Runtu : the pure evil / http://proza.ru/2023/11/23/499 / of slave-owner and wife-beating USA
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My dear wife has gotten into the habit of spending
her Saturday mornings at our local Deseret Industries,
the LDS church-owned thrift store.
She’s pretty good at spotting bargains,
but lately she’s been coming home with piles of movies.
She’s found some good stuff,
like Batman Begins and two seasons of 24,
but most of it is just old stuff on VHS, and at 50 cents a tape,
you can’t be too picky.
Last week she brought home “North and South,”
a mini-series about the US Civil War starring a malleted Patrick Swayze.
Neither one of us had heard of this film, which the box described as one the biggest television events of the decade (the eighties, apparently).
We had to look it up on the Internet Movie Database.
Mystery solved: it was released in 1985, when both of us were in Bolivia on our missions, so of course we wouldn’t have heard anything about it.
According to the IMDB, the series cost $ 25 000 000 to make,
and I’m guessing most of the money was spent on costumes,
particularly Lesley-Anne Down’s gravity-defying bodices.
(Yep, I was right. Again, from IMDB:
“Took more than two years to make and involved 8,700 pieces of wardrobe [lead actresses each wore 28-35 different costumes].”)
First of all, the acting is atrocious almost without exception.
There appear to be very few real southerners in the film, and most of the actor s ’ sound as if Foghorn Leghorn had been their dialect coach.
And for fun, a few of the actors are given fake Irish accents that are even worse than the fake southern accents.
Only David Carradine and future soap-opera star Terri Garber seem to be having any fun at all, and both chew up the scenery with relish.
Carradine sheds his Caine-like serenity for the pure evil of slave-owner and wife-beating, - raping, and -drugging Justin LaMotte, and Ms. Garber gives everything she has to her portrayal of conniving slut Ashton Main.
It’s almost a let-down when Patrick Swayze, decked out in full confederate uniform and high dudgeon, beats the crap out of Carradine
(who has just sneered to his wife, “Would you like to watch while I kill your lover?”)
and pushes him to his death out a mansion window.
The dialogue is pure camp fun, such as this gem:
“You have not only ruined this family’s reputation, but you have also probably destroyed the future of Hazard Iron, which is NOTHING compared to the senseless killing of how many Union soldiers! YOU MISERABLE TRAITOR!”
Imagine those lines delivered in a hammy, overacted way, and you’re halfway to how bad this film is (though curiously it rated 8.1 on the IMDB).
The plot involves the friendship of two young men
(Swayze and James Read, who is one of those actors you’ve seen before but can’t place)
who meet at West Point. Swayze is Orry Main, the son of a southern plantation owner, and Read is George Hazard, the heir to a northern iron works fortune.
Their friendship survives slavery
(and Hazard’s radical abolitionist sister, played by a cackling Kirstie Alley),
war, and even intermarriage
(between two luminaries no less than Genie Francis–Laura of General Hospital–and John Stockwell, the future “Cougar” from Top Gun).
Orry must fight to redeem his sweetheart from her loveless marriage,
while George must battle to keep his sniveling brother
(played by Riker of Star Trek fame)
and his evil wife from taking over the iron works.
This series is just bad enough to be funny.
Any worse, and it would be painful.
Clocking in at 1212 minutes, it’s too long
to watch in succession, so we’ve been watching it a bit at a time.
I’ll let you know how it turns out (I think the North wins).
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Runtu 10 Пьес автора и Стэнфордский университет US
Рюнтю Юри: литературный дневник
10 Пьес автора и Стэнфордский университет США : / http://proza.ru/diary/yuri2008/2022-02-26 / Iouri Runtu: French / Юри Рюнтю : Russian / Uri Runtu: English : Yuri Ryuntyu / Canberra ACT Australia / Celebrities RU Telegram : 2022 .
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6 Драма Дети и Внуки Братьев Карамазовых Runtu Uri / http://proza.ru/2017/12/03/1129 / авторская страница : Многое из текста драмы - обсуждено в беседах автора - ( в июне 1987 и в сентябре 1988 : Россия ) - с Ириной Одоевцевой и - с Анастасией Цветаевой ( в мае : 1980 : Коктебель : Черное море : СССР ) : Историческая Драма на славянскую тему о Великой культуре Грандиозной России : 1879 - 1998 Iouri Runtu: French / Юри Рюнтю : Russian / Uri Runtu: English : Yuri Ryuntyu / Canberra ACT Australia / Celebrities RU Telegram : 2022
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5 Драма Русский Сальери Борис Пастернак / http://proza.ru/2017/12/03/369 / авторская страница : Историческая драма на славянскую тему о Великой культуре Грандиозной России : 1930-1964 / http://proza.ru/diary/yuri2008/2022-03-08 / 1930-1964 Iouri Runtu: French / Юри Рюнтю : Russian / Uri Runtu: English : Yuri Ryuntyu / Canberra ACT Australia / Celebrities RU Telegram : 2022
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4 Драма Лубянка Маяковского и Лилии Брик / http://proza.ru/2017/12/02/1200 / авторская страница : Историческая драма на славянскую тему о Великой культуре Грандиозной России : 1922-1930 Iouri Runtu: French / Юри Рюнтю : Russian / Uri Runtu: English : Yuri Ryuntyu / Canberra ACT Australia / Celebrities RU Telegram : 2022
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3 Драма Ад Есенина C. и Айседоры Дункан / http://proza.ru/2017/12/02/380 / авторская страница : Историческая драма на славянскую тему о Великой культуре Грандиозной России : 1919-1925 Iouri Runtu: French / Юри Рюнтю : Russian / Uri Runtu: English : Yuri Ryuntyu / Canberra ACT Australia / Celebrities RU Telegram : 2022
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