rivers@seismo.UUCP (Wilmer Rivers) (03/01/84)
Star Wars / Singing in the Rain (Debbie Reynolds said she liked the premise of her daughter's movie - the adventures of 2 guys & a girl) Fast Times at Ridgemont High / Rock & Roll High School (It would be interesting to see who would come to this double feature, & who would sit through it all the way.) The Wizard of Oz / Scarecrow (As the title suggests, the latter is somewhat derivative of the former, with Gene Hackman & Al Pacino following the "yellow brick road" through America to find their version of Utopia, which is for them a car wash in Pittsburgh.) Porky's / Diner (No way, you say ? Opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of class ? Maybe, but they make an interesting contrast in their attitude towards nostalgia : Porky's is about a group of lower-middle class high-school boys in Florida in the 50's, & Diner is about a group of upper-middle class young men in Baltimore in the 60's; it seems to me that Porky's was considerably more positive & upbeat. Also, the central sight gag in both movies is the same - the hole in the shower room wall in Porky's & the hole in the bottom of the popcorn box in Diner.) Forbidden Planet / Tempest (2 retellings of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" - one in the future in outer space, & the other in modern-day Greece. Incidentally, am I the only person on the net who was impressed with John Cassavette's perfor- mance in the "Prospero" role in the latter movie ?)