red river range is a 1938 " three mesquiteers " western film starring john wayne , ray corrigan , max terhune , and polly moran .

wayne played the lead in eight of the fifty-one movies in the popular series .

the director was george sherman .

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red river range <EOT> red river and competitive range solutions unveil veteran technology partners | red river | technology decisions aren’t black and white . think red .

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in the plot below , the raw coordinates are displayed as red circles and the river locations are displayed as blue squares .

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our training center will offer a full curriclulum of both shooting and non - shooting classes . from basic gun safety and marksmanship to emergency preparedness and medical to advanced precision rifle , red river range will have you covered .

the minimum observed ( linear ) home range for each individual can be calculated using homerange ( ) .

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convert point data to river locations using xy2segvert ( ) or ptshp2segvert ( ) . this will snap each point to the nearest river network location .

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red river west , llc ' s ( west location ) mission is to provide one of the best outdoor firearms training facilities in the north texas area combined with classes taught by the nation ' s top instructors .

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once an appropriate river network has been obtained , point data can be read . function xy2segvert ( ) converts xy data into river locations , by “snapping” each point to the closest segment and vertex . because of this , river locations can only be used in the context of the river network they belong to . in addition to the river locations , the snapping distance for each observation is also returned .

# # note : any point data already using the input river network must be re - transformed to river coordinates using xy2segvert ( ) or ptshp2segvert ( ) .

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# # # # braiding detected in river network . distance measurements may be inaccurate .

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the red river regional marksmanship center inc . is a non - profit business operating two indoor shooting ranges , pistol and rifle . our mission is to foster and promote the safe , responsible use of firearms through education , safety training , marksmanship , competitive and recreational shooting .

braiding can be checked for in a river network as a whole using checkbraided ( ) , which can take a while to run on a large or complex network . in the example below , no braiding exists in the gulkana river network , and severe braiding exists in the killey river west channel network .

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# # minumum home ranges associated with each individual # # # # id range # # 1 1 99914 . 27 # # 2 2 141136 . 24 # # 3 3 88669 . 52

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ideally , the shapefile used to define a river network object should be refined in gis before importing into r . that being said , there are sure to be instances in which it is advantageous or necessary to make changes to the river network object within r .

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this trip typically meets at 9 am at red ' s fly shop , where your hunting guide will meet and greet you . hunters will head for our hunting preserve which is located a few minutes away . the hunts are usually about 3 hours start to finish . after your morning hunt you head back to red ' s fly shop where your fly fishing guide will be ready for you to trade hunting boots for wading boots ! you ' ll be served lunch on the river and you will fly fish the balance of your day . these trips are usually about 9 hours start to finish .

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our goal is to make scheduling adventures with red ' s stress free and fair for everyone involved . cancellations made by the customer less than 24 hours from the start time , or failure to show , will forfeit 50 % of the total cost .

unless otherwise specified , each plot will be overlayed with a confidence envelope , calculated by resampling all within - survey distances , thus creating a null distribution under the assumption that clustering is independent of survey . thus , a k - function above the envelope at a small distance range can be seen as evidence that locations were more clustered than expected for that survey ; conversely , a k - function below the envelope at a small distance range can be seen as evidence that locations were more dispersed than expected for that survey .

red river range is a run - of - the - mill late era western with the mesquiteers out to capture cattle rustlers . it feels like a long tv episode of a long - running western , with many of the characters already established . it also boasts some of the worst fist fights you ' re ever likely to see with an immaculately dressed wayne rolling in the dirt with his co - stars . it ' s not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination but the hour whips by and i ' d quite happily watch another one . say if i needed to watch a short movie from the late 30s for a project in the month of december .

if you cancel more than 24 hours from the start time , you may reschedule or request a refund - 5 % to cover processing fees and labor . if red ' s decides to cancel the event due to adverse conditions the customer may request a full refund .

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the example below first shows how the skilak lake section of the kenai river network was originally read from a shapefile , with the vertices of segment 74 overlayed . the second plot shows the same section with the vertices of segment 74 overlayed , after adding vertices every 200 meters to the full river network .

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in some cases , a meaningful summary measure may be the up - river position of each observation . distance between an individual observation and the river mouth can be calculated using mouthdist ( ) . in the case of multiple observations of a set of individuals , a summary matrix can be calculated using mouthdistbysurvey ( ) , which returns a matrix of distances from the river mouth , with each row corresponding to a unique individual and each column corresponding to a unique survey .

in this case , the plots show evidence that movement was generally up - river between flights 1 and 2 and between flights 2 and 3 , that there was the greatest variability in upstream movement between flights 5 and 6 , and that movement was generally down - river in the latter part of the study .

spatial data can be read directly from a point shapefile using pointshp2segvert ( ) , which returns the resulting river locations added to the data table from the point shapefile .

using an unnecessarily complex river network can greatly increase processing time . runs of segments can be combined using dissolve ( ) , which works much like a spatial dissolve within gis .

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flow direction and directional ( upstream ) distance can also be calculated . for this to be accomplished , the segment and vertex of the river “mouth” , or lowest point must first be identified . the segment containing the river mouth can be visually identified from a plot of the river network . in the gulkana river example , the lowest segment happens to be segment 1 . identifying the lowest vertex of segment 1 can be done using the plot produced by showends ( ) , shown below . in this case , the mouth vertex happens to be vertex 1 . this will not necessarily be the case . after importing a shapefile into r , the segment vertices will be stored in sequential order , but not necessarily by flow direction . specifying the segment and vertex coordinates of the river network mouth can be done using setmouth ( ) as shown below , though it can also be set manually by direct assignment .

for route and distance calculation to work , the topologies must be correct , with all the right segments being treated as connected . the topologydots ( ) function can check for this , and plots connected segment endpoints as green , and non - connected endpoints as red . this is shown below , and all appears good .

while ‘riverdist’ does provide tools for editing a river network that do not rely on gis software , it is strongly recommended to simplify the river shapefile as much as possible before importing into r . in particular , a spatial dissolve will likely be very helpful , if gis software is available . this will create a few long line segments instead of many , many short segments .

in the example below , distance is calculated between the two points in a complex river network , using all three route detection algorithms , and calculating the time requirement for a single calculation .

in the example below , the plot shows evidence of the instrumented fish beginning the sampling period near the river mouth , then migrating upriver , and finally ending the sampling period near the mouth .

in some cases , such as when a river network contains a lake , the shapefile will contain long straight - line sections , with vertices retained only for the beginning and end . if point data exist in these regions , when they are converted to river locations , they will be snapped to the nearest vertex - in this case , one of the endpoints of the straight stretch . since it is likely that a greater degree of precision is desired in distance calculations , addverts ( ) provides a method of inserting additional vertices , wherever the river network contains vertices that are spaced at a greater distance than a specified threshold .

in a typical workflow , a user will first import a projected polyline shapefile using line2network ( ) . this function reads the specified shapefile using the ‘sp’ and ‘rgdal’ packages , and adds the network connectivity , thus creating a river network object . if an unprojected shapefile is detected , an error will be generated . however , the reproject = argument allows the line2network ( ) to re - project the shapefile before importing it as a river network .

basic plotting is provided using a method of the plot ( ) function . see help ( plot . rivernetwork ) for additonal plotting arguments and graphical parameters . shown below is the gulkana river network , included as a dataset .

