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moon_custafer) wrote2014-01-08 07:58 pm
moon_custafer) wrote2014-01-08 07:58 pm
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I Feel Like Jumpin' in the River
Damn. Perhaps for copyright reasons, YouTube doesn't have the last part of Ruggles of Red Gap. May have to buy it from iTunes or someplace.
ETA: Anyway, further thoughts:
I'd noticed last night that the film briefly touches, via a brief gag, on the fact that Ruggles is the only white servant in the Floud's household (presumably their other employees would *not* get mistaken by the townsfolk for houseguests) and wondered if their (African-American) maid and (Chinese) cook would appear again, but so far they haven't. We do learn that the building where Ruggles eventually plans to start a restaurant has been empty since the owner of the previous, Chinese restaurant was shot because "he couldn't do ham and eggs." Apparently even Red Gap has limits to its tolerance.
Despite my watching it in sections, this movie flows really well -- it's only 90 minutes long, apparently, with a lot happening (and from the summaries found online, a fair bit still to happen in the about two seconds. missing segment), but it never seems rushed, although there are one or two moments where I thought afterwards: "well THAT escalated quickly." Frex, I'm still not sure how Laughton and Zazu Pitts get from arguing to waltzing within the space of about two seconds. I'm willing to suspend my disbelief, though, be cause they are so freakin' adorable. Like, Christopher Lloyd and Mary Steenbergen in Back to the Future III (which is probably no coincidence) adorable.
ETA: Anyway, further thoughts:
I'd noticed last night that the film briefly touches, via a brief gag, on the fact that Ruggles is the only white servant in the Floud's household (presumably their other employees would *not* get mistaken by the townsfolk for houseguests) and wondered if their (African-American) maid and (Chinese) cook would appear again, but so far they haven't. We do learn that the building where Ruggles eventually plans to start a restaurant has been empty since the owner of the previous, Chinese restaurant was shot because "he couldn't do ham and eggs." Apparently even Red Gap has limits to its tolerance.
Despite my watching it in sections, this movie flows really well -- it's only 90 minutes long, apparently, with a lot happening (and from the summaries found online, a fair bit still to happen in the about two seconds. missing segment), but it never seems rushed, although there are one or two moments where I thought afterwards: "well THAT escalated quickly." Frex, I'm still not sure how Laughton and Zazu Pitts get from arguing to waltzing within the space of about two seconds. I'm willing to suspend my disbelief, though, be cause they are so freakin' adorable. Like, Christopher Lloyd and Mary Steenbergen in Back to the Future III (which is probably no coincidence) adorable.