Echoes #4

Written by Daniel Kasman

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From William A. Wellman's Midnight Mary (1933), featuring Loretta Young:

From John Carpenter's They Live (1988), featuring Roddy Piper:

Part of our on-going series, Echoes.  (And aren't we about due for another sequence like this?)

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  • johnsonisjohnson

    Yay. :D

  • Ben Simington

    Dude. So good.

  • Mac

    Yeah, this is pretty frickin’ awesome. Nice job.

  • Daniel Kasman

    Thanks guys!

  • Pierre

    Does Loretta Young have a way too long fight scene with Joan Crawford? Hope so!

  • Daniel Kasman

    Only in our cinephile imagination, Pierre!

  • Angie

    Amazing I love seeing the influence. How did you come across this Daniel?

  • Daniel Kasman

    Thanks Angie! Well, I guess a good memory for details? I hadn’t seen the Carpenter in ages but that sequence has always stuck in my mind. I watched the Wellman recently, filling gaps the NYC retro missed, and the moment I saw that scene I remembered the Carpenter!

  • Monsieur Arkadin

    The “Midnight Mary” sequence is also pretty similar to the beginning of “The Hudsucker Proxy” where Tim Robbins keeps reading the “Previous Experience Necessary” signs.

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