Friday, November 1, 2013

This is what I did last Friday. At eleven at night, 8TV, made a film by William Wyler (not to be co

Karen Balkin archive of our own | Max Aue
One of the advantages of free TV channels have little audience (like BTV, 8TV or other premises) is that these chains are forced to contract, for budgetary reasons, the emission of old movies. And if programmers struggle a bit, not hard to find films that might not go to the library specifically to see them again, but if you have them available archive of our own to you at a reasonable hour, you can do with pleasure.
This is what I did last Friday. At eleven at night, 8TV, made a film by William Wyler (not to be confused with Billy Wilder): The calumny. I do not remember, but people of my generation have all the report titles as Funny Girl and Ben-Hur, Wyler directed by the same: a good letter. Surely my father would have other titles to memory, because the man had started making films in 1925. Those of my generation could only present their latest productions. This is what they did Friday 1961.
When I began to see the credits, archive of our own because I felt that what I would like: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley McLane, James Garner ... and based on a play by Lillian Hellman, who was the companion of Dashiell Hammett for over thirty years. Interestingly, the same year, 1934, the Hellman premiered his first play (it), his partner Hammett published his last novel. They pass the baton to each other?
The work of Hellman, like the original title of the movie was when the children archive of our own (The Children's Hour), but I do not know what reasons the title was La Mentira in Spanish and in Catalan Billed as the slander. Things dealers, I guess. I do not know if it was released here in Spain at the time. The United States already had their problems with the Hays Code, in particular the provision established II.4: Sex perversion or any Inference to it is forbidden. And at that time, gave everyone archive of our own to feel that homosexuality came into this category.
In 34, when it premiered on Broadway because he organized his scandal, but New York has always been a very tolerant than the U.S. average. And besides, the Hays Code was applicable only to the movies, not the theater. Its title was Motion Picture Production Code of 1930, although normally it was known by the name of Hays Code. Was in force, with amendments archive of our own (some of them felt even more conservative than the original) until 1967. Oddly enough (to Europeans that we find difficult to understand) was not enacted a law but a code of good conduct adopted and approved by the same film producers. Self in this call. Same as the financial markets have had over the years ... so we did!
As I said, do not remember the film, but I suspect he'd ever seen. Something had recorded the head: the deep hatred felt by the character of the girl Mary, played by Karen Balkin. Seeing archive of our own it on the screen, something woke up in my subconscious: that face, those expressions, gestures captious, his malice, the deep feeling of rejection by the capricious and spoiled rich girl, wanting to fuck him a slap ... All this and more, emerged from the depths of my mind. And as far as I know, this is the only film he made that Karen Balkin, so he had to have seen her once, but could not remember so clearly his features, gestures and expressions and, above all, the hatred that was born in me. Maybe I saw the small local cinema, when the Triumph (and other theaters) but did double sessions for two pesetas. Although I believe that censorship of the time allowed the exhibition of the film in mid or late sixties.
When the movie ended I did not regret having seen. Interpretations of the master Hepburn and Shirley McLane, an argument well locked, tremendous hard work to make acting director of girls (especially the Mary and Rosalie) 12 years old when they were filmed. And, above all, a more or less respectful archive of our own of homosexuality, at least with the parameters of the time. The latter is what I was surprised because the film already has forty-eight years, and if we know that now, but the issue is not sufficiently normalized, then we can imagine how it was almost fifty years ago.
To get some information, I saw that William Wyler had made a film in 1936 with the same piece of Lillian Hellman and another archive of our own title. But on that occasion had hidden the homosexual issue, turning it into a classic story of marital infidelity: archive of our own a traditional love triangle archive of our own so often seen in film, theater and opera. It was in 1936! Anyone archive of our own dare to!

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