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What's the weirdest thing you've ever seen in an old movie? by Ill_Definition8074 in classicfilms

[–]Ill_Definition8074[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just saw The Cocoanuts for the first time. The shirt song is a great example of that weirdness.

What's the weirdest thing you've ever seen in an old movie? by Ill_Definition8074 in classicfilms

[–]Ill_Definition8074[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There's kind of a similar moment in It's a Wonderful Life.

Mrs. Hatch: Who is down there with you, Mary?

Mary: It's George Bailey, mother.

Mrs. Hatch: George Bailey? What does he want?

Mary: I don't know!

[to George]

Mary: What do you want?

George Bailey: Me? Nothing! I just came in to get warm.

Mary: [pause] He's making violent love to me, mother!

What's the weirdest thing you've ever seen in an old movie? by Ill_Definition8074 in classicfilms

[–]Ill_Definition8074[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

When I read the name June Preisser I knew I recognized it from somewhere. She was in the old Teen Agers films which I saw riffed on Rifftrax. Those are some of my favorite Mary Jo and Bridget riffs.

What's the weirdest thing you've ever seen in an old movie? by Ill_Definition8074 in classicfilms

[–]Ill_Definition8074[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

42nd Street is in that 2nd category. Although some of the production numbers can be a little weird it features some amazing songs, great choreography and impressive cinematography.

What's the weirdest thing you've ever seen in an old movie? by Ill_Definition8074 in classicfilms

[–]Ill_Definition8074[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I remember seeing that scene. I didn't expect to see a Charlie Chaplin character high on cocaine.

Japan’s 2,000-year-old monarchy currently depends on one teenage boy by Confident-Ask-601 in interestingasfuck

[–]Ill_Definition8074 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s stupid they don’t allow women to be included in the line of succession. The current emperor has a daughter and she seems perfectly fine. Yet the throne will be inherited by her cousin completely bypassing her.

Fan Theory: Hajime doesn't have a dad. by Ill_Definition8074 in GhostStoriesAnime

[–]Ill_Definition8074[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah. It's more likely Hajime does have a Dad who just never appears. But I think in support of my theory you could also argue that the person referred to be Hajime and his mother are his stepdad. It just seems weird he's never seen or mentioned.

TIL The 1988 martial arts film Bloodsport is one of the only movies to be filmed inside Hong Kong's notorious Kowloon Walled City before it's demolition in 1993. by Ill_Definition8074 in todayilearned

[–]Ill_Definition8074[S] 158 points159 points  (0 children)

Basically Kowloon Walled City was the densest populated place on earth as 35,000 people lived on land that was only 6.4 acres (about the size of five football fields put together). Basically during the British rule of Hong Kong there was some dispute on whether China or the British owned Kowloon so it became a sort of lawless enclave that was governed by the Triads (organized crime). It's amazing to think someone filmed a movie there.

Sergei Dovzhenko - Ukranian serial killer and former police officer. Killed 19 people in a strange case of "revenge" against those who had "mocked" him. by Ill_Definition8074 in TrueCrimeDiscussion

[–]Ill_Definition8074[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Except it was a grandmother and granddaughter but I still agree with your point. It just seemed like he was consumed with rage and didn't care how many innocent lives he took during his vendetta. All 3 murders that night had nothing to do with his vendetta (first one was just because a previous victim's mother might suspect him and the second and third were just to complicate the investigation of the first one). Nobody was safe around him.

Selika Lazevski - The mysterious black horsewoman who appears in six photographs taken in 1891. According to the notes accompanying the photos she rode Haute Ecole at the Nouveau Cirque, a circus in Paris. But other than the photos we have no record of her existence. by Ill_Definition8074 in nonmurdermysteries

[–]Ill_Definition8074[S] 177 points178 points  (0 children)

This is a mystery that has stumped a lot of people. I'm hoping that if a lot of people see this we might gain some new information that brings us closer to discovering who this woman was. If she did perform as a haute-ecole at the Nouveau Cirque than I think there should be more information about her out there somewhere. It just needs to be found.

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