Mermaids

Wow, I just watched Mermaids, which I haven't watched for a real long time!

I'd forgotten how great this movie was! I can't be bothered to write a rewiev or anything now, 'cause I'm supposed to do my homework, but why don't you enjoy these pictures while you find out about it it yourself?

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Drugs in Disney movies?

I was just watching the Simpsons episode called "D'oh-ing in the wind", where Homer discovers his mother's hippie past, and there were lot's of references to all these drug related things... and shoot, I can't remeber what put the idea in my head, but I just came to think about that scary scene in Dumbo, with the pink elephants...
Dumbo and Timothy Mouse accidentaly get drunk and start to hallucinate, and this is where the scene, commonly known as the Pink Elephants On Parade sequence.
I watched it again on YouTube, and I must say, it frightened me more now, than it ever did when I was a kid, and I used to watch Dumbo a lot!
Well, my old beloved Wikipedia has this to say about it:
[Quote]The song along with the segment itself has been ingrained in pop culture as an infamous allusion to intoxication. The scene is also notorious as being quite scary for some children and one of the classic "scary scenes" in Disney films most adults still remember from their childhood. For this reason it has been included at Number 90 in retrocrush's "100 Scariest Movie Scenes" in 2004[2] and in a list compiled by filmsite [3]. It is indeed quite understandable that the surreal, nightmarish choreography of the scene, along with the high-pitched music and hypnotic motions and colors, would produce anxiety among children, reminding them of their bad dreams or even febrile delirium. It has also been said that most children who see the film don't understand that Dumbo is drunk and therefore are confused by the hallucination. [end quote]


Kind of disturbing eh? And this film came out in 1941! I mean, this is before the sixties, where people used drug references all the time!

Another drug-sequence I thought about, when I heard the song "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplaine, isn't exactly a hallusination, but it's the one with the catterpillar in Alice in wonderland.
I mean, the caterpillar is sitting on a mushroom(which makes you tall og small if you eat it) while smoking something that clearely is making him intoxicated and annoying. Alle the colourful words and letters coming out with the smoke and the way he is totally laidback and indulged in his own world, would remind you of a stoner, wouldn't it?


And this movie came out in '51 I think, also before the sixties' big drug craze.
I must say, Disney were a lot more daring before, and they probably took advantage of the fact that if anyone questioned their acid-trip like scenes, they could say it was only innocent children's entertainment.

But who knows, maybe I'm just beeing speculative....

Roller Girl!

If I was ever to be a pornstar, I would definetely bee like rollergirl:D

Rollergirl is Heather Graham's character in the 1997 movie Boogie Nights.

Rollergirl never takes her skates off!

Well, at least I know what I'm going as for Halloween:D

British x-rated Movie

From the 60's that is, so don't get exited.

But it's really funny! About two years ago I saw a movie called The Best House In London on TCM. It's this (according to the standards of 1969) on the edge sexually centered movie about:(I can't be bothered to write a summary, so I'll let New York Times do their thing)

"In this British farce, the British Home Secretary satisfies the men of London by sanctioning a government-run brothel. This comedy chronicles what happens when secretary John Bird appoints Sir Francis Leybourne to run the place. Bird then has his lovely girlfriend Babbette act as the Madame. Sir Leybourne owns an opium plantation in India and one day goes there to see it. Unfortunately, he gets killed in an uprising, leaving his prim niece Josephine Pacefoot in charge of the cathouse. A staunch believer in social reform, she is quite sure what to do with the disreputable business. Leybourne's son has plenty of ideas too and wants the fortune and the bordello for himself. " Sir Leybourne's son and a woman I'm guessing is Babbette (those of you who have seen Blow Up, might recognise David Hemmings there;))

Sir Leybourne's son's unknown son(David Hemmings again!) at the headquarters of Josephine's feminist gang

Some parade against something...

I think this is at the brothel

Sir Leybourne's son and some girl(or maybe it's Josephine?)

All pictures are taken from http://www.moviegoods.com/movie_poster/best_house_in_london_1969.htm