I needed a break.\u00a0 I flipped on the TV and began scanning for a film that would be a good diversion\u2026 Lifetime<\/i>?\u00a0 That\u2019s the Channel with those drippy movies that Suzy and Sandy could watch two or three in a row!\u00a0 No thanks.<\/p>\n
OK\u2026 Shakespeare in Love<\/span>.\u00a0 That\u2019s more like it!\u00a0 One of my favorite films!\u00a0 \u201cGood sir?\u00a0 I heard you were a poet\u2026 has the poet no words?\u201d\u00a0 I love it.\u00a0 Love every line! \u201cThis is not a life, Will.\u00a0 It is a stolen season.\u201d<\/p>\n Another Channel has Titanic<\/span>. Not a real favorite of mine\u2026 although I will always watch the first 20 minutes or so\u2026 \u2018til the scene in steerage when Jack and Rose dance.\u00a0 And there are<\/i> good lines. \u201cThat\u2019s one of the good things about Paris: lots of girls willing to take their clothes off.\u201d<\/p>\n And here\u2019s one I haven\u2019t seen for an age!\u00a0 The Mouse That Roared<\/span>.\u00a0 Peter Sellers plays three different roles: Tully Bascombe. Prime Minister Count Rupert of Mountjoy and best of all\u2026 The Grand Duchess of Fenwick Gloriana XII.\u00a0 \u201cThere isn\u2019t a more profitable undertaking for any country than to declare war on the United States and be defeated!\u201d<\/p>\n Oh\u2026 and something from my present vocation\u2026 wine.\u00a0 Russell Crowe\u2019s A Good Year<\/span>.\u00a0 \u201cIn France it’s always the landowner who makes the wine, even though he does nothing more than supervise with binoculars from the comfort of his study. No, I enjoy making wine, because this sublime nectar is quite simply incapable of lying. Picked too early, picked too late, it matters not – the wine will always whisper into your mouth with complete, unabashed honesty every time you take a sip.\u201d<\/p>\n The pages of Defiance<\/span> lurk in my mind, yet each of the films just noted possess many memorable things I so enjoy\u2026 actors, settings & lines.\u00a0 Even the unlikely appearance of Sellers dressed in royal raiment as the Grand Duchess!<\/p>\n And to my dream\u2026<\/p>\n It\u2019s a village that skirts a series of walled vineyards thick with ripe fruit.\u00a0 The village is mostly deserted.\u00a0 Doors hanging from hinges.\u00a0 Shots heard, from deeper in the village, and from the wood beyond the vineyards. Must be partisans. \u00a0Behind the crumbled wall of the Clos Leonardo Di Caprio looks left and right, and then casts an eye upward towards the church steeple.\u00a0 A sniper?\u00a0 Even in my dream I know that this isn\u2019t real!\u00a0 This is a movie set!\u00a0 I can see a boom mike!\u00a0 A rumble of trucks coming from the wood.\u00a0 Into the small a vacant square in front of the church, the trucks stop and unload fully armed soldiers.\u00a0 Shouts. Shots, screams.\u00a0 Di Caprio considers his next step.\u00a0 He hears soldiers coming from thru the vineyard rows.\u00a0 He lifts Gwyneth Paltrow over the wall just as a soldier is about to bring his rifle butt crashing into her skull\u2026<\/p>\n And the director shouts, \u201cDOUBLE!\u201d<\/p>\n Dreams, dreams\u2026 they are the wonder of my mind.\u00a0 A collection of events, places, people and time frame that are roughly sewn into a patch-work quilt of impression.\u00a0 Lacking a clear beginning or end.\u00a0 Fact spiced with fiction, or fantasy … Continue reading ![\"New](\"http:\/\/www.summerofjim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/New-do.bmp\")
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