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When the Pictures Got Bigger
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 17 ก.ค. 2019
When the Pictures Got Bigger is a TH-cam series hosted by twin brothers Colby and Brady. In addition to retrospectives on Oscar ceremonies and biographies on classic filmmakers, we explore the weird, wacky, and underseen films and stories of Hollywood's first century!
(Ep3) Baseball Movies
In this episode, I am joined by a special guest for the first time: my father! He and I watch and discuss eight filmed takes on baseball, the sport that translates better to film than any other (or at least, that's what we aim to find out!). My father, like Danny Peary himself, spent several years working in and surrounded by the world of baseball, and he shares his stories about Yogi Berra, baseball rules and behind-the-scenes stories you won't want to miss! This is an episode that will be sure to be remembered as a home run.
The Pod for the Film Fanatic is presented by the Now Playing Network, which can be found at: www.nowplayingnetwork.net/
Peary's book can be found at: www.amazon.com/Guide-Film-Fanatic-Danny-Peary/dp/0671610813
FILMS COVERED:
- The Pride of the Yankees, dir. Sam Wood, 1942
- It Happens Every Spring, dir. Lloyd Bacon, 1949
- The Winning Team, dir. Lewis Seiler, 1952
- Fear Strikes Out, dir. Robert Mulligan, 1957
- Bang the Drum Slowly, dir. John D. Hancock, 1973
- The Bad News Bears, dir. Michael Ritchie, 1976
- The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, dir. John Badham, 1976
- The Natural, dir. Barry Levinson, 1984
The Pod for the Film Fanatic is presented by the Now Playing Network, which can be found at: www.nowplayingnetwork.net/
Peary's book can be found at: www.amazon.com/Guide-Film-Fanatic-Danny-Peary/dp/0671610813
FILMS COVERED:
- The Pride of the Yankees, dir. Sam Wood, 1942
- It Happens Every Spring, dir. Lloyd Bacon, 1949
- The Winning Team, dir. Lewis Seiler, 1952
- Fear Strikes Out, dir. Robert Mulligan, 1957
- Bang the Drum Slowly, dir. John D. Hancock, 1973
- The Bad News Bears, dir. Michael Ritchie, 1976
- The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, dir. John Badham, 1976
- The Natural, dir. Barry Levinson, 1984
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Reagan loved High Noon?? Wasn’t it an allegory for the communist witchhunts? Strange.
The Broadway Melody also had a completely original song score, a first for movies (Jolson's first two talkies used songs he had already made famous on the stage or had been made famous by others), and two of those songs were not only smash hits in their own time but became standards: the title song and "You Were Meant for Me." People just don't understand how innovative it was then because we've seen that love triangle narrative and newbies struggling to make good on Broadway storyline so often.
I was born in the 90's but i definitely enjoyed the twilight zone
Pan is atrocious!
Peter Pan 2003 will always have my heart ❤ It captures such whimsy and depth. The relationship between Wedlndy and Peter is so beautiful and tragic. 🥺
Sorry, but for me its: 2003's Finding Neverland Hook Disney's 1957 animated I want to watch 2020's Wendy And that's it
2003 and hook are for me the best adaptations of peter pan that the cinema has ever given us
40:00 Yes, completely agree. Best decade of films.
46:35: I am a surgeon. I AM A SURGEON, DR. HAN!
People missing the point when Talking about the effects of the 2003 version
Dude, you got so much of this wrong. First of all, they wanna MJ for Peter Pan in Hook. They were very interested in casting him. It was MJ who turned the role down because he didn't want it to include an adult Peter Pan. And you're bigger wrong. Cathy Rigby's Peter Pan is one of the best versions out there. No weak songs. Dude, I'm the biggest Peter Pan alive. You know the legends. I know the facts. I studied Barrie in depth. I even own the book of the official sequel that hardly anyone has heard.
Here's hoping for your review of "Fantastic Mr. Fox".
damn i rlly liked rig
Amazingly well done, Peter Pan will always be one of my favorite stories. I know you didn't talk about tv/cartoon versions much, but I especially liked Peter Pan and the Pirate's from the 90's. The best part was having the illustrious Tim Curry as Captian Hook. As far as future videos go though, maybe you could look into TheThree Musketeers, I'd like to see that.
