tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post6176776878235965296..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: On Dangerous GroundUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-62590591803039151602009-11-16T05:19:41.642-08:002009-11-16T05:19:41.642-08:00Leigh,
That dark addictive power that comes into ...Leigh,<br /><br />That dark addictive power that comes into movies echoing developments in the late 1930s with Expressionism seems perhaps to oddly parallel what was happening in nuclear physics in Germany around the same time, the additive of deuterium isotopes to the water molecule to create <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Water_molecule_3D.svg" rel="nofollow">Heavy Water</a> -- something denser in the molecules, more powerful, harder to bottle and impossible to hold for long.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-11155670160403261412009-11-15T05:33:12.335-08:002009-11-15T05:33:12.335-08:00Dangerous and as addictive as gravity. Such power,...Dangerous and as addictive as gravity. Such power, which you caught here..https://www.blogger.com/profile/00532376301529981186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-64760295111025728622009-11-15T02:54:04.079-08:002009-11-15T02:54:04.079-08:00Annie,
You remind me with your amusing instance o...Annie,<br /><br />You remind me with your amusing instance of image-blasting of all the internal contradictions built into the proverbial love/hate thing about SoCal; that is, the slightly woozy feeling of perpetually existing in a confusing middle ground between that lush fairy tale of the fortune palms and that arid poverty of reality in the endless pavement. Thinking clearly, in any place at any time, one never finds easy; but for me, in SoCal, the attempted cogitations often seemed to drift off obliquely like cartoon wig bubbles into the hazed azure; got the clue it was time to depart when finally no longer able to tell the difference between an actual thought and <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/polyester-notion.html" rel="nofollow">A Polyester Notion</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-26162918421814941172009-11-14T14:13:13.500-08:002009-11-14T14:13:13.500-08:00Forgot to mention I also watched movie stars play ...Forgot to mention I also watched movie stars play at the Santa Barbara Polo Club, actually closer to Carpinteria Beach, where we used to go for summer vacation in the dog days of August. (Was not as impressed as Mom wished, as I was antsy to go ride the dome car of the miniature Santa Fe train across the way at Santa Claus Village.)I think it brought back her stardust memories of watching Clark Gable and others whack the white ball at Will Rogers' personal field near Sunset Blvd. Kinda blasts the populist image to hell, but Rogers would aver that "they call it a gentleman's game for the same reason they call a tall man Shorty."Annienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-89013396122358652902009-11-14T13:59:19.195-08:002009-11-14T13:59:19.195-08:00I agree w/George. Bingo.
What makes her dangerous...I agree w/George. Bingo.<br /><br />What makes her dangerous is that most women learn early to survive in an ostensibly black and white world really means negotiating closely observed tonal values. She IS the camera, and that's why it loves her.Annienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-86046216110465528272009-11-14T10:59:33.714-08:002009-11-14T10:59:33.714-08:00Ah, what great movies those were.
I guess we stil...Ah, what great movies those were.<br /><br />I guess we still have the guys with the slack looks and the psyches hanging out. Maybe more than ever. No more Jane Greers around to mesmerize them however.<br /><br />Looking at this still, I wonder what if anything was actually in Mitchum's mind at the moment.<br /><br />I once saw him playing polo in Santa Barbara. Not much mesmerization. Though then again, the presence of visible manifestations of Money under Palm Trees is always a rather mesmerizing thing.<br /><br />Still not up to the Jane Greer level though.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-80321632251798727862009-11-14T10:39:32.575-08:002009-11-14T10:39:32.575-08:00"The way night encompasses day, aggressor pre..."The way night encompasses day, aggressor prey." Wonderful. I think you've captured the heart of film noir perfectly here Tom.George Mattinglyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11844284835653397986noreply@blogger.com