John Wayne was a pussy....

That right I said it. While most of the world was celebrating freedom fighters by giving them all flash backs with their fireworks....never understood that tradition. I heard a roll go off in front of my house and wanted to grab my rifle, jump in the hole and aim in the direction. Took me a min to figure out that is was just a holiday, not a hell of a day...like many many many the soldiers have.....
Johny Wayne, I hope most of you burnt your movies and tshirts yesterday because there is a icon or a underrated underdog you should of been worshiping the whole time.
Robert Ryan
Take your favorite Wayne movies and put them up against these...then throw out your JW and buy you some RR flicks!


Day Of The The Outlaw (1959)
Best Western ever...and that's not a hotel recommendation. Where else can you root for the bad guy and not fell guilty. Even Burl "Snowman" Ives plays a baddy. Also "Ginger" Tina Louise plays a upstanding town lady that isnt flashy or Hollywood like. Two nice nice TV types playing against the stereotypes.

Men In War (1957)

Great war film and one of the two best Korean war films ever made, next to Fuller's Steel Helmet. When all hope is lost and the soldiers are all burnt out you have groups of renegades geared for survival. Featuring Aldo Ray, the real one, not the one made up at the QT studios. Features a great cast and one of the best performances in a movie by Robert Keith. Doing so much with so little.

The Setup (1949)

Robert Wise and Robert Ryan only need 70mins to tell this epic tale in real time about a fixed fight. Where everyone is in on it, except the boxer who is suppose to take a dive. Very refreshing is the role played by James Edwards (also fantastic in Fuller's Steel Helmet!) back in a day when black people played only servants, thugs and jazz musicians.

He plays a boxer not only just a boxer but one that is equal if not superior to the others around him. For those of you who are fans of African Americans in cinema should take note, James Edwards paved the way and made a better day for all black actors that came after him. D Washington, I am looking at you, time to get your tribute shoes on and pay some homage ol' Mr Edwards.

Speaking of race and the great direction of Robert Wise.

Check out, Odds Against Tomorrow (1959).

Also starring the great Harry Belafonte. A boiler to the brim. Race relations 

Controversial, something Wayne would of never done.

Not only was Ryan tougher and a better actor, (that is to say JW acted at all or acted like anyone other than himself) Robert Ryan could share the screen with others where as Wayne had so much power he made sure that he had all the great lines and scenes, notice how great Wayne's movies should of been instead of the mediocre tripe that they are.

Wayne was a great big cry baby pain in the ass 

Robert Ryan would gave him something ton cry about, if he wasn't so busy making quality movies.

Stay cool in these hot days and do yourself a favor and get a little Rand R with the double R, Robert Ryan, the man who should be an American icon.

Whose your girl with the curl?
Earl
whose your boy?
Earl Roy.

The Price of Supermen, Saki and Seppuku

I have held many men’s dead bodies. In the military and also in my youth, my best friend Steve Brunson committed suicide in the parking lot of the apartments where my pop and I lived. You never would of known it. Upbeat feller, last words were "I'll see you at school!" and my dumb skipping every other day ass said "If I make it"...always the Joker........ His dad, Ox, former black Ops Vietnam. Never seen a hardcore mofo cry like that hope I never will. That and those who loose kids. Helpless feeling of being mad at no one but none the less mad as hell...want to bite a hole in the earth and spit it into gods face....harsh harsh words...we all have been to the brink...suicide is an alternative......go to escape. The debate and reinstate my mind...sit in thought and meditate through the cinema.... Me..like I have said before...escape through the cinema. The summer brings out the Samurai to me. Sorry ninjas and comic books but...

First up.

Harakiri(1962)
Seppuku (original title).

About a hungry Samurai coming to a feudal lord's home  in peace time...ol’ top knots did make much money in peace time. He comes to the house of Ily and asks to end his miserable life after 8 or 9 years of suffering. But first they have a story. Ohhhh and he has his story to tell as well. Whose is the honorable death? Is suicide, the price and the way it is death with in a harsh republic, is that, honorable? What is the price of, Suicide?

Also featuring and actor that make Daniel Day Lewis seem like Sylvester Stallone in a boom boom film…the chameleon of thespians, Tatsuya Nakadai. Who as of this posting is still alive!!! One of the best actors ever.                                           

Another in that same cannon

Sword of the Beast(1965)
Kedamono no ken (original title)

Suicide missions and their results.Who is the beast? It may be you.
Check them out. Top knot head choppers with a lot of thought and brains to boot.