Lewis's son says that there is no complete negative of the film, and copyright issues are preventing its release. Library of Congress has some scenes that were donated by Lewis in 2015. That’s about it unfortunately. We may never see this, or we might. Time will tell.
Free Palestine
"HankerCheeef" "Rio Grawnd", "Mareeno-Hara". 😅
The Searchers. Don't ask me more.
Robert Begnini was successful with similar themes in his Life is Beautiful smash hit. So, this maybe is just a poorly made film.
A clown leading children to the gas chamber is very depressing. I would not pay to see it.
It’s now September of 2024. Has it been released yet?
Notorious sounds deeper than renowned bud.
I mean at least it isn't the Star Wars Holiday Special 😏
That thumbnail is criminal
Amazing video!! So glad you got to have that amazing experience, especially with Shawshank! That’s gotta be the best way possibly to watch that movie!
But why not just destroy the movie anyway instead of having it hidden away? There must have been part of him that still wanted it to be shown , maybe at a time where the movie could be more accepted ? It's September 2024 so did anyone ever get to see this or was it never released ?
First of all ,,, Brothers Grimm was released first and was not a hit in North America, though it did do better overseas. HTWWW was released after following a NY newspaper strike that had prevented it being released first. It was, as you said a smash hit everywhere.
Movie will never be released and yes in 1971 to now somebody else should of made it not him
Amazing video!!
Man this is quality stuff. I love a deep dive into media and how it reflects our societal values and changing of the times. Great work!
At least do an update video or something cause it’s way past June now.
My favorite Ford film is My Darling Clementine. Meanwhile, I think the greatest American poet is Walt Whitman.The greatest American film director? John Ford.
The zionists made Jerry Lewis humble. I really hope we get to see this film?
I am late here and only arrived due to a need for an Elaine May fix. Finished all the May and Nichols videos and here I am. Thanks for the memories.
Keep up the good work
People during war time, did many things, they normally wouldn't do to survive... this movie should have been released all those years ago... Jerry Lewis, was jewish... and he would not have been disrespectful .. l pray it has been rrleased, so million can enjoy his fabulous work... he was a genius..
I am honestly not sure it will ever be seen as a complete work on a distributed basis. And as for the fear and or shame and embarrassment by Jerry Lewis of the film. I would guess that not only was it the content and the times of which he made it, but most likely he had an interaction with a survivor who made him feel this way explicitly.. Because if it was simply the content and times he wouldn't have gotten so far with it id assume, as being an intelligent man he would have realized this earlier. I think he did his best to send a message with the film, and id say modernly speak " JoJo Rabbit" may be in the same vein. Perhaps additionally with the rights issues and the aforementioned internal thoughts and struggle he may have been having about the film, i would guess, just my thoughts, that on top of all this, he did not find the ending satisfactory.. As i would imagine with all that has been mentioned by me and this video and many others, on top of that, dark comedies trying to send a message are horrendously hard to end well and convey the message properly. He may have felt even more deeply about this having had some further talk with either a survivor or a visit to a camo or some other internal connection to the events being described. I would think upon watching the "nearly finished work, having been edited and such" he felt it did not present to the viewer the message as he had invisioned. Just a thought, lots of factors at play here, a deeply hard subject especially for the times. And if, a i suspect the ending is subject to making the film seem crass or too dark or even racis tor evil.. We may never see it as others may feel the same..
Willy Wonka is truly encapsulates everything that makes a great family film and that being a good balance between joy and imagination and a slight tinge of darkness that makes for not just the best family film but one of the best films of all time. Though it crazy to think that Wonka (2023) has only been out for a year and yet hasn’t made a dint on film culture whatsoever which is my biggest problem with remakes and reboots of classic movie is how there is now reason for them to be made outside of corporate greed. I know this is an overuse example but Disney is the worst when it comes to remakes because everything in those films is soulless and boring which completely goes against what their films are meant to be and the worst part is that their still making these films which is just annoying.
I think that sports like baseball and boxing make for better movies because they have a lot of breaks. That allows the writers time to add character development and interractions during a match. It's not as easy in sports like soccer, basketball or tennis, where there is constant movement and the actors have little time to stand or sit down while still in the game.
