Watch WOMAN HATERS, PART DEUX - Here is a component 2 of The 3 Stooges In "Women Haters" (1934). Things to seem for: in step with Wikipedia (and, as we know, they have been known to create things up) the primary "Nyuck, Nycuk" ever from Curley is delievered at regarding the sixteen minute mark of the movie (which during this phase would be around five/six minutes). and also the denoument on the train is value examining--Marjorie White sits within the boys berth and claims that the piece of paper that binds them as members of the girl Haters club is null and void as a result of "everybodys cheated, I will prove it and that i know--move over!" Moe then shouts "Move over?" and he and Curley tumble out of the train window. Is her presence on the bed (and the threat that she's going to "prove" her dominant sexuality) and their horror of this agressivness suggestive of her making ready to sexually entrap all 3 of them at once? ("I will prove it...") And is such a thought--a Stooge menage a foursome--healthy to even contemplate?
Also: at the tip of the film, because the camera pans across the wood paneled wall at the headquarters of the "thirtieth annual meeting of the girl Hater's Club" (as the person is on his thanks to admit Larry) there's an exquisite BOOM SHADOW on the wall that lingers a pleasant long time--oddly I never noticed it till viewing the film on my pc. It's presence might recommend a few of things: one, that this film wasn't thought-about necessary enough for retakes or maybe second or third takes. Or maybe the film was an honest deal harder to create than the common two-reeler, what with the live singing on the set, the low background piano accompaniment (see previous post), the timing of the lyrics and also the slapstick...it's attainable that, once several takes blown for different additional pressing reasons, Gottler, the director, was told regarding the boom shadow and easily determined to measure with it...after all, who the hell was ever extremely progressing to EXAMINE this tiny MOVIE...(At the time of its creation the thought of the movie being beamed round the world, seventy-five years later, on as however undreamed of and unthought of wireless airwaves would have appeared not solely implausible however quite merely mad...)
Finally, i am unable to leave the topic of "Woman Haters" while not a confession. this may mark me as over alittle strange in some people's books, however the ultimate shot and fade out of this movie literally moves me to tears--only the last shot in Antonioni's "The Passanger" and also the final image of Norma Desmond in "Sunset Blvd." move me in quite an equivalent approach. i am serious. There the Stooges are, staring off at their future. it is the finish of their initial solo outing--they were rid of the obnoxious Ted Healy, their former partner--and they stand at the brink of their Columbia two-reeler futures. And however they're additionally "old men"--singing of eternal love ("my life! my love! my all!")--which suggests a way of timeless, eternal brotherhood. Indeed, this brotherhood was real and never to be broken. Vaudeville vets Moe and Jerry Howard and their friend Larry Fine came up along within the rough and tumble lowlands of showbiz and--as time would tell--NEVER GAVE UP THE ACT. (Only terminal illness took Curley away--and reluctantly as we'll see...)The final nose tweaks and eye pokes are as eloquent as caresses and also the fade out, because the Stooges hold their positions proudly if shakily, has the quiet dignity of a breeze blowing away a memory...
