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Million Dollar Baby

JESSE - 2-20-2005 at 12:45 PM

I am not sure this is Baja related, other than the fact that i went to Cinemark to see this movie, but i just wanted to mention that i am a big movie fan, and last night i went to see the new Clint Eastwood movie "Million Dollar Baby", i have to say it is a masterpiece, one of the best movies i have ever had the pleasure to see, all the Mexicans in the theatre started to clap after the movie ended like Clint Eastwood was in the room, i rarely see that and i go to the movies quiet a lot.

Theres some rare times when everything comes togheter in a movie, and this is it, i highly recommend this great masterpiece to any movie afficionado.

Its playing in Mexico since this past Friday, don?t know about the U.S.

woody with a view - 2-20-2005 at 07:45 PM

jesse,

sorry to go off topic, but i saw your letter to the editor and thought it was right-on. it's nice to hear a fresh perspective.

JESSE - 2-21-2005 at 04:05 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by woody in ob
jesse,

sorry to go off topic, but i saw your letter to the editor and thought it was right-on. it's nice to hear a fresh perspective.


Thanks, not all Mexicans take the crap coming from our "leaders".

[Edited on 2-21-2005 by JESSE]

Flor de Mayo (1959) Jack Palance

Steve in Oro Valley - 2-21-2005 at 07:17 PM

Hi Jesse:

I just found a great DVD movie with Maria Felix, Pedro Armendariz and Jack Palance released in 1959, originally .

Flor de Mayo was filmed in Topolobampo, Sinaloa and there are great scenes of the Mar de Cortez by the great cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa (La Perla, along with John Ford's The Fugitive, and Night of the Iguana by John Huston). Lives of shrimp fishermen and families in Topolobampo are well presented .

Palance delivers a bravura performance in Spanish and along with the stunning photography, it finishes strongly. It is quite a melodrama but this is one of the best movies you will ever see with Jack Palance in it.

I seem to remember a film from about that time (1950s) with Jack Palance running thru a cardonal (forest of Cardones) in a Baja California or possibly an island off the coast of Sonora. It was a surrealistic scene and I think it was Palance (si mal no me acuerdo). Flor de Mayo was not that movie.

Do you or anyone remember a movie with a surrealistic scene of a chase/fight scene in a cardon forest? It would fit Gabriel Figueroa's style which shows the mexican sky and landscape in a Dali- like surrealism.

If you understand high school Spanish and want to see Maria Felix, (hometown Alamos, Sonora) and a Jack Palance in one of his best performances (in Spanish no less) - Go buy this DVD (try Amazon.com)

By the waY Jack turned 86 on the 18th and he still does one armed pushups!


Steve in Oro Valley

Packoderm - 2-21-2005 at 10:41 PM

I probably won't get to watch the movie until it comes on network TV. I was wondering if the title of the movie had anything to do with Alice Cooper's song. I doubt there is a connection because I googled the song and found these lyrics:

Billion dollar baby
Rubber little lady, slicker than a weasel
Grimy as an alley
Loves me like no other lover
Billion dollar baby
Rubber little monster, baby, I adore you
Man or woman living couldn?t love me like you, baby
We go dancing nighty in the attic
While the moon is rising in the sky
If I?m too rough, tell me
I?m so scared your little head will come off in my hands
I got you in the dimestore
No other little girl could everhold you
Any tighter, any tighter than me, bay
Billion dollar baby
Reckless like a gambler , million dollar maybe
Foaming like a dog that?s been infected by the rabies
We go dancing nighty in the attic
While the moon is rising the sky
If I?m too rough , tell me
I?m so scared your little head will come off in my hands
Million dollar baby
Billion dollar bay
Trillion dollar baby
Zillion dollar baby

JESSE - 2-22-2005 at 02:23 PM

No Pack, it has nothing to do with that song, i hope you enjoy this movie as much as i did when you get to see it.

JESSE - 2-22-2005 at 02:25 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Steve in Oro Valley
Hi Jesse:

I just found a great DVD movie with Maria Felix, Pedro Armendariz and Jack Palance released in 1959, originally .

Flor de Mayo was filmed in Topolobampo, Sinaloa and there are great scenes of the Mar de Cortez by the great cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa (La Perla, along with John Ford's The Fugitive, and Night of the Iguana by John Huston). Lives of shrimp fishermen and families in Topolobampo are well presented .

Palance delivers a bravura performance in Spanish and along with the stunning photography, it finishes strongly. It is quite a melodrama but this is one of the best movies you will ever see with Jack Palance in it.

I seem to remember a film from about that time (1950s) with Jack Palance running thru a cardonal (forest of Cardones) in a Baja California or possibly an island off the coast of Sonora. It was a surrealistic scene and I think it was Palance (si mal no me acuerdo). Flor de Mayo was not that movie.

Do you or anyone remember a movie with a surrealistic scene of a chase/fight scene in a cardon forest? It would fit Gabriel Figueroa's style which shows the mexican sky and landscape in a Dali- like surrealism.

If you understand high school Spanish and want to see Maria Felix, (hometown Alamos, Sonora) and a Jack Palance in one of his best performances (in Spanish no less) - Go buy this DVD (try Amazon.com)

By the waY Jack turned 86 on the 18th and he still does one armed pushups!


Steve in Oro Valley


I don't think i have seen it, but Gabriel Figueroa was a great director, La Perla is considered one of the best examples of the golden age of Mexican cinema, i will see if i can find it somewhere.

Thanks for the tip.