Sim1Cross my heart and kiss my elbow
June 4th 2011 22:12
Hello, dear readers.
Judging from the response to my last few posts, there seem to be less and less of you.
Maybe I have stopped being entertaining? Or maybe I am reviewing the wrong films?
As you know, I am studying Film History at the moment, so I don’t get much of a choice in what I watch.
Now, if you didn’t know about my film course, you must be new to this blog so Welcome! And I am sorry you have stumbled across such an awful website.
Anyway, I shall go on entertaining myself here on Orble, whether you read it or not.
Tonight, I have watched a film that inspired me to get a cat.
And name it ‘Cat’.
Sadly, the contract on my new seaside palace here on the Sussex coast prevents me from doing so. That’s probably just as well, seeing that I am slightly allergic to cats and the reaction only gets worse whenever there’s alcohol involved. And who’s ever heard of watching movies without a nice glass of Sauvignon Blanc?
My current module in the Film & TV History course concentrates on European post-war cinema. I can think of nothing worse. The mere thought of having to watch a film called (and being about) Rosa Luxemburg (amongst other atrocities) fills me with dread. But, luckily, Amazon haven’t dispatched the DVDs yet, so I took the luxury of watching an old classic that I had never seen before.
Aaahh, I have always adored Audrey Hepburn in ‘My Fair Lady’. And you three regular Fish on Film followers there, you will know how much I rate the song ‘On the Street Where You Live’. And which girl wouldn’t want to marry a handsome chap named Freddy Eynsford-Hill?
Oh crap, when I just looked up the correct spelling of that name on IMDb, it tells me there’ll be a remake in 2012. PLEASE. NO. Noooooo.......as great as Carey Mulligan was in ‘Never Let Me Go’, she is no match to Audrey Hepburn’s Eliza Doolittle. No-one is!
In this day and age, little girls don’t aspire to be Audrey Hepburn anymore, do they? Oh how I wish I could have been called ‘Loulou-May’ instead of ‘Miss Fish on Film’. But I am not of the right generation, either. I know George Peppard as Hannibal in the A-Team.
I much would have preferred to have known him as Paul Varjak, the writer who, despite all the obstacles, gets his girl (and the cat) in the end! What a clever, funny and beautiful story we have here. Maybe some of that is down to Truman Capote, whose novel this is based on. And certainly, Henry Mancini added his magic with a soundtrack of, well, one song really.
I think all women should aspire to be Audrey Hepburn and either Doolittle (‘My Fair Lady’) or ‘Golightly’. And we should all, once in a while, have ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’.
Judging from the response to my last few posts, there seem to be less and less of you.
Maybe I have stopped being entertaining? Or maybe I am reviewing the wrong films?
As you know, I am studying Film History at the moment, so I don’t get much of a choice in what I watch.
Now, if you didn’t know about my film course, you must be new to this blog so Welcome! And I am sorry you have stumbled across such an awful website.
Anyway, I shall go on entertaining myself here on Orble, whether you read it or not.
Tonight, I have watched a film that inspired me to get a cat.
Sadly, the contract on my new seaside palace here on the Sussex coast prevents me from doing so. That’s probably just as well, seeing that I am slightly allergic to cats and the reaction only gets worse whenever there’s alcohol involved. And who’s ever heard of watching movies without a nice glass of Sauvignon Blanc?
My current module in the Film & TV History course concentrates on European post-war cinema. I can think of nothing worse. The mere thought of having to watch a film called (and being about) Rosa Luxemburg (amongst other atrocities) fills me with dread. But, luckily, Amazon haven’t dispatched the DVDs yet, so I took the luxury of watching an old classic that I had never seen before.
Aaahh, I have always adored Audrey Hepburn in ‘My Fair Lady’. And you three regular Fish on Film followers there, you will know how much I rate the song ‘On the Street Where You Live’. And which girl wouldn’t want to marry a handsome chap named Freddy Eynsford-Hill?
Oh crap, when I just looked up the correct spelling of that name on IMDb, it tells me there’ll be a remake in 2012. PLEASE. NO. Noooooo.......as great as Carey Mulligan was in ‘Never Let Me Go’, she is no match to Audrey Hepburn’s Eliza Doolittle. No-one is!
In this day and age, little girls don’t aspire to be Audrey Hepburn anymore, do they? Oh how I wish I could have been called ‘Loulou-May’ instead of ‘Miss Fish on Film’. But I am not of the right generation, either. I know George Peppard as Hannibal in the A-Team.
I much would have preferred to have known him as Paul Varjak, the writer who, despite all the obstacles, gets his girl (and the cat) in the end! What a clever, funny and beautiful story we have here. Maybe some of that is down to Truman Capote, whose novel this is based on. And certainly, Henry Mancini added his magic with a soundtrack of, well, one song really.
I think all women should aspire to be Audrey Hepburn and either Doolittle (‘My Fair Lady’) or ‘Golightly’. And we should all, once in a while, have ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’.
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