Hollywood Haiku: Classic Edition

The good folks over at Best for Film have challenged their fellow movie bloggers to the ultimate haiku challenge.  Okay, perhaps it isn't the ultimate haiku challenge, but it sounds more ominous that way, so ultimate it remains.  Seriously though, there is a haiku contest and as any red-blooded American boy with a deep-seeded need to crush all those around him in victorious mayhem, here are my entries for said ultimate haiku challenge, aka Hollywood Haiku Competition.  

But first, to make it official (boilerplate stuff and all): This is an entry for the Best For Film Hollywood Haiku blogging competition. Enter now.

Citizen Kane

He once had a sled

Fondly remembered Rosebud

Good ole Charlie Kane

Casablanca

Play it again Sam

Was never even said once

But Sam played it still

Double Indemnity

Poor ole Walter Neff

He threw away everything

For Stanwyck's great legs

Modern Times

Sound had come around

But Charlie kept his silence

In these Modern Times

All About Eve

Margot was the star

Eve came and stole it away

Twas a bumpy ride

Singin' in the Rain

Lockwood and Lamont

One was great, the other not

Cosmo made 'em laugh

Ninotchka

The Soviets came

Disliked U.S. decadence 

Oh then Garbo laughed

The Wizard of Oz

First to Munchkinland

Then off to see the Wizard

In between, witch dies

The African Queen

Bogie and Hepburn

She's a prude, he drinks a lot

Won him the Oscar

Rio Bravo

Hawksian Western

Dino, Ricky and The Duke

It is what they've got

The above ten haiku will count as my official entry in the contest, but this will not (by a long shot) be my last blog post under the banner of Hollywood Haiku.  This "Classic Edition" will be followed by a "Foreign Edition" and (of course - as anyone who knows me can attest to its placement here) a "Tarantino Edition".   After these initial entries you will see entries with such (obvious) themes as "Film Noir", "Revisionist Western", "Gangster Movies" and "Musicals", as well as more specific themes such as "Star Wars", "Howard Hawks", "Powell & Pressburger" and (of course) more of the "Tarantino Edition".  Basically what I am saying is you will see a lot more of these Hollywood Haiku coming down the line (this will either thrill you or annoy you, depending on your outlook on certain things).  Each edition will consist of ten (or so) haiku and they will (probably) come at a rate of about 2 or 3 per month. 


But before I go, I would like to add two more haiku to this entry.  They are both written by my lovely and talented wife, Jeanette Amy Trout - which pretty much means they are about a billion times better than mine.  If the fine folks over at Best For Film want to accept these as official entries they most certainly can (she deserves poetic accolades much more than I do).  If they do not, then that is their loss.  Whatever the case, here they are.


The Wizard of Oz
Dreamer Dorothy
Gale twists from Kansas to Oz
Unmasks Wizard's scam


Breathless
Jean-Paul's thumb chafes lip
While watching sweet Jean's hips twitch
Jilts the death of him


The second one (on a film my wife just recently saw for the first time and immediately fell in complete and utter love with) is my favourite.  If only I could write a haiku even a fraction as good as this...but alas.  I want to thank my wife for her contributions (even if they make mine pale in comparison) and welcome her to write as many more as she wants (for the aforementioned future Hollywood Haiku blog posts).  'nuff said.