• HIGH NOON (1952)

    From Bill Anderson@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 6 22:01:49 2024
    Another weekend with the kid who plays games on my computer and in return consents to watch a classic movie with me. Today we saw HIGH NOON.

    Gary Cooper could just ride out of town on that buckboard with Grace Kelly
    at his side, but he knows the town faces an existential threat and he must
    do his duty. So he turns the horses around (No doubles — that’s really Gary Cooper driving that team and Grace Kelly sitting right there beside him
    without even a seatbelt!) and back to town he goes to face his sworn enemy, Frank Miller, who will arrive on the train at high noon, meet up with his henchman, and come gunning for the man who sent him to jail.

    Of course he’s going to need a posse to help him stand up to the bad guys, but can he count on his fellow citizens for help? Well the answer to that
    is the heart of the movie. When push comes to shove, will anybody step
    forward and do what is right? It’s amazing and almost amusing to listen to the various rationales everybody uses to avoid helping. Everything they say makes perfect sense, it’s easy to understand their point of view, they are doing what is best, who could expect them to do otherwise? So in the end
    it’s Coop alone against the bad guys.

    What a tight script this movie has; not a second wasted on unnecessary
    scenes or expository dialogue. The Dimitri Tiomkin score is brilliant throughout – – that earworm theme song will be playing in my head for the rest of the day – – and the tick-tock sequence as the big hand reaches 12 and the cutting of the shots matches the beats of the music is just
    perfection. I don’t know what the 10 best movies ever made are, but I
    believe this is one of them.

    The kid thought the movie was great. He thought Frank Miller’s henchman
    were really good actors and was a little sad that they had to be the bad
    guys. At the end, he was grinning ear to ear as Cooper and Kelly were
    riding out of town. He commented, “I’m not gonna lie, I liked STAGECOACH better because there was more at the end after the bad guy was killed.” I guess HIGH NOON does end rather abruptly, but like I said, it’s a tight script.

    I knew it was a great movie but I admit I had forgotten exactly how much
    HIGH NOON deserves to be called a masterpiece.

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    Bill Anderson

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to Bill Anderson on Sat Jan 6 17:28:24 2024
    On 1/6/2024 5:01 PM, Bill Anderson wrote:
    Another weekend with the kid who plays games on my computer and in return consents to watch a classic movie with me. Today we saw HIGH NOON.

    Gary Cooper could just ride out of town on that buckboard with Grace Kelly
    at his side, but he knows the town faces an existential threat and he must
    do his duty. So he turns the horses around (No doubles — that’s really Gary
    Cooper driving that team and Grace Kelly sitting right there beside him without even a seatbelt!) and back to town he goes to face his sworn enemy, Frank Miller, who will arrive on the train at high noon, meet up with his henchman, and come gunning for the man who sent him to jail.

    Of course he’s going to need a posse to help him stand up to the bad guys, but can he count on his fellow citizens for help? Well the answer to that
    is the heart of the movie. When push comes to shove, will anybody step forward and do what is right? It’s amazing and almost amusing to listen to the various rationales everybody uses to avoid helping. Everything they say makes perfect sense, it’s easy to understand their point of view, they are doing what is best, who could expect them to do otherwise? So in the end it’s Coop alone against the bad guys.

    What a tight script this movie has; not a second wasted on unnecessary
    scenes or expository dialogue. The Dimitri Tiomkin score is brilliant throughout – – that earworm theme song will be playing in my head for the rest of the day – – and the tick-tock sequence as the big hand reaches 12 and the cutting of the shots matches the beats of the music is just perfection. I don’t know what the 10 best movies ever made are, but I believe this is one of them.

    The kid thought the movie was great. He thought Frank Miller’s henchman were really good actors and was a little sad that they had to be the bad guys. At the end, he was grinning ear to ear as Cooper and Kelly were
    riding out of town. He commented, “I’m not gonna lie, I liked STAGECOACH better because there was more at the end after the bad guy was killed.” I guess HIGH NOON does end rather abruptly, but like I said, it’s a tight script.

    I knew it was a great movie but I admit I had forgotten exactly how much
    HIGH NOON deserves to be called a masterpiece.

    Yeah, Fred Zinnemann seemed to crank those out. Meanwhile, a footnote:

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082869

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  • From Mack A. Damia@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 6 17:48:25 2024
    On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 17:28:24 -0500, moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com>
    wrote:

    On 1/6/2024 5:01 PM, Bill Anderson wrote:
    Another weekend with the kid who plays games on my computer and in return
    consents to watch a classic movie with me. Today we saw HIGH NOON.

    Gary Cooper could just ride out of town on that buckboard with Grace Kelly >> at his side, but he knows the town faces an existential threat and he must >> do his duty. So he turns the horses around (No doubles thats really Gary >> Cooper driving that team and Grace Kelly sitting right there beside him
    without even a seatbelt!) and back to town he goes to face his sworn enemy, >> Frank Miller, who will arrive on the train at high noon, meet up with his
    henchman, and come gunning for the man who sent him to jail.

    Of course hes going to need a posse to help him stand up to the bad guys, >> but can he count on his fellow citizens for help? Well the answer to that
    is the heart of the movie. When push comes to shove, will anybody step
    forward and do what is right? Its amazing and almost amusing to listen to >> the various rationales everybody uses to avoid helping. Everything they say >> makes perfect sense, its easy to understand their point of view, they are >> doing what is best, who could expect them to do otherwise? So in the end
    its Coop alone against the bad guys.

    What a tight script this movie has; not a second wasted on unnecessary
    scenes or expository dialogue. The Dimitri Tiomkin score is brilliant
    throughout that earworm theme song will be playing in my head for the
    rest of the day and the tick-tock sequence as the big hand reaches 12
    and the cutting of the shots matches the beats of the music is just
    perfection. I dont know what the 10 best movies ever made are, but I
    believe this is one of them.

    The kid thought the movie was great. He thought Frank Millers henchman
    were really good actors and was a little sad that they had to be the bad
    guys. At the end, he was grinning ear to ear as Cooper and Kelly were
    riding out of town. He commented, Im not gonna lie, I liked STAGECOACH
    better because there was more at the end after the bad guy was killed. I
    guess HIGH NOON does end rather abruptly, but like I said, its a tight
    script.

    I knew it was a great movie but I admit I had forgotten exactly how much
    HIGH NOON deserves to be called a masterpiece.

    Yeah, Fred Zinnemann seemed to crank those out. Meanwhile, a footnote:

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082869

    My choice?

    "The Day of the Jackal" (1973)

    Maybe difficult for younger folks to appreciate given the rather
    obscure historical background. But I consider it one of the best of
    its genre.

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