#Johnny Casino and The Gamblers

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the winner of this poll will go through to round 2!

[lautakwah]

Could you reocmend me some chinese gangster or crime movies to watch? Please?

BOY COULD I!!! so a few of my absolute faves are: casino raiders 2 (1991) (unrelated to 1 or no risk no gain), god of gamblers (1989), the inspector wears skirts (1988), infernal affairs (2002), a moment of romance (1990), rich and famous (1987), spl: killzone (2005), once a thief (1991), chasing the dragon (2017), and let the bullets fly (2010) (<- only mainland film in this list LOL but also. one of theeeeee best movies ever made. cannot stress that enough.)

and then i can always just recommend john woo, ringo lam, and johnnie to (& wai ka-fai, they tend to collab a lot) since their heroic bloodsheds and crime films are just god tier. a lot of them are also very much genre-(re)defining and it's a delight seeing where the rest got it from 🥰

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Old-Time Tradition: Folk Musicals

Grease (1978)

This film follows Danny (John Travolta) and Sandy (Olivia Newton-John), two teenagers from different worlds. After a summer fling,  they thought they would never see each other ever again, but unexpectedly reunite in the same school. Sandy, initially a wholesome stereotypical "IT girl”, tries to fit in with Danny's greaser crew, the T-Birds, and their sassy counterparts, the Pink Ladies. 

Identity in Grease: A Song and Dance

The musical numbers in Grease are very energetic and catchy, but they also play a big role in exploring how the characters navigate their identities. Many songs like "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee"—(I don’t drink, or swear. I don’t wrap my hair. I get ill from one cigarette. Keep your filthy paws from my silky dress)—and "Beauty School Dropout" showcase characters trying on different identities. Sandy tries to be the ideal 50s girl, while Rizzo rejects society's expectations. They all use songs to experiment and find their place in the T-Birds/Pink Ladies dynamic. On the other hand, songs like "Greased Lightnin'" and "We Go Together" solidify that bond that we can perceive between the T-Birds and Pink Ladies. Moreover, love, frustration, and teenage angst all find voice through the music. "Hopelessly Devoted to You", probably the most emotional song on the movie’s tracklist, lays bare Sandy's feelings, portraying her as the basic, easily enamored girl.

The film reinforces stereotypical gendered behaviors. For example, in “Summer Nights”, the girls' lyrics ("Tell me more, was it love at first sight?") center around romance and emotions, suggesting a more emotional and sensitive view of love. Whereas the boys' lyrics ("Tell me more, did she put up a fight?")  imply a focus on sexual conquest, portraying a more aggressive and sexualized view of romantic relationships. The song reinforces the idea that men and women approach love differently based on these stereotypes and it could be argued that it promotes non-consensual intimacy.

The characters in Grease don't just burst into song for no reason, their world revolves around music. The energy and choreography allow characters to process their emotions in a big way. In fact, the film doesn't shy away from showing the characters enjoying music and dance for pure fun. 

Yet, the world of Grease isn't exactly diverse

It is noticeable that the film avoids touching on any serious social issues of the 1950s, like racial tensions or economic disparity. This creates a sanitized version of the past and ignores the complexities of real life. Moreover, it pushes away the idea of 'Black Joy' as being something achievable even more. The music itself doesn't delve into racial themes, and there is quite literally, only one visible Black character in the movie—Frederick "Dennis" Greene as part of the singing group Johnny Casino and the Gamblers, reinforcing the idea that "Black musicality—the all-blacks-got-rhythm syndrome—of White cinema." (Dyer 98.)

The Ordinary → Utopia

Several elements align with the classic trope of white musicals seeking to transform the ordinary into a utopia; everyone is happy and music comes out of nowhere. Sandy's journey from a demure, "good girl" to a leather-clad greaser epitomizes this trope. Her initial wholesomeness represents the ordinary, while her adoption of the greaser look signifies a transformation into something cooler and more exciting. This aligns with the utopian ideal of escapism. On the other hand, Rydell High itself is portrayed as a somewhat utopian space. Sure, there are cliques and social pressures, but overall, it's a place where teenagers can have carefree fun. Finally, the film's resolution reinforces the utopian ideal. Danny and Sandy reconcile, the T-Birds and Pink Ladies maintain their cool-kid status, and everyone seems to get their happily-ever-after. This all-pink ending avoids the complexities of real life, where there are serious conflicts and consequences for teenage rebellion, and presents a more utopian world.

