Santa Claws 2014

Santa Claws 2014

*glasses to create an Other
* glasses for comic appeal




I watched this movie last year with my cat Baby, thinking I was going to see lots of cute kittens.
What the movie synopsis says it is about:

Three cute kittens who accidently push Santa off the roof , and now must take his sleigh to deliver presents around the world; thus saving Christmas.

What the movie is REALLY about:

 A single mother who is against celebrating Christmas because once when she was a teenager saw Santa Claus for real with her best friend and neighbor. They both grown up she dislikes Christmas so much because she was made fun of in school for believing in Santa and her once Best friend and still her neighbor grown up to be Obsessed with Santa Claus.  Christmas is not allowed in her house and her son sneaks a tree and etc. Oh and they have three kittens that appear every now and then.
For a movie that said it was about cats, there is way too much people talking. Too much people in general. I mean I am watching it to see cats not people. So disappointing.

 I cannot find (IMDB is rather vague) nor remember the character's name of the neighbor but he is made out to be a complete stereotypical nerd. He wears oversized glasses and is very clumsy, by falling down a lot and bumping into things. He is suppose to be the comic relief. He has a whole room of various AV technology to get footage/proof of Santa's existence.  At first he is like a goofy bad guy, and we are to laugh at him falling and toward the end he is almost normal and adopts the three kittens.

So yeah  a Male character with very fake looking glasses, falls down a lot have lots of computers very stereotypical nerd.  The only other character who wears glasses is Santa, who is allergic to everything,-old and sickly.
This is a kid's movie, So lets  show them how judge others by looking different and laugh at them.

Lies & Alibis 2006

Lies & Alibis or a.k.a The Alibi 2006

*glasses to create smarts


This movie has a lot going on. The story centers around a ex- con man Ray Elliot (Steve Coogan) who now runs a business that creates elaborate lies for adulterers to go about adultery.  It is a big office with lots of phones, computers and so on. One client accidently kills his date and well everything goes down hill from there, especially when Ray Elliot want to inform the police about the murder.
 My father and I liked the twist and turns to this movie but felt it could of don't without this romantic comedy feel to it. While watching this movie we thought what another director would to this this, and ultimately make it better. Since Hitchcock is dead, I think Guy Richie would of had a lot of fun with this script.

Any way

There is only one character with glasses in this movie. She is credited as Operator #1 (Aimee Garcia), yet she comes across more as Ray Elliot's secretary. She wears glasses and has a quirky hair do, the viewer may assume she be quirky in personality as wellWe see her in the beginning of the movie talking to Ray about all his appointments. Rebecca Romijn enters for a job interview, even though she does not know what the company does, Operator #1 sees that Ray is attracted to Miss Rebecca Romijn and leaves the scene.  Operator #1 must read a lot and knows the computer systems at her job very well, so to do all the smarty pants stuff you need glasses.
This character we don't know much about, she is not a love interest, she is not comic relief she pretty much there to operate technology and save Ray Elliot's butt later in the movie.
 Does she hate her job? does she go home and find people disgusting? does she do this job to pay for college? we don't know.
this happens a lot in movies, a character that pretty much an accessory. There to operate the technology, because the leads are too pretty to be seen doing that.

The Equalizer 2014

 

 

The Equalizer 2014

* glasses to show Brainy-ness
*glasses for age


Why this movie is not nominated for an Oscar I will never understand. I mean Denzel Washington kicks butt in this, and he gets all the bad guys who are really bad. I love this movie, it was everything I hoped it would be and more. And yet terrible movies like Boyhood are nominated and not The Equalizer. The Equalizer should get best picture and best actor Best EVERYTHING!!!!

Okay so the basic plot is, Denzel plays Robert McCall who is a retired black ops operative in the city of Boston. He trying to live a normal quite life, he works at Home Depot type store and reads classic literature in a diner every evening. He becomes acquainted with the regulars at the diner. One is a young girl who sto create music, yet she is  unfortunately a sex slave controlled by the Russian Mafia.  She gets hurt trying to free herself and Robert McCall decides to use his black ops skills to get these guys.

When the situation escalates, he goes to Virginia to see his former colleges.  He asks his friend  Susan Plummer (Melissa Leo) to help him find information about these Russians. Susan is hesitant because she is retired  and  she is not sure if she would even be allowed to access that kind of information. She wears glasses, but it is really no big deal that she does. Other movies might make her intelligence somewhat comical but Susan is more like a real person. I can't tell is this character is wearing glasses to show age or smarts. Ultimately Susan is the one to tell McCall that he uncovered more than just a Mafia. Susan is the one who can find all the answers to help McCall.
We don't see her for the rest of the film, but with her help McCall knows exactly who he is dealing with.

That Touch of Mink 1962

 

That Touch of Mink 1962

*glasses used for comic appeal
*glasses to create a "brainy" type


 That Touch of Mink starring Doris Day and Cary Grant is about a young working woman Cathy Timberlake (Doris Day) who gets caught up with a rich playboy  Phillip Shane (Cary Grant).  Cathy on her way to a job interview her clothes were ruined due to Phillip's Rolls Royce splashing into a puddle. She barges into his office demanding him to fix the situation. He does and takes her out on a date to a baseball game, and shopping etc.

This is a silly movie, you can't take it seriously. One clue- Doris Day is in it.

There is one scene in particular I want to discuss. Unfortunately I cannot find a video clip nor a photograph of this  only scene.


Phillip Shane has a financial manager (more like a personal assistant) Roger played by Gig Young who is watching this confusing affair from the sidelines.Gig Young provides comic relief through out the movie. 
 One scene Roger asks his secretary (Jan Burrell), to change. She wears her hair up in a bun, and has glasses. 
 Roger asks her to take her hair down and remove her glasses. Her hair from being up all day, doesn't quite work falling down without styling. Also she gets squinty without her glasses.
                       Roger says "funny it always works in the movies" 

Watch here  go in 55 sec. to see this scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYQVaGDCiZ0

This scene makes fun of other movies, the once glasses are removed and hair is down the woman magically becomes a glamour girl. This shows the reality. Hair really doesn't fall down perfectly, and if you really need glasses you are not necessarily wide-eyed glamorous.  What is in the movies is a fantasy. Does that mean this secretary is actually supposed to be perceived as unattractive?  When she removed her glasses and took her hair down , yet not like the movies; does that mean she cannot and will never fit the ideal?
One can interpret it that way. I think because this movie in it's entirety is silly; nothing meant to be taken seriously.  I think because Roger already shown as a little nutty (there are scenes of him talking to a therapist) he doesn't quite know reality, and in this scene it is shown to him.
 I like this scene because it is satirical, it makes fun of other films and how they portray glasses removal.