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From: rivers@seismo.UUCP (Wilmer Rivers)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: *fun* topic (double features)
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Date: Wed, 29-Feb-84 22:10:52 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 29 22:10:52 1984
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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 ?)