Circular time?

Black musicals often depict a cyclical view of time, where characters return to their "real life." As Dyer states, "white joy is in a space freed from labor; Black fun dips into the thing to have a good time while working." We can clearly notice this in the film. The ending suggests the T-Birds and Pink Ladies will stay on this high school path, but there's no real sense of daily life hardship.

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The movie Grease was released this day in 1978 in the UK. I've still never watched the whole movie but I can remember this being huge at the time. If you have a Ultra High Definition 10K Blu-Ray of the movie and a cinema-sized TV screen you may be able to spot Johnny Casino & The Gamblers (below) performing in the background of the dance hall scene if you pause it in exactly the right spot. They were played by covers band Sha Na Na who, I'd say, can take a lot of credit for the resurgence of interest in 50's music in the 70's. You can hear them performing several songs in the movie but there are very few clear shots of them. The rumour was the Director wasn't a fan.

Grease debuted as a stage musical in 1971 and Those Magic Changes was a new song written for it in 1972 by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. This 'live' version of the song in the clip above is taken from the Sha Na Na TV show with Johnny Contardo, as in the movie, crystal clear on lead vocals.

The other big connection the band had to Grease was that their pianist, Screamin' Scott Simon, wrote the lyrics to Sandy. This song was written for the movie but is now often included in productions of the musical. The clip below is another 'live' clip from the Sha Na Na TV show with Scott on lead vocals (the show didn't go out live but they usually sang the song live to a backing track as the show was recording).

[mistressxgrace]

Join us for the spring musical! Please contact myself or Wat Fletcher if you are interested in helping behind the scenes, and attend our open casting call for auditions!

@watfletcher

(cast list under the cut as well)​

Danny (Elijah Scott)

Sandy (Tilly Beaumont)

 Rizzo (Sunshine Bunny)

 Kenickie (Atticus Carmine)

 Doody 

Sonny (Felix Martin)

Putzie 

Frenchie (Fayeth Araven)

 Jan 

Marty (Daisy Lynch)

 Principal McGee

 Teen Angel (Noah Wright)

 Vi

 Vince Fontaine

 Coach Calhoun 

Mrs. Murdock 

Blanche

 Patty Simcox

 Eugene 

Cha Cha (Nova Walker) 

 Dancers 

Johnny Casino (Ciaran O’Bryan) and the Gamblers

 General Ensemble (including Rydell students and Scorpions)

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Wait I’m so dumb cause I didn’t know (or not that I remember knowing) about him being in grease, just knew about nick starring in ABC’s grease the next winter. So to see that joe had already starred in another version of grease (FOX) almost a year before has me mind blown rn

Nick never did Grease

Joe and DNCE played Johnny Casino and the Gamblers in FOX's Grease Live!

And then he played Danny Zuko (and Johnny again) in the "What a Man Gotta Do" video

[arickaandherfictionalothers]

MCU Musical Fancast

Grease (1978)

Mains:

Danny Zuko: Bucky Barnes

Sandy Olsson: Aricka Rogers

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T-Birds:

Kenickie: Steve Rogers

Doody: Tony Stark

Sonny: Bruce Banner

Putzie: Thor

Pink Ladies:

Betty Rizzo: Darcy Lewis

Frenchy Facciano: Pepper

Jan: Jane

Marty Maraschino: Natasha Romanov

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Secondary:

Eugene Felsnic: Peter Parker

Patty Simcox: Wanda

Thomas "Tom" Chisum: Clint Barton

Leo "Crater-Face" Balmudo: Zemo

Charlene "Cha-Cha" DiGregorio: Maria Hill

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School staff:

