how about discussing all these movie re-makes

[YABYUM]

am i the only one who is absolutely disgusted with all the old television shows and old movies that are being copied and spat out of hollywood? jessica simpson playing daisy duke? a new herbie? willy wonka is johnny depp? i wonder how gene wilder feels about that shit. stepford wives, starsky and hutch, and who is ever going to be able to forget george clooney and brad pitt trying to copy frank and dean? the list of hollywood crappy redos is to long to list. i dont really mind one or two of the recent comic book movies, but jesus christ man, enough is enough. is the world so devoid of great screenplay writers that it has no choice but to copy old classics? i guess hollywood can only rewrite shakespear so many times...............

[Lightning Rod]

hey, ronnie

I guess they figure that if they made money on it once they can make money on it again. My partner Barry used to work on The Dukes of Hazard TV show. It was a dog then and it's a dog now. I can't wait for a remake of Petticoat Junction or Green Acres

oh yeah, shakespeare has an e on the end

[YABYUM]

thanks for the correction, uncle jesse.
i look at your picture when i read your correction of my spelling, and i can hear that sinister laugh.

you didnt like the original duke boys? man, i loved that show. i still watch it every weeknight on the country music channel. i think i remember you saying something about barry, didnt he fix the hundreds of general lees?

i think i'll get in touch with my people in hollywood and see if i cant get a greenlight on a movie version of Walden. i think i could play Thoreau. Maybe i'll pitch a version of 'the great american hero' while i'm at it.

[Lightning Rod]

I think there are something like seven possible plot situations in drama and literature. You know, man against man, man against himself, man against nature, man against human nature, etc.

I think writers do a pretty good job of re-arranging and mixing these plot possibilities. And sometimes they don't.

I'm not sure what all barry did on Dukes. He did bit parts on camera and also tech help. He met Rod Ametau (the producer) when he starred in a movie that Rod produced before he did Dukes. It was called Drive In and was filmed in Tyler, Texas. Barry played the leader of the Gear Grinders, a hot rod gang. His name was Diddle Brown. I still call him Diddle sometimes.

[stilltrucking]

One redeeming quality to The Dukes. The opening sequence of old Waylon playing his stratocaster,

(Good Ol' Boys)

Just'a good ol' boys
Never meanin' no harm.
Beats all you never saw
Been in trouble with the law
Since the day they was born

Staightnin' the curves
Flatnin the hills
Someday the mountain might get 'em
But the law never will

Makin' their way
The only way they know how
That's just a little bit more
Than the law will allow.

Makin' their way
The only way they know how
That's just a little bit more
Than the law will allow.

I'm a good ol' boy
You know my momma loves me
But she don't undestand
They keep a showin my hands and not my face on TV

the lyrics remind me of the orignal movie Thunder ROad, not that piece of shit tom crudze made.

Robert mitchum black and white move from the fifties about moonshiners running the booze into memphis. Do you know that the official state song of tennessee is rocky top, no shit, got that line in their about two strangers came to town looking for a moon shine stillm them strangers ain't come down from rocky top, reckon they never will, corn don't grow on rocky top thats why we get our corn from a jar. Supprised with all the southern baptists in tennessee they get away with that. pretty sure I am right

Thunder road had a great song too
"the law they never got him
cause the devil got him first)

Have you ever been to Harlan county Ky or the city of hazard? Unbelievable mountain roads and curves. I reel trip.

Take tip from me, West Virginia is not a good state to try and cross a picket line.

strangely fascinated by the geodesic dome, have you posted anything anywhere?

Have you ever seen a Bucky Ball

[stilltrucking]

that's how nascar got started, orignaly moonshine runners racing their cars, used to be aftro american drivers in the begining, funny how when the sport started to make big bucks all the darkies disapeared. Virginia had to change its state song, Carry me back to old virginnie had a line about darkies on the porch. Buck owens wrote the new politicaly correct version.

