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The Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day is right in this room, sitting at this table. You may serve the fish.
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
Nick and Nora Charles, how I love you. I’ve featured The Thin Man here before (and I also wrote up each entry in the franchise from the great Box Set a while back) and as long as I keep getting images from the film I’ll keep my Thin Man torch burning as long as I can.
They didn’t get any hotter than Myrna Loy or any suave(r?) than William Powell and when you put the two of them together it’s dynamite. I strongly, strongly, strongly urge you to go check out The Thin Man movies before the alleged Johnny Depp remake. I love Depp, I love Rachel Weisz (rumored to be Nora) and they would be great together, I’m sure, but as good as their chemistry can possibly be it won’t hold a candle to Powell and Loy.
So, let’s celebrate our gone, but not forgotten legends with today’s pic. Click to embiggen! Enjoy!
If you have a behind the scenes shot you’d like to submit to this column, you can email me at quint@aintitcool.com.
Tomorrow’s behind the scenes pic will put a smile on your face!
-Quint
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he is probably there as an extra for the scene,to take the plates from the table or something. 75years later and nowadays he has been promoted to play the stereotypical asian who knows kung fu or carries a katana.
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Gene Kelly or The Joker ?
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...one of Hollywood's greatest cinematographers who shot some of the most famous movies ever made by the Hollywood studio system, including The Thin Man - he was a pioneer in so many ways, including being the first Asian to break into a major industry position. He also used deep focus techniques years before Gregg Toland's work on Citizen Kane. So yeah, not some random Asian extra, but a Hollywood legend. Be careful before you assume :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wong_Howe
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I didn't even notice an "asian dude" in that pic until you mentioned it. It was just a guy leaning on a camera to me until I saw your post. And that's how you internalize such things when you see them? Brandon Lee never happened? Tiger Woods never happened? Jo Koy never happened? Roger Mooking never happened? Hell, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu never happened? Project much?
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since he was wearing suit and leaning on the camera and all,but i am bored and was aiming for some trolling time. but tx for the info,i think i have heard his name before and if i am not mistaken there is a decent number of modern HW cinematographers who happen to be asian.
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I love Depp but I am surprised anyone would try to reprise those roles.
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Yes, that's him on the camera, quite possibly the finest cinematographer of his time. Still working pretty much to the day he died, and his influence is felt by anyone who steps behind a camera. Watch John Frankeheimer's "Seconds" for some of his final work; creepy, atmospheric, and very unnerving.
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This movie is almost 80 years old, we should be able to watch this for free online(legally). Fuck you Sonny Bono.
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That's director Woody Van Dyke leaning over to talk to Bill and Myrna.
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i was referring to the complete absence of asian protagonists in HW movies. Nowadays,even if it is not the majority of movies we are talking, we do have black and latin protagonists in studio movies. The only asians who seem to have broken this racial trend,are Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan,and even that achievement has happened under very specific and difficult circumstances. Bruce Lee,like Eastwood, had to go to HK to become a star before his first major american film. Jackie Chan became a star in the USA after multiple,failed attempts to make a hit film for the american audience. And both actors had to share their lead role with an american actor when they made their first american films. I remember an interview with Jackie Chan about Rush Hour 1,where he said that the studio wanted Chris Tucker's name to be put first in the movie's titles and the posters/trailers/ads. Chan refused that and he put in the contract a rule that his name would be put first in the titles/ads of the first movie,but for the sequel they were allowed to put Tucker's name first. In fact if you see the trailers from RH1 and RH2,you will see that in the trailers of RH1,Chan's name is shown first whereas the american trailers for RH2 show Tucker's name first and the international trailers show Chan's name first. And i remember this because it had made me a big impression when i heard it the first time. Anyway,i hope i clarified the things a bit about what i meant with my first post.
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AICN ususally waits until there is a version that doesn't look like it's being viewed underwater from far away.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wong_Howe I have already expressed my reservations about a remake, and i won't repeat them here, suffice it to say it's a bad idea, not because it's a remake, but because of Depp who I think is wrong for the part.
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and at the very least a remake should bring new viewers to the original, which has to be a good thing
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Rich spoiled man hangs with female detective.
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that I don't like to admit. I've never seen it. Great pic.
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there was also a similar series of movies from that era,with a middle-age rich guy who was solving mysterious cases with the help of a female ghost who had been murdered(well at least in the movie i watched). His name was Tobber,Tobby or somthing like that and he also had a funny black driver as comic relief. Anyone knows the title of the movie series i am talking about?
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they are about. Is it romance? Screwball comedy? James Bond-ish? Is it where creepythinman got his handle from?
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with Cary Grant? I'm too lazy to look it up
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July 18, 2011, 1:21 p.m. CST
sweenydave: it is all of the above: well worth checking out the first one for sure.
by ClayMatthews
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July 18, 2011, 2:05 p.m. CST
I feel bad that the actors were forced to work with an Asian cinematographer.
by UltraTron
Just imagine how they must have felt. All their friends probably thought they had this glamorous job in Hollywood- in reality they had the same experience as working in the kitchen of any greasy spoon diner from the era. I bet he couldn't drive worth shit either. In fact I'm offended from having seen this picture. Goddamn chinks
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in the second one, I think (not quite sure) was an interesting performance from him. It's fun to see him playing a maniacal heel. He was rather good at it too as I recall.
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as said by Nora Charles.
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Loy and Powell are pure magic. There is innuendo in every scene they are together. They work like a Swiss watch.According to wiki, Van Dyke shot it in 12 days (Out of 14) and it was released only 5 months after the book was published.
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Exactly! Without that specific line the double entendre does not exist.
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July 18, 2011, 3:51 p.m. CST
The Choppah's ashamed to admit his ignorance of the Thin Man films
by THE_CHOPPAH
One of the few things that somehow managed to stay out of my radar. THAT SAID, I will definitely be checking out the Depp film.
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Yes, please post all things Thin Man! Well, I guess that's enough stress. So, I lied. Sue me.
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