• Tuesday, May 03rd, 2005
Last night was movie night over at Brian’s, and Katie brought the movies - Key Largo and Machines. Key Largo is probably the first classic we’ve had at movie night, and definately good. I’ve never been that big a fan of Humphrey Bogart, and had never seen Lauren Bacall in anything - and unfortunately, that’s about all she does is “be seen”, but *shrug*.
Machines was a set of shorts of wire gear machines doing “odd” things. One picks up a chair lifts it over it’s head and places it down in the exact same place. Another is a feather duster. Another writes things. They’re all amazing works of art and skill. If you like simple machines, you should really check them out - there are some shorts here.
Category: Movies
Tuesday, 3. May 2005
It seems to me that Humphrey Bogart plays the same character in every movie he was in — a jaded anti-hero with no compulsion to save the day. Actually I think I like the character as an antidote to the stereotypical heroic Hollywood man (or I suppose that was stereotypical around the time Key Largo was made?). But maybe Bogart played that one until it was beaten into the ground.