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alienelvisobsession · 1 year

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THIRST WATCH #3: “Jailhouse Rock”

Elvis is really good as an insolent brat. He’s kind of an asshole, an insufferable but irresistible James Dean with a guitar and a bad attitude. There’s no real reason for him being like that, other than feeling powerless early on in the movie. In other words, he’s a rock ‘n’ roll “rebel without a cause”.

Very improbable to kill a man with three single punches, don’t you think? Also, why is Elvis always starting a fight next to a jukebox? 😂

The guards flog him in jail, which was kind of a puzzling scene. Good Elvis movies seem to need one of those (spank, kidnap, rape, you name it). Probably it’s there so you feel sorry for Vince. It also provides an explanation as to why later on he’s such a cynic who only seems to care about money and women. Well, and also it gave us this mental image…ahem… I wonder if girls and women back then also saw something sexual in this.

I was almost expecting Johnny Cash to come in and sing “Folsom Prison Blues” at one point lol. 😂

I thought most of the movie was going to be set in the penitentiary. What a disappointment when Vince gets out. But I guess he wasn’t sexy enough in those prison clothes. Instead, we get Vince Everett in a lovely striped jacket. Yummy!

Lady: “I say atonality is just a passing phase in jazz music. What do you think, Mr. Everett?” Vince: “Lady, I don’t know what the hell you talkin’ about”. [storms out of the room theatrically]

“That ain’t tactics, honey. It’s just the beast in me”. ICONIC! I love Vince’s sass and his mumbling fast talk.

The “Jailhouse Rock” dance number was undoubtedly an inspiration for “Cell Block Tango”, plus the plot of “Chicago” is kinda similar. Oh, and Gene Kelly was apparently watching when they filmed that scene.

You know how Elvis’ movies often show things from his real life? It is really astonishing to me that a tooth cap he had inhaled during the dance sequence had to be surgically removed by parting his vocal chords and in the movie there is a very similar scene where Vince has a tracheotomy and they’re scared in both cases that it will impact his voice. 😱 Sorry but I can only handle Elvis’ health scares that get resolved!

“Gee Vince, when you sing it’s really gonesville.” True. I love “You’re So Square (Baby I Don’t Care)”! Why is he wearing a turtleneck sweater in the summer in the pool scene by the way? That’s gonesville (I don’t really know what that means, but it sounds funny).😅

Vince is pretty unlikable until the last few minutes, but you can’t take your eyes off of him. He is always so surly, maybe because of the way life has treated him before, or maybe just because of a rebellious attitude he cannot shake off. He’s just being kind of an asshole to be honest, but when that leads to him almost losing everything with that punch on the throat, he decides to change his attitude. For once, an Elvis movie where the screenwriters wrote an ending that makes sense and left me satisfied.

Lovely movie. EP is really hot and he has some great songs. My favorite so far. I already want to rewatch it. Maybe “King Creole” is technically a better movie, but I feel that this is more culturally relevant. When Vince rejects intellectual discussions about jazz music he’s reaffirming the instinctual quality of rock ‘n’ roll music and reminding us of that raw talent that we like so much in Elvis’ early records.

Other thirst watches:

King Creole

Blue Hawaii

#elvis #elvis presley #elvis movies #jailhouse rock #1950s cinema #rock n roll #1950s rock n roll #1950s music #1950s #1950s culture #thirst watch

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k00284723 · 1 year

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Lino Print - I decided to do a lino print after the print making workshop - I have cut more from the block since this photograph, but hopefully I'll have it printed this week. I took inspiration from 1950s illustrations for swimsuits in magazines etc, and how women are portrayed as doll like figures in the illustrations and photographs. I hope to do a few colourful prints too - but I'll see.