Principal McGee: Peggy Carter

Blanche Hodel: Sharon Carter

Coach Vince Calhoun: Nick Fury

Mrs. Murdock: Laura Cardellini

Mr. Lynch: Phil Coulson

Mr. Rudie: Logan Howlett

Nurse Wilkins: Susan Storm

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Others:

Vi: Dori @yeehawselfshipping

Teen angel: Loki

Vince Fontaine: Johnny Storm

Johnny Casino & The Gamblers: Sam; Rhodey; Scott, and the GOTG

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[samobservessonic]

Both our stories in this issue were written by Kitching, but not only that, in this issue we get our first story that was drawn by StC legend, Richard Elson! Meaning that the StC dream team of Kitching & Elson has now begun!

This issue also begins by introducing us to recurring gag characters the Marxio Bros, who I’m sure I don’t need to say are a parody of the Mario Bros combined with the Marx Brothers. That’s why there’s a third one. There hasn’t been a hidden blonde Mario brother lost to 90s Nintendo lore that you didn’t know about This story also takes place in Casino Night Zone and I’m definitely glad to see a fun location from Sonic 2 portrayed by Elson’s visuals

We start off with some poor guy who lost all of his money to gatcha games- …I mean to gambling at Robotnik’s rigged casino being found by Sonic & Porker. It does interest me how considerate Sonic often is to the Mobians he helps, given how abrupt he usually is. I just like StC Sonic, I think he’s just got a few more layers to him than he gets credit for

Also, while Porker Lewis has featured in past stories, this is the first time we’ve seen him in his “main” design! There’ll be a few more tweaks further down the line, but Porker here is dressed as he was in the concept art for that pilot version of AoStH we’ve seen featured in StC. I assume it was an intentional choice to bring him closer to what they believed would be the Porker design from here on out, same as when Johnny gets his redesign. Now, I do wonder if Porker’s inclusion in this particular story was partly because Tails was off in his own solo story, but at the same time, Porker is one of my favourite StC Freedom Fighters - he’s so often overlooked, but he has some of the best development. So, I’m glad to see him beginning to be established as a character beyond “animal buddy #3”

Sonic figures out that the giant Robotnik statue is hypnotising the gamblers and then we switch to the villains, who confirm that this is the case. There are, sadly, a lot easier ways to get people addicted to gambling, but for this kids’ comic, let’s stick to the hypnotising statue Also, I love that the blonde brother doesn’t give a fuck. He’s just vibing

…He does care about the threat of being sent back to Marxio World, however. What can I say? This comic came out at the height of the 90s console wars

We also get our first example of Porker being the team’s tech genius! Now, back in the pre-Adventure era of Sonic, the games hadn’t established Tails as a tech genius yet. Maybe someone out there could argue that there was earlier lore saying that he was, but I think it’s plain to say that the spin-off Sonic media of the time wasn’t aware that Tails could have this role. Because of this, we get various different tech genius characters in various different spin-offs and for StC, that’s Porker. …At least for now. I’m sure that it’s not much of a spoiler to say that Tekno eventually takes over this role on the main team, after Porker becomes a more Knuckles-centric character, but for the time being, we’ve got our team’s smart boy

Sonic, however, has about as much patience for sneaking around as you’d expect

Running ahead didn’t get Sonic very far in this issue. We get several pages of the usual bot-bashing and action scenes to meet the target audience quota, before a trap sees both Sonic and Porker get caught. Bet you didn’t expect to see Mario and Luigi kidnapping one of Sonic’s friends today, but here we are

And here they are, with our issue ending on a cliffhanger of Sonic & Porker tied to the track of a rollercoaster. It looks like maybe Johnny and Joe Sushi are on the rollercoaster as well. Bit of a bumpy ride. They might want to ask for their money back, but at the same time, what did they expect at Robotnik’s casino?

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On this date, the good stuff, in music history….

April 17th

1998 - Linda McCartney

Linda McCartney died after a long battle against cancer. Married Paul McCartney in 1969 when she was working as a photographer. As well as a being a member of Wings, she became an animal rights campaigner and launched her own brand of vegetarian food.

