Saturday, February 03, 2024

Belfast, 2021...Raquel Welch is Still a Hell of an Education

I watched Kenneth Branagh's Belfast, 2021 on Netflix in July 2023. Average, forgettable film. But it was funny to hear these dialogues;    

"...Ma: [sitting with family in movie theater watching buxom women in skimpy prehistoric garb] No wonder you brought us to this.

    Pa: It's educational for the boys.

    Ma: Aye. Raquel Welch is a hell of an education...."

The family is watching together Welch's 'One Million Years B.C.' (1966) at a local cinema. 

I wrote a post "पौगंडावस्थेकाळी धरणीकंप...Raquel Welch@80" on this blog on Sept 5 2020. 

"...I saw the movie in early 1970's at Amar talkies in Miraj. I was attracted to it by its poster and Marathi title.

I liked the film ok. I saw it again a few years ago on TV. 

I don't remember what I liked then: the fight between a Ceratosaurus and a Triceratops- both of them look like caricatures of what we now know they looked like in real- or scantily clad Raquel Welch!

I guess both. All three of them are in the poster below.   I wasn't alone facing that dilemma...."