Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Feb 18, 2010 22:13:03 GMT
My good friend Mrs Fly has been sharing her passion of Laurel and Hardy with members of another board I frequent...she's been watching one film per night... her are some of the writings of Mrs Fly...
From "Chump:"
"Fatty! Fatty! You don't walk right, or something. Hold your chin up! No, no, no! Both of them!"
I love their fights with Charlie Hall which always escalate into more and more absurd tactics like cutting off a piece of Charlie's hair and sticking it on his chin with molasses. When Ollie finally goes down the well to put out his smouldering backside and the explosion occurs because the well is full of moonshine, seeing him shoot up into the air and Stan visually tracing his progress back to the ground is a great end to the antics.
I like their silent movies too. "The Second Hundred Years" is great. Captain Fly transferred all the "ragtime-ish" music from the films on to CD's for me.
The women who worked with them were great too. My favourite of Ollie's wives is Faye Holderness who is the lady in the film about the aerial being fitted on the roof so as Mrs Hardy can "hear Japan."
The other day I watched "Pardon Us," by Laurel and Hardy. In it they are jailed for brewing and selling beer during prohibition. Stan has something wrong with one of his teeth and at the end of every sentence it causes him to make a sound like a "raspberry." The Governor of the jail is incensed by what he thinks is Stan's disregard of his authority, and shoves them into a cell with the infamous "Tiger" played by the marvellous Walter Long.
Including Walter there are three "hard men" in the cell and Stan and Ollie go in very tentatively. Walter comes up to a highly nervous Stan and asks him a question. Stan replies and inadvertently makes the raspberry sound at the end of his sentence. Stan is expecting the worst but Walter Long warms to him and congratulates him on having the nerve to "raspberry the Tiger."
Ollie's been listening to all this and when Walter turns to him and asks him why he and Stan have been jailed, Ollie replies: "We're a couple of beer barons." Then he blows a huge raspberry after which Walter Long runs across the cell and thumps him.
Well, I watched "Blotto:" another prohibition based one where Stan and Ollie steal a bottle of wine off Stan's wife and drink it at the "Rainbow Club" where they become ridiculously drunk. Meanwhile Stan's wife, having realised what was going down, makes her way to club with a double-barrelled shotgun, sobers them up instantly by mentioning she'd substituted the wine for cold tea, chases them out of the club and blows to bits the taxi they're fleeing in. She made it all look so simple!
From "Chump:"
"Fatty! Fatty! You don't walk right, or something. Hold your chin up! No, no, no! Both of them!"
I love their fights with Charlie Hall which always escalate into more and more absurd tactics like cutting off a piece of Charlie's hair and sticking it on his chin with molasses. When Ollie finally goes down the well to put out his smouldering backside and the explosion occurs because the well is full of moonshine, seeing him shoot up into the air and Stan visually tracing his progress back to the ground is a great end to the antics.
I like their silent movies too. "The Second Hundred Years" is great. Captain Fly transferred all the "ragtime-ish" music from the films on to CD's for me.
The women who worked with them were great too. My favourite of Ollie's wives is Faye Holderness who is the lady in the film about the aerial being fitted on the roof so as Mrs Hardy can "hear Japan."
The other day I watched "Pardon Us," by Laurel and Hardy. In it they are jailed for brewing and selling beer during prohibition. Stan has something wrong with one of his teeth and at the end of every sentence it causes him to make a sound like a "raspberry." The Governor of the jail is incensed by what he thinks is Stan's disregard of his authority, and shoves them into a cell with the infamous "Tiger" played by the marvellous Walter Long.
Including Walter there are three "hard men" in the cell and Stan and Ollie go in very tentatively. Walter comes up to a highly nervous Stan and asks him a question. Stan replies and inadvertently makes the raspberry sound at the end of his sentence. Stan is expecting the worst but Walter Long warms to him and congratulates him on having the nerve to "raspberry the Tiger."
Ollie's been listening to all this and when Walter turns to him and asks him why he and Stan have been jailed, Ollie replies: "We're a couple of beer barons." Then he blows a huge raspberry after which Walter Long runs across the cell and thumps him.
Well, I watched "Blotto:" another prohibition based one where Stan and Ollie steal a bottle of wine off Stan's wife and drink it at the "Rainbow Club" where they become ridiculously drunk. Meanwhile Stan's wife, having realised what was going down, makes her way to club with a double-barrelled shotgun, sobers them up instantly by mentioning she'd substituted the wine for cold tea, chases them out of the club and blows to bits the taxi they're fleeing in. She made it all look so simple!