1994 - Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd started a four-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with The Division Bell, their fourth No.1 album.

1993 - David Bowie

David Bowie went to No.1 on the UK album chart with his eighteenth studio album Black Tie White Noise. It was his first solo release in the 1990s after spending time with his hard rock band Tin Machine.

1983 - Felix Pappalardi

Felix Pappalardi, producer and bass player with American rock band Mountain was shot dead by his wife Gail Collins during a jealous rage. Collins was convicted of criminally negligent homicide and sentenced to four years in prison. Pappalardi who was 43 had produced the Cream albums 'Disraeli Gears' and 'Wheels of Fire.'

1982 - Vangelis

Vangelis was at No.1 on the US album chart with Chariots Of Fire, he later also won an Oscar for the album for best original score.

1975 - Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley bought a Convair 880 Jet formally owned by Delta Airlines for $250,000, which he re-christened Lisa Marie. Presley spent a further $600,000 refurbishing the Jet to include personal quarters, a meeting area and a dance floor.

1974 - Vinnie Taylor

Vinnie Taylor guitarist with US rock 'n roll revival band Sha Na Na was found dead in a Holiday Inn hotel room in Charlottesville, Virginia from a drug overdose. Sha Na Na played at the Woodstock Festival, their 90-second appearance in the Woodstock film brought the group national attention. The group appeared in the movie Grease as Johnny Casino & The Gamblers.

1973 - The Eagles

The Eagles released their second studio album Desperado. Recorded at Island Studios in London, UK, two singles were released from the album 'Tequila Sunrise' and 'Outlaw Man'.

1973 - Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side Of The Moon went gold in the US. The LP went on to stay in the US chart for more than ten years and became the longest charting rock record of all time.

1971 - George Harrison

All four Beatles had solo singles in the UK charts, Paul McCartney with 'Another Day', John Lennon 'Power To The People', George Harrison 'My Sweet Lord' and Ringo Starr 'It Don't Come Easy.'

1965 - Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan's second studio album 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan was at No.1 on the UK chart. The album opens with 'Blowin' in the Wind', which became an anthem of the 1960s, and an international hit for folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary.

1960 - Eddie Cochran

Touring in the UK, 21-year-old US singer Eddie Cochran was killed when the taxi he was travelling in crashed into a lamppost on Rowden Hill, Chippenham, Wiltshire, (where a plaque now commemorates the event). Songwriter Sharon Sheeley and singer Gene Vincent survived the crash, Cochran's current hit at the time was 'Three Steps to Heaven'. The taxi driver, George Martin, was convicted of dangerous driving, fined £50, disqualified from driving for 15 years, and sent to prison for six months.

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The top FOUR bands from this poll will go through! Good luck!

[drpusoy]

5 movies about gambling

Gambling has been a popular theme in the world of cinema for a long time, and it has been portrayed in many different ways. From high-stakes poker games to thrilling casino heists, there is no shortage of films that explore the world of gambling. In this article, we will take a look at five movies that offer different perspectives on gambling.

Casino (1995) Directed by Martin Scorsese, Casino is a classic film that explores the dark underbelly of Las Vegas. The movie follows the story of Sam "Ace" Rothstein (played by Robert De Niro), a professional gambler who is hired by the mafia to run a casino. However, things start to spiral out of control when Rothstein falls in love with a hustler named Ginger (played by Sharon Stone), and the mafia becomes involved in his affairs. The film is a gripping tale of greed, deception, and the high stakes of gambling.

Rounders (1998) Rounders is a movie that focuses on the world of high-stakes poker. The film follows the story of Mike McDermott (played by Matt Damon), a talented poker player who has quit the game after losing all his money. However, when his friend Worm (played by Edward Norton) is released from prison and needs to pay off a debt, McDermott is forced to return to the poker table. The movie features several thrilling poker games and showcases the intense mental and emotional toll that the game can take on its players.

