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Of all the British imperialist movies like Four Feathers, Charge of the Light Brigade for example, this movie stands out as the cream of the crop.
Now, one can only hope that Korda's FOUR FEATHERS and a restored version of Korda's JUNGLE BOOK (to replace to poor public domain prints in circulation) will soon follow on DVD.
Hires Karloff AND Lugosi, buttresses them with a couple pug-ugly manservants and a truly goofy romantic-interest duo, and puts them to work: running through this outrageous modernist mansion built on a WWI bunker (they have electric clocks!), performing satanic rites and playing the organ, murdering (and stuffing) wives and daughters, settling ownership of virgins with a nice game of chess, fainting a lot, flaying each other alive, listening to stupid ass cops with feathers argue over whose home town is prettier, plus a line that EVERYONE should have implanted in their brains: "Supernatural - perhaps.
While this might ruffle a few feathers, this is akin to showing a song and dance number at a Soviet gulag!
For those who weren't happy with the obvious, predictable ending, the movie wasn't meant to ruffle feathers.
Seemed to really push the envelope for that time period in terms of gay and trans-gender undertones - what with the pirate captain's attachment to his butler and to his androgynous second in command (the character who paraded around in a dress and feathers and appeared much more interested in Will than in Arabella).
Good thing he's also found Quetzalcoatl, the legendary Aztec serpent/bird god, and has learned that the creature will track down and kill whoever is in unwitting possession of one of its feathers.
In that film, Bela had lured his flying killer to the intended victim by using a special shaving lotion; here, those darn feathers have been substituted.
The "party 'til you puke" attitude actually originated with the Romans, who provided feathers for the throat and basins for their guests to vomit into so that in voiding they could eat and drink even more.
Along with Gone With the Wind and The Four Feathers, this is the finest use of color I have seen in a movie, and it should be used as a textbook on how to shoot a film in color.
Had I never watched this film, I wouldn't have known the following; apparently, cavemen had perfectly sharpened and rounded metal knives and wore make-up; apparently, newborn pterodactyl(whatever the plural form of that word is) have feathers; apparently, if you called an electrician in the late 80's, you'd get a pushy and respect-less jackass who prints out a business card that says "electrician and adventurer".
Why it's watching a pathetic feathery prop on a string cause fear and death in its search all of its feathers.
Listening to interviews involving both sides, it seemed like nothing more than two chiefs arguing about who should have more feathers.
For an example when the man was glueing the feathers to the chicken's head it sounded like he was walking through a swamp every time he dabbed is brush!
I like to think that after shooting this drek Hitchcock left for the USA one jump ahead of a mob of discerning movie-goers handicapped by the huge amounts of tar and feathers they were carrying.
That wording – never used in previous enlargement rounds – may have ruffled Turkey’s feathers, but it was finally accepted as the type of constructive ambiguity that is so often used in international diplomacy.
When this grain, which humans could eat directly, is fed to chickens, they use some of it to create bones and feathers and other body parts that we cannot eat.
China has also ruffled many Indian feathers by arbitrarily denying visas to senior officials.
Most French voters are sick of a political class that feathers its own nest while neglecting their concerns.
Faced with meeting the constitutional requirement of getting votes from each state in the Federation, the candidates and their handlers have gone out of their way to avoid taking positions that ruffle feathers.
True, Fischer ruffled quite a few Atlantic (many American) feathers by arguing that NATO's nuclear doctrine should no longer include the first use of nuclear weapons.
His reason for doing so was to explain male peacocks’ obviously hindering tail feathers and male lions’ apparently useless manes.
If someone can do difficult things, not only carrying peacock tail feathers or a long dark lion mane, but also things that require much practice without contributing to physical fitness and survival, and yet stay alive, that individual must have especially good genes.
The wise president-elect identifies a peacock and avoids the species from the start, or knows how to keep its feathers in check.
Now, to his credit, Trichet has done something about this long-standing problem, although not without ruffling some feathers in the process.
But hope – “the thing with feathers,” as the American poet Emily Dickinson put it – often bears little resemblance to realities on the ground.
Peacocks have evolved to have long, colorful feathers simply because peahens have evolved to find them attractive.
But another fox has entered the hen house, and it has met with the typical European response to danger: furious cackling and an explosion of feathers.
When I first began studying public finance, I was taught that there were three principles of taxation, all stemming from the seventeenth-century French politician Jean-Baptiste Colbert’s dictum to “so [pluck] the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.”
Warren’s wealth-tax proposal – a levy of 2% on every dollar of net worth above $50 million, rising to 6% for fortunes greater than $1 billion – has ruffled billionaires’ feathers.
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