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MISS FISHER’S MURDER MYSTERIES

ENDLESS LIST OF MY FAVORITE DIALOGUE MOMENTS IN MEDIA, 3/∞

"Cool, Cool, Considerate Men" was cut from the film prior to its release and not included on the soundtrack recording nor on the first VHS tapes and laserdiscs. The Los Angeles Times stated "The song 'Cool, Cool, Considerate Men' depicts Revolutionary War–era conservatives as power-hungry wheedlers focused on maintaining wealth." According to Jack L. Warner, the film's producer and a friend of President Richard Nixon, Nixon requested the song be removed. He apparently saw it as an insult, as it suggested the conservatives were hindering American independence as they danced a minuet. Hunt mentioned that Warner, on his deathbed in 1978, told a friend that he regretted editing the scene, believing he had ruined the film's structure as a result. It was only decades later that the song was restored to the film.

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🎥 The Phantom of The Opera (2004).

🎶 Monolith, Twin Tribes.

PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK 2023

(Part 2/2) Day 4: Favorite Era — The Edwardian Era (1901-10/14*)

"The Edwardian era conjures up a vision of elegant ladies with tiny waists and large hats picnicking in the golden sunshine of the English countryside, while their Harris tweed-wearing husbands were stalking deer or shooting pheasants. The rich were not ashamed to flaunt their conspicuous consumption but running their town houses and country manors was only possible because they were able to draw upon the vast mass of those less fortunate than themselves. Servants worked appallingly long hours and were housed in very different conditions from those ‘upstairs.’ The Edwardian period was a time of increasing social turmoil. Political groups proliferated, whose attractions to the working classes upset the careful balance of the haves and have-nots. Liberal politicians fought to pass laws to shorten working hours, institute income tax, death duties, old age pensions and state financial support for the sick and infirm." — Charlotte Betts, 'The Edwardian Era: A Gilded Age?'

[Media shown: Downton Abbey (2010-2016) and Titanic (1997)]