The Cincinnati Kid (1965) The Cincinnati Kid is a classic movie that follows the story of Eric "The Kid" Stoner (played by Steve McQueen), a talented poker player who wants to prove himself against the best in the game. He sets his sights on Lancey "The Man" Howard (played by Edward G. Robinson), a legendary poker player who is known for his unbeatable skills. The film features a tense final showdown between the two players, as Stoner tries to outwit and outplay his opponent. The movie is a must-see for anyone interested in the world of poker.

The Sting (1973) The Sting is a movie that takes a different approach to gambling. The film follows the story of two con men, Johnny Hooker (played by Robert Redford) and Henry Gondorff (played by Paul Newman), who team up to pull off a massive casino heist. They plan to scam a wealthy mob boss by convincing him to bet on a rigged horse race. The film features several twists and turns as the con men try to stay one step ahead of their target. The movie is a classic example of a caper film and is a must-watch for anyone interested in heist movies.

Mississippi Grind (2015) Mississippi Grind is a movie that explores the world of small-time gambling. The film follows the story of Gerry (played by Ben Mendelsohn), a down-on-his-luck gambler who meets a charismatic young poker player named Curtis (played by Ryan Reynolds). The two men team up and embark on a road trip down the Mississippi River, gambling along the way in hopes of winning big. The movie is a character study that explores the addictive nature of gambling and the emotional toll it can take on its players.

In conclusion, these five movies offer different perspectives on gambling, from high-stakes poker games to thrilling casino heists to small-time gambling adventures. Each film showcases the excitement and danger of gambling, as well as the emotional toll it can take on its players. And if you're wondering what is dragon tiger, it is a popular casino game that originated in Cambodia and is now played around the world. It is a simple game that involves betting on which card will be

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SPRING MUSICAL!

Grease is the word this spring! Please message the main or Admin Lecia if you would like to participate as either a cast member or anything behind the scenes. Under the cut you will find the current cast list!

Cast:

Danny (Elijah Scott) 

Sandy (Tilly Beaumont) 

Rizzo (Sunshine Bunny) 

Kenickie (Atticus Carmine) 

Doody 

Sonny (Felix Martin) 

Putzie 

Frenchie (Fayeth Araven)  

Jan 

Marty (Daisy Lynch) 

Principal McGee

Teen Angel (Noah Wright) 

Vi 

Vince Fontaine (Wat Fletcher)

Coach Calhoun (Jason Shaw)

Mrs. Murdock 

Blanche 

Patty Simcox (Katell Brightwood) 

Eugene 

Cha Cha (Nova Walker) 

Dancers 

Johnny Casino (Ciaran O'Bryan) and the Gamblers 

General Ensemble (including Rydell students and Scorpions

Behind the scenes crew:

Director: Grace Carleton, Wat Fletcher

Set Design/Construction: Evelyn Stratford, Ciaran O’Bryan

Costumes: Evelyn Stratford, Park Jae-Min, Lucas Drake

Concessions: Qhuinn Fontenot

Makeup: Ash Romero 

[maxwell-grant]

any thoughts on james bond??

Not really a fan and I don’t think that’s gonna change. I don’t have much experience with the character to begin with, I watched the Daniel Craig movies which bored me to death. I watched Goldfinger, which I remembered as being fun the first time I viewed it as a kid, but I find it hard to stand as an adult because Sean Connery was an awful man and oh yeah, that’s also the movie where James Bond rapes someone (I get that it was supposed to be a slap-slap-kiss thing but that is very much not what it’s in the scene). And I read the original Casino Royale novel, which is a must-read largely for it’s importance in pop culture and has some interesting aspects to it but, again, nothing that really got me to seek out the character.

Look, I get why Bond has become this huge cultural institution and the spy of popular fiction ever since his debut, why the 60s was the era of “Bond, Beatles and Batman” and why he’s kinda become the new standard for non-superhero action protagonists. I am extremely fond of that particular style you see in media like The Incredibles and Team Fortress 2, and that style owes a lot of it to the Bond films, hell I just posted above a screencap of Venture Bros, my favorite cartoon series. I’m certainly not gonna knock on popular enjoyment of a morally dubious man of action in a slick suit who charms and shoots his way through problems, after writing my most popular posts on my unabashed worship of Vincenzo. 

