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Topic: Ho! Ho! Hold On There!!!!!
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted January 03, 2015 01:25 PM
Trevor ...
That film ranks right up there with "It's A Wonderful LIfe" and the 1984 "A Christmas Carol" in my book!
There are so many very well executed jokes in there. One of the best is somewhat "subliminal", when we see a shot of each family member, as they hear the doorbell, but notice that with each successive ring of the doorbell it's gets lower in modulation, until we get the shot of the front door and the bickering relatives outside, and that lovely low end GONG, on the soundtrack! Just one of many great moments!
... and how many blasted relatives are as much of an "arse-hole" as the one who, after poor Clark goes through sheer hell to get the lights working, his father in law, instead of praising his hard work, says ...
"The little lights aren't blinking!"
How many of us have just wanted to haul off and punch those kind of relatives in they're yuletide face?!!
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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