river network distance can be calculated directly with the riverdistance ( ) function . the riverdistance ( ) function calls detectroute ( ) internally , which the user will probably never need , but usage is shown below . the riverdistance ( ) function needs river locations ( segment and vertex ) for both starting and ending locations . specifying map = true as shown below is not necessary , but can provide a check to verify that the function is working properly .

a matrix of river network distance between two location datasets can be calculated using riverdistancetofrom ( ) , which can be similarly subsetted using the logical1 and logical2 arguments . row and column names can be added using the id1 and id2 arguments .

a matrix of the river network distance between every observation and every other observation can also be calculated using riverdistancemat ( ) . a use for this function might be if the user wishes to calculate all distances at once , and subset later .

most of the utility of the ‘riverdist’ package was designed assuming a truly dendritic river network , in which there is no braiding of channels and only one path exists between one river location and another . if this is not the case and a braided network is used , the user is strongly cautioned that the distances reported may be inaccurate . in the event of braiding , the shortest route between two locations is returned , but the possibility exists that this may not be the route desired .

for example , the route between two points goes downstream along a river for 100m , then up 20m on a tributary . specifying net = true will return a distance of - 80m . specifying net = false will return a distance of - 120m .

this issue is problematic , as it directly affects how connectivity is detected within the river network . without appropriate connectivity , routes and distances cannot be calculated . to address this issue , splitsegments ( ) automatically breaks segments where another segment endpoint is detected .

river direction and upstream distance are also applied in functions riverdirectionseq ( ) and upstreamseq ( ) which work like riverdistanceseq ( ) , riverdirectionmatbysurvey ( ) and upstreammatbysurvey ( ) which work like riverdistancematbysurvey ( ) , riverdirectionmat ( ) and upstreammat ( ) which work like riverdistancemat ( ) , and riverdirectiontofrom and upstreamtofrom which work like riverdistancetofrom . the upstreamseq ( ) , upstreammatbysurvey ( ) , and upstreammat ( ) use the additional net = argument , and all river direction and upstream distance functions use the additional flowconnected = argument .

the riverpoints ( ) function works essentially like points ( ) to overlay point data on an existing plot , but using river locations ( segment and vertex ) . the zoomtoseg ( ) function produces a plot zoomed to the specified segment number , or vector of segment numbers .

the overlap between the respective home ranges of all individuals can be described using homerangeoverlap ( ) this returns three matrices : first , the linear distance represented in the union of the home ranges of each pair of individuals ( $ either ) , then the linear distance represented in the intersection ( $ both ) , then the proportional overlap ( $ prop _ both ) , defined as intersection / union . approximately 78 % of the linear home range occupied by either individual 1 or 3 is shared by both of them .

automatically removing all segments not connected to the river network mouth can be done using removeunconnected ( ) . this may be useful if extraneous lines are retained from an import from gis . this function may take some time to process , and simplifying the network using dissolve ( ) is recommended .

river distance can be calculated manually between any two connected locations on a river network . however , a few common summary analyses were automated and are included in ‘riverdist’ . first , the riverdistanceseq ( ) function returns a matrix of the distances between sequential observations for a set of individuals observed multiple times . in the example below , three fish were observed ( or not ) during 5 telemetry flights . the dataset is shown first , then the output from riverdistanceseq ( ) . fish number 1 traveled 83 . 87 km between flights 3 and 4 , and was not observed during flight 2 .

in the example below , segments 7 , 8 , 13 , and 16 need to be split in multiple places . since connectedness is not detected for the associated tributaries , topologydots ( ) shows the endpoints as red , or unconnected . in this case , calling splitsegments ( ) breaks the segments in the appropriate places , allowing for the network to be connected as it should be . it is worth noting that the user can specify which segments to split , with respect to which , which may aid in processing time and specificity .

it is also possible to trim a river network to include only segments that are within a spatial tolerance of a set of x - y points . the trimtopoints ( ) function offers three methods of doing this . specifying method = " snap " ( the default ) returns a river network made up only of the closest segments to the input points . this is the simplest method , but may result in spatial gaps , as shown in the example below . specifying method = " snaproute " returns a network of the closest segments to the input points , but also includes any segments necessary to maintain a connected network . specifying method = " buffer " returns a river network made up of segments with endpoints or midpoints located within a specified “buffer” distance of the input points . this may be advantageous if the user wants to include segments that are near , but not directly proximal , to the input points .

the resulting matrix of up - river position returned from mouthdistbysurvey ( ) , or another distance sequence returned from riverdistanceseq ( ) or upstreamseq ( ) , can be plotted using plotseq ( ) . a few types of plots are available , with two shown below . additional type = arguments can be seen by calling ? plotseq .

the output plot is the upper triangle of a matrix of plots , in which plot [ i , j ] represents the upstream distances traveled between observation i and observation j , for all individuals observed in those observations . each plot is overlayed with a horizontal line at an upstream distance of zero , for an illustration of up - river or down - river movement trend for that pairwise movement . it is worth noting that all sequential pairings of events ( first to second , second to third , etc . ) fall on the lower edge of the triangle , and this sequence of plots is the same as those given by plotseq ( ) in the previous example .

river distance can also be calculated between all observations of a single individual . in the output matrix shown below for individual 1 , the element with row identifier 1 and column identifier 3 represents the river distance from the location observed in survey 1 to the location observed in survey 3 , calculated as 83 . 6 km . an important note is that the distances reported are net distance between locations , and are not intended to be cumulative . specifying full = true reports an output matrix that includes all observations , with values of na if the individual was not observed . this allows the output matrices for multiple individuals to have the same rows and columns , thus being directly comparable .

a method has been provided to display kernel density calculated from point data , using river network distance . the makeriverdensity ( ) function calculates scaled kernel density at approximately regularly - spaced river network locations , with the linear resolution specified by the optional resolution = argument . a gaussian ( normal ) kernel is used by default , but a rectangular ( simple density ) kernel can be used as well . the survey = argument may also be used with a vector of survey identifiers corresponding to the point data . if the survey = argument is used , makeriverdensity ( ) will calculate separate densities for each unique survey , and a method of plot ( ) will produce a separate plot for each unique survey .

in many cases , the cleanup ( ) function will be the recommended first step in fixing a messy river network object after importing it . the cleanup ( ) function should be called within the console , and interactively calls the editing functions in sequence . it then returns a new , edited river network object which can be edited further , or used as is . it may even be the most straightforward to call cleanup ( ) multiple times . if there were spatial oddities with the parent shapefile ( vertices out of order , or strange “jumps” in segments ) , the cleanup _ verts ( ) function interactively steps through each individual segment , providing a means to edit the vertices of each segment if needed .

another important note is that only projected data can be used , both for river networks and for point data . the ‘riverdist’ environment in r does not share the ability of gis software to project - on - the - fly , and treats all coordinates on a linear ( rectangular ) scale . therefore , the projection of all data must also be the same .

