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RE: The Last Movie You Watched
December 19, 2020 at 6:43 pm
"Greyhound", Tom Hanks is CO of WWII destroyer. We ride with him for the last 48 hours of his convoy's trip to England. Possibly the most accurate WWII naval movie I've seen.
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RE: The Last Movie You Watched
December 19, 2020 at 7:14 pm
If anyone thinks any movie is 100% original, much less any religion, consider this.
Younger generations remember "Scream" where at one point, police were telling the scared female that the call was coming from within her house.
So last night not being able to sleep, and hating ads I switched to TMC, because they don't have commercials or giant bugs on the screen, and I will put up with a crappy movie if it keeps my attention over having to change the channels to avoid ads.
So anywho, last night, very late night, I stumbled on a movie called "Black Christmas"(1974). Turned out to be a thriller/horror. The ladies at a local sorority kept on getting obscene phone calls. One by one the killer managed to kill the girls and hide them in the house without the others knowing, especially the main character. She finely convinced the police to trace the phone calls, and what do you know, the script called for the police to inform her that the calls she was getting were coming form within the same house.
More irony. I saw "Black Christmas" for the first time overnight last night. BUT, it was not the first motif of "tracing" a phone call I had seen even way before Scream.
There was an episode of the original Hawaii Five O, where a phone company employee was tracing the accepting call, by walking through the local phone company relays, following the wires, to get to the caller.
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RE: The Last Movie You Watched
December 19, 2020 at 7:33 pm
(December 19, 2020 at 7:14 pm)Brian37 Wrote: If anyone thinks any movie is 100% original, much less any religion, consider this.
Younger generations remember "Scream" where at one point, police were telling the scared female that the call was coming from within her house.
So last night not being able to sleep, and hating ads I switched to TMC, because they don't have commercials or giant bugs on the screen, and I will put up with a crappy movie if it keeps my attention over having to change the channels to avoid ads.
So anywho, last night, very late night, I stumbled on a movie called "Black Christmas"(1974). Turned out to be a thriller/horror. The ladies at a local sorority kept on getting obscene phone calls. One by one the killer managed to kill the girls and hide them in the house without the others knowing, especially the main character. She finely convinced the police to trace the phone calls, and what do you know, the script called for the police to inform her that the calls she was getting were coming form within the same house.
More irony. I saw "Black Christmas" for the first time overnight last night. BUT, it was not the first motif of "tracing" a phone call I had seen even way before Scream.
There was an episode of the original Hawaii Five O, where a phone company employee was tracing the accepting call, by walking through the local phone company relays, following the wires, to get to the caller.
Interesting bit of fluff: the-call-coming-from-inside-the-house as a film trope dates from 1971, and is thought to have been inspired by the actual murder of a babysitter in the 1950s.
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RE: The Last Movie You Watched
December 19, 2020 at 10:08 pm
(December 19, 2020 at 7:33 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (December 19, 2020 at 7:14 pm)Brian37 Wrote: If anyone thinks any movie is 100% original, much less any religion, consider this.
Younger generations remember "Scream" where at one point, police were telling the scared female that the call was coming from within her house.
So last night not being able to sleep, and hating ads I switched to TMC, because they don't have commercials or giant bugs on the screen, and I will put up with a crappy movie if it keeps my attention over having to change the channels to avoid ads.
So anywho, last night, very late night, I stumbled on a movie called "Black Christmas"(1974). Turned out to be a thriller/horror. The ladies at a local sorority kept on getting obscene phone calls. One by one the killer managed to kill the girls and hide them in the house without the others knowing, especially the main character. She finely convinced the police to trace the phone calls, and what do you know, the script called for the police to inform her that the calls she was getting were coming form within the same house.
More irony. I saw "Black Christmas" for the first time overnight last night. BUT, it was not the first motif of "tracing" a phone call I had seen even way before Scream.
There was an episode of the original Hawaii Five O, where a phone company employee was tracing the accepting call, by walking through the local phone company relays, following the wires, to get to the caller.
Interesting bit of fluff: the-call-coming-from-inside-the-house as a film trope dates from 1971, and is thought to have been inspired by the actual murder of a babysitter in the 1950s.
Boru
I was simply surprised that Scream had older memes in it. But that is why I posted this thread, it should not surprise anyone that newer anything gets influenced by older anything.
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RE: The Last Movie You Watched
December 19, 2020 at 11:34 pm
You know "Scream" is a parody flick, right?
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December 20, 2020 at 12:18 am
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RE: The Last Movie You Watched
December 20, 2020 at 7:33 am
I can hardly believe that this film came out over 20 years ago and I saw it for the first time yesterday.
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RE: The Last Movie You Watched
December 20, 2020 at 7:48 am
(December 20, 2020 at 7:33 am)Gwaithmir Wrote:
I can hardly believe that this film came out over 20 years ago and I saw it for the first time yesterday.
Don't feel too badly about it. I only saw 'The Shop Around The Corner' this year, and it was made in 1940. Odd, as I'm a Jimmy Stewart fan.
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December 20, 2020 at 12:56 pm
Lost 2004 season 1
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RE: The Last Movie You Watched
December 20, 2020 at 12:58 pm
I've lost more that than. Two drives just gave off the mysterious blue smoke.
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