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[Bud Brewster]

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The Dirty Dozen (1967)

One of my favorite scenes is this one.

Donald Suthereland is the poor witless guy that Lee Marvin orders to impersonate a general who's supposedly making a surprise inspection of the egotistical Robert Ryan's "crack troops".

Sutherland saunters slowly down the line of soldier standing at attention, wearing their white gloves and dress uniforms.

Donald stops in front one young guy who looks proud to be noticed by this high-ranking officer.

Sutherland: "Where ya from, son?"

Young Soldier (looking pleased by this high-level attention): "Madison City, Missouri, sir!"

Sutherland: (Shaking his head and looking unimpressed) " . . . Never heard of it."

The young soldier's proud smile evaporates and he hangs his head, crushed by the "general's" hurtful remark.

The scene is a great example of the humor which Pow praised in this movie.

__ The Dirty Dozen (1967) - Pinkley Plays General


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Blade Runner (1982)

Thinking Outside the "Plot"!
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~ A Question for the Members: If Rachel and Deckard (both of whom are replicants, accord to Ridley Scott) have no limit to their life expectancy and are so completely "human" they can reproduce, what would they do after the story ends with them leaving together?

~ My Theory: The movie makes it plain that life on Earth sucks — and it sucks the worst for replicants. But Roy Batty talked about colonies on other planets, and battles in space.

So, the obvious thing for Roy and Rachel to do is head for a colony world, hide the fact that they're replicants . . and start a family!

Obviously I'm suggesting an alternate story line to the one in Blade Runner 2049, in which Rachael died while give birth to Dekhard's daughter.

The sequel does in fact establish that the Wallace Corporate (who took over replicant creation after the Tyrell Corporation went bankrupt) was trying to rediscovering Tyrell's "lost" data which permitted replicants like Rachel to reproduce. She was a prototype, and we can only assume that Deckard was, too — possibly created by Tyrell to mate with Rahael and create replicant offspring.

Apparently Tyrell arranged for repliant-Deckard to replace the real Deckard. just to find out if he could fool everybody —including Deckard himself.

Watch the scene at the 13:00 mark when Deckard's boss, Bryan, is trying to get Deckard to come back as a Blade Runner, and Deckard says no. "I don't work here anymore."

We can surmise that the real Deckard quit the division which retired replicants, and at some point prior to the start of the movie, Tyrell kidnapped the man, replaced him, destroyed his body, and inserted replicant-Deckard into the dead man's identity.

The lost secret of how to make replicants who can reproduce was the focal point of Blade Runner 2049, but they didn't handle the idea very well, in my opinion.

So, I'm suggesting we put the pieces together in a better way by having Rachel and Deckard establish new identities, go to the most pleasant of the colony worlds, and convince everyone they're humans by becoming the proud parents of Rachael's unborn baby — a sure fire way to prove they ain't replicants in the eyes of practically everybody!

The story would have them getting involved with the Replicant Underground (something also included in Blade Runner 2049) and discovering that there are labs on the colony which create replicants for the Wallace Corporation, to used as labor (etc.) in the colony.

One Wikipedia article I found states that the the Asian guy who made eyes, along with the quirky fellow who made hands and who befriend Darrell Hannah's character, were both replicants who made body parts for the Tyrell Corporation.

I can't confirm this from another sources, but suppose there were replicants in this off-world lab who were genetic engineers, and they have secretly discovered how to make replicants with open-ended lifespans and the ability to reproduce.

So, Deckard and Rachael ally themselves with a secret movement to create replicants with unlimited lifespans and the ability to reproduce, and a plan to have escape to an Earth-like planet where they'll establish a hidden all-replicant colony!

That's all I've got so far.

Gentlemen, this sounds like the middle movie of a great triology!
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Gargoyles (1972 TV movie)

IMDB has several interesting trivia items for this production.
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~ Grayson Hall came up with the idea for her character to hold a drink in her hand in every scene in which she appears.

Note from me: Maybe this was Miss Hall's clever way of insuring that she got to stay plastered.

~ The scenes with the gargoyles running and moving were slowed down to give the gargoyles an unnatural jerky quality

Note from me: I just looked at a part of the YouTube video to see if this effect was as annoying as I thought it would . . . and it is.

~ The hotel in the film was an old out-of-business hotel near Carlsbad, New Mexico. It was actually burned down for the film. The ruins were later recorded as a historical archaeological site with the New Mexico Department of Historic Preservation.

Note from me: Okay, wait a second. An old hotel that was no longer being used and which burned down . . .was designated as a protected site by the Department of Historic Preservation?

They're preserving the ashes of an old hotel?

Yes, sir — your tax dollars at work, folks!

~ Bernie Casey's voice was replaced by Vic Perrin's voice in post-production because his natural speaking voice didn't fit the character of the head gargoyle.

Note from me: "There is nothing wrong with your television. It's being controlled by us Gargoyles. Hey, we couldn't do any worse than the TV studies, eh?" :roll;

~ The temperature often peaked at one hundred plus degrees Fahrenheit (thirty-eight plus degrees Celsius) throughout the filming of the entire movie.

Note from me: Ah-ha, but Gargoyles were filmed in Carlsbad Caverns, and Google said the temperature there is a constant 56°. But of course, some scenes were filmed outside.

~ One of the stuntmen who plays a biker also portrayed one of the gargoyles.

Note from me: Ironically, "The Gargoyles" sounds like the name of a biker gang. A real horny one!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)