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How do I relate THE Story OF DESPEREAUX? On the one hand, it’s got pleasant animation, incredible content acting, and intelligent characters. On the other hand, it has a few too many characters, grown-up themes, and requires the viewer’s rapt attention. On the interesting hand, it’s unbiased not for small ones. To be certain, it’s aesthetic for young ones to glimpse, it unprejudiced seems that they are not the film’s intended audience. This is outlandish since it LOOKS like it’s a kid’s prove. It was advertised as a kid’s present. But my 4-year-old only watched when Despereaux himself was on the camouflage, and my 11-year-old spent most of the movie telling me how different it was from the book. My husband and I liked it, but we all agreed it was simply “OK.”
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THE Fable OF DESPEREAUX is actually a couple of tales, starting with the anecdote of a sea-faring rat named Roscuro who loves soup. Through a infamous twist of fate, Roscuro’s presence results in the queen’s death (death by soup, contain it or not) and the banning of soup and rats from the kingdom. I had to wonder why no one had opinion to banish the rats before but eh. Roscuro ends up in the dungeon where only the rats hang out. The second sage is about Despereaux the mouse. We decided that Despereaux must be Flemish for “Dumbo” since that’s pleasing remarkable who this mouse looks like. He can even soar with his giant ears. Despereaux is literally brave and as such is banished from mousedom for fright of the other meeses learning his unpleasant traits. Guess where he’s banished to. That’s proper, the rat dungeon. Another narrative is about a peasant girl who dreams of being a princess. Apparently, this was toned plan down from the modern, in that the girl’s owner only sneers at her and doesn’t beat her in the movie. We discover how she is sold to the king’s cook along with a herd of pigs. She eventually teaches us a lesson about jealousy. Then there’s the king’s record. He’s so unlit at the loss of the queen that he bans soup and rats (as we’ve covered) and sits in his room all day plucking a mandolin. His sadness manifests itself as gray clouds and no rain – everything dies. Then there’s the princess who wishes she could fix everything, the jailer who wishes he could undo a tragic mistake, a cook who wishes he could once more develop soups, an execrable rat who doesn’t seem terribly bad, and, and, and… As I said, there’s a whole lot going on.
The short retort is that THE Anecdote OF DESPEREAUX itself is not offensive, but there are better options in this genre. Select a survey at Dragon Hunters, for instance. It deals with the same themes as Despereaux (honor, courage, valor) but my family liked it a lot more.
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*Spoiler Alert. A question was made to add this for people who don’t like to seek storyline*
My daughter wanted to glimpse this film. Probably because the ads showed a cute mouse. We had never heard of this book so I can’t contemplate the myth.
The qualities of the stories are simple. Mistakes, redemption, pure of heart, honor, etc.
The movie opens with a ship heading to a city. On it is Roscuro the rat. Wearing cloths and an ear ring he looks forward for the noted Soup of the day of the kingdom of Dor. Wandering through the city he accidentally finds himself in the royal hall as the royal family are first to try the soup. Too entranced with the smell; Roscuro falls into the Queens soup and she is jumpy to peer a Rat, suffers a heart attack and dies. The guards crawl him and he eventally falls into a drainage where he lands in Ratworld. There he is discovered by Botticelli who befriends him and decides to boom him the trustworthy ways of being a Rat.
The grieving king then declares no more soup and rats are outlawed and any who harbor them will be punished.
Despereaux is born in mouseworld. He is not a typical mouse. Smaller then normal and he has over-sized ears. What’s worst is that he doesn’t cower, accelerate, and he likes to buy the cheese from mouse traps. His parents are called into school and told he is about to fail since he does not cower from knives and he draws pictures of cats. Even names one fluffy. The school master suggests that Despereaux follow his brother who graduated and was a top-notch mouse and could negate by example.
They head off to the library where Despereaux is supposed to eat books but instead he starts reading them and learns about knights, honor and questing to keep the pleasing princess. This eventually takes him to the Princess Peas room where he befriends her as she is spellbinding by his gentlemanly ways.
Eventually, Desperaux is found out and he is punished as he has gone too far by talking to a human.
He is sent to Ratword where no mouse ever returns. The rats procure him and toss him into a Colosseum where he is to be sacrificed to a cat.
Roscuro notices him and sees that he is different. He decides to attach him by declaring he wants to eat him. Botticelli, leader of the rats, agrees as he had been downhearted with Roscuro since he was refusing to eat flesh.