if the flow direction has been established by specifying the river network mouth , river direction can be calculated using riverdirection ( ) , and upstream distance can be calculated using upstream ( ) . if the input river locations are flow - connected , riverdirection ( ) returns “up” if the second location is upstream of the first and “down” if downstream . in the flow - connected case , upstream ( ) returns the network distance as positive if the second location is upstream of the first , and negative if downstream . if the input locations are not flow - connected , riverdirection ( ) returns “up” if the total upstream distance is greater than the total downstream distance , and “down” otherwise . in the non flow - connected case , upstream distance in upstream ( ) can return one of two things , depending on the user’s research intent . specifying net = true will return the “net” distance ( upstream distance - downstream distance between the two locations ) . specifying net = false ( the default ) will return the total distance between the two locations , with the sign depending on whether the upstream distance exceeds the downstream distance .

maps can be produced by calling plot ( ) on an object returned from homerange ( ) . specifying cumulative = true will create plots with line thickness varying by the number of times an individual would have traveled a given section of river . for a cumulative plot , either a vector of survey identifiers must be used , or else the data locations must be in chronological order for each individual .

an example of the use of this function might be computation of distance between observations of instrumented fish and a set of fixed river locations , such as contaminant sites . in this case , a similar function upstreamtofrom ( ) ( discussed later ) might be used , which would give the means to calculate up - or downstream distance from contaminant sites , with the option of examining flow - connectedness .

this is a very likely issue , particularly if the network was imported without changes in a gis environment . river network segments can be manually removed using trimriver ( ) , as shown below . using the argument trim = removes the specified segments , and using the argument trimto = removes all but the specified segments . the example below is fairly simplistic , but illustrates the usage of the trim = and trimto = arguments .

once the river network has been imported , some cleanup may be necessary , depending on the structure of the shapefile . ideally , there should be one segment between each endpoint or junction node , and the spatial extent of the shapefile should be limited to the region or network of interest . if the user has gis software available , it may be simplest to format the shapefile as desired before importing into r . however , functions are included for river network formatting in r if necessary . the cleanup ( ) function interactively steps through the formatting functions in a good sequence , and may be a good way to get started . if there were spatial oddities with the parent shapefile ( vertices out of order , or strange “jumps” in segments ) , the cleanup _ verts ( ) function interactively steps through each individual segment , providing a means to edit the vertices of each segment if needed .

in this case , building segment routes and distance lookup tables takes a little more than a second , even with a fairly complex river network . calculating a single distance afterwards takes about 80 microseconds using segment routes and about 25 microseconds using the lookup tables . this dramatically saves time if multiple distances are to be computed , such as in a large matrix of distances , or multiple analyses . kernel density and k - function analysis is probably prohibitively slow otherwise .

make sure to look at the other western trio series included on the old corral . there , you ' ll find more info on ray hatton and the rough riders , bob steele and the trail blazers , and max terhune and ray corrigan with the range busters . in the ' memories ' section , you ' ll also find pics of some of these stars in later life , including steele , livingston , corrigan and terhune . from the main old corral webpage , you ' ll find webpages on tyler , steele , livingston , corrigan , renaldo , wayne . and under ' saddle pals & sidekicks ' , there ' s a large section on max terhune and some info on raymond hatton . and don ' t forget to visit dennis landadio ' s reviews of the mesquiteers films - - - the first 20 films are documented with cast listings , plot summary and additional images .

care must be exercised in the presence of braided channels , in which multiple routes may exist between river locations . in these cases , the default route calculation provided by ‘riverdist’ will be the shortest travel route , but it is possible that the shortest travel route may not be the route of interest . functions are provided to check for braiding , as well as select the route of interest . if no braiding is detected , route and distance calculation can switch to a more efficient algorithm .

the ‘riverdist’ package is intended as a free and readily - available resource for distance calculation along a river network . this package was written with fisheries research in mind , but could be applied to other fields . the ‘riverdist’ package builds upon the functionality of the ‘sp’ and ‘rgdal’ packages , which provide the utility of reading gis shapefiles into the r environment . what ‘riverdist’ adds is the ability to treat a linear feature as a connected network , and to calculate travel routes and travel distances along that network .

currently three algorithms are implemented to detect routes between river locations , with the functions automatically selecting the most appropriate unless another is specified . dijkstra’s algorithm is used by default ( algorithm = " dijkstra " ) , which returns the shortest route in the presence of braiding . the sequential algorithm ( algorithm = " sequential " ) may be used , which returns the first complete route detected . the sequential algorithm is much slower and is not recommended in nearly all cases , but is retained as an option for certain checks .

if many distance calculations or a more sophisticated analysis is to be conducted , it is highly recommended to run buildsegroutes ( ) , allowing algorithm = " segroutes " to be used . this adds route and distance information to the river network object , greatly simplifying distance calculation , and reducing processing time for each distance calculation . the buildsegroutes ( ) function also includes an option to calculate a distance lookup table as well . this may take a few seconds to run , but will reduce computation times even further - cutting the already - fast segment route algorithm time by 50 - 80 % . lookup tables can be calculated directly using buildlookup ( ) , but may be extremely slow to calculate without running buildsegroutes ( ) first .

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above is the title lobby card from ghost town gold ( republic , 1936 ) , the second mesquiteers adventure and the first with max terhune ( and his dummy elmer ) .

three texas steers ( republic , 1939 ) was terhune ' s last as a member of the three mesquiteers . no question that john wayne is the lead and star - check out the size of the lettering .

released in may , 1943 , riders of the rio grande ( republic , 1943 ) with tom tyler , bob steele and jimmie dodd was the 51st - and last - of republic ' s three mesquiteers .

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very organized cattle rustlers are operating with portable slaughterhouses and refrigerator vans . the governor asks the three mesquiteers to go undercover to investigate .

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after gold shipments from a mining town have been hijacked , the three mesquiteers buy a plane to fly the gold out . the owner of the shipping line brings in eastern gangsters to thwart them .

will parker has been destroyed by a local politician and now must steal to feed his family . he steals a steer from the three mesquiteers .

the mesquiteers capture a horse thief who escapes justice through a crooked judge . they gather signatures urging the governor to investigate but a friend with the petition is murdered . stony is accused .

talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres , taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won ' t pay . the three mesquiteers becomes mysterious " night riders " to fight . . . see full summary »

the three mesquiteers convince a group of settlers to exchange their present property for some which , unbeknownst to our good guys , is going to be worthless . they are captured before they can warn the ranchers .

federal agent john tipton heads for wyoming to supervise the vote on whether to join the union . one group of locals is using dynamite to terrorize the populace and a local newspaper editor is killed .

texas cattle baron stiles killed john clayborn ' s parents ten years earlier . now a lawyer , clayborn tries legally to break up stiles ' water monopoly and rustling operation . when that fails he must use force .

in 1906 , on oklahoma ' s indian lands , a cowboy fights for oil lease rights against a greedy oilman while a pretty schoolteacher steals both men ' s hearts .

foreign agents are smuggling monium ( a chemical used in producing poison gas ) into mexico . the three mesquiteers get involved when they ride to save a girl ( really a government agent ) on a runaway horse .

in 1889 , pioneers race ahead of the law to claim free land in oklahoma , forming wide - open towns . in one such , citizens elect milt dawson to challenge the self - appointed rule of gambler ace . . . see full summary »

in the post - war hawaii , house un - american activities committee investigators jim mclain and mal baxter hunt down communists .

struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce , football coach steve williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny catholic college he is trying . . . see full summary »

the cattlemen ' s association has called in the mesquiteers to find cattle rustlers . they get tex riley to pose as stony so stony can arrive posing as a wanted outlaw . this gets stony into the gang of rustlers and he alerts tucson and lullaby as to the next raid . but hartley is on hand and unknown to anyone is the rustler ' s boss and he joins the posse with a plan that will do away with the mesquiteers .

