Seven Beauties - Opening Scene - Democratic Underground

Journeyman

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Sun Jun-10-07 04:23 PM
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Seven Beauties - Opening Scene

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGvfe9bAUyU

Posted on YouTube: October 12, 2006
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Posted on DU: June 10, 2007
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Lieberman waves another man's saber, the Iranians threaten cataclysmic response, and Giancarlo Giannini's translator provides a Beat poet's words set to a jazz tempo aria that could serve as opening soundtrack for yet another BushCo disaster. . .

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timtom

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Sun Jun-10-07 04:27 PM
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1. I just checked this out

from our library. Wertmueller is one of my favorite directors.

And I had forgotten about that opening canticle. Masterful!

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pinkpops

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Sun Jun-10-07 04:37 PM
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2. This is the film where the prisoner makes eyes at the lady warden in the boxer shorts.

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Journeyman

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Sun Jun-10-07 06:47 PM
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4. Yes. The lengths to which Giannini's character goes to survive are limitless. . .

his seduction of the Nazi prison camp director is but one of many acts he willfully endures, all in the interest of life at any cost.

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The Count

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Sun Jun-10-07 05:13 PM
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3. K&R! ONE OF THE GREATEST ANTI-WAR MOVIES OF ALL TIMES!

Thanks for this. Always timely!
Loved that it mentions those who don't get involved in politics.

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Journeyman

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Sun Jun-10-07 06:52 PM
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5. The entire film, as well as all of "Swept Away," is evidently available on YouTube. . .

and yes, this opening sequence stays with you -- it's haunted me since I first saw it, some thirty years ago.

"The ones who believe Christ is Santa Claus as a young man. . . oh yeah."

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Blue_Tires

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Tue Jun-12-07 03:45 AM
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6. thanks for this

i never heard of this film, but now i gotta see the rest of it

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Journeyman

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Wed Jun-13-07 12:42 AM
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7. Good to hear. . .

I thought the entire film was available on You Tube, but learned last night not all 14 parts are available. Best to rent it. Great, great film.

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