In Roscuro’s room, Despereaux tells Roscuro about knights, chivalry and his quest to set the princess. Roscuro recognizes the princess is the very girl whose mother he caused to die and decides to aid as he may pick up a chance of redemption by telling her he is sorry.
I could go on but I don’t want to completely spoil the film. Overall I liked the film as the hero really doesn’t solve all problems. It’s more cause and achieve that guides the record. The actions of one affect another. Happiness is lost and as the narrator says a hero appears when most needed. Despereaux is the hero and he actions effects others and causes actions which cause the return of happiness.
The cast is valid. Sigourney Weaver does a gargantuan job as the narrator. Matthew Broderick as Despereaux and Dustin Hoffman as Roscuro. Emma Watson as the princess(though I must admit I view was Emily Watson) . Tracey Ullman as Miggery Sow. Kevin Kline as Andre the soup master. Ciaran Hinds as Botticelli(though I must admit I plan Peter O’Toole would have been better) .
Visually the film is heavenly and the music adds to experience in the lawful ways.
Violence wise it’s gorgeous righteous. There is fighting but you don’t contemplate things like stabbing, etc. It can be intense especially with the Rat chases and the rat gladiatorial scenes but it’s not too poor. My girl is sensitive but she only wanted a runt comfort but she collected kept her eyes on the cover.
My daugher wants to watch it again as it’s a immense film in her conception and I contemplate it’s was worth the theater designate. My daughter has already declared we have to win the film when it goes to DVD.
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Hamlet 1996 Description:
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2674 in Movie
- Released on: 2010-01-29
- Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Running time: 243 minutes
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Not to be missed
Part of the genius of Branagh’s interpretation of Hamlet is in the use of the techniques of the cinema to enhance the production. Branagh has not condensed the acts like some mass market soup, as was done in Olivier’s 1948 Oscar-winning production, or in, say, Zeffirelli’s 1989 Hamlet lite starring Mel Gibson (both excellent, though, within their scope), but has kept every word while directing our understanding so that even those only casually familiar with the play might follow the intent and purpose with discernment. Recall that for Shakespeare–the ultimate actor’s playwright who wrote with precious few stage directions–interpretation was left to the direction and the actors, an open invitation that Branagh rightly accepts.
The use of flashback scenes of things implied, such as the amorous union of Ophelia and her Lord Hamlet abed, or of a vast expanse of snow darkened with distant soldiers to represent the threat of Fortinbras’ army from without, and especially the vivid remembrance in the mind’s eye of the new king’s dastardly deed of murder most foul, helps us all to more keenly appreciate just what it is that torments Hamlet’s soul. I also liked the intense closeups. How they would have bemused and delighted an Elizabethan audience.
Branagh’s ambitious Hamlet is also one of the most accessible and entertaining, yet without the faintest hint of any dumbing down or abbreviation. A play is to divert, to entertain, to allow us to identify with others whose trials and tribulations are so like our own. And so first the playwright seeks to engage his audience, and only then, by happenstance and indirection, to inspire and to inform. Shakespeare did this unconsciously, we might say. He wrote for the popular audience of his time, a broad audience, it should be noted, that included kings and queens as well as knaves and beggars, and he reached them, one and all. We are much removed from those times, and yet, this play, this singular achievement in theatre, still has the power to transcend mere entertainment, to fuse poetry and story, as well as the high and the low, and speak once again to a new audience twenty generations removed.
Branagh himself is a wonderful Hamlet, perhaps a bit of a ham at times (as I think was Shakespeare’s intent), a prince who is the friend of itinerant players. He also lacks somewhat in statute (as we conceive our great heroes); nonetheless his interpretation of the great prince’s torment and his singular obsession to avenge his father’s murder speaks strongly to us all. Branagh, more than any other Hamlet, makes us understand the distracted, anguished and tortured prince, and guides us to not only an appreciation of his actions, wild and crazy as they sometimes are, but to an identification and an understanding of why (the eternal query) Hamlet is so long in assuming the name of action. In Branagh’s production, this old quibble with Hamlet’s character dissolves itself into a dew, and we realize that he was acting strongly, purposely all the while. He had to know the truth without doubt so that he might act in concert with it.
