Kids' flick...The Red Balloon.....

[mrvette]

I remember a totally boring flick about a little kid chasing a Red Balloon all over Paris....

just WHAT was about that flick...put it at mid 80's or so....

ME, I got bored and went to sleep...never caught it's significance.....

anyone???

[Exotix]

... apparently there was Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)

Juliette Binoche in “Flight of the Red Balloon.”






... and Red Balloon (Ballon Rouge, Le) (1956)

[mrvette]

The second one down, on bottom, made some kind of come back in the DC region about 25 years ago....and I never understood any story line....

the ex is a liberal commie, and she didn't either...supposedly....

to ME it was a very strange off the wall flick....

[Exotix]

The original was the kind screenplays of psuedo-dark (noir) screenplays that came out of Europe as a *happy to forget Hitlers holocaust* ...



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Balloon

Throughout the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s this film was popular in elementary classrooms throughout the United States and Canada and where Reagan introduced it to American television when he was an actor ....


It won an Oscar for writing the best original screenplay in 1956 so yes that would be Lib and could never be conservative although it takes from conservative religious views ...

*The Red Balloon may be the most seamless fusion of capitalism and Christianity ever put on film.

A young boy invests in a red balloon, the love of which places him on the outside of society.
The balloon is hunted down and killed on a barren hilltop–think Calvary–by a mob of cruel boys.
The ending, a bizarre emotional sucker punch, is straight out of the New Testament.
Thus is investment rewarded–with Christian transcendence or, at least, an old-fashioned Assumption.
This might be sweet.
Or it might be a very cynical reduction of the primary impulse to religious faith.*

[mrvette]

to me it was meaningless and stupid.....I saw nothing...

oh well,

[Exotix]

Originally Posted by mrvette

to me it was meaningless and stupid.....I saw nothing...

oh well,

You have to be practiced in critical appreciation & thinking of the Arts ... not a conservative forte ...

[mrvette]

Originally Posted by Exotix

You have to be practiced in critical appreciation & thinking of the Arts ... not a conservative forte ...

OH, like my sis with her 'art' degree...... or my nephew with his 'music' degree.....right...ok....

[Exotix]

Originally Posted by mrvette

OH, like my sis with her 'art' degree...... or my nephew with his 'music' degree.....right...ok....

We're talking about you ... if you don't get it, you don't get it ... the problem is with you ....

[mrvette]

Originally Posted by Exotix

We're talking about you ... if you don't get it, you don't get it ... the problem is with you ....

NO, THEY are the perfect example of THEM being the problem...I deal in reality, science and engineering....you know, REALITY.....

not full O soapy......

[Exotix]

Originally Posted by mrvette

NO, THEY are the perfect example of THEM being the problem...I deal in reality, science and engineering....you know, REALITY.....

not full O soapy......

Oh, well don't forget to watch Rushbo and Beck for *your kind of Arts* ...

[mrvette]

Originally Posted by Exotix

Oh, well don't forget to watch Rushbo and Beck for *your kind of Arts* ...

Other than some minor points.....anyone prove them RONG??

until then.....maybe best to shut pie hole....

[Exotix]

Originally Posted by mrvette

Other than some minor points.....anyone prove them RONG??

until then.....maybe best to shut pie hole....

Well c'mon ... you're clueless as to why a movie about kid with Red Balloons wins an Oscar but Beck & Rushbo don't ... surely your extensive foray and worship into this *Art of the Right-Wing* suggests you're not a lost cause ...

[mrvette]

Originally Posted by Exotix

Well c'mon ... you're clueless as to why a movie about kid with Red Balloons wins an Oscar but Beck & Rushbo don't ... surely your extensive foray and worship into this *Art of the Right-Wing* suggests you're not a lost cause ...

You assume a 'Oscar' has any meaning beyond the metal...it DONT....

I have absolutely NO respect for the Hollywoodenheads......

in all honesty, the last movie I seen was 'The Sopranos' CD set.....

only because I knew/met some folks over the years....

the 'made guy' made good to me, and mine, so I got NO complaints, he went outta his way to do so also....