@cookmoore - Not that I know of! The original footage was lifted from a Sixties NEWS-REEL which only ran it as PART of a news "round-up" - they didn't DO "making-of featurettes" in those days!
Oh, right! (I was confused!) I find there are six kinds of film worth travelling miles to AVOID - in addition to remakes, no-brainer actioners, effects movies (I've nothing against digital when it's used to move the STORY along - but when the effects ARE the story...) spin-offs (books are okay, so long as the scriptwriter realises film is a VISUAL medium) sequels (obviously) and a new-ish one - "PREQUELS". When the actor who plays the hero is too old - and EXPENSIVE - get a kid who'll [more]
appeal to the younger audience and work for a tenth of the money. Of course, that's the problem - old people stay home and watch DVDs. Cinema audiences are getting YOUNGER - while I just keep getting OLDER !
Good tips! I wasn't at all thrilled when they made a prequel to the Hannibal Lecter movies. But if they HAVE to do remakes or prequels, etc, I wish they'd only use unknown actors. I have a hard time watching a movie with someone like Tom Cruise playing a part because all I see IS Tom Cruise and not the character he's supposed to be playing.
Yeah. Cruise - like Connery, Al Pacino, Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, John Wayne, are/were STARS - people with BIG personalities that shine thru the screen. ACTORS are people with NO personality - but who have the ability to ABSORB TOTALLY that of another. And no matter how DIFFERENT the character is from their own, they make US believe it - because THEY believe it. Like Andy Kaufman as Latka or David Suchet as Poirot. If you spoke to Suchet on a day he was filming Poirot - he ANSWERED as Poirot!
Interesting that Ian, Eleanor and Barry all mention Peter's beauty at the time. Gotta agree there...
kathish 1 year ago 3
Is there more rare glimpses?
cookmoore 2 years ago
@cookmoore - Not that I know of! The original footage was lifted from a Sixties NEWS-REEL which only ran it as PART of a news "round-up" - they didn't DO "making-of featurettes" in those days!
davidwrightatloppers 2 years ago
:)
Thanks.
Sorry my grammar was off -meant to say, "Are there..."
cookmoore 2 years ago
They don't have this whole thing on DVD
Thanks!
cookmoore 2 years ago
I love how they have to put up the "Bedazzled 1967" thing on the clip, as if we don't know, haha!
dudleysjmoore 2 years ago
Ah well - I wouldn't want people to think it was the execrable REMAKE!
davidwrightatloppers 2 years ago
Oh, I didn't mean YOU. I mean in the actual clip. On the footage. :-)
Ew, the remake was so bad.
dudleysjmoore 2 years ago
Oh, right! (I was confused!) I find there are six kinds of film worth travelling miles to AVOID - in addition to remakes, no-brainer actioners, effects movies (I've nothing against digital when it's used to move the STORY along - but when the effects ARE the story...) spin-offs (books are okay, so long as the scriptwriter realises film is a VISUAL medium) sequels (obviously) and a new-ish one - "PREQUELS". When the actor who plays the hero is too old - and EXPENSIVE - get a kid who'll [more]
davidwrightatloppers 2 years ago
appeal to the younger audience and work for a tenth of the money. Of course, that's the problem - old people stay home and watch DVDs. Cinema audiences are getting YOUNGER - while I just keep getting OLDER !
davidwrightatloppers 2 years ago
Good tips! I wasn't at all thrilled when they made a prequel to the Hannibal Lecter movies. But if they HAVE to do remakes or prequels, etc, I wish they'd only use unknown actors. I have a hard time watching a movie with someone like Tom Cruise playing a part because all I see IS Tom Cruise and not the character he's supposed to be playing.
dudleysjmoore 2 years ago
Yeah. Cruise - like Connery, Al Pacino, Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, John Wayne, are/were STARS - people with BIG personalities that shine thru the screen. ACTORS are people with NO personality - but who have the ability to ABSORB TOTALLY that of another. And no matter how DIFFERENT the character is from their own, they make US believe it - because THEY believe it. Like Andy Kaufman as Latka or David Suchet as Poirot. If you spoke to Suchet on a day he was filming Poirot - he ANSWERED as Poirot!
davidwrightatloppers 2 years ago