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[Gothick]

I agree with Philippe--this is a marvelous image, and so gorgeously painterly.  It really is like getting a look at a vanished era (which 1971 is just as much as 1810, at this point in time).  I think it also captures Pennock's moments of intensity (I wish there were a way for him to see this image) in a brilliant way--and of course, Thayer's earthy rootedness in his character (much better than the likes of Rev. Strack deserved!  I wonder where Lacy was at this time, btw?  seems as if Sam must have written this part for him originally).

G.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

This probably isn't the right place to post this ... but I didn't want to start a new thread.

This is definitely the topic to comment on the Movies Quotes Slideshow.  

Today's screen capture from NODS (from a deleted scene?) is great.

The scene is in the movie - and what an important scene it is. And BTW, the graphics always indicate whenever the slideshow is showcasing a sequence that was trimmed/cut.  

I agree with Philippe--this is a marvelous image, and so gorgeously painterly.  It really is like getting a look at a vanished era

I was extremely happy with that capture, too.

I wonder where Lacy was at this time, btw?  seems as if Sam must have written this part for him originally).

He was appearing in the soap Love of Life when NoDS filmed and couldn't get away to appear in it. However, I love what Thayer David did with the part. But then, the man could have read from the phonebook and made something riveting out of it...

[Gothick]

MB, I absolutely agree re Thayer David in NoDS.  I adore Jerry Lacy but Thayer's Rev. Strack characterization is one of his most vivid portrayals!

G.

[Philippe Cordier]

Thanks for the explanations, MB.  

Thayer David is a master!  

I do apologize for a nonsensical sentence in my earlier comment. I had meant to remove a remark about not having appreciated Chris Pennock in the past, but somehow my own hasty editing left part of that comment in.   To clarify, I didn't think much of his Jeb portrayal, but came around to Mr. Pennock in his role as Gabriel. I think I liked him even better in 1841 PT - at least, I think he was in 1841PT. I re-watched 1841 PT twice this year but with some personal disruptions since then, I'm experiencing a memory lapse. And he seemed a very gracious man at one of the fests I attended.

As far as Thayer David goes, I've appreciated all his performances. He reminds me somewhat of Orson Welles, in fact. And I don't know how/why I wrote "David Thayer" in my earlier post.   

[Lydia]

Didn't Thayer David start life as David Thayer?

[Gothick]

Hi Lydia,

He was born David Thayer Hersey.  Someone who seems to have known him personally or received personal info (perhaps from a family member?) has written a marvelous short biography of him on the IMDB page for him.  I highly recommend it.  I have long wanted to write a short chapbook about Thayer, and I have lived for some years now in his home town of Medford, Mass., but never been able to track down any members of his family.

There are lots of people with the surname Thayer in the Boston area, and there's even a Thayer Street in Providence.  It's a "big" name out here.

And boy, am I ever loving today's shot of Thayer at his most icy and formidable!

G.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

And boy, am I ever loving today's shot of Thayer at his most icy and formidable!

I also love that capture:

In fact, I think all the captures from The Big Reveal, as I like to refer to the scenes when Carlotta explains everything to Quentin, came out really well. The actors were all so spot on in their performances in all of those scenes.  


As for today's quote:Quote:[spoiler]NoDS: Scene #124 - Carlotta: 'She walked down the stairs so proudly. They were all afraid to touch her.'[/spoiler]It actually differs from what's in the script. The originally scripted voiceover talks about how[spoiler]it seemed like hours passed to Carlotta/Sarah after she'd witnessed the scene in the gallery, but finally her mother joined Laura at the bottom of the stairs, and after the silence was shattered by the "terrifying sounds" of the scene that took place in the tower when Gabriel and Strak went up to get Angelique, Sarah finally saw Angelique coming down the stairs. No mention of her walking down proudly or anyone being afraid to touch her (or that she suddenly knew she might never see Angelique again and ran to her).[/spoiler]
I honestly like the version that's in the film better.

[Gothick]

May I just say again that I am LOVING these images.  In the scene shown for today (10/26/2009), I'm seeing people I NEVER saw before, either because my laserdisc print is p & s, or because I was always so focused on Angelique and Sarah when watching this that I didn't get to catch the different expressions of the people around them. 

Love the respective looks on the faces of Clarice and Diana.  And is it just me, or is Selby's pose practically pornographic??

Hats off once more, MB!

cheers, G.

[Midnite]

And is it just me, or is Selby's pose practically pornographic??

All his poses are pornographic to me. 

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I don't know about Charles' stance appearing pornographic (), but I also love the expressions on Mrs. Castle and Laura:

Though Mrs. Castle's whole body language in the capture from the previous day is priceless!

[Gothick]

Misterioso darling, YOU are priceless for re-posting that previous day's capture here--I'd missed it as I was not online for most of the weekend.

Poor Clarice!  I could speculate on what hit her, but I won't.  (At least on THIS picture, we know that the infamous Roger Davis and his actress-shoving ways had nothing to do with it!)

G.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

In case anyone is wondering why yesterday's caption said "NoDS: Scenes #127/#128" and today's says "NoDS: Scenes #126/#127", that's because DC did a bit of creative editing when it came to putting those sequences together because he took dialogue from one scene and played it over footage from another scene. I honestly think his editing improved on the way it's laid out in the script and made things more effective in the film.

[Gothick]

I just have to comment,  as regards the recent grouping of images up to and including today's (Friday 10/30):  who in the right mind has a lynching/hanging in their front yard and then leaves the corpse just hanging there, to rot and moulder, FOR DAYS?  Apart from anything else, the smell, not to mention the slowly dropping body parts covered in maggots and pecked at by carrion, must have been horrific.

Even by the loopy standards of the Collins family (and remember, "hypocrisy above all!" IS the family motto according to Mrs. Carolyn Stoddard Hawkes), this is just way, WAY out there. 

And they were always depicted as being so averse to publicity... whatever passed for the local paper would have had a field day.  Can't you just see the scare quote headlines: "CORPSE OF COLLINS STRUMPET BIGGEST BOOST TO LOCAL TOURISM IN DECADES, MAYOR SAYS."

Ah, the team of Dan Curtis and Sam Hall....

G.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Oh no no - in the words of Laura Collins, "There will be no scandal." Apparently those four men from the estate who were chosen to take part in Angelique's hanging and who swore "to keep silent forever" also kept all outsiders completely away from estate until Angelique's spirit returned "to the pits of darkness forevermore."    Then her "earthly remains" must have been taken down and buried.

[Gothick]

Well, thank goodness for that!

I mean, bits of rotted carrion-eaten flesh littering the front lawn are one thing, but any "scandal" in the local press would be absolutely unacceptable.

Once again the Collinses prove their fealty to the family motto--"hypocrisy above all!"

I'm glad it's getting close to the time when I do my annual drive-through of my favorite highlights of the Leviathan story...

cheers, G.