by Stop Mike Lupica on April 15 at 10:51AM
I'll have a few NBA-related posts coming up, but for now let's play "Hey, check out what SML randomly found on YouTube". Today's clip: a 4:33 take from the Academy Award Best Picture winning 1945 movie "The Lost Weekend". The movie is about an alcoholic writer (played by Ray Milland) on a weekend bender:
I'm not sure, but I think Milland's alcohol addiction in this scene is a metaphor for something... maybe drug addiction? Or maybe I take it that alcohol was a powerful hallucinogen in the 40's? Was Absinthe legal?
Yes, that scene was both cheesy and hammy. Never the less, "The Lost Weekend" is a iconoclastic movie - for example, it pioneered the special effect of "guy walking down the street as neon signs pass by him" to represent time lapsing during a drunken binge. And, of course, some of the scenes and story elements from this movie were spoofed in an episode of The Simpsons, in the form of Barney Gumble's short film "Pukahontas":
Don't cry for me, I'm already dead....
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I'm not sure, but I think Milland's alcohol addiction in this scene is a metaphor for something... maybe drug addiction? Or maybe I take it that alcohol was a powerful hallucinogen in the 40's? Was Absinthe legal?
Yes, that scene was both cheesy and hammy. Never the less, "The Lost Weekend" is a iconoclastic movie - for example, it pioneered the special effect of "guy walking down the street as neon signs pass by him" to represent time lapsing during a drunken binge. And, of course, some of the scenes and story elements from this movie were spoofed in an episode of The Simpsons, in the form of Barney Gumble's short film "Pukahontas":
Don't cry for me, I'm already dead....
Leave a comment
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