Wanted to follow up an vintage idea with a REALLY vintage caption photo!
Ahh, the pre-code era of the movies was such an interesting time in cinema, right before the Hays Code went into effect, and film was at it's most adult in content, in style, and innuendo! Lots of snappy dialog, and a surprising amount of sex and sin, pretty much right out in front of you, whether you wanted it straight, between 2 women, with lavender lads, or even some cross-dressing .. well LOTS of cross-dressing female impersonating when you watch a Wheeler and Woolsey movie. Usually the other benefit of watching a W&W was the delicious Thelma Todd! Yum!
Anyway, with the Stooges still in mind, I was roaming around the Internet at one of the Pre-Code websites I frequent, and I came across this picture, and I was very smitten .. and thought out loud the lines that surround her legs on the spot. Then it was just figuring out the rest of the plot, as much as it could be called "a plot."
Mostly, it's an "in the moment" slice of life showing the character taking stock of what happened, and then trying to fit in better with the situation, and I think starting to merge into the lifestyle, using period correct slang for the era .. I'm not sure how much was learned from being a film buff, and how much is whatever magic or technology placed him/her there in the first place. I like it vague .. and yet it could still be both.
And the ending was the second one I had come up with, as it fit better within the picture and its setting. Originally I had her calling up the operator to see if she could possibly join a high-class brothel and getting the terms wrong, finally asking him with many different euphemisms if he'd like to have sex, ending with something like, "you do know how to FUCK? Right?" Something tells me that what I rewrote came out better than that.
Feel free to talk about this caption, and the preceding one that took something from the past and made it modern, as opposed to this one that takes a person from now and places them back then. Even though neither are very deep, which one works better in action? Yes-sir, another blog exclusive!
This scene was originally written for Duck Soup with Zeppo and Groucho as the male leads. I think it works better here.
Who wouldn't want to be comedians in the 1930's? Lots and lots of outtakes, I assume!