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in this epic tale , a ruthless texas rancher is determined to get his huge herd of cattle to market . . . and to have his revenge on his more - liberal adopted son who , rebelling against his father ' s growing authoritarianism , takes the cattle to abeline ' his way ' . . . over the newly opened chisholm trail . from a magazine story ' the chisholm trail ' by borden chase .

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there are 12 replies in this thread . the last post ( sep 29th 2013 , 8 : 09am ) by ethanedwards .

the cattlemen ' s association has called in the mesquiteers to find cattle rustlers .

they get tex riley to pose as stony so stony can arrive posing as a wanted outlaw .

this gets stony into the gang of rustlers and he alerts tucson and lullaby as to the next raid .

the post was edited 7 times , last by ethanedwards ( mar 23rd 2017 , 10 : 55am ) .

played the lead in eight of the fifty - one movies in the popular series .

although , it is said , he found them to be dreary , and a drudgery .

with all the kids , yelling , booing and hissing , at every other interval .

the post was edited 5 times , last by ethanedwards ( mar 23rd 2017 , 10 : 58am ) .

i found this to be one of his better 3 mesquiteer films ( along with santa fe stampede ) . the scene with him pretending to be a city dude , and not know how to handle a horse , was a flat out hoot ! also , i felt the way the rustlers were stealing the cattle was well written , and suspenseful . i guess the one 3 mesquiteer film i didn ' t care for was three texas steers . a real hogposh of a story . throw in a roving circus , a gorilla who has the hots for lullaby , a horse event that appears to be taking place in saratoga not texas , and a dancing horse . . . . and you ' ve got one mixed up film .

the first poster here is the same as keith has posted above , and the second is from that 1953 reissue series that we ' ve seen before .

i guess the one 3 mesquiteer film i didn ' t care for was three texas steers . a real hogposh of a story .

on the other hand , i thought it was hilarious ( though not in the way intended , if anyone at republic might have intended it to be amusing ) and thoroughly enjoyed watching it . i mean , c ' mon , the circus , the gorilla , the dancing horse , the puppet talking even when no one was manipulating it .

it might all make sense if one watched it while smokin ' more locoweed .

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peter has told me about these , but if i saw them as a child , i don ' t remember them . know more about them now . keith2

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man of flowers is a 1983 australian film about an eccentric , reclusive , middle-aged man , charles bremer , who enjoys the beauty of art , flowers , music and watching pretty women undress .

werner herzog has a cameo role as bremer 's father .

the film was directed by paul cox and was screened in the un certain regard section at the 1984 cannes film festival .

man of flowers

man of flowers <EOT> man of flowers /  a film by paul cox ; a flowers international pty ltd production .

man of flowers [ videorecording ] / a film by paul cox ; a flowers international pty ltd production .

cox : but that is not a very optimistic statement in man of flowers .

man of flowers [ videorecording ] / a film by paul cox ; a flowers international pty ltd production . - version details - trove

cox : it certainly does help . the mad mixture in man of flowers worked very well . but man of flowers and lonely hearts are very serious films , in spite of their comic elements .

the title of the short story is somehow misleading . when reading the title “the man who loved flowers” , readers expect to read about a man who tends to his garden or about a man whose hobby is related to flowers .

man of flowers is an unbelievable commercial success on many levels . commercially , it will go much further than lonely hearts .

" is it ? " charles asks . " i ' m not sure that a man who can ' t paint flowers can paint at all… van gogh painted flowers . . . "

' ' man of flowers ' ' will be shown tonight at 9 : 30 and tomorrow at 6 : 15 p . m . as part of the new york film festival .

the short story “the man who loved flowers” by stephen king is structured around the walk of a young man in new york city . the man seems very happy and in love , but it is soon revealed that he is a murderer who has gone insane after the woman he loved has died years ago .

victoria duckett in her piece on the film for senses of cinema , available in full here , showed how well this strategy worked in reworking romanticism : paul cox ' s man of flowers .

an eccentric elderly man tries to enjoy the three things in life that he considers real beauty : collecting art , collecting flowers , and watching pretty women undress .

“this group art show accompanies the 12th annual green man festival . two - dimensional works in all media celebrate the theme of this year’s festival : the buds , blooms , and blossoms of flowers .

man of flowers brings an opening up at the end . it sounds a bit pretentious , but embrace the universe before you become all entangled up in your own crazy little life .

enker : on " lonely hearts " and " man of flowers " you worked with scriptwriters who are renowned for their comic talents , and in " man of flowers " you cast barry dickins and patrick cook , two satirists . it suggests a move away from the darker themes that have characterized your work and toward a flirtation with comedy . is that a deliberate shift in emphasis ?

cox : what is worse : total alienation or death ? charles in man of flowers is a doomed character . he looks at the world but never sees it . maybe his mind is slipping at the end .

a man who calls himself sal9000 has married his virtual girlfriend with a public reception , urltoken reported .

he ' s a nice , cultured middle aged man , lisa replies , and he ' s gentle .

production company : flowers international pty . ltd . ( there is no head presentation credit in the print viewed ) .

the rising action of the short story consists of the man standing in front of a flower vendor and pondering on whether to buy flowers for a woman called norma or not . while he thinks , the vendor’s radio broadcasts some news related to a criminal , the vietnam war , drugs , . . .

" all three films were shot within a radius of five kilometers from where i live in melbourne . man of flowers cost $ 240 , 000 . i raised the last $ 80 , 000 by mortgaging my house . we went like mad and shot it in three weeks . "

cox hit his career high point the following decade , with lonely hearts ( 1982 ) , man of flowers ( 1983 ) , my first wife ( 1984 ) and cactus ( 1986 ) cementing his reputation at home and abroad as australian cinema ' s foremost auteur .

in tom the dancing bug , " flowers for trinitron " uses phlebotinum induced stupidity to create this trope . a television causes stupidity . a man is watching nypd blue when the cable goes out . the man , cut from tv , becomes gradually smarter over the next six days . he reads east of eden , volunteers at a homeless shelter , and shifts his handwriting from print to cursive . he is about to destroy his tv , when the cable comes back and wheel of fortune comes on . the man soon reverts to stupidity .

and the bottom line is that too much of ` ` man of flowers ` ` can be explained away by charles ` father . if only daddy hadn ` t been so cruel , well , then the movie wouldn ` t have a reason for existing at all . there would be no story .

the title of the episode comes from a line by catelyn stark to jaime lannister , the kingslayer : " you are a man without honor . "

he found it equally painful that his work was not always as appreciated at home as he felt it should have been , but success never sat easily with him either . he said his most acclaimed film , man of flowers , " ruined my life . it was in cannes and we were the toast of the town and it was horrible and [ leading man ] norman [ kaye ] and i had terrible nervous breakdowns . "

the man reportedly fell in love with a virtual girl named nene anegasaki and plans to hold a public wedding reception in tokyo .

in fallout 2 there is an autistic weapons upgrader in the new reno arms basement who is a reference to and named after flowers for algernon .