The things I like the most about Bond’s character in Casino Royale and the Bond of the original novels are largely the ways in which he almost betrays the impossibly competent image he’s been set up with later. I like that he gets picked specifically just because he’s the Service’s best gambler and not because he's the best everythint, I like that he’s uncomfortable with killing and especially the targeted assassinations, I like that he has vices and struggles because of his job. His job kinda forces him to be by default an unfeeling asshole who exploits people, and I think that’s an interesting perspective to develop, even without the context of it being James Bond before “being James Bond is the coolest thing ever” was the driving thesis of the franchise.

Thing is, I never really found any reason to give a damn about anything in Bond, other than enjoyment of the stylistic trappings and absurdities which just get kinda old after a while. I don’t enjoy the titular character or the hordes of largely one-dimensional "Bond Girls”, I don’t think the villains are interesting despite their supposed reputation in pop culture, I don’t get that much enjoyment out of death traps and car chases and gun fights if I don’t have anything at all to care about in the situations. I don’t think characters inspired by Bond tend to be interesting and even Bond parodies have gotten largely old and stale (I do like Johnny English but that’s solely because Rowan Atkinson is my favorite comedian and I’ll watch him in anything, and even then I didn’t even remember there was a third film).

As a kid, the idea of being a secret agent in service of the government has never really been terribly appealing to me, and as an adult it appeals even less. I don’t entirely dislike government agent characters by default, I really like Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks and An Gi-Seok from Vincenzo and agents of fictional organizations like Hellboy’s BRPD and Carmen Sandiego’s ACME, but I can’t shake off the stink of imperialism off my perception of Bond in particular. Again, I know it’s fiction, I know I talk about morally dubious protagonists I love all the time, but it’s the fact that Bond is so closely tied to his role as a government-sponsored murderer, my disdain for real-life governments and secret services being depicted in fiction as a swell and cool thing and not at all what they actually are, and the fact that I do not find Bond at all convincing or interesting enough for me to overlook that and buy into the fantasy, all blends together to make me dislike him.  

And yeah, Ian Fleming had utterly wretched views on gender and race and that bleeds a lot into the stories. People knock on pulps for racism and sexism a lot, and it's not undeserved, but even then I’ve seldom read anything in them as appallingbas the kind of shit you get on the Bond novels, and it’s harder to separate those from the character when so much of it is framed as the thoughts and opinions and attitudes of the character to the world around him. I would still not like James Bond even if I could put aside all the racism and sexism, and I very much cannot, but the fact that they are there, atop everything else, atop the character being an actual rapist at worst and his most iconic actor being unabashedly proud of being a wife beater and somehow still remembered fondly as a pop culture badass, and you end up with the one time Alan Moore did a comically grotesque exaggeration of a character in LOEG and I thought “you know what, I acknowledge that this is overblown and stupid and immersion-breaking but fuck it, I can’t blame you for your thoughts on this particular character manifesting with such bile”.

I know there’s good stuff in James Bond novels and films, I know why the character is super iconic and popular, please don’t misconstrue anything I’m saying as me thinking James Bond fans are horrible or something, because I don’t want to get that across at all. But I personally do not like Bond, and I don’t think I have to force myself to when there’s so many other types of characters and even spies that I prefer so much more. I don’t think I’m ever really going to be a Bond fan (I do like Timothy Dalton as an actor though, and if Sam Neil ever got to play Bond like he auditioned for, I probably would have at least some affection for the character since I really like him). 

I do like Austin Powers also. A lot of the jokes have aged really poorly and apparently Mike Myers is kind of an ass on set, but I think the concept of the eternally outdated parody spy still works, the films still have pretty funny scenes, and most importantly, he spoofed the concept to death so hard that even Daniel Craig said “Mike Myers fucked us”. Austin sucked out and absorbed all the fun parts of James Bond and then made them so funny and ridiculous that the Bond franchise has never again been able to have too much fun with itself, and if I gave a shit about Bond I would probably dislike that, but I don’t so, you go Austin. 

