tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post113593004459839812..comments2023-10-11T03:42:59.033-07:00Comments on The Criterion Contraption: #46: The Most Dangerous GameMatthew Dessemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09288268335735601918noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-40301978875564922602011-08-13T17:32:41.276-07:002011-08-13T17:32:41.276-07:00"For one thing, the trophy room is a gruesome..."For one thing, the trophy room is a gruesome invention of the filmmakers,..."<br /><br />If you mean that Rainsford is not shown the trophy room in the story, that is true -- but the Count <i>does</i> offer to show it too him in the story.MrArkadinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10613323396152162756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-15553930207078619122011-08-08T15:50:01.388-07:002011-08-08T15:50:01.388-07:00The Most Dangerous Game is best enjoyed with a bag...<i>The Most Dangerous Game</i> is best enjoyed with a bag of microwave popcorn and your brain set on “low.” It’s not subtle but fun, and what little meaning it has basks flagrantly on its surface. You’ve got your usual insipid 1930’s action hero and jejune love interest pitted against a predictably more compelling villain, Count Zaroff. <br /> <br />Leslie Banks and the filmmakers make good useJohn B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-41011429860027291012010-03-17T19:33:11.419-07:002010-03-17T19:33:11.419-07:00I really like your review. Having just seen the fi...I really like your review. Having just seen the film, I was very curious about what other people had to say about it. I think you make the film seem far more enticing than it actually is. I also very much enjoyed your analysis of the Count and Bank's face.<br /><br />One of those things I found striking about Zaroff's profile is that Banks is short even in good posture (almost as if this Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-85455541798444478542008-11-23T11:13:00.000-08:002008-11-23T11:13:00.000-08:00i dont get how rainsford breaks the rules at the e...i dont get how rainsford breaks the rules at the end of the story<BR/><BR/>great blog very insightful!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-25194217558556676702007-11-16T16:40:00.000-08:002007-11-16T16:40:00.000-08:00Anonymous,Thanks for the info on Zaroff's Russian ...Anonymous,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the info on Zaroff's Russian -- one of the many times that not knowing a foreign language really comes in handy!Matthew Dessemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288268335735601918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-33480951725568453312007-11-16T16:39:00.000-08:002007-11-16T16:39:00.000-08:00Pieter, Thanks!MattPieter, <BR/><BR/>Thanks!<BR/><BR/>MattMatthew Dessemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288268335735601918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-36985584178430157752007-10-30T16:10:00.000-07:002007-10-30T16:10:00.000-07:00Great blog. Banks is lots of fun as Zaroff but hi...Great blog. Banks is lots of fun as Zaroff but his Russian is absolutely terrible, which made it hard for me to take him seriously (in the Trophy Room, for example, Z. tells his servants 'Lay him on the bench,' referring to the dead brother Trowbridge; but it sounds so garbled and, dare I say, retarded, that it diminishes the ferocity of his character).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-72615499517333459502007-10-20T16:44:00.000-07:002007-10-20T16:44:00.000-07:00"As you can see, he's that most dreaded of America..."As you can see, he's that most dreaded of American villains: the European Aristocrat."<BR/><BR/>Nice! Love your blog.<BR/><BR/>PieterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-30132079219323429202007-03-20T01:12:00.000-07:002007-03-20T01:12:00.000-07:00Anonymous,Please do! I've had this movie on the b...Anonymous,<BR/><BR/>Please do! I've had this movie on the brain recently, actually, since I just saw <I>Zodiac</I>, which kind of makes it a plot point that this is a story not a lot of people know (and hence, incriminates Arthur Lee Miller). In fact, I counted only one reference to it being a story at all; much of the time you would think it only existed as a rarely-seen film from the 30s. (Matthew Dessemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288268335735601918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-7637122094088918672007-03-19T22:59:00.000-07:002007-03-19T22:59:00.000-07:00One of the side effects of all those junior high s...One of the side effects of all those junior high school reading assignments is that there are literally dozens if not hundreds of film versions of this story.<BR/><BR/>A certain part of me longs to list them all. Maybe some day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-1144049329022609962006-04-03T00:28:00.000-07:002006-04-03T00:28:00.000-07:00Tim, I remember that about the commentary and also...Tim, <BR/><BR/>I remember that about the commentary and also disagree with it; the interesting thing about <I>The Most Dangerous Game</I> is the way it <I>does</I> suggest that Zaroff and Rainsford are not that different in their approach to killing and sex. Insightful link between this film and <I>Rules of the Game</I>, but do you really think <I>The Most Dangerous Game</I> doesn't have the Matthew Dessemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288268335735601918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-1143558837172115742006-03-28T07:13:00.000-08:002006-03-28T07:13:00.000-08:00I remember being really annoyed by one of the bonu...I remember being really annoyed by one of the bonus features on this one, because they kept suggesting it's a film about sexual pathology. I just watched Rules of the Game, and now I know why that bugs me. It's because the interesting part of the most dangerous game was the suggestion that the Marquis ' disturbing behavior is a reflection of humanity, not a quirk--we're all incriminated. I Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-1143531145598929212006-03-27T23:32:00.000-08:002006-03-27T23:32:00.000-08:00Yan, I hadn't thought of that, but I can see the r...Yan, I hadn't thought of that, but I can see the resemblance. Whoever she looks like, she looks good...Matthew Dessemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288268335735601918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-1143496536267445362006-03-27T13:55:00.000-08:002006-03-27T13:55:00.000-08:00Fay Wray looks like a more curvacious Molly Ringwa...Fay Wray looks like a more curvacious Molly Ringwald in this movie, don't you think?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-1136612774309466392006-01-06T21:46:00.000-08:002006-01-06T21:46:00.000-08:00Jody,Oh, they won't be a silent majority for long....Jody,<BR/><BR/>Oh, they won't be a silent majority for long...<BR/><BR/>Crazy Dan,<BR/><BR/>I'm glad you liked the site, but posting about King Kong toys wouldn't really fit in too well with the whole "watching the movies in the Criterion Collection and writing about them" mission here.Matthew Dessemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288268335735601918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796371.post-1136447202543497622006-01-04T23:46:00.000-08:002006-01-04T23:46:00.000-08:00But what of the silent human taxidermy majority?But what of the silent human taxidermy majority?Jodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16470033066493529625noreply@blogger.com