frontman brandon flowers stars in the visual , playing various types of men . one lives in a trailer park and passes time shooting things and flexing his muscles , while another makes his living as a flashy las vegas performer . despite their contrasting lives and socioeconomic statuses , however , flowers shows they still share a number of the same insecurities and character flaws .

has operation : c . a . r . a . m . e . l . an episode centered on what basically amounted to flowers for algernon

at this point in his career , director paul cox made three films - lonely hearts , man of flowers and my first wife - that did good arthouse business , while being favourably received by many reviewers - and some rate this as the high water mark of his career ( though some also argue for a late blooming around the time of innocence in 2000 and human touch in 2004 .

man of flowers is both erotic and richly amusing , with a tragic after - glow . the essence of the story is the confrontation between modern art and traditional art ; or between modern love and traditional love ; or even between modern life and traditional life . the old world meets the new world and only the old , traditional world has any substance .

characters are known by the qualities that make up their personalities . it ' s who they are . in a flowers for algernon story a character either :

foreshadows this early on , when natalie mentions that her homework involves " flowers for algernon " . later , the show subverts this , when diana has medication

for whatever reason , australian filmmakers often avoid making films in – or directly about – australia’s major cities . looking at a list of the 100 highest grossing australian films ever and it becomes obvious that the outback , the bush , and outer - suburbia are more alluring to filmmakers . this is just another reason that cox , and man of flowers particularly , is even more of an anomaly . nestled within the confines of inner - city suburbs , this lends his films a more cosmopolitan allure that recalls woody allen’s use of new york as a narrative anchor . while the specific locations are never mentioned , cox uses the divide between an affluent upper - class suburb like toorak with the then scrappy artists den of fitzroy and brunswick to great effect . the distinct look of pre - gentrified inner - city suburbs to the soundtrack of rollicking trams in the background lends man of flowers a distinct sense of time and place that melbornians will get a special delight out of .

rugrats , " smell of success " : a copy of flowers for algernon , except with chuckie having his severe allergies temporarily cured gaining his sense of smell , only for the cure to wear off . came complete with chuckie befriending the white lab mouse as homage .

cox : maybe you ' re right , but man of flowers pleads for a wider horizon in the way that we see the world . charles bremer is in the eyes of this world , a madman . yet he outsmarts the whole system . then he stands very quietly and looks out at the sky . you are forced to contemplate his fate , because it includes your own .

" a man without honor " is the seventh episode of the second season of game of thrones . it is the seventeenth episode of the series overall . it premiered on may 13 , 2012 . it was written by david benioff & d . b . weiss and directed by david nutter .

much like chance , the peter sellers character in ` ` being there , ` ` charles bremer in the australian film ` ` man of flowers ` ` likes to watch . chance was retarded by constant exposure to television ; charles bremer has been retarded by a brutish father who punished charles as a boy for becoming sexually aroused by a buxom woman .

man of flowers , directed by paul cox ; screenplay by mr . cox and bob ellis ; photography , yuri sokol ; edited by tim lewis ; music by gaetano donizetti ; produced by jane ballantyne and mr . cox ; a spectrafilm release . at alice tully hall , as part of the 22d new york film festival . running time : 91 minutes . this film has no rating .

the leading character in paul cox ' s ' ' man of flowers ' ' is charles bremer ( norman kaye ) , a wealthy australian esthete who lives alone , studies drawing and flower arrangement , and writes frequent letters to his dead mother . his contact with others is rare , remote and more than a little ghoulish , as when he stands naked in his mirrored bathroom , speaking to a radio evangelist on his cordless telephone . he is asking if the evangelist doesn ' t share his feeling that flowers have a sensual allure .

meanwhile , charles is busy with his flower press , and yet another letter to mother advising that he ' s made an extensive study of the hearts of flowers , and that he ' s got the swimming pool , with a second hand dome .

it was a gaunt if upbeat cox who took the stage at the australian directors guild awards in may 2015 . in july , when his force of destiny – starring david wenham as a man who receives a liver transplant – opened the melbourne international film festival , it seemed the perfect send - off to a man who had made 32 features since arriving in the city 50 years earlier . and when friends and family gathered around him in august last year , they did so in the full expectation they were bidding farewell to this stubborn giant of a man .

do listen to “the man” at least twice before you make up your mind , because there’s a lot going on : the synth liftoff , the backup choir , the vocoder overdubs , the intently funky bass ( “funkier than anything we’ve ever done before , ” brandon flowers told bbc radio 1’s annie mac ) . unlike the godawful new incarnation of fall out boy , the killers know their way around around glammy disco - rock ; unlike arcade fire , who appear to be on some too - clever - by - half brazil rpg jaunt lately , they’re willing to embrace being corny about it . the hook is flowers proclaiming that he’s the man , man , and he sounds like he’s probably wearing spangled pants . he can still sell it , too : “i got a household name , ” he sings , and sure , that’s a lee - tle bit of a stretch , but he’s not wrong , either .

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carrying out his shrink ' s suggestion , charles asks lisa and jane , who ' ve been swimming in his pool to touch each other , perhaps kiss . he ' s been aroused by music and flowers , but never by others , and he needs to see it being done . lisa ' s okay with it , she likes him and thinks he ' s a good man , but charles says he ' s only half a man . it ' s the right half , says lisa …

australia , 1983 genre : drama , romance , foreign language : english director : paul cox starring : norman kaye , alyson best , chris haywood , werner herzog what ' s it about ? an eccentric elderly man tries to enjoy the three things in life that he considers real beauty : collecting art , collecting flowers , and watching pretty women undress .

works cited : enker , debi , “paul cox” , cinema papers , july 1984 , issue 46 , pages 123 - 129 . fitzgerald , michael , “film’s man of flowers australian painter and sculptor asher bilu is the force behind director paul cox’s interior world” , time international ( south pacific edition ) 17 , ( may 2 , 2005 ) p . 61 gillard , garry . ten types of australian film , murdoch university , 2007 .

. . . although man of flowers opens with a view of this work in close up , we never otherwise see it in the film . the painting is instead introduced through the dialogue of “the man of flowers” ( bremer ) who explains , in a letter to his dead mother , how he “found some etchings and paintings father had hanging on the wall in his private room . i’d long thought you’d burnt them . the titian is still my favorite . i never understood why you so disliked it and kept saying how silly it was . ” led into the fantastic world of an eccentric man who says that a titian has been hung for private contemplation in suburban melbourne , we hear a host of related fictions : a titian painting might be burned ; a woman might think it silly , and so on . the point , i would argue , is not that cox presumes cultural ignorance or misogyny on behalf of the viewer . rather , cox comically elaborates titian’s general inaccessibility to audiences in melbourne . we might have the only titian in the southern hemisphere available to us in the national gallery of victoria , but the closest we might get to one of titian’s more provocative and familiar nudes might indeed be here , in a reproduction reinterpreted within the diegesis of a 35mm film .

enker : they are more optimistic than your earlier work . you still have initially passive characters who are victims of an insensitive , abrasive world , but in " lonely hearts " there is a sense of hope , a tentative reaching out , a beginning of communication and resolution that is more optimistic than in " inside looking out " or " the journey " . in " man of flowers " , charles ( norman kaye ) actually manages to control his environment , and to crush the elements that are disrupting his life …

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cox : norman kaye and i have had a very close relationship and we both grew into it . it was an accumulation of many years of sharing ideas . i wanted to make a film that i could basically finance myself because i was held up by others making decisions for more than a year on another project . wasting a year of my life was enough . i decided to write man of flowers quickly . i wrote the screenplay in a few days , then bob ellis came in and did a great job with the dialogue .