I was also very much impressed with Derek Jacobi’s Claudius. One recalls that Jacobi played Hamlet in the only other full cinematic production of the play that I know of, produced in 1980 by the BBC with Claire Bloom as Gertrude; and he was an excellent Hamlet, although perhaps like Branagh something less than a massive presence. His Claudius combines second son ambition with a Machiavellian heart, whose words go up but whose thoughts remind below, as is the way of villains everywhere.
Kate Winslet is a remarkable Ophelia, lending an unusual strength to the role (strength of character is part of what Kate Winslet brings to any role), but with the poor, sweet girl’s vulnerability intact. She does the mad scene with Claudius as well as I have seen it done, and of course her personal charisma and beauty embellishes the production.
Richard Briers as Polonius, proves that that officious fool is indeed that, and yet something more so that we can see why he was a counselor to the king. The famous speech he gives to Laertes as his son departs for France, is really ancient wisdom even though it comes from a fool.
Julie Christie was a delight as the besmirched and wretched queen. In the bedroom scene with Hamlet she becomes transparent to not only her son, but to us all, and we feel that the camera is reaching into her soul. She is outstanding.
The bit players had their time upon the stage and did middling well to very good. I liked Charlton Heston’s player king (although I think he and John Gielgud might have switched roles to good effect) and Billy Crystal’s gravedigger was finely etched. Only Jack Lemon’s Marcellus really disappointed, but I think that was mainly because he was so poorly cast in such a role. Not once was he able to flash the Jack Lemon grin that we have come to know so well.
The idea of doing a Shakespearean play with nineteenth century dress in the late twentieth century worked wonderfully well, but I know not why. Perhaps the place and dress are just enough removed from our lives that they are somewhat strange but recognizable in a pleasing way. And perhaps it is just another tribute to the timeless nature of Shakespeare’s play. The mirrors in the great hall added to the effect of a vast and indifferent castle environment, and in the scene with Ophelia and Laertes returned tended to magnify the focus.
There is so much more to say about this wonderful cinematic production. It is, all things considered, one of the best Hamlets ever done. Perhaps it is the best. See it, by all means, see it for yourself.
Baring Hamlet’s Soul
There is a moment at the start of this film when Hamlet, until then holding himself rigidly erect through sheer force of will, seizes a moment of privacy and literally deflates with exhaustion and despair. In itself, this perfect gesture would mark Branagh’s portrayal a masterful work. But what follows raises his performance to the sublime: He embarks on the “O that this too too sullied flesh would melt, /Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew…” soliloquy not with Burton’s anger, Olivier’s melancholy or Gibson’s bitterness, but with an exhalation that embodies the emotion most genuine given the circumstances: overwhelming grief. This is a perfect note, and what follows shows an understanding of the play’s mental and emotional landscape that puts other portrayals to shame.
I have seen many performances of Hamlet, but I have never seen one as perfectly pitched as this. Branagh’s Hamlet is strong, resourceful, thoughtful and restrained. Branagh purposely rejects the psychological poses that other actors find so hard to resist. After all, Hamlet and Richard III are the two Shakespearean plays that afford actors the most range. It’s hard playing the Dane on a leash when one can go wild with existential abandon and not only dodge the charge of overacting, but actually attribute such excess to the character. There are few meatier roles in the repertoire that simultaneously offer the actor such depth on the one hand and such leeway on the other.
For me, such moderation exemplifies Branagh’s devotion to Shakespeare. It must have been tempting for a man of his talents to show off. But to forego such gestures, to offer in its stead restraint, is to put service before self.
For, of course, Hamlet is restrained. His very life depends on it. His whole course of action is based on it. His safety revolves around it. Hold off the will to strike, restrain the impulse for vengeance, apportion each action in only the most miserly measure. The walls have ears, conspiracies abound and death lurks around every corner. In such an environment, is it plausible that a man of Hamlet’s intelligence would show his hand by indulging in excess? A restrained performance feels right because a restrained course of action is the only course possible for our hero.
This does not stop Hamlet from making bold gestures. But such gestures must always be made under cover, and here again, Branagh shows his creative mettle. The Player King scene provides a counterpoint. Branagh lets go here and shows his excitement when the occasion demands it. Likewise, his graveyard response to Ophelia’s death: the cover of madness conflates with reality because Hamlet’s act cannot be sustained forever. Branagh knows exactly when to allow the cracks to show.