@@aviad950 that’s honestly a great point that I’ve never thought about! In the case of Challengers, they literally had to split the tennis match up across the entire film to work in that development haha
I hope I’m not overloading you with too many questions but since you and your dad talked about Fear Strikes Out what is a film that legitimately scared you to the point where you couldn’t rewatch it.
@@maxtubb8560 no worries! I’m glad you enjoyed the episode :) honestly, there’s not been any movie so scary I wouldn’t rewatch it. Horror is easily my favorite genre and I actually really love finding movies that make my skin crawl. I’d say some of the scariest I’ve seen have been Barbarian from a few years ago, the 2017 version of It, The Shining for its feelings of dread, and The Sixth Sense when I was a kid, just to name a few.
@@whenthepicturesgotbigger The Shining is definitely a scary mainly due to the hotel setting and Jack Nicholson’s performance and The Sixth Sense is scary because of the premise of a kid who can see dead people. As for movies that scare me I would have to pick An American Werewolf in London from 1981 because with horror films like The Shining and Halloween while they are also scary films, I at least know what I'm getting into when I watch those films but with American Werewolf in London I was excepting a comedy film of sorts because Jonh Landis also did Animal House and Blues Brothers which are both great comedy films but once I started the film I was completely shocked and frighted throughout experience and just the scenes alone like the nazi nightmare scene or the scene where attacks the couple, homeless guys and the guy at the subway station are enough to scare. I would also add Dracula from 1931 because while not a violent film the atmosphere of that film kind of keeps me on edge and the way that film is shot also adds to the scare factor.
@@whenthepicturesgotbigger For Me I would have to pick both Dracula (1931) and American Werewolf in London (1981) because with Dracula the thing that scares me about that film is the atmosphere and Bela Logosi performance also is also scary. American Werewolf in London is scary to me because of how unexpected it was because this was the first film I every watched from John Landis since it was the Halloween season at that time so I watch and I surprised and completely terrified by the film after the scene were Jack and David are attack on in the fields and I was just as terrified but the rest of the film.
I have wanted to see this for years. I doubt we will ever see it.
I can understand how a man like Jerry Lewis would be tempted to make a film like this. When you get through life by being funny, you might wonder how you'd get through the unfunniest experience imaginable.
Just curious but in first episode you brought up that you were a Disney and Pixar fan I was wondering if you ever heard of the video game series Kingdom Hearts since that series is a crossover with Disney and Final Fantasy?
@@maxtubb8560 Yes, of course! I’ve played the first game and found it fun, but I need to continue on. I actually found myself wanting more Disney references.
@@whenthepicturesgotbigger I really like Kingdom Hearts series too and think they’re really good RPGs though I will admit I mainly play through the series for the references to Disney movies. With that said I’m not really a big fan RPGs since I find the gameplay repetitive and boring though outside Kingdom Hearts the only other RPGs I really like are Persona 4, Fire Emblem and Valkyria Chronicles. Also with Kingdom Hearts 4 on the horizon are there any Disney movies you like to see turn into a playable world in Kingdom Hearts 4.
@@maxtubb8560 I’d love to see some of my favorite Disney movies like Pinocchio or Meet the Robinsons or The Black Cauldron!
@@whenthepicturesgotbigger I think Pinocchio has a world or at least a cameo in the first Kingdom Hearts. While Black Caldron and Meet the Robinsons are definitely some of my least favorite Disney films I do think they would make for fun worlds in KH4. As for worlds I would like to see in KH4 I would like to see some worlds based on some classic Disney films like Jungle Book or Pocahontas but I would also like to see some worlds based on Disney’s newer releases like Wreck it Ralph, Moana or Zootopia. Also while I hate that Disney has a big monopoly I would also like to see worlds based on Star Wars, Avatar or the Muppets though the Muppets I can see working better as a mini-game world than a world that’s connected to the main story.
@@maxtubb8560 Jungle Book would be great. As would Tarzan, actually. And the new Disney movies would be a lot of fun too and probably more likely the old stuff anyway b
Just curious but what is film you hate and cannot stand to watch?
