That opening credit sequence… until Benji pops up at the window and the music starts, it could just have easily been a sequel to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

I had to watch this again to see how I missed the whole "We have to marry her to keep her honor" implication. And after reviewing it… I admit, pregnancy is one possible interpretation, but others are more likely. One, because from the dogs' perspective, Lady is literally in the dog house in her home situation and…

Lucy was tempermental and a bit narcissistic, but rarely ever malignant. Now Violet, she was a complete-word-that-rhymes-with-hunt.

If not for the low-resolution graphics, some of the deaths in King's Quest would have been pretty gruesome. I recall that if you didn't time the dagger throw to the dragon correctly, Graham would end up as a smoldering pile of ash. And if memory serve me correct, some of the more intense falls would result in Graham…

"doesn't care about what the Greek people actually want which is displayed in democratic votes."
But here's the thing… the rest of Europe is also a democracy, and the voters in those countries are pretty adamantly against the sort of no-strings-attached bailouts the Greek people apparently expect. Greek votes don't…

From what I understand, after the conviction of DC Stephenson in 1925, it's numbers went into terminal decline and never recovered.

Like most on here, I saw the movie before I read the book. When I eventually started reading it, though, I was surprised how faithfully the movie followed it. The only relatively minor differences I recall are that Scarlet had a kid with her first husband and I seem to recall that the incident with the carriage…

"I'd be both appalled and fascinated to read a similar story about citizens of Nazi Germany." Watch the German miniseries "Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter", released in the US as "Generation War". Unlike GWTW, it doesn't try to rehabilitate a now discredited society (ie, Third Reich in this case). However, it does force…

It's been years since I read the book or saw the movie, but to be fair, I never recall the viewpoint that blacks were "subhuman monsters". Yes, the book definately looks down on blacks from a perspective of imagined superiority, but the majority of the black characters are drawn rather sympathetically. Particularly…

As noted above, the Klan starting hemorrhaging membership well before both the book and movie were released. It had almost 4 million members in the mid 20s, and had barely 30,000 by the start of the 30s.

The second rise of the Klan had largely peaked before both the book and the movie came out. It still existed as a notable force, but it had declined hugely in membership since it's mid-20s heyday.

After watching part of that clip from The Bible… OK, that doesn't sound like the John Huston voice I know. Too high pitched, none of the idiosyncractic stresses in the rhythm.

Confession… one of the highlights of my brief high school acting career was playing one of the Roman soldiers who delivered about one half of the 39 lashes to Jesus. I probably had too much fun whipping the kid who played My Lord and Savior…

According to Wikipedia, yes. And also according to Wikipeida, Samuel Wright (best known for "Under the Sea" in the Little Mermaid) also had some role in the original cast.

I just listened to the track "Jesus Must Die". The singer playing Caiaphas sounds remarkably like Vincent Price, and one of the other preists howls like Eric Clapton.

Yeah, I heard the original back to back with a modern recording… no comparison. The original sounds angry, confused, scared, dirty… like you'd expect from a hot desert country occupied by a foreign power. The modern version- like the musicians and vocalists were sitting in a comfortably air-conditioned studio with…

Ironically, one of the hottest girl in my high school played Annas in our production.

Best performance in the movie.

Zeffirelli got around this by making Barabas a Zealot and having his supporters shout down Jesus's followers when the crowd gets to choose who to set free.

So… is John Lennon's "Revolution" a Jesus-like approach to the fiery politics of the 1960s? Or is "Simon Zealotes/Poor Jerusalem" a 1960s Lennonist interpretation of Biblical times?