How Green was my valley?
It was really, really green.
Sorry.
cinefreak
It was so green that Kermit the Frog was purple with envy.
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I love this film- I first saw it in college thirty years ago, and just again for the first time on DVD-
Sure it's a little dated now, but a great piece of work that Bevis and Butthead, and their whole X generation of uneducated cretins, should, and will be contemptuous of.
The morality play becomes the real world dance, without the morality
in other words, "I'm soooo tired!" Huw. I'm too tired to have any fun.
Anyone who would make such a broad generalization is probably not so sharp themselves. I think you're overrating how "green" your particular valley was: just compare the education rates for then and now - which of those would you label as "uneducated"?
sharenateba,
Did you mean to include the question mark? The title is a statement...not a question.
Ciao, e buon auguri
Did you mean to include the question mark? The title is a statement...not a question.
I was making a joke. The question mark was on purpose; done for humorous effect.
cinefreak
cinefreak,
Sorry...missed it.
Thanx
Ciao, e buon auguri
Not to worry. It was a dumb joke on my part.
I read the book back in high school actually.
cinefreak
cinefreak...or nateba...which is it?
I confess, I haven't read the book. But did you find, as I often have, that if one reads the book first, one finds the movie lacking in all that was left out? Or, if one sees the movie first, one finds the book way to slow?
As I said elsewhere on the imdb boards the other day, I spent a wonderful rainy afternoon watching four old 40s B&W films. I also watched another film set in a 19th century Welsh mining town: "The Corn is Green". And I watched "I Remember Mama", and "Cheers for Miss Bishop". What a pleasant way to spend such a day.
See you around the boards.
Ciao, e buon auguri
'Cinefreak' was something I stuck on as some sort of signatory thing years ago when I established the account. It's now become a sort of nuisance that I'd like to get rid of. 'nateba' is my user name.
In regard to book vs movie on HGWMV, I read it first and saw it afterward. (Llewellyn wrote a sequel or two, by the way). This was in high school and I was disappointed at a couple missing plot elements at the time. That was before I knew what the Production Code was. It was also before I knew and appreciated John Ford's skills. I've heard of but not yet seen the other movies although my wife is a huge fan of "I Remember Mama" (which I've seen parts of but not in it's entirety).
cinefreak
OK, I understand.
If you like HGWMV, I would think you would like "The Corn is Green". There is also a 1979 TV version of that story starring Katherine Hepburn (in color) which I actually saw before I saw the Bette Davis original. I like Hepburn when she played substantial characters (unlike "Pat and Mike", or "Woman of the Year", et al) so I liked her take on "The Corn is Green".
In some ways the films of this genre and era look dated by today's film making standards, but I'm getting old enough now (61) that I look back on them with a kind of nostalgia for a time when the world was not so complicated, and morality seemed more important.
Anyway...nice chatting with you.
Ciao, e buon auguri