Yul Brynner Festival
I just finished a project and I’m slowly recuperating. I have 7000 emails in my inbox to catch up on and god knows what else. Fortunately, Yul is here to help:
13 Responses to “Yul Brynner Festival”
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Sis says:
That Deborah Carr. She was quite the flibbety-gibbet. One day rolling around in the surf with Lancaster, the next, pretending she wanted to dance just to get next to our Yul.
March 16th, 2009 at 10:19 pm EST -
Elise says:
Thanks. This is just what I needed to brighten up a miserable day.
I adore Yul Brynner and saw him in the Broadway version of “The King and I” in the late 70s. I have to admit, though, that my most enduring image of him is a scene from “Kings of the Sun”, a movie I probably haven’t seen in 30+ years. Brynner, garbed in nothing but low-rider deerskin pants, is simply walking down a path in the forest. Sigh.
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Sis says:
I just requested this at the library. I’m number 2,017 on the waiting list.
There are some deerskin scenes in The Last of the Mohicans too; *which really is a racist movie*.
Or, you could try to find Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner. No deerskin. Just sealskin. It’s culturally correct, and puts shut-you-mouth to the Patrick Wat*on crowd.
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Sis says:
It’s Deborah “Kerr”. I knew that.
Blogging is an oral medium, not written.
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Violet says:
Do you really think Last of the Mohicans is racist? Russell Means pointed out a couple of problems he objected to, but overall he thought it was leaps and bounds ahead of previous pablum like Dances with Wolves. He was happy that the Indians were portrayed as real, multidimensional human beings, and there was attention to the actual politics of the day.
Wes Studi was fricking amazing in that film. He should have won an Oscar. Absolutely brilliant performance.
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Sis says:
Oh yes, it was better than Dances with Wolves *geez* but the racism was in the original story. It was pretty much just another retelling of how the white guys saved the native. You know, you see that theme in white guy/black guy movies too.
Now you do need to watch Atanarjuat. Since it was a runner up for Best Foreign Film 2007, I believe, you shoudn’t have trouble finding it.
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Elise says:
Sorry, Sis, neither “Last of the Mohicans” nor “Atanarjuat” is going to do it. My indelible memory of “Kings of the Sun” had absolutely nothing to do with the deerskin and absolutely everything to do with the hips that were in it.
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djmm says:
Yul Brynner — what a man!! (Sigh.) Thanks for the memories.
djmm
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Lexia says:
Don’t forget The Magnificent Seven!
Loved that walk.
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Hedgepig says:
orlando, is my memory playing very amusing tricks on me or did our mother take us to see Yul Brynner in The King and I on stage in London in 1980 or 82? I THINK I remember a shiny bald head a long way away on a stage.
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I'll second Sis on Atanarjuat says:
Loved that movie.
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Lexia says:
A late addition to the Yul Brynner lust-fest:
The Internet Archives, a free web site of public domain movies, has what it says is the first Yul Brynner movie.
I can’t get it to download on my slow connection and will try again in the wee hours, but here’s the link:
http://www.archive.org/details/Port_of_New_YorkThe main page notes he had hair in this one.
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Sis says:
I’m running it now. Yes, hair. And some HUSSY pressing herself into him.
Must return to movie…
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