Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site seismo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!rivers From: rivers@seismo.UUCP (Wilmer Rivers) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: *fun* topic (double features) Message-ID: <627@seismo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-Feb-84 22:10:52 EST Article-I.D.: seismo.627 Posted: Wed Feb 29 22:10:52 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Mar-84 04:29:30 EST Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA Lines: 25 Star Wars / Singing in the Rain (Debbie Reynolds said she liked the premise of her daughter's movie - the adventures of 2 guys & a girl) Fast Times at Ridgemont High / Rock & Roll High School (It would be interesting to see who would come to this double feature, & who would sit through it all the way.) The Wizard of Oz / Scarecrow (As the title suggests, the latter is somewhat derivative of the former, with Gene Hackman & Al Pacino following the "yellow brick road" through America to find their version of Utopia, which is for them a car wash in Pittsburgh.) Porky's / Diner (No way, you say ? Opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of class ? Maybe, but they make an interesting contrast in their attitude towards nostalgia : Porky's is about a group of lower-middle class high-school boys in Florida in the 50's, & Diner is about a group of upper-middle class young men in Baltimore in the 60's; it seems to me that Porky's was considerably more positive & upbeat. Also, the central sight gag in both movies is the same - the hole in the shower room wall in Porky's & the hole in the bottom of the popcorn box in Diner.) Forbidden Planet / Tempest (2 retellings of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" - one in the future in outer space, & the other in modern-day Greece. Incidentally, am I the only person on the net who was impressed with John Cassavette's perfor- mance in the "Prospero" role in the latter movie ?)