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Gilda (1946) dir. Charles Vidor. 7.4/10

This typa smart, smooth talking in the 1940′s is uncommon for me. I vibe with it though.

Talented Mr. Ripley and The Dreamers vibe.

Everything and everyone looks good.

Memorable Quotes: “Boys have the darndest way of growing up, Ballin. Almost when you’re not looking.” “Odd things are important to them.” “A worm’s eye view is so often the true one.” “Whether you are a gentleman as you say, or a peasant, as I say.”

Spoiler: [About Johnny Farrell, a gambler, who came to Argentina and cheats at craps at the casino. He is being mugged as he leaves and is saved by Ballin Mundson, who stops the thief with a cane that has a sword inside. He tells Johnny about an illegal casino nearby, but to not cheat there. It’s a high class place and Johnny cheats nonetheless. Uncle Pio works in the restroom and refers to him as a peasant. Johnny is brought into the boss’s place for cheating and finds the boss to be Ballin, who hires him as his manager. He becomes Ballin’s right hand man and makes money even though Uncle Pio still thinks of him as a peasant. After awhile, Ballin introduces Johnny to his new wife, Gilda. Ballin believes that Gilda hates Johnny, but assigns him to watch over her. They have dinner together and talk of their relationships. As Ballin heads to business, Gilda goes off to dance with another man despite Johnny not approving of it. Ballin comes back and has Johnny get his wife back. He talks to her later and confronts her on the fact that she knew Johnny from before. She claims that she never knew him even though he sees such hatred between them. A man who wins at Ballin’s casino by cheating is brought in to stop since Ballin no longer wishes to continue business with his people. Farrell is part of the interaction, but doesn’t understand what business Ballin talks of. At this time, Gilda is cavorting with other men and Johnny gets upset. The cheating man tries to kill Ballin at this time, but fails and kills himself in the restroom. Ballin reveals a safe to Johnny and how to access it after he may one day be gone. He explains his involvement in an international monopoly on tungsten. Johnny is sleeping one night and wakes up to Gilda playing guitar and singing to Uncle Pio. He reprimands them and returns her home. They are confronted by Ballin and they claim to have gone swimming together. During a festival, two German mobsters arrive to take back ownership of a tungsten cartel from Ballin since he had it under his name during WWII. The war has ended and Ballin refuses to give it up. One mobster is killed by Ballin at the party and Johnny tries to find Gilda, who has left with another man. They are at home together eventually and he is upset with her until they kiss. Ballin sees it, but rushes away by car to the airport. He flies away and he crashes. It is witnessed by Johnny and Obregon, who was investigating the cartel business. Ballin had made it look like a death since he was saved instead. Johnny opens the safe and takes over the business. He also marries Gilda. Johnny ignores Gilda from then on, but has her tracked down constantly by his men. She is prevented from cavorting with other men. He is treating her this way for the way she treats Ballin. It’s confirmed that Gilda and Johnny have known each other a long time. She escapes to Montevideo and becomes a singer and a dancer. She eventually gets proposed to by a man, who explains the legality of divorce depending on where she is. She has to go back to Argentina to make things official, so they do so. They get to a hotel and Gilda finds Johnny waiting for her and that the proposing man is one of his. Gilda sings at the casino and Johnny drags her away and slaps her after she yells at him. Obregon confronts Johnny and about how the casino will be shut down and how he just wants to know who has signed the papers involving the cartel. He also talks about how Gilda does everything to bother Johnny, but doesn’t mean it. He makes up with Gilda as Ballin reveals himself and how he hadn’t died. He aims to shoot at them and is stabbed by Uncle Pio. Obregon shows up and Johnny says he killed him. Obregon says that Ballin has been dead by suicide, so it doesn’t matter. Johnny hands over the papers.]

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I don't even know who I'm gonna vote for on that poll because I have no idea

On one hand you have rock star Shane Gray who looks like he's never gotten into a fight in his life except probably with his own brothers

Vs.

Johnny Casino, student council member at Rydell high and bandleader of The Gamblers, who may or may not have had a tussle or two - it's a 50/50 split with him