Those used to earlier works may find Branagh’s version overly long and laboured. Many directors have cut out scenes and soliloquies in a misguided attempt to “tighten up” the production. Branagh makes what I believe is the right decision: to leave them all in because every scene, every soliloquy adds texture and is indispensable to the whole.
The best Hamlet I have seen.
Well Worth It
Phenominal acting by Kenneth Branagh makes this film both entertaining and a fine addition to anyone’s library, be they a Shakespeare afficionado or simply looking to enjoy a good film. This is a refreshing switch from the stereotypically stale rap such a wonderful playwright is encumbered with. While it does take some time to watch, this is not necessarily a bad thing. As a result, there are always new things to discover with susequent viewings. Admittedly, the language itself is a barrier at first. For me, it is much more difficult to comprehend without the text before me. But, once realization dawns, I would say it is well worth the wait. Currently, my favorite part is when Hamlet tells his uncle to go to hell on the first tape. The delivery is subtle enough to elude most on the first pass, myself included. While this is not a line unique to this film, as the text exists in others, it is a high point for me. Kenneth Branagh makes the film, though. Accolades are also due equally noteworthy actor Charleton Heston for a brief but inspiring appearance. I am eagerly awaiting this title to emerge on DVD, as I hope many others are too. Perhaps a public outcry would prompt the distributor to arrange its (hopefully forthcoming) release.
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`Lord of the Flies’ has been made into a movie at least twice since the William Golding unique of the same name became a cult classic / must read volume for high school and college students in the leisurely 1950s. The first version, which follows the unique very closely, was done in dark and white by the famed director, Peter Brook in 1963. The second version was done in color by Harry Hook and released in 1990.
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Like many remakes in the same language, one immediately wonders why bother, as the unique Brook version is more than consuming enough to stutter the message of the new.
To highlight the differences between the two versions, let me outline the myth shared by the two versions.
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The scene is location when an airplane carrying school children crashes in the South Pacific, of the soar of a remote tropical island. Approximately 30 of the children, ages 6 to 13 compose it to shore and get on the beach to work out how they are to survive and catch that since they are far removed from their modern destination and the island is runt and uninhabited, there is a apt chance it will assume a long time, if ever, for grown-ups to secure and rescue them. The first two principle characters are Ralph, one of the two or three oldest boys who we meet first, in the company of an radiant, bespectacled, slightly overweight boy of the same age known as `Piggy’. The third main character is Jack, about as ragged and as fit as Ralph. Three minor named characters are Simon, who is prone to fainting and `seeing things’ and Sam and Eric, a pair of twins.
An early vote sets up Ralph as the leader, with a few rules establishing a conch shell found by Ralph and Piggy in the first reel as the symbol of the honest to jabber to the gathering of boys. Jack immediately assumes the responsibility as leader of a `gang’ (later to become a `tribe’) of hunters who will also seize responsibility for maintaining a signal fire which Ralph succeeds in lighting by using Piggy’s eyeglass lens as a means of concentrating sunlight on a clump of tinder.
Jack’s gang gets keen too worthy in hunting and allows the signal fire to go out unprejudiced as an aircraft flies reach the island. Soon, a sage evolves about the presence of a monster on the island. This creates the pretext for Jack to split off from the group with his tribe and perform a camp at a more defensible set. As this larger group becomes more and more musty, they raid Ralph’s camp and take Piggy’s specs since it is the only means they have for starting fires. To placate the monster, the head of a killed wild pig is lop from its carcass and stood on the top of a pole approach the suspected monster’s lair as an offering to the monster.
After a few days, Simon observes this pig’s head and its very tall collection of flies feasting on the festering flesh and imagines he hears the pigs head protest to him, hence, the source of the title. Simon is then killed when the hunters mistake him in the night for the monster.
When Ralph and Piggy straggle to Jack’s camp to recover Piggy’s specs, Piggy is killed by another `accident’ when Jack’s tribe members pry a tall boulder loose that falls on Piggy. Ralph and Jack fight, Ralph is driven off, and the whole tribe sets fire to the jungle to flush out Ralph and, presumably, ruin him. Both stories extinguish as Ralph runs to the beach to obtain himself at the feet of a very professionally uniformed member of his country’s elite armed services.
Hook spices up the dialogue by making the boys remarkable more hip with lots of convey words and references to contemporary favorite shows such as Alf and Miss Piggy of the Muppets. Unfortunately, