Lucille Ball in "Dance Girl Dance", 1940.
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Maureen O’Hara in Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
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Dance, Girl, Dance (1940, dir. Dorothy Arzner): This movie is flawed (the dialogue and editing in particular are very clumsy at times) but I love it so much. Lucille Ball absolutely steals the show but Maureen O'Hara deserves a lot of credit as the rare "good girl" of the era who actually got to show some claws. Not to mention her monologue at the end, truly one of the most electrifying moments in 1940s cinema!
The Evil Dead (1981, dir. Sam Raimi): Weird, scary, and gory as all hell. Obviously it's cheap and none of the characters get even a hint of development but it's a lot of fun anyway. It did get a bit too gory for me at the end, but I'm a sensitive soul and the effects were still very impressive.
The Lady Vanishes (1938, dir. Alfred Hitchcock): An all-time great Hitchcock film to me. The mystery is gripping and the characters lovable, and most of all it's a lot of fun (not to mention much less pessimistic than Hitchcock usually is)!
Senso (1954, dir. Luchino Visconti): That's a lot of trouble to go through for a man with an ass that flat.
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974, dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder): Rooting for those crazy kids even though she's kinda racist and he copes by cheating. And it figures that the German remake of a sweet, beautiful American melodrama would be so bleak and show so much full frontal nudity.
Dancer in the Dark (2000, dir. Lars von Trier): My search for a von Trier film I don't like continues because he knocked it out of the park with this one. Björk might deserve more of the credit here, though, and also jail time for weaponizing her powerful voice to emotionally destroy me like that. Now excuse me while I go cry for days and days.
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Lucille Ball in "Dance, Girl, Dance" directed by Dorothy Arzner and Roy Del Ruth, 1940
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oh, i'm so excited by this section in yakuza 5 with haruka's climb toward idolhood, it's such an interesting way to comment on the yakuza characters, as well as a looooong overdue deeper dive into haruka as a character.
the way haruka was identified and picked up by a former aspiring idol specifically because she was an orphan who "knows the value of different kinds of love" is such a brilliant parallel with the male protagonists, who were similarly targeted by yakuza recruiters because they were unfamilied, hungry, and desperate. i'm really curious what the game does with the yakuza/pop music dichotomy.
also i've seen SO MANY musicals about the aspiring ingenue who is chewed up by the dream machine at this point, i feel like i am as ready as i can be for this story line
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