Coming soon: Why Robert Ryan kicks John Waynes ass!
Dont believe me stay tuned
Summer Saftey do good tip of the week.
Cold Drinks
Share one with someone who needs one
Also if your friend is on fire....poor your cold drink over his firework poppin pee pee!
Peace To your hearts.
Earl Roy

Foreign Film through an American eye. Lets play TWO!

in the days leading to the fourth of July. Americas independence day... I will make a argument for you to throw out an American icon and take in and over looked under dog. But first foreign cinema through a American eye part one.
Movie. Gillo Pontecorvo's beautifully graphic movie The Battle For Algeries (1966)
About a revolution of Algerian refugees against the 130 reign of French oppression.... Oppressed and hunted by French officers that once were part of the resistance in W W part 2!
Talk about holding the mirror up!
Also could be spine shivering comparison to today's wars.
Also the ultimate noir underdog movie Rifii (1955) from the all American guniess Jules Dassin...directing a heist movie in French using Italian and German actors...a melting pot of movie production. . As import as Citizen Kane and here is why!!!

Gentleman Jules, survivor of the blacklisting, lover, patriot, citizen of the world and director of fine cinema. One of the most under appreciated directors. His stretch from 1947-1957 is a template for brilliant cinema. Jules Dassin, An artist with a wide canvas and big brush.
1947 Brute Force
1948 The Naked City
1949 Thieves Highway
1950 Night and the City
1955 Rififi
1957 He who must die. (Never in print on DVD)
Criterion, I am looking at you.
He had many commercial and critical successes. 
For beginners, I recommend starting with Night and the City (1950) or Rififi (1955)
Du Rififi Du Chez Hommes is as important in the discussion of Cinema as Orson Well’s Citizen Kane.
Wells fought for his film. He picked his fight
Dassin fought for his life and his fight picked him.
HUAC-McCarthy
Rififi is Dassin's commentary on his and other artist’s blacklisting disguised as great Heist flick! Banned in Mexico due to copycat crimes, some were successful
....BEAT BREAK AND THEN!!!....its like that WHAT and that is the way it is huh ha HOOOOW HAAAAA!
-Run dDMfreeC
alt double feature Gillios Wide Blue Road (1957) and Dassin's Night and The City (1950)
THERE AINT NO GOOD GUYS THERE AINT NO BAD GUYS THERE JUS YOU AND ME AND WE JUS DISAGREE....
stay hydrated and be cool to each other..whose your girl roy earl...whose your boy earl roy...

Double Feature Double Trouble

Hello people! A Howdy Hey and How are ya to you! Earl Roy about to enjoy some hot weather!

Stay cool if you can. Shake the hand of every man and woman that needs a hand getting their feet out of the sand and a cool drink of water like mother milk seeping from a silk shawl  bra....bros and sisters with those who need motivation, Earl Roy doesn’t take vacation. I am watching over those in the nation or in the KC vicinity, can you get with me? Are you gonna be prophet or a pimp, royalty or walk with a limp or lean to help us all achieve MLK’s dream .

The Heat can really mess with your mind and make you irritable and less likely to move in positive directions. You can get a rash and the high temps can make you make rash decisions.

Double Feature of the Day.

Spike Lee’s masterpiece where everyone does the Right Thing and sometimes The Wrong Things,  

Do The Right Thing (1986)

Mostly due the pressure of the heat from the Sun that brings racial tensions to a boil.

I wore out 2 video tapes of this movie when it was released, in addition to being a projectionist at a dollar house in 89. Every time I come away with more distinct  perspectives than the time before. I asked myself the other night after watching my second dvd copy, “Who Did The Right Thing?”

Its easy to say who did the wrong thing. However, no one is clean and clear. Even the watcher/God's messenger, Mother Sister (RUBY DEE!!!!!)  is chanting at the end “Burn it down to the ground” . She, serine and wise succumb to the fires of violence, hostility and devout change through aggression. She  comes off her perch and wails with the chorus of gods vengeance “BURN BURN!!!”.

Who did do the right thing?

Spike is a fan of many many different genres of film. One in particular the noirs of the gold and silver age.  There is one that stands out amongst the others,  starring Robert Mitchum, directed by Charles Laughton called Night Of the Hunter(1955).

 (worthless fact number 6000 it was said the Laughton directed the adults and Mitchum the kids since Chuck didn like the little one....must of been hard since Mitchum was the baddy in this pic...long a$% parethisis)

In fact Radio Raheem’s gold finger rings are homage to that film where Mitchum's preacher character, Like Bill Nun’s Radio.Raheem, has Love tattooed on one hand and Hate on the other. Both preachers have their stories of love conquering hate. Night Of the Hunter, also explores the human conditions under strict pressures, instead of racial persecution it is more religious. Told  from a child’s perspective through a story/nightmare during one deep hot summer in the deep hot south.

