ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

[oilgun]

Man finding a J was tough!  All the best "J" titles were taken:  Jamón Jamón, Jezebel (both Pride)  Also, work got in the way...


Anyway this is directed by soft-porn-meister Roger Vadim which makes it appropriate for:  LUST!

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GLUTTONY

 

(Little Gaspard can take a bite out of me anytime!)

[Shakesthecoffecan]

What do you think? LUST and SLOTH, perhaps?

When I saw you had posted this I could not resist the temptation to post here that I understand Leslie, and I am here for you! 

[MaineWriter]

When I saw you had posted this I could not resist the temptation to post here that I understand Leslie, and I am here for you! 

Thanks, Truman, I appreciate it! LOL

L

[southendmd]

GREED and PRIDE

[Fran]

GREED and ENVY

[MaineWriter]

GREED

[southendmd]

PRIDE

Apparently, it didn't travel well from the stage.

[oilgun]

GREED!


The Director & poor little rich kid, Jamie Johnson.  (Johnson & Johnson heir)

From IMDb: In this hard-hitting but humorous documentary, director Jamie Johnson takes the exploration of wealth that he began in Born Rich one step further. The One Percent, refers to the tiny percentage of Americans who control nearly half the wealth of the U.S. Johnson's thesis is that this wealth in the hands of so few people is a danger to our very way of life. Johnson captures his story through personal interviews with Robert Reich, Adnan Khashoggi, Bill Gates Sr., and Steve Forbes, during which both Johnson's and his subjects' knowledge and humor shine. And he's not afraid to butt heads with Milton Friedman, the economist who coined the term "the trickledown effect." He also shows how the other half lives, using real-world examples of the wealth gap: he takes a tour of a dilapidated housing project in Chicago, rides around with an enlightened taxi driver, and sees the human toll of the unfair economics of the Florida sugar industry. Johnson's film is at its most powerful when it reveals how the super-rich work to preserve their own monetary dominance. As a member of the "Johnson & Johnson" family, he gets rare access to an exclusive wealth conference at which the über rich learn strategies for preserving their fortunes, and learns the personal management styles of some of the countries wealthiest employers. No great society has survived such a massive wealth gap; who knows if ours will?

[Meryl]

PRIDE



The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward, who is greatly impressed by Dorian's physical beauty and becomes strongly infatuated with him, believing that his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Talking in Basil's garden, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a new kind of hedonism, Lord Henry suggests that the only thing worth pursuing in life is beauty, and the fulfilment of the senses. Realising that one day his beauty will fade, Dorian cries out, wishing that the portrait Basil has painted of him would age rather than himself. Dorian's wish is fulfilled, subsequently plunging him into a series of debauched acts. The portrait serves as a reminder of the effect each act has upon his soul, with each sin being displayed as a disfigurement of his form, or through a sign of aging.

[MaineWriter]

GREED, LUST & WRATH

Erich von Stroheim's unfinished epic masterpiece. Gloria Swanson was the star and producer. In Sunset Blvd. (1950), von Stroheim plays the butler/chauffeur Max. Queen Kelly is the movie that Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) and Joe Gillis (William Holden) watch in the evening.