| Author |
 Topic  |
|
|
Hinda
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Israel
229 Posts |
 Posted - 09/23/2005 : 01:51:27 AM
|
POSSIBLESPOILERPOSSIBLESPOILERPOSSIBLESPOILERPOSSIBLESPOILERPOSSIBLESPOILER
The minute I saw the ads for FLIGHTPLAN, I had a hunch that the screenplay was a reworking of the ANCIENT urban legend, the one Alexander Woolcott wrote about in "The Vanishing Lady" and Ralph Straus wrote about in "The Room on the Fourth Floor," the story of the woman who was kidnapped from her hotel room in Paris, during the 1896 Exhibition, because she had bubonic plague and the French government didn't want a panic to empty the city. The story has already been dramatized, as MIDNIGHT WARNING (1932) and SO LONG AT THE FAIR (1950).
Please, somebody who has seen it, tell me, am I right? Is the solution to the film something like "The heroine's daughter had the ebola virus?" Thank you. |
Edited by - Hinda on 09/23/2005 01:57:18 AM
|
|
|
Greenhornet
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
1791 Posts |
Posted - 09/23/2005 : 07:04:03 AM
|
And don't forget the simular The Lady Vanishes.
(edit) You're probobly right about the ebola plot, but the SMART thing to do would be to quarenteen all of the passengers. But then, movie writers often perfer the conspiracy thing to the smart thing. |
Edited by - Greenhornet on 09/23/2005 07:08:08 AM |
 |
|
|
dconner
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
USA
104 Posts |
Posted - 09/23/2005 : 08:54:23 AM
|
| I read a spoiler of the movie and, no, that's not it. (But it sounds like that would've been better than the plotline the movie used.) |
|
|
|
John Nowak
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1017 Posts |
Posted - 09/23/2005 : 6:49:43 PM
|
Heh. Would you believe I listened to a radio dramatization of "The Vanishing Lady" while in a waiting room in the American Hospital outside of Paris?
----------
We've always been united in stupidity. That's why there is no hope. But, then again, when has that ever stopped us?
-- hbrennan |
|
|
|
Greenhornet
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
1791 Posts |
Posted - 09/24/2005 : 10:39:35 AM
|
| Cool! I didn't know it was a radio play. |
|
|
|
Hinda
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Israel
229 Posts |
Posted - 09/25/2005 : 12:40:41 AM
|
quote:
Originally posted by John Nowak
Heh. Would you believe I listened to a radio dramatization of "The Vanishing Lady" while in a waiting room in the American Hospital outside of Paris?
The waiting room of a hospital outside Paris sounds like a very scary place to listen to a dramatization of "The Vanishing Lady." |
|
|
|
John Nowak
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1017 Posts |
Posted - 09/25/2005 : 01:38:02 AM
|
quote:
Originally posted by Greenhornet
Cool! I didn't know it was a radio play.
Yeah! It was on the anthology series Suspense, Episode 693, broadcast April 7, 1957. Wonderful story, and one of the very, very few times that an "evil conspiracy" made sense.
quote:
Originally posted by Hinda
The waiting room of a hospital outside Paris sounds like a very scary place to listen to a dramatization of "The Vanishing Lady."
Well, actually, it was kind of funny -- the MP3 came up on a random rotation so it's not like I planned it or saw it coming.
A lot of radio shows took place in Paris. My second favorite one was (I think) from Lights Out, a series that emphasized the sound over what was necessarily being said. The story involved a man living in the sewers of Paris who carved wonderful jewelry from bone...
Female: Good lord (choke)! Where did these bodies come from?
Male: They come to me, my dear. Love dies, and the lover embraces the Seine...
Female: And your amulets are carved from...?
Male: Yes... from bones YOU must clean.
Female: No!
Male: Then I must use ... YOUR bones, my dear.
Female (gags) FOLEY: Scraping noise.
Male: Yes, my dear. Remove the ugly, putrefying flesh, unwrap the beauty of the bone...
