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Clown Face.

doctorbasic — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:51:31 GMT

Did anyone other than myself see this movie the opening week it?
It was about 1993, right, I was about 11 years old. The film starts with a short narrator intoducing the doors to the holidays, than we go into the Halloween door. In there we are treated to a musical introduction to all the characters.

Now this is the moment I have never forgotten and no one else know what I am talking about.

During this musical introduction the clown has a verse where he mentions his 'tear away face' and at the moment he takes his face off. Underneeth is bundle of snakes and bugs.

I saw the film a second time about 2 weeks later(i really enjoyed it) and the snakes and bugs had been replaced with nothing. There was just black space. I remember it was cheap black space at that time. A crude blotting out.

Currently, when you watch the same scene the black space has been given form and shadows to appear as if the head is empty.

If anyone has seen the snakes and bugs please let me know I am not crazy. Someone else must have seen it.

... Seriously?

doctorbasic — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:57:00 GMT

I go to the video store and I browse the movies... Hmmm..... an Alfred Hitchcock film. He always been highly regarded by film experts and has many fans. I knew about the airplane scene long before I seen this movie. It just a huge pop cult thing right?

So I have my hopes up. I have no clue what the movie is about and only that it's directed by Alfred Hitchcock, the horror suspence master...or so it would seem until you see this movie.

Was this a comedy? If so why is it not funny. Is Cary Grant actually considered a good actor? For most the the movie I thought that his character was actually this sky fella he's been mistaken for. I was praying that everything would make sense if he would just reveil that he's be faking the whole time and that he is in fact a sky. That was the only way it would explain why he was not frightened of people dragging him out of a resturaunt, into a mansion, pulling guns on him, trying to throw him off a cliff, and other dangerous things. The whole time Cary Grants charater ask as if this is just another day. And he falls in love with that woman?! wtf. And why do they bad guy not just kill him!? They make a simple task so complicted. These are some real over thinking criminals. Stab him in the head? Nah, lets force him to drink a whole bottle of booze then put him in a car and roll that off a cliff. Shoot him in the heart? Ok, but lets do it from an airplane.

Why does this movie not have any jokes. MAybe this was Hitchcocks unique sense of humor. He must have thought it would be funny to make a comedy without any jokes.

-R v F

challenger

doctorbasic — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 06:28:00 GMT

Such a nice film. I love the film makers for experimenting with the narrative. I have been anticipating seeing this ever since I stuble upon them throught theburg.tv. After seeing it now on youtube I can say I and surprised and satisfied. I especially happy that the makers did not disapoint by using the hack stucture seen in every single movie that is about two people finding love and such.

Good work Arin and Susan. I hope you get out of debt soon. Good luck with the Sundance Channel thing.

- R v F