“the future of the industry should be in the hands of the filmmakers instead of the accountants and the finance people . ” cox

there is some small element of humor to ' ' man of flowers , ' ' as when charles attends the art class for which lisa poses ; he is ordered to ' ' take that vegetable matter off that poor girl ' ' after drawing lisa with leaves across her torso . much of it is deadly serious , however . the freudian flashbacks of a shifty - eyed young charles , his punishing father ( the brief , silent role of the father is played by werner herzog ) and his sexy mother seem very much in earnest . so do charles ' s walks through public parks in search of the erotic statuary he so admires .

" why would you want to do that ? " asks charles , and she says she thinks he ' s a good man and wonderful . " next wednesday " , says charles .

you ' ve been there for him through thick and thin . this wedding won ' t be any different . here ' s what to know when you ' re a best man .

much has been made over paul cox’s career of his very european sensibilities . sure , many local filmmakers have taken influence from europe , especially in the 1980s as euro exoticism was a surefire path to indie arthouse success , but cox’s films never felt imitative in the way many others did . he treated subjects of sex , relationships , passion and eroticism , as well as death , art , and nature with a maturity that was never better exemplified than with man of flowers , which even played the cannes film festival , a rarity for an australian film then and now . this put him at odds with a local film culture , despite many of the things that critics and audiences would covet in films from europe being available in man of flowers . perhaps it was because as australia continued to carve out its own cinematic identity , cox’s work routinely butted heads against that . thankfully , these traits that made him unique but ostracised then are finally recognised today as what made him so valuable to australian film history .

stephen king’s short story follows the traditional plot elements : exposition , rising action , climax , falling action , and resolution . the ending of the story is open , as we do not know what will happen to the man next .

one of seven film collaborations of actress julia blake and writer - director paul cox . they are [ in order ] : ' lonely hearts ' ( 1982 ) , ' man of flowers ' ( 1983 ) , ' my first wife ' ( 1984 ) , ' the paper boy ' episode of ' winners ' ( 1985 ) , ' cactus ' ( 1986 ) , ' innocence ' ( 2000 ) , and ' human touch ' ( 2004 ) . during the 1980s , blake appeared in a cox film every year for five straight consecutive years between 1982 and 1986 .

the lawnmower man . a modern adaptation of the flowers for algernon story : a mentally - challenged gardener , jobe smith , is raised to super - human intelligence with the use of medication and virtual reality with unintended consequences . incidentally , it has nothing to do with the stephen king story of the same title . it ' s hinted that jobe would have inevitably gone crazy from the medication he was given initially , as it was a milder version of the one that dr . angelo had made for the government . when they switched the drugs , it simply sped up the process .

that the girl wants to protect the painter makes little sense and is one of the most annoying elements in ` ` man of flowers . ` ` the film ` s other problem is one of repetition . at least three times director paul cox gives us charles ` painful , sex - related childhood memories in the form of home movies . we see his arousal and his father punishing him . these sequences , also accompanied by donizetti ` s music , are quite touching by themselves , but as edited into the film they seem like the director ` s only trick to regain our interest .

but when david turns up clutching a large , child - like painting of flowers , he discovers a note from charles asking him to go around to the right , to his studio . as david moves through the darkness , he and his painting are suddenly flattened by a projectile from an art work , and charles is back pounding at the church organ . then it ' s time to head back to the coppershop man to enquire about that bronzing process …

the ending of the short story comprises the falling action and the resolution . the falling action presents the young man leaving the dark alley sometime after he has murdered the woman . he is depicted as being still optimistic about finding norma . . .

paul cox seeded man of flowers with what might be called ' art bait for critics ' - including a painting by titian , a donizetti opera on the soundtrack , a postcard of figures gazing into the distance , the murderer erecting a broznze statue containing his victim ' s corpse titled " the origin of art " , and various jokes about art , including but not limited to pedantic art class teachers , and rope whip and spray gun action painting , while at the same time making a " blue " movie , laced with erotica for genteel viewers .

enker : in describing " the journey " you once said it " is about the potential of the mind , the sadness , the wastage , the incredible pathetic nature of a man who has so much ability and so much to offer , but who is so screwed up about his past . that ' s one thing one has to learn in life - being able to put aside the past . " ( cinema papers , no . 13 , july 1977 , p . 94 ) . yet , in " man of flowers " , charles and david are seen to be living in the past : one is basking in past glories and the other is repressed by incidents in his past . does that imply that it is impossible to put the past aside ?

in scott aaronson ' s short story on self - delusion and bounded rationality , the protagonist ilyssa does the second half to herself , even explicitly referencing flowers for algernon in case the audience didn ' t get it .

however , anyone already in possession of the us edition - like ozmovies - might be disinclined to fork out the $ 35 for private disc use , to which must be added $ 9 . 30 in postage and $ 4 . 34 in gst . man of flowers is an enjoyable enough movie , but only paul cox enthusiasts will rate it as a $ 48 . 73 dvd ( price current january 2015 for domestic use ) , or perhaps perverts , anxious to do a norman kaye and get as sharp a view of alyson best ' s striptease as possible .

well , not as vast as it might have been . i ' ve got about 33 scripts in drawers that weren ' t made and films that were made that irritate me a bit in how they differed from what was intended : man of flowers ; there ' s a shocking film called winds of jarrah which , would you believe , started out as a very good script and only about one sentence of it survived ; another similar one which was eventually called ebb tide , which was a really terrific chandleresque film noir that bears no resemblance to the eventual film .

` ` man of flowers ` ` is striking to look at , both for its visuals and for the offbeat behavior it presents . the model has a lesbian girlfriend , and her character is presented in a surprisingly credible and natural manner . and our attitude toward charles does evolve . at first we pity him ; later we appreciate that he appreciates beautiful things , albeit at a distance . however , a concluding melodrama involving the addicted painter doesn ` t work at all .

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the first thing a piece of sculpture should be is something you like to touch , to run your hands like a blind man over it , remember it . the increasingly agitated david doesn ' t want to listen to all this rubbish . if charles wants to avoid a scandal and the attention of the victorian vice squad , he should just hand over the money and piss off . but you can ' t paint flowers , charles says , and there ' s nothing he can do to help david , bidding him good afternoon .

in the frisky dingo episode " flowers for nearl , " xander crews ' retarded twin brother is turned into a mastermind through an injection of " brain chemical . " when he is fatally shot ( because the plot was getting to complicated , ) he reverts to his old speech pattern for his last half - second of life .

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the six million dollar man — jaime sommers ' first appearance in the show gave her bionics , then apparently ended with her death because her body rejected them . ( of course , she was revived and re - empowered when the network discovered she ' d make a good spinoff , but that was outside of the realm of the original episode ' s plot . )

the boyhood memories in man of flowers are rooted in cox ' s childhood . " it was grim , " cox said , " like an ingmar bergman movie . " cox ' s father , wim cox , made features and documentaries . " with the war , my father lost all his equipment , lost his career , " cox recalled . " he was very bitter . he didn ' t have the strength to rebuild his life . he discouraged me from following in his footsteps in the same profession .

the man doesn ' t have anything big , but believes there ' s a market for it , and notes charles could have his grandmother encased in bronze and standing in the hallway , the living room or the bedroom , anywhere he liked , but the body would have to be embalmed first . if we did it like the new guineans do , and keep the dead at home , the man suggests , it would save the council a vast amount of space . " think about it " .

