[UA] Blair Witch 2

[Eric]

    LOL.
    Thank you. Thank you very much.
        -- Eric

----- Original Message -----
From: Stuart Anderson <stuartanderson at qwest.net>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: [UA] Blair Witch 2


> Liam Astley wrote:
> >
> > From: "Stuart Anderson" <stuartanderson at qwest.net>
> > Subject: Re: [UA] Blair Witch 2
> >
> > > It's a well-known axiom in filmic studies that no film yet
> > > produced in the history of cinema could not have been
> > > improved with Jackie Chan and/or a monkey.
> >
> > hence most movie critics claiming Citizen Kane to be the greatest
film ever
> > made, chiefly due to the famous scene featuring Jackie Chan
dressed up as a
> > monkey
>
> I remember watching Orsen Wells on the Tonight Show
> (guest-hosted by Robert Blake) complaining that Jackie Chan
> had not been on the scene when he was making Kane. He
> wandered wistfully, speculating about what kind of Hamlet he
> would've been able to make with Chan in the lead. He
> mentioned the last conversation he'd had with John Ford,
> where he'd remarked that he'd been talking with Billy Wilder
> about it, and they were agreed. Chan would've lit up the 40s
> in ways we can only imagine.  Robert Blake then revealed
> that the reason there'd been a cockateal on Beretta, rather
> than a monkey, was the increasingly tight monkey budgets in
> Hollywood. Then he tore into a drunken rant about how the
> hell could BJ and the Bear afford a whole chimp, when he
> couldn't even get a spider monkey? And that was in about 76.
> Thankfully, Ted Turner's been reviewing his line of
> criticism, and has agreed to rerelease a dozen MGM classics
> under the "Monkey Business" banner, contracting with Pixar
> to digitally introduce monkeys into _Nocturne_, with George
> Raft and Ida Lupino, and _The Misfits_, Clark Gable and
> Marilyn Monroe's final film, among others.  Asked about
> Jackie Chan, he said that the technology was not yet in
> place to convincingly render all of Jackie's signature
> moves. However, when he feels that the time is right, he has
> already agreed to rerelease _Donovan's Reef_ with Chan
> digitally replacing Lee Marvin. What a wonderful time to be
> alive.
> --Stu
>
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