Movies

Taxi | 42nd Street | King Kong

Taxi (1931)

8/419 on the NYC list. Not as focused on the independent cab drivers vs the big consolidated company as I thought it would be. The primary plot is the romance between the daughter of a cabbie who dies in prison and a hotheaded independent cabbie. Again, I thought the way the hotheadedness would cause conflict would be mainly because of said taxi war, and it does come up at the climactic plot, but overall cabbie Nolan is hotheaded about things that don’t make any sense.

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42nd Street

9/419 on the NYC list. Another backstage musical. Don’t get the appeal of our chorus girl protagonist turned leading lady. Without knowing Ann was Ginger Rogers I thought she felt far more alive than our wallflower ingenue. Another character introduces himself as a “Broadway juvenile” and I still don’t know what that means.

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King Kong (1933)

10/419 on the NYC list. Fay Wray got hired to scream and boy did she scream. My favorite monster fight scene here has to be King Kong vs that T-Rex looking creature, primarily because of the method by which King Kong wins but also because Ann screams so fucking loudly that the T-Rex creature doesn’t like it.

Nightmare subway commute dropped: King Kong peeling off the tracks and peering into a window

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