tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post3461150068884317273..comments2023-10-25T05:30:54.507-04:00Comments on Oh Get A Grip!: Ghosts of Movies PastAshe Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03390519279886657608noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-24457989224254290032011-12-12T09:24:05.428-05:002011-12-12T09:24:05.428-05:00Jean, this movie was set in the late 1890s - early...Jean, this movie was set in the late 1890s - early 1900s, roughly the same time that wealthy men went looking for mistresses among the little girls in the Paris Opera Ballet School. So it may not have been so out of context as you think!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-36680996482347249812011-12-11T21:39:49.636-05:002011-12-11T21:39:49.636-05:00Elizabeth, I remember watching Maurice Chevalier s...Elizabeth, I remember watching Maurice Chevalier singing "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" out of context (I think Gigi won numerous awards) when I was very young myself. Even then, he seemed like the kind of old man my parents had warned me to run away from! Apparently child sex abuse was not a topic on the general radar at that time.Jean Robertahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08805088081675965859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-41264372136263842572011-12-11T01:11:20.863-05:002011-12-11T01:11:20.863-05:00Elizabeth,
I've never seen more than snippets...Elizabeth,<br /><br />I've never seen more than snippets of "Gigi". Now I really have to view it - though it'll be a hard sell for my husband, who hates anything that smacks of a musical.<br /><br />I know what you mean about seeing new things when you watch something multiple times. I'm that way with "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"! ;^)Lisabet Saraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05162514190572269660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-59791550489490986302011-12-10T20:41:01.973-05:002011-12-10T20:41:01.973-05:00My mom was a huge Maurice Chevalier fan, so we wat...My mom was a huge Maurice Chevalier fan, so we watched Gigi probably about once a year or so when I was a kid -- whenever they showed it on TV. So I've seen it... probably a dozen times at least. Completely missing the undercurrents and the historic information ever time. And if I hadn't just finished doing research into Victorian history (for The House of Sable Locks, my steampunk erotic romance that will be coming out next year), I'd probably have missed it again! <br /><br />Sometimes, having the context to hang things on makes all the difference!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-8158787737824894562011-12-10T13:04:14.107-05:002011-12-10T13:04:14.107-05:00Yes, Gigi is a real eyebrow raiser. By the time th...Yes, Gigi is a real eyebrow raiser. By the time they made it though, there weren't any censors left to squeak it past. I love that it's that frank, and it makes the audience (who might not understand all the implications) see why she'd have second thoughts about what, on the surface, sounds like a wonderful romance. <br /><br />I see things I never saw before in movie all the time. While watching Grease for the bazillonth time the other day, I finally (FINALLY!) caught on that Rizzo and Danny used to be an item, which explains why she's so nasty to Sandy. All these years, I thought she was just mean for the sake of being mean, not that her heart was broken.Kathleen Bradeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06347913255760493335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-2159387164822280922011-12-10T07:14:34.488-05:002011-12-10T07:14:34.488-05:00Yes, all the time, and now I'm curious about G...Yes, all the time, and now I'm curious about Gigi. I've never seen it, but I'm going to look into it. I always thought that was a kids movie too.<br /><br />My kid is interested in movies and wants to get involved in movie making, so I've been bringing Great Movies home from the library from all genres saying "you need to know this one." and I run into that too, where somehting I didn;t notice pops out at me. Of course one of the nice things about having a crappy memory as you get older is that you get to watch favorite movies over and over and its always a little like seeing them for the first time.<br /><br />GarceGarceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-61177948186984539592011-12-10T04:45:04.033-05:002011-12-10T04:45:04.033-05:00I get that mostly with books. Sometimes I think I ...I get that mostly with books. Sometimes I think I could get by shipwrecked with a box of twenty or so books, and never get bored with them!widdershinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04205462833259334647noreply@blogger.com