@@maxtubb8560 honestly, I don’t really hate any movies unless they’re actively offensive/dangerous. If they promote dangerous ideas or make light of sensitive issues or things of a similar nature. I can’t really think of anything I hate simply because they didn’t connect with me. How about you?
@@whenthepicturesgotbigger While I wouldn’t say I hate this I can’t stand its impact on the Comedy genre and that is Step Brothers from Adam McKay. My biggest issue with Step Brothers is that the entire film is just one joke of 40 year olds acting like children it’s kind of funny for like 5 minutes but it gets old quick and despite this film is praise as the best comedy film which it does not deserve in my honest opinion. I also think this was the point where I started to found Will Ferrell manchild schtick to be tiring because every since that film’s success Will Ferrell has started doing schtick over and over again in his later movies after Step Brothers. The thing is I actually really like Will Ferrell and his schtick can work in some films likes Zoolander and Elf along with some other examples and Adam McKay can make great movies like Anchorman, The Other Guys and The Big Short. Overall I don’t hate Step Brothers as a film but I can’t stand its impact on the comedy genre.
@@maxtubb8560 Yeah, Step Brothers is a tough one! It’s certainly not my favorite Will Ferrell film, but I don’t find him tiring as you do. He’s got his strengths and plays up to them, but I will say I don’t think he’s the dramatic actor that Jim Carey or Adam Sandler are, among others. His best role is definitely Buddy the Elf, and his dramatic roles have always fallen flat for me.
@@whenthepicturesgotbigger I disagree in part with Will Ferrell’s serious roles falling flat because Stranger than Fiction is actually a really solid film Will Ferrell, sure I don’t like the film as much as Eternal Sunshine and Punch-Drunk Love but it still a really good film. As much as I love Elf I also recommend you watch some of Will Ferrell’s other comedy greats like Zoolander, Old School, Anchorman and The Other Guys.
Know your dad isn't a Yankees fan but Teresa became a huge Yankees supporter/fan after being in the film. Teresa talks a lot about it in her biography.
@@abrahamchen8627 yeah I heard about this! Apparently she started playing baseball too in preparation for her throwing of the first pitch at a Yankees game, though I’m sure you knew that already haha.
IMO Charles Laughton is possibly the greatest actor of all time. Robert Mitchum channeled that energy in this film because it is his best performance. I wish Laughton directed more and more people studied his work. It's a masterclass.
The Bad News Bears is truly one of the best uplifting movies because what that film does so well is creating an experience that really harkens back to the days of when you where a kid without a care in the day and it’s the perfect film to watch after having a stressful day. Regarding the rest of the cover in this episode I would love to watch The Natural one day but the rest I’m not too sure on either to watch them or not.
Well, if you're interested in our thoughts on those movies, listen to the podcast!
@@whenthepicturesgotbigger Just finished this episode and I gotta admit I found this a fun episode even if I’m not a big fan of sports myself. Like I said before Bad News Bears is a great uplifting film that does a great job of capturing the essence of childhood and I like hearing your thoughts on the other films like Happens every Spring, The Winning Team, Fear Strikes Out, Bang the Drum Loudly and Bingo Long. Unfortunately outside of The Natural and maybe Pride of Yankees I can’t say I’m too interested in watching the other films because not to come as a film snob but when it comes movie art form I’m pretty critical when it comes to movies because with other art forms like Video Games to a certain degree you get as much out of it as you want but with movies it’s more of a passive experience so if I watch a bad or mediocre film then I will probably really honest and critical about a film I didn’t like because Im never going to get my time back. But regardless this was a really fun episode of the Film Fanatic and it was fun hearing you and your dad discuss all eight of these films through baseball terminology, keep up the good work.
@@maxtubb8560 that’s a great point. Video games have no set end to them, either. I have dropped games after 10 minutes and after 100 hours! Thanks for watching.
@@whenthepicturesgotbigger What do you think of games from David Cage?
@@maxtubb8560 I’ve actually never played his games, but I’ve heard they’re very cinematic and that certainly intrigues me. Got any recommendations?
I suspect it's gonna be really bad.....
« Better than 99% of movies made since 1939 ». Seriously ? 2:17 get over yourself. Was legit interested until I heard this. Tuned out immediately. Bye.
Well it's past June and there's no movie......😅