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Austin Tichenor: Antony and Cleopatra is not some Alka-Seltzer commercial! It’s a romantic thriller about a geo-political power struggle between Egypt and Rome.
Adam Long: [looks at audience] Oh yeah, like you knew, you were all laughing.
[to Austin]
Adam Long: I’m sorry, I apologize, I apologize, you know. If I had known this was Shakespeare’s geo-political play, I wouldn’t have screwed around with it, because my favorite plays are his geo-political plays.
Austin Tichenor: Really, really?
Adam Long: No, seriously, they’re intense, man. Like, um, what was that one he wrote about nuclear energy in the former Soviet Union?
Reed Martin, Austin Tichenor: No, no…
Adam Long: It was way ahead of its time. It was a metaphor… wrapped in an allegory.
Reed Martin, Austin Tichenor: [shakes heads] No…
Adam Long: It was intense, man. It was called “Chernobyl Kinsmen,” and it was all about this…
Reed Martin: [interrupts] Adam, Adam, Shakespeare wrote a play called
[holding up two fingers]
Reed Martin: “Two Noble Kinsmen.”
Austin Tichenor: Not “Chernobyl Kinsmen.”
Reed Martin, Austin Tichenor: [holding up two fingers] “Two Noble Kinsmen.”
Adam Long: It was “cher.”
Reed Martin, Austin Tichenor: It was “two.”
Adam Long: Cher, cher, cher…
Reed Martin, Austin Tichenor: [simultaneously] Two, two, two…
Adam Long: Cher, cher… what’s “Two Noble Kinsmen?”
Austin Tichenor: “Two Noble Kinsmen” is about a girl who goes insane with the fear that her boyfriend is going to be eaten by wolves and her father hanged.
Adam Long: [pause] And is Boris Yeltsin in it?
Reed Martin, Austin Tichenor: NO!
Film Directors - Chapter 4: D.W. Griffith - The Black Viper (1908)
I found one!
Wow, this one was not so great.
Three guys kidnap a man, tie him up, put him in a cabin and try to burn it down with him inside. He escapes, I guess.
Film Directors - Chapter 3: D.W. Griffith - The Tavern Keeper’s Daughter (1908)
Another film I couldn’t find. This won’t be easy.
Apparently, the plot of the film involves the words “Mexican” and “Bandit”.
Film Directors - Chapter 2: D.W. Griffith - The Fight For Freedom (1908)
Okay, okay, okay…okay. I knew this was going to happen! Starting with D.W. Griffith is going to be a long, difficult journey. He made nearly 500 films (No lie!) before 1914, which is the year my second director, Charlie Chaplin began making his own films. D.W. Griffith started in 1908!
This is going to be a long, scary road with D.W. Griffith.
I can’t find this film. I didn’t think I was going to be able to find a lot of these early silent films. The internet seems to think it is a film about the Revolutionary War or something. It’s not. It’s a western.
According to the Internet Movie Database the plot goes something like this:
“In a saloon in a Mexican border town, a group of cowboys, including a Mexican named Pedro, play poker. One man is discovered cheating, and is shot dead by Pedro, who is wounded as he attempts to escape. Pedro is followed home by the local sheriff, who proves the next victim of Pedro’s quick temper and pistol. Pedro’s wife, Juanita, is thrown into jail, but he manages to break her out. They head for the border, unaware that a posse is waiting for them.”
Well, I guess I will never know for sure.
Let’s move on, shall we?
You can tell from the scars on my arms and cracks in my hips and the dents in my car and the blisters on my lips that I’m not the carefullest of girls.
Meeoooowcats! Still one of my all time favorites.