FOLEY: Scraping noise.
Wonderful stuff.
----------
We've always been united in stupidity. That's why there is no hope. But, then again, when has that ever stopped us?
-- hbrennan |
|
|
|
Hinda
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Israel
229 Posts |
Posted - 09/25/2005 : 02:35:28 AM
|
quote:
Originally posted by John Nowak
A lot of radio shows took place in Paris. My second favorite one was (I think) from Lights Out, a series that emphasized the sound over what was necessarily being said. The story involved a man living in the sewers of Paris who carved wonderful jewelry from bone...
Female: Good lord (choke)! Where did these bodies come from?
Male: They come to me, my dear. Love dies, and the lover embraces the Seine...
Female: And your amulets are carved from...?
Male: Yes... from bones YOU must clean.
Female: No!
Male: Then I must use ... YOUR bones, my dear.
Female (gags) FOLEY: Scraping noise.
Male: Yes, my dear. Remove the ugly, putrefying flesh, unwrap the beauty of the bone...
FOLEY: Scraping noise.
Wonderful stuff.
SPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERS
Brian Garfield (DEATHWISH)wrote a short story called "Scrimshaw" which was set in Hawaii and was broadcast on "Tales of the Unexpected." A woman, on vacation, who has lost her entire family, and as a result will not be missed, meets an old flame. He lures her to his studio, where he makes his living carving scrimshaw-from human bones. |
Edited by - Hinda on 09/25/2005 02:37:49 AM |
|
|
|
John Nowak
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1017 Posts |
Posted - 09/25/2005 : 09:32:44 AM
|
Actually, it's amazing to listen to these old shows and read old comics and pick up how many of these plots are recycled later on. Warner Brothers cartoons picked up a lot of stuff from things like the Jack Benny Show -- not surprising; Mel Blanc was on Jack Benny.
According to Jack, they once put a line in the script ("Mel Blanc whinnies like an English horse") just to see if they could stump him. They didn't.
----------
We've always been united in stupidity. That's why there is no hope. But, then again, when has that ever stopped us?
-- hbrennan |
|
|
|
Hinda
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Israel
229 Posts |
Posted - 09/26/2005 : 06:42:45 AM
|
POSSIBLE SLIGHT SPOILER
quote:
Originally posted by John Nowak
Actually, it's amazing to listen to these old shows and read old comics and pick up how many of these plots are recycled later on. nan
I just read in a review of FLIGHTPLAN that, at one point, the little girl draws a heart in the mist on the window-just like Miss Froy drew her name in the mist on the window in THE LADY VANISHES. |
Edited by - Hinda on 09/26/2005 06:45:12 AM |
|
|
|
John Nowak
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1017 Posts |
Posted - 09/26/2005 : 08:31:43 AM
|
Mist on the inside of a window on a plane? Funny; I can't remember seeing that anytime I flew...
----------
We've always been united in stupidity. That's why there is no hope. But, then again, when has that ever stopped us?
-- hbrennan |
|
|
|
Flangepart
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
2329 Posts |
Posted - 09/26/2005 : 10:56:38 AM
|
Garf! Ewww...
Man....reminds me how evil and dark old time radio shows could be. Talk about your nightmare fuel...
"Reality is arguable...lunch time is not." H. Flangepart.
"One Weekend a month my ass!" Crow- The Beginning of the End.
|
|
|
|
John Nowak
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1017 Posts |
Posted - 09/26/2005 : 9:44:03 PM
|
quote:
Originally posted by Flangepart
Man....reminds me how evil and dark old time radio shows could be. Talk about your nightmare fuel...
Yeah, great stuff.
"Lights Out," incidentally, was the radio show that did "Chicken Heart," the horror radio show that was so fondly recalled by Bill Cosby's routine.
----------
We've always been united in stupidity. That's why there is no hope. But, then again, when has that ever stopped us?
-- hbrennan |
|
|
| |
Topic |
|
Forum Locked
Topic Locked