Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!bbncca!keesan From: keesan@bbncca.ARPA (Morris Keesan) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: a new and *fun* topic! (double features) Message-ID: <568@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Mon, 13-Feb-84 15:59:35 EST Article-I.D.: bbncca.568 Posted: Mon Feb 13 15:59:35 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Feb-84 01:59:38 EST References: <6741@unc.UUCP> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 21 --------------------------- I've been trying for years to get some of the local repertory houses to schedules such double bills as The Seven Samurai (original Japanese title translates as "The Magnificent Seven")/The Magnificent Seven Rashomon/The Outrage("Western" remake of Rashomon) Yojimbo/whichever Clint Eastwood spaghetti western was based on Yojimbo Other interesting double bills: Sword of Doom/Star Wars (some astonishing parallels here) Star Wars/The Wizard of Oz (also some amusing parallels -- when the good guys impersonate storm troopers just after they arrive at the Death Star, I can't help thinking of the cowardly Lion dressed up as one of the Wicked Witch's guards, trying to hide his tail. And in Remake of the Jedi, the Ewooks are clearly munchkin-substitutes.) -- Morris M. Keesan {decvax,linus,wjh12,ima}!bbncca!keesan keesan @ BBN-UNIX.ARPA