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Arsenic and Old Lace (Patreon)

Published:
2023-04-28 10:34:02
Imported:
2023-04

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LINK 1 https://streamable.com/kiecas

LINK 2 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j9XLqGJM_aek2MMcwbq_TjSteS9u-SYo/view?usp=share_link

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Eric Janssen

A humorless Millennial-Z generation discovered 30’s Screwball Comedy by accident, and now believe that Arsenic and Bringing Up Baby were the “only” two comedies ever made in the B&W days. Ohh, if they only knew. 😉 An alternate theory for why every single Reactor on the Verse is jury-dutied to watch both is that we have a new generation of fangirls crushing on Cary Grant for the first time, and thinking it was their own idea.

JIM SCHMITZ

As Eric mentioned, 'Screwball' comedy is foreign to most contemporaries. You get a lot of physical slapstick and nonsense dialog mixed with subtle reference jokes (which made more sense to people of the era) It is hard to translate to contemporary tastes. As a sidenote: Dr. Einstein was played by one of the most famous sinister villains of his day, Peter Lorre. He parodied his character style in several films, including this one.

Eric Janssen
>>107407333

I didn't say they didn't "understand" 30's Screwball, on the contrary: The current generation can't fathom humor that isn't trolling or Internet, so when they get a dose of the crazy vintage stuff, it's like desert natives tasting root beer for the first time. Unfortunately, those same folks think only what they've discovered exists (maybe they came across Arsenic in drama club), and no one ever nudges them toward the Marx Brothers, or WC Fields, or anything else they missed out on. And the movie's joke about Einstein turning Jonathan into Boris Karloff was an in-joke in the original Broadway play, where Jonathan really WAS played by Karloff. Unfortunately, the real thing wasn't available, but Raymond Massey was an effective substitute.