Continuing to fill up the Rubber Soul Roundtable…
THE MAZE
There are a lot of times when I don’t remember a movie (sometimes mere hours after watching it), but I remember a particular scene or vague theme from the movie. All I could remember about Treasure of the Four Crowns was the scene where fireballs on ridiculously visible wires were flying around. With Sword and the Sorcerer, it was “guy falls into room of naked women” and “guy makes witch’s chest explode, then catches her heart.” Although there are many times when I remembered both the scene and the title of the movie, there are many other times when I have no recollection at all of the film’s title. It is in these instances that the Internet has proven to finally be worth all the trouble. Thousands and thousands of years of social and technological evolution finally lead to the moment when I can look up “screaming banshee on moors” and find out in which movie it appears. And the internet was there for me again, very recently, when I was trying to remember the title of a movie about which all I could recall was, “frog man in center of hedge maze.”
#1 by hman on May 9, 2008 - 12:17 pm
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Wow, cool. Why can’t filmmakers today think of making an atmospheric black n’ white film with a frogman in a hedge maze? I felt some of the atmosphere of the film just looking at the screencaps.
#2 by Todd on May 9, 2008 - 4:05 pm
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I remember watching this movie with my mom on “Dialing For Dollars” or whatever our local afternoon movie was when I was a little kid — so perhaps it’s a more universal mother/son bonding experience than you might think.
#3 by hman on May 9, 2008 - 8:28 pm
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Spider-man did indeed take on Frog-Man, who then, much to Spidey’s dismay, occasionally would team up with him. I remember an issue of “The Spectacular Spider-Man” where the two teamed up to take on a bunch of wackos who dressed up like a Rabbit and a Walrus or some other Lewis Carroll characters.
#4 by Ed on May 9, 2008 - 11:18 pm
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Ah, now this is one of the main reasons Teleport City is one of my favorite sites of all time. A delightfully odd story premise related with great enthusiasm.
#5 by lyzard on May 11, 2008 - 8:16 pm
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Ah, “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny”….my favourite. And never mind that it was discredited decades before this film was made. If it’s good enough for William Cameron Menzies and John Frankenheimer, it’s good enough for me, dammit!!
(Also, when they say “amphibian”, they generally mean tadpole-like, not honest-to-God-frog-like.)
#6 by KeithA on May 12, 2008 - 8:55 am
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Enough of your scientific mumbo jumbo! I want FACTS!
#7 by lyzard on May 12, 2008 - 4:58 pm
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Mumbo, perhaps. Jumbo, perhaps not.
#8 by PCachu on May 13, 2008 - 3:44 pm
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Mumbo-diminuto?