#1950s housewife #1950s vintage #1950s hollywood #1950s culture #1950s fashion #swimwear #lino print #print making #temporary #art project #in progress #illustatration

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jonathanmorse · 2 years

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Pink: the rainy day

It lasted only two model years, 1955 and 1956. It came in pink the first year and either pink or lavender the second, but the guys in Corporate hadn’t thought through the sexual economics of the one-car household: a woman can drive a man’s car, but a man can’t drive a woman’s. But real glamor is never inhibited by fashions in gender. Feminine or unfeminine, it travels the light and air of the…

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#1950s culture #advertising psychology #automobile history #bird #gender roles #Java finch #original photographers #photographers on tumblr

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thenewdemocratus · 10 months

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Cal Thomas: Back to the 50s

Source:The FreeState There is a movement in America that’s religiously based at least to a certain degree that believes that America has been going down hill at least culturally since the 1960s. When more Americans like African-Americans were given the same freedom as Caucasian-Americans under law. Where women had the same freedom as men and where more Americans who came of age in this decade no��

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#1950s America #1950s Culture #Baby Boom Generation #Cal Thomas #Christian Right #Cultural Revolution #Far Right #Modern America #News Satire #Political Humor #Religious Right #Tea Party #The 1950s #The 1960s #Traditional America #Traditional Values Coalition

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popculturebaby · 21 days

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Ava Gardner’s MGM Employment Portrait in 1941

She was 19 years old.

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tygerland · 9 months

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• Portrait of Innocent X (1650) by Diego Velázquez.

• Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953) by Francis Bacon.

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thesimline · 9 months

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I've been loving all the outfits Margot Robbie has been wearing during the recent Barbie movie promo tour, so I wanted to create a Barbie lookbook with a late 50s/early 60s influence.

I've previously made a couple of Barbiecore lookbooks that are more 80s/90s inspired, you can find them here and here.

OUTFIT RESOURCES

Casual: Hair | Earrings (Base Game) | Top | Pants (TSR) | Shoes

Summer: Hair & Headscarf (Growing Together) | Sunglasses | Dress | Bag | Shoes

Swim: Hair, Sunglasses, Earrings & Swimsuit | Bracelet (TSR) | Shoes

Party: Hair | Necklace (TSR) | Dress (TSR) | Gloves | Shoes

With thanks to some amazing creators: @viiavi @elfdor @rustys-cc @sentate @twentiethcenturysims @anessasims @ice-creamforbreakfast

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garadinervi · 14 days

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Miguel Ángel Vidal, Untitled, (mixed media on paper), 1959 [Grupo Joven. © Miguel Ángel Vidal]

Group Exhibition: Grupo Joven, arte y desacato en los años 50, Organized by Federico Towpyha, Curated by Marcela Astudillo, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, October 10, 2023 – May 31, 2024

#art #mixed media #geometry #exhibition #miguel ángel vidal #federico towpyha #marcela astudillo #galería towpyh #grupo joven #centro cultural recoleta #1950s #2020s

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kdo-three · 5 months

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Marilyn Monroe Publicity Photo for "The Asphalt Jungle" 1950

#Marilyn Monroe #1950's Cinema #Hollywood #Actress #Popular Culture #The Asphalt Jungle #black and white photography

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kafkasapartment · 1 year

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Guggenheim Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright, New York, NY, 1959.

Ezra Stoller. Gelatin silver print.

#guggenheim #frank lloyd wright #photography #Black and White #Architecture #futurism #modernism #photographie #1950s #Cars #museums #culture #foto #fotografia #fotografie #new york #Retro

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c0rpseparts · 1 year

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Didn’t they want your blood? So why apologize for being blue and cold!

#will wood #will wood and the tapeworms #wwattw #suburbia overture #greetings from marybell township #vampire culture #love me normally #the normal album #1950s #horror

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k00284723 · 1 year

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Photography / Editing / Posters -

I decided to photograph myself in a 1950s style outfit, makeup and hair, with my mother's old Barbie and Amish style rag doll. I took inspiration from advertisements for underwear, weight loss, makeup in the "How to look more glamorous, marry a millionaire" esque advertising etc. I was given the idea from a book I found of my Grandmother's that I assume is from the 1950's that essentially is all about how to be the perfect "wife/woman" and has things from recipes, exercises to keeping thin, to palm readings to sewing clothes for children. I wanted to recreate them with the last two posters showing the negativity of all the absolute shaming that went on for women in the 50's - I wanted to put a personal note of photographing myself in such clothing as a girl who has struggled with eating due to my anxiety and confidence body wise. I wanted to capture the falseness of the advertisements, and how Barbie (at least back then) was so unrealistic body wise - especially her first doll. Which came out in the 50's.