Enjoy folks…if you like this double dip of movie trips try another combo of High Sierra and Emperor Jones. Let me know if you wanna talk shop IE movies, films, cinema, peanut butter cookies and lemonade….secretsamuraicinema@gmail.com

Be nice to each other do not let the heat affect or effect your judgment, no punishment will be dealt to those who overcome and don’t circum the heat of the sun, grab a hand full of Icccees and give one to someone!

I am watching you and thinking of you all with a happy heart.

Earl Roy.

Two Times For Your Minds Eye on the sly without stalone

Okay todays double feature is much like the puzzle of life…a total mind truck…with an F.

Christopher Nolan, the world’s hottest and smartest director of the moment with

Inception (2011)

Leo De Cap this generations James Dean and a whirlwind of Nolan players trippin in the head

Next

The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)

More mind Puzzles, with stories within stories and spirits perpetuated by the believers of Christ and the devil and all else lost in the hills of Spain after the Napoleonic wars. What is real? Odd in a good way, as much fantasy feel as a G. Del Toro flick but without the latex effects…..Starring the amazing  Zbigniew Cybulski…..if you can that name 10 times  fast that is about 10 times more than I can say it once in an hour…. amazing man, man.

Known as the Polish James Dean…hate to type that because I feel if James was as talented as Z then his movie might be more member able for something other than icon status. Go check out Ashes and Diamonds and then burn your copy of Rebel Without A Cause.  James Dean wishes he was the American Zbigniew Cybulski…jockstrap holder.

Yes…I just dissed James dean…the Leo de cap of his time….and mark Leo Dissed as well….whose your girl with the curl..

Earl Roy.

email me and talk about the grovey movies that truck your mind with an F? secretsamuraicinema@gmail.com


oh yeah...be nice tip of the day!!!
Gift of water on a hot day is like a brick a gold to the poor. Bus stops, fix it shops, cold sholder corners on 100 degree days....buy an extra moutain springs aqua gold and give it to someone who needs it.

Frankenstein Vs Madonna!!!!!

INTRO: My son died on 5 23 2009....hard line....Hard thought....Babies die in this world ....boys and girls...Not like the “Movies...”So my brain escaped to the cinema So here is my dilemma....Tell me the last good movie that you see or seen.....And why?I need more cinema before I die. ...And if I do …will they roll credits at the end and play the sad music from the Hulk TV show circa 1970’sMovies are brief escapism but not remedies. ...Just a moment and time, space and brain that keep the thoughts of babies dying making me insane

Music: Okay, there should be a Vegas poll on how long Madonna will be on tour before she cancels, Van Halen did, the Police with Stinger should have....proving once again old is the new young, Obscure Punk Jazz outfit from Canada NoMeansNo is better with age and taking the fame low road is usually the better path

Movies: Okay double feature of the Day. The Avengers (2012) Big Bang Boom Zoom with wit by Robert Downing Jr. Satisfying the inner child in us or with us at the cinamaplex.
Then The Spirit of the Bee Hive (1973) A quiet film about a child obsessed with the silences in the the original Bang Zoom Hero Anti Hero pic, Frankenstien (1931).
Both movies will quell the child in all of us...now give me some candy...have fun and be kind to one another. Brothers and sisters, peace to your hearts. Earl Roy. After Dark.
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let me know what you have seen and herd that is any good....

Country Mouse Sinner City. Bitter feelings with a crackeled smile.

INTRO: My son died on 5 23 2009....hard line....Hard thought....Babies die in this world ....boys and girls...Not like the “Movies...”So my brain escaped to the cinema

So here is my dilemma....Tell me the last good movie that you see or seen.....And why?

I need more cinema before I die. ...And if I do …will they roll credits at the end and play the sad music from the Hulk TV show circa 1970’s

Movies are brief escapism but not remedies. ...Just a moment and time, space and brain that keep the thoughts of babies dying making me insane

……whose your boy?

-Earl Roy.

Pass on the paper to those need it more than me and more than you..Do good is the path of pursuit.
BLOGG STARTS>>>>HERE>>>>>>

I am somethwere between Fellini's 8 1/2(1963) and

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/

Diary of a Country Priest (1951)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042619/

I need to put on a happy face like a kid that just saw E.T. for the first time

do you need a link to Speilberg's E.T....?

If you cant make it fake it

NICE TIP OF THE DAY: Stop at a garage sale or thrift shop, buy as many kids books as 2 dollars can buy and give them to children with the parents permission at your local bus stop. I gave little William a copy of Danny the Dino off of 40 Hwy, enjoy your treck to the city....take care and be good to each other.

Peace into your hearts

wanna talk shop aka film cinema movies

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