Gene Roddenberry was an insecure misogynistic hack?
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WyldeGoose — 9 years ago(September 18, 2016 08:20 PM)
I've read some of his scripts for Wagon Train, and they're pretty good. I'm sure he had an editor or two, but I think he probably had a better time writing in a genre he was more familiar with, meaning Westerns. That's hardly surprising, given that 90% of what came out of Hollywood at the time were either Westerns or crime dramas (and I didn't make up that statistic - Life magazine at the time ran a feature saying how much Hollywood, during the 40s and 50s, just loved westerns and gritty crime). You can literally count the number of true sci-fi stuff pre-50s literally on one hand (if you don't include superhero stuff), whereas westerns predominated the scene, and for a lot of people living in the first-half of the 20th Century, they could relate to some of it, due to the fact that the populace was transitioning from farms to the suburbs.
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Nakitaakita-1 — 9 years ago(September 18, 2016 09:10 PM)
Maybe. But really it's an entire genre I really don't like.
I think westerns are a guy thing for the most part, like the three stooges.
Now give me 1500-1800!!!
Hillary, the Original Birther since 2008! -
WyldeGoose — 9 years ago(September 18, 2016 09:50 PM)
Well, different strokes for different folks. I didn't much care for rom-coms, but I forced myself to watch some recently if only to write a rom-com myself, but a bit more on the comedy side.
However, I would say that there are a lot of bad westerns out there. If you are looking to try some out, I have a few suggestions:
Stagecoach (the Original, with John Wayne)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
High Noon (Grace Kelly is awesome in every movie she's in)
A Fistful of Dollars (I would recommend The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, but I'd start out on Dollars first)
The Searchers
Rio Bravo (a nice slow movie, if you want to fall asleep)
Most Randolph Scott movies (so you get the joke in Blazing Saddles in reference to him)
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cjh8504 — 9 years ago(September 20, 2016 08:26 PM)
Good movie. The infamous rape scene wasn't very good though. I was disappointed. I don't remember seeing too much nudity.
RIP Gene Wilder. One of the funniest people of all time. RIP Matt Roberts. You were great. -
Nexus71 — 9 years ago(September 21, 2016 05:49 PM)
That scene was enough to get it an R-rating or in some countries even got it banned from release altogether.Hek the rape scene in A Clockwork Orange provided some troubles amongst the censorship boards as well.
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cjh8504 — 9 years ago(September 22, 2016 12:25 AM)
Well, I remember A Clockwoork Orange was very graphic. I remember seeing pubes and boobs. Hardly any of that in Straw Dogs. Not too mention, Straw Dogs probably got an R rating because of the graphic violence too.
RIP Gene Wilder. One of the funniest people of all time. RIP Matt Roberts. You were great.