One Cʘsmos: Cary Grant in Gaye & Indiscreet

Sunday, December 02, 2007

Cary Grant in Gaye & Indiscreet

As I mentioned yesterday, there was a time when American movies reflected the eternal archetypes of the soul. Emphasis on the soul:

24 comments:

Lisa said...: Hah, syncoonicity strikes again...I think I saw George Clooney do that same exact dance at a club in Hollywood last night! His date eyed him suspiciously as well....;)

wv: bhtce it's true I can be that way sometimes!; 12/02/2007 07:41:00 AM
Anonymous said...: Funny, I don't remember Cary Grant being a French.; 12/02/2007 07:51:00 AM
Gagdad Bob said...: Not that there's anything wrong with it.; 12/02/2007 10:07:00 AM
Van Harvey said...: That was surprising and initially, disorienting. Interesting to see how TheyGrant & Kerr, came through their actions without their voices. The dance reminded me of (probably a little sacriligous to compare, but...) of the dance scene in the movie 'A Knights Tale' with Heath Ledger and Paul Bettany. There the hero is set up by the bad guy, who intending to embarass him as a complete hick, asks him to show everybody a dance from his homeland. He's initially gawky, but his lady comes to his rescue, and the music, as anachronistic as your clip, in the medieval hall is David Bowie's 'Golden Years' - but sort of accomplishes the same thing as this - the archetypes persist, through, and perhaps in spite of, whatever the current fashion may be.

It does, that is, assuming that the individuals involved are Men and Women... try the same thing with KFed and Brittaninny and... well... contents may settle during shipping.; 12/02/2007 11:03:00 AM
Anonymous said...: that was just gaye...; 12/02/2007 11:08:00 AM
Anonymous said...: Shut up, Napoleon. You're just jealous 'cause he picked up so many babes.; 12/02/2007 11:15:00 AM
Anonymous said...: Um, that's Ingrid Bergman.

Just sayin; 12/02/2007 11:31:00 AM
Gagdad Bob said...: Perfectly understandable. He's obviously confusing it with A Gaye Affair to Remember.; 12/02/2007 11:38:00 AM
Van Harvey said...: Doh! Yes I was thinking of 'An Affair to... uh... to...Remember!' All the frenchie talk... that threw me off... yeah, that's the ticket... it's the French's Fault! It's always their fault!

(sheesh); 12/02/2007 12:47:00 PM
Anonymous said...: Van

I thought it was the fault of the French youts,oh wait that would be now not then, never mind.; 12/02/2007 12:52:00 PM
Stephen Macdonald said...: Heh.

On the topic of dancing, you REALLY need to check out Chris Walken in this clip: Weapon Of Choice

Seriously. Don't miss it.; 12/02/2007 01:02:00 PM
walt said...: Ben had a lot of 'splainin' to do, and he finally has done it.; 12/02/2007 02:02:00 PM
Anonymous said...: yeah, right Kip! I could pick up a million chicks if i wanted to! Gosh!; 12/02/2007 02:41:00 PM
Anonymous said...: Greatest.Film.Dance.Ever.

Donald O'Connor.

"Make "Em Laugh"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5tp7LwQYT8U; 12/02/2007 03:47:00 PM
Anonymous said...: Napoleon, chicks only dig guys with skills -- num chucking skills, bow hunting skills, blogging skills. Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills.; 12/02/2007 04:04:00 PM
Anonymous said...: I can dance like this.; 12/02/2007 04:09:00 PM
Anonymous said...: >> . . . there was a time when American movies reflected the eternal archetypes of the soul. Emphasis on the soul<<

Yup, and that's when actresses were really distinct, really vivid in their feminine power.

Hepburn, Davis, Russel(Rosalind), Stanwyck, etc.

Contrast and compare with today's colorless array of female impersonators.; 12/02/2007 04:10:00 PM
Van Harvey said...: Will said "Contrast and compare with today's colorless array of female impersonators."

Not nearly as bad as the male impersonators.

About the Dance... Although, O'Connor was no slouch, along those lines, I gotta go with Fred Astaire dancing up the walls and ceiling, or the one (shows up in the scroll list below the above link)'show jumps, where he makes a mop look good!; 12/02/2007 05:19:00 PM
Van Harvey said...: Smoov,
Walken's a contender... although one senses that his leap across the lobby may have benefited from some... eh... special effects.; 12/02/2007 05:34:00 PM
Mizz E said...: But this feeling isn't purely mental

Van, Not only could our man sing and dance - he could play the piano.; 12/02/2007 06:23:00 PM
Van Harvey said...: MizzE,
And I dooo like that piano - is that Jazz or Ragtime? Dunno, don't care, Liiike it.

A shame that the world those movies sprung from is gone. I'm not a nostalgist, or a doom and gloomer, I don't think we can or should go back to that world, but I do hope we manage to pass through the spiritual doldrums we're mired in now, and achieve something worthy of looking that time in the eye.

The cheap, infantile cynicism paraded about as a personal point of view, as a mark of 'Personality' by the likes of Clooney, etc, with the deliberately 'bed head' hair styles, etc, - would have been vaporized in the face of a Fred Astaire.

Sigh. Sorry for straying into the Donny Downer mode - the sight of such joyus exuberance, properly termed as Gay (I brutally hate the lefties for destroying that and other such words) on my PC, while some despicable drec flips by on the TV behind it as kids shows! as humor! It's depressing...

Aeschylus's observation that "There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief" is so true.; 12/02/2007 07:04:00 PM
Anonymous said...: I'm now posting about my conversion experiences and religious questions on the blog I started for the Modern Military Heroes project (now dormant until I have half a minute to think straight.)

Please visit whenever you like. I'll try to post every Sunday.

Thanks!

Mrs. G

http://modernmilitaryheroes.blogspot.com/; 12/02/2007 07:17:00 PM
NoMo said...: Oh, yeah, dance Sunday!; 12/02/2007 09:31:00 PM
Van Harvey said...: ;-); 12/03/2007 05:17:00 AM

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