MOVIES TRIVIA: WATCH- Clint Eastwood sang “ I Talk to the Trees, But They Don’t Listen to Me” in the 1969 musical “Paint Your Wagon”.
- I. “Avatar” happens to be one of the most expensive movies of all time, with an alleged budget of $280 million in production. The word “avatar” is Sanskrit for “incarnation”, and it is used in Hindu scriptures to refer to human incarnations of God.
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Sri Vadapathira Kaliamman hindu temple. Avatar of Vishnu. Lord Rama 7th incarnation. Singapore.
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- II. The first moving picture invented was by Thomas Edison, and they were small film images which could be viewed in a box. At first, he was not in support of showing movies on a big screen, because of his thoughts that one-on-one viewing seemed more profitable.
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- III. There was a call for a boycott of the Disney film produced in 1947, titled “Song of the South”, by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The reason stated is that it showed happy slaves on a plantation, and it was believed to be an adaptation of Uncle Remus’ stories. Even when it inspired the Disneyland ride “Splash Mountain”, the movie was never released in its entirety on home . video, in the United States of America.
Song of the South (1946) Walt Disney DVD
A musical tale of Uncle Remus
who uses his stories of Brer Rabbit
to help a young boy
Featuring Brer Rabbit Uncle Remus
and original Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah song
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- IV. Clint Eastwood sang “ I Talk to the Trees, But They Don’t Listen to Me” in the 1969 musical “Paint Your Wagon”. Clint Eastwood describes the experience had ignited his will to go into movie production and take on responsibilities in film making.
I Talked To The Trees (Paint Your Wagon) – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhsWKBx5t3A
Lyrics
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I talk to the trees
But they don’t listen to me
I talk to the stars
But they never hear me
But they don’t listen to me
I talk to the stars
But they never hear me
The breeze hasn’t time
To stop and hear what I say
I talk to them all in vain
To stop and hear what I say
I talk to them all in vain
But suddenly my words
Reach someone else’s ear
At someone else’s heart strings too
Reach someone else’s ear
At someone else’s heart strings too
I tell you my dreams
And while you’re listening to me
I suddenly see them come true
And while you’re listening to me
I suddenly see them come true
I can see us some April night
Looking out across a rollin’ farm
Having supper in the candlelight
Walking later, arm in arm
Looking out across a rollin’ farm
Having supper in the candlelight
Walking later, arm in arm
Then I’ll tell you how I pass the day
Thinking mainly how the night would be
Then I’ll try to find the words to say
All the things you mean to me
Thinking mainly how the night would be
Then I’ll try to find the words to say
All the things you mean to me
I tell you my dreams
And while you’re listening to me
I suddenly see them come true
And while you’re listening to me
I suddenly see them come true
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Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Alan Jay Lerner / Frederick Loewe
I Talk to the Trees lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc
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- V. The 1939 movie “Gone With the Wind” caused David Selznick to be fined about $5,000 for the line “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn”. Further, The Catholic League of Decency rated the movie ‘B’, because of claims that the film was “morally objectionable”.
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Directed by Victor Fleming
Shown from left: Vivien Leigh, Hattie McDaniel
- VI. Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American Oscar winner, was awarded one in 1939 for the Best Supporting Actress, for the role she played as Mammy, in “Gone with the Wind”. It took another twenty-four years before another African-American would win it: Sidney Poitier for “Lillies of the Field”, produced in 1963, and filmed in only 14 days.
McDaniel with Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara in a scene from the 1939 film, which won best picture.
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