 3-D movie.
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