I read somewhere that the new war of the worlds don't make much sense. L R Hubbard is no H G Wells

[Glorious Amok]

speaking as a budding playwright/screenwrighter, i'd like to say that one of the things i most enjoy doing is taking a totally familiar project/idea, and viewing it as one of those giant walls of stretchy, soft rubber.... and then i like to jump at it, stick my tongue and my fingers into it, make dancing faces at it, throw mallard ducks humping tonka trucks at it, and do the "how do you like it NOW?" dance.

i think that baz luhrman's vision of romeo & juliet is a great example of this. taking a classic piece of great literature and making it accessible and relevant to today's audience is what it's all about.

[YABYUM]

i am not sure of wich version you write of. the version with claire daines and leo decapitated was damn great. especially when the curse was cast upon both houses. was that Mercutio? damn my shakespear(e) is bad.

[Glorious Amok]

ayup, that's the one.

[stilltrucking]

Speaking of your friend the music man he sent me an email about my Ray Nitzke quote about believing. Told me it was Nietzsche not the linebacker who said it. He signed it with a an emoticon which after several minutes of hard emoticon scholorship I found out was a smirk.
I got a strong urge to watch Blade Runner again last night, LA as an Asian city. And I keep hearing just one line of The Night The Chinese Restaurant Burned down. I have not seen a new movie in years. I am seventy five years behind. I still want to see Modern TImes, Metropolis, THe Grea Dictator, Hard to keep up, I had a job in a drive in movie, projectionist, loved that job, gun nut boss, crowd of college students getting rowdy, he is going to his car for a gun. Oh yeah that's the way it goes first your money than your clothes
great job crazy boss
the best truck yu ever drove, the worst outfit you ever worked for.

Movie I would love to see to day if i could
"The Gods Must Be Crazy"

And speaking of plots
Lucky enough to take a course at JHU in Baltimore, night course taught by a classics prof from the day school, wonder full teacher, loved Greek, sometimes he would cry out in despair "Oh what an Enemy we have in Greek" this when he just could not give us a precise defition of the Greek. I always feel haunted by this line from Ray Nitzke, "The Birth Of Tragedy From The Spirit Of Music" Sill hung up on Homer. What The trojans could not understand why this big deal over a woman? a mortal woman. Trying to remember who the great beauty was who played The Face That Launched A 1000 Ships in the movie.

[YABYUM]

i thought that filmed rocked out with its cock out.
although i must confess i have loved the eyes of claire since that show............dammit........um...........
my so called life......she was the girl i wanted in high school.
i loved her in that version. that was the the first of the only two movies i thought leo was great in. the second was a film called the beach.

[Glorious Amok]

you are absolutely correct, that film IS rocking out with it's caulking out. it's an indisputable fact.

my dream project baby of the moment is a juxtaposition between two stories you might already know.... it's the secret garden beat-matched overtop of the garden of eden. so the kids are more like 17 when they all meet, and they do the most natural of adolescent self-discovery type things in the garden, including a crippled boy humping the Tree.

and yes, it's a remake of not one, but TWO classics. and the only thing i see wrong with hollywood remakes is that they need MORE BALLS to do really brave things with them. like having a cripple boy hump the Tree.

becase THAT takes balls. especially to do in front of your Playwrighting professor.

[knip]

rock out with it's cock out?


damn, i like that



i think all these remakes speak to big studios fears of investing big money in what they deem is an unsure thing...which is nothing new, at all

the smaller indy movies are better anyway

Bottle Rocket...loved it

[Glorious Amok]

word up, knipper!

clerks... another brilliant indie blessing.

[hester_prynne]

Naw, it's a diversion from our shitty world, going back to the old tv shows, when things seemed better, or when we were all more naive/happy.
da good ol days!
Whee! Gilligan! The Beav! Bewitched!

They never pick the good ones, like the man from U.N.C.L.E, or Alfred Hitchcock. Or even Night Gallery.
Nope, they pick the ones they can add alot of sexy airhead, fashion stuff to.
But nothing really very sustaining.
Old jokes, old ways, revived because what's current is really ugly, and boring.
Thass my two cents. Or is it a dime now?

H