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it was marvellous to have him around at the time of the decision to go ahead with man of flowers because one needs extraordinary courage . it was a difficult decision and a great risk , and one cannot really think about it too much . you just throw yourself into it . werner certainly has that quality and i am sure he had something to do with my final decision to go ahead with the film . when we needed somebody to play the father , i sent him a telex saying , " it is either you or me ; it can ' t be anybody else . "

during the course of the film , we slowly learn the source of charle’s little sexual ritual ; its effect on the ambitions of david and his eventual complex fate .

cox : …persistence is an essential quality of filmmakers , especially a fairly private sort of filmmaker such as myself .

that’s assuming he’s talking about himself at all , though—the captial - m man , in the “keeping me down” sense , feels more omnipresent than ever . “the man” gets a lot better when you start believing it’s narrated by the villain , and that the killers are subtly shimmying some kind of truth to power—because on the surface , the lyrics are pretty cliché . if you were to point to a guy on the street and ask for a freestyle based on the concept “i’m the man , ” he’d have 50 / 50 odds of coming up with something like , “i got gas in the tank / i got money in the bank . ” it’s almost enough to make you miss “are we human / or are we dancer ? ” ( editor’s note : i always miss “are we human / or are we dancer ? ” )

right then : “the man” is a bop . it would sound fan - fucking - tastic in a roller rink . it might even make it on radio . killers lp5 , wonderful wonderful , coming soon . follow fox footy for more .

projectiles back in place in his outdoor artwork , charles writes in another note to his mother that even flowers have a negative side to them , and that david almost crushed his " little flower " , but the man in the shop did such fine work that he suggested that the statue be given to the public . it now stands in a park , the city council thought it a wonderful gesture , charles writes , and it ' s nice that the bremer family name will now be remembered .

as charles prepares to take a bath , he listens to a tape with an american voice explaining that god approves of his sexuality and his sexual being . he can get a copy of " the female figure in religious art " by sending off to a po box number . charles telephones to ask if god would approve of someone who saw flowers as sensually arousing , tender , loving beings . the american voice wants to know what he does to flowers , and when charles says he paints and draws them , smells them and sometimes holds them , the american voice asks if he ' s putting him on : " brother you ' re in need of a special prayer . your name is on the list , along with the other unfortunates " .

so it was just a happy convergence of preferences arrived at very suddenly under a whole lot of pressure , which is often the best way to work - as a lot of people will tell you , including the makers of casablanca .

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online presence : being that this film was made in the 80’s , the online presence is limited . most of the information i found was on the international movie database and rotten tomatoes . i was only able to find one interview online with paul cox and it is listed above . besides these brief reviews , the only other mention online is advertising for the dvd . urltoken man of flowers review by denis schwartz from ozuz ' world movie review “this is a well - conceived and intelligently provocative , lyrical film about how fantasies can enrich our lives and how damning loneliness can be . it handles the theme of loneliness as well as it ever has been handled on the screen . ” urltoken urltoken urltoken

as cox explains , however , it was not friedrich who specifically inspired this final image , but a postcard he had pinned to his wall ( 22 ) . the reproduction that he provides in his autobiography of this image shows four men dressed in black , each sporting a derby hat . there are some rocky dunes , a huge flock of gulls , and an open sky . the ocean is not visible ; we merely presume its presence because the gulls are circling and the men are clearly looking at something . while a note may be made of the way in which friedrich’s metaphysical symbolism has been replaced by a satire on bourgeois ubiquity ( and hence the men in the bowler hats have replaced the endless “space” of the sea ) , my point is that cox has not recreated a tableaux vivant of this postcard , but has instead recreated a romantic painting . as cox himself explains , “at the end of man of flowers this image becomes the painting , the mirror of life” ( 23 ) .

jane ballantyne had raised $ 240 , 000 to make man of flowers . ' we shot in three weeks , ' says cox . ' we had very little film stock . the house we used belonged to asher bilu , the production designer . ' chris haywood recalls that cox wanted some exceptionally long takes : ' there ' s a scene with norman kaye in the studio where my character lives , and that was done with a long , complex shot which travels right through the studio . that was about three pages of dialogue , and learning lines isn ' t my forte - i ' m too lazy . but it worked very well . '

charles says he dreams about flowers , and the sceptical shrink asks if he ' s still writing to his mother . every day , says charles , explaining that he posts the letters to himself and then reads them back . it helps him remember things and expands his mind .

there were obviously not just these three titian venus paintings available for cox to choose between in this opening sequence , there were many . among these – and most famously – is titian’s earlier venus of urbino ( 1538 ) . there is also the venus titian finished about a decade later when he first changed the figure of this slender girl to that of a mature woman , and reversed the pose so that she reclines on the right of the frame ( venus , c . 1545 - 1548 ) , and his sacred and profane love ( 1515 ) which , as erwin panofsky notes , was originally identified as the two venuses ( 3 ) . there were also the two venus with a lute player portraits which immediately followed the organ player series , and titian’s more famous flora ( c . 1515 ) , a portrait which tallies well in terms of both the subject and title of man of flowers . why , then , did cox choose the third and final venus in a series of three venus and organ paintings as his starting point ? why this particular frame of reference ?

that was mine , and my wife wrote a bit of it , too . you needed the catholic thing because of the politics of the time . the overwhelming event of the 50s among those who remember it was the communist dissolution bill and the threat and , to some extent , the actuality of mccarthyism

the man born paulus henrique benedictus cox in the netherlands on april 16 , 1940 , arrived in melbourne in 1965 . he was a photographer and taught the craft at the prahran college of advanced education . in the mid - 1960s he began making short films . in 1976 , he made his first feature , illuminations .

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one justice league of america arc has a hyper - dimensional force separate the league and their secret identities into different beings , allowing the heroes to be full - time heroes and the civilian - modes to have normal lives . two of them were not happy about this . plastic man ' s normal self eel o ' brian , a one - time thug , found himself trying to resist the desire to start stealing and beating people up again , wanting plastic man back so he wouldn ' t be stuck being a thug who remembered being a hero for the rest of his life . when talking about this to martian manhunter ' s civilian identity john jones , he even mentioned flowers for algernon . bruce wayne and batman didn ' t fare too well either : the anger that made bruce into batman stayed with bruce , causing batman to lose all motivation to be a crime fighter and bruce to lose control and start getting violent because he no longer had an outlet for his anger .

alyson best………lisa chris haywood………david sarah walker…………jane julia blake……………art teacher bob ellis…………… . . . psychiatrist barry dickens……… . . . postman patrick cook………… . copper shop man victoria eagger……… . angela werner herzog……… . . the father hilary kelly………… . . . mother james stratford……… . . young charles

when charles arrives , david ' s in flagrante with a woman angela ( victoria eaggers ) , and then explains that his paintings are an attempt to express the turmoil of modern existence . charles asks him if he ' s got any real paintings . " how do you mean , real paintings ? " david asks . " i mean landscapes , flowers , i do like flowers " , says charles … " well eh , there if i may say so charles , i mean you show your ignorance as to where art is at at this present time . i mean ( looking around his studio ) , this is it … "

i first saw this film in 1992 , a video rental . i found the story haunting and sad , a lonely man carrying a load of baggage from his childhood surrounds himself with art , flowers , and hires an artist model to strip for him while he listens to opera . the opera is donizetti ' s " lucia de lammermoor " , the music increases the haunting effect of the film , it is really beautiful . after seeing the film i became an avid fan of donizetti and have collected his operas and music since . i was extremely pleased when i found the film for sale on amazon , but i do not think i would have invested £92 . 95 plus delivery , the £30 i paid was i feel a good investment .

charles wakes from the nightmare to meet the postman , who is pleased charles has resolved his issues with the gas board , though the postman thinks it ' s a hard moral question as to how far you go compromising with the obscene world around you … ( the postman explains he once knew of a man who had carnal knowledge with the necks of decapitated gooses he would then eat for supper boiled in benedictine , a man who wouldn ' t compromise though maybe he should have , before the postman announces he ' s quitting next week , leaving charles to brood about the thoughts , and especially the dreams , that can take up your whole life ) .

to the sounds of donizetti , head credits appear over a titian painting of a lecherous organist contemplating venus and a small dog .

done well , this is about accepting your limitations and making the most of what you have instead of relying on artificial enhancements .

catherine clément , opera , or the undoing of women , university of minnesota press , minneapolis , 1988 , p . 89 .

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filmed : middle 1983 . the film replaced bob ellis ' s screenplay for the nostradamus kid in the cox slate . that film was still advertised as being in pre - production in the may - june 1983 cinema papers ' production survey ( ellis later directed the film himself in 1990 ) , yet when finance for the nostradamus kid couldn ' t be found , man of flowers was quickly devised to replace it . the film was shot in three weeks , and also post - produced very quickly , with editing taking three weeks , so that the film could be screened as the final one in the july 1983 melbourne film festival .

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mr . cox , who directed and co - wrote the film ( and who previously directed ' ' lonely hearts ' ' ) , brings a hint of the macabre to charles , his fascination with lisa , and his contact with the loutish , over - the - hill ' ' action ' ' painter ( chris haywood ) who is lisa ' s lover . so does mr . kaye , who plays the role with a measured politeness that makes charles ' s unrequited longings all the more noticeable . ' ' man of flowers ' ' has glimmers of both satire and potential horror , but its prevailing tone , while somber , seems more than a little silly . even mr . cox ' s intentional humor threatens to run away with whatever compassion charles ' s loneliness is meant to arouse .

after playing with an art work featuring a detached tongue , charles heads off to a shop staffed by a coppershop man ( patrick cook ) and asks if he has any large bronze statues of naked young women : " how large ? " " oh life size … in a victorian pose … demure … perhaps on a pedestal that turns around " .

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man of flowers opens with a shot of titian painting . initially , however , we can only see some organ pipes and a distant garden ; a viewer would have to be knowledgeable in renaissance art to realise , before the camera begins to move , that this is a fragment of the artist’s venus with an organ player ( madrid , prado , c . 1550 ) . moreover , since there are three venus with an organ player paintings , it is not until the camera pans right , towards the head of the organist , that we realise that this is titian’s third and last painting with this title . what is interesting about this choice of canvas is that it is unsigned . we can deduce it is a titian ; style , composition and genre all indicate that even if titian did not paint the canvas alone , it was at least from his workshop . what this means , not only in terms of artistic collaboration but also in terms of introducing variants to a common theme , will play itself out in the development of cox’s later work . for now , however , it is enough to realise that the work is famous but hardly a turning - point in the development of titian’s career .

charles bremer ( norman kaye ) , a reclusive collector of paintings , sculptures and other rnore delicate works of art , such as rare flowers and naughty postcards , each wednesday takes lisa ( alyson best ) , an artists’ model , to his sumptuous house and pays her handsomely to do a striptease to the ‘love duet’ from ‘donnizetti’s lucia di lammermoor’ . he then leaves quickly and plays the organ alone in the church across the road from his house .

subverted in the " flowers for charlie " episode of it ' s always sunny in philadelphia . charlie is the subject of an experiment where he takes intelligence pills which appear to make him much smarter ( he learns mandarin in two days and starts speaking english more formally ) but cause headaches and other pains as side effects . the end of the episode reveals that the pills were actually placebos and charlie didn ' t get any smarter , he just became extremely arrogant and the side effects were all in his head .

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some people have no recollection of their past . i use the wealth of information about my past in my films . i was brought up as a catholic . there was a lot of pain , a lot of alienation , a lot of love and a lot of strange intensities that i didn ' t understand . but they have slowly fallen into place , and now i use it . it is marvellous .

" stylistically cox ' s intuitive filmaking ( sic ) was an enormous challenge for me as a cinematographer . with an aesthetic eye and fine tuning to performance , especially emotional action , he adopted a very bold intensity and essence in one , or at most three takes . frequently he ' d be happy with the first take and refuse to opt for more . i tried , especially in the early days , to plead with him but he was adamant ; he was so confident he didn ' t need extra cutaways or other angles . one has to admire that boldness of vision , especially as within the camera moves he wanted a variety of shots to combine in a very carefully choreographed synchronization of movement of camera and actors . the opening strip scene in man of flowers was an eight - and - a - half minute take , the central argument in my first wife lasts 10 minutes , with the camera starting from the window at night , coming onto the bed and out the other side of the bed in one take . "

" flowers for matthew " : matthew drinks what he thinks is a intelligence - boosting drink and becomes smart through the placebo effect . paradoxically , his intelligence eventually drives him to understand that the drink has no actual chemical effect , at which point the placebo stops working on him and he rapidly returns to his original state .

analysis the man who loved flowers thorough analysis of the story the main character the setting and atmosphere spring time new york beautiful early evening " the air was soft and beautiful , the sky was darkening by slow degrees from blue to the calm and lovely violet of dusk . " - setting changes - late evening " now the stars were out , gleaming softly , and the lane was dark and shadowy , lined with vague shape of garbage cans . " dark , shadowy street fading light garbage cans narrow lane foreshadowing news on the radio " . . . a hammer murderer was still on the loose . . " touching " the something " in his coat pocket the main character calls himself love " . . . her name had not been norma but he knew what his name was . it was . . . was love . " he ' s a young man dressed in a light grey suit , narrow tie , top collar button undone dark , cut short hair , light blue eyes far from rich in love seems very normal is in reality insane a murderer the ending plot twist love story ? author •the setting and atmosphere •the main character •foreshadowing of the ending •the ending the ending foreshadowing the setting and atmosphere

the girl would like to have more of a relationship with charles , but charles can only watch . still , that ` s preferable to the girl ` s sometime boyfriend , a cocaine - addicted modern painter who is a poor man ` s jackson pollock , traipsing around his studio , splattering his canvases with paint and then beating them with a brush and his shoes .

david is waiting for lisa after class as charles says good night to his little flower . " who ' s that creep ? " david wants to know . " looks like something someone found in tolstoy ' s garbage bin " . he ' s a nice man , he knows everything about the history of art , says lisa , but david isn ' t impressed .