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The Big Country Opening Credits
By: HOLLAND Date: September 22, 2017, 8:36 pm
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I'm rather busy at the moment with little time to post but I
thought I would do the following:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKdmOpXJHR4
This is my favorite Western. I hope you all enjoy this. :)
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Re: The Big Country Opening Credits
By: paralambano Date: September 23, 2017, 4:42 pm
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Ya, it's mostly in the music and shots of wide open spaces gives
a nice feeling of freedom and adventure. Tough livin' it in real
life though I think. Hollywood. Merchant of dreams.
para . . . .
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Re: The Big Country Opening Credits
By: HOLLAND Date: September 23, 2017, 5:58 pm
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[quote author=paralambano link=topic=1278.msg16276#msg16276
date=1506202969]
Ya, it's mostly in the music and shots of wide open spaces gives
a nice feeling of freedom and adventure. Tough livin' it in real
life though I think. Hollywood. Merchant of dreams.
para . . . .
[/quote]
Yes, para, it was truly tough living. In the opening scene you
can see that there was no horse droppings in the street when the
stagecoach arrived. The filmmakers probably thought that the
horse manure wouldn't go good with the popcorn in the movie
viewers' experience. And so everything was cleaned up. Filming
is the merchandising of dreams . . . :)
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Re: The Big Country Opening Credits
By: paralambano Date: September 24, 2017, 5:48 am
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Holland -
Still . . . . vicariously enjoyable :). Thanks for the nice
break.
My favourite western series is The Rifleman, not for the gunplay
but for its moral core, the righteousness of Lucas McCain and
his guiding, loving relationship with his son. Those 50s and 60s
western series and movies were affirmations of morality mostly I
think.
para . . . .
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Re: The Big Country Opening Credits
By: HOLLAND Date: November 26, 2017, 7:27 pm
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^^^Yes, para. The Rifleman was a good program. Chuck Conners
looked like an uncle of mine which added something for me to the
series. In The Big Country, he magnificently portrayed a very
evil character. There was a lot of memorable acting and
characters in that film. The music was very good as well. The
following suite was put together a number of years ago. It was
well done.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNr7_JU-UxY
I hope you all enjoy it. :D
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Re: The Big Country Opening Credits
By: HOLLAND Date: November 27, 2017, 7:02 pm
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I tend to like this movie as well as I do because its main
character Captain James Mackay (Gregory Peck) has so much
self-possession. When the polite society in the West asks
Mackay to jump through hoops in order to judge him and render
its approval, he turns away. He does not strike out at the
hoops held before him, protesting that its nonsense; he politely
turns away. He does not bow the knee to Western society. He
politely, implicitly offers the Westerners the opportunity to
negotiate the meaning of events and of his place in society. He
refuses them the moral right and power to view him the way that
they do.
Self-possession is that. It is more than simply an inner calm
and careful rationality in the face of adversity. It is the
inward recognition of oneself as one's own possession and
personal self and that it cannot be held by another. You cannot
live your life as a kind of appendage to another person. When I
was a young man, the first time I had seen this movie, I didn't
understand Captain Mackay. As I grew older, I realized that
this was the truly strong and courageous man. Who dares the
right to destroy another man's self-possession? The man with
self-possession towers over the opportunistic weaklings that
compromise and betray themselves in the effort to gain social
approval and/or wealth.
I think that there are few things more odious than the attempt
to destroy a person's self-possession. I consider it the
ultimate form of dehumanization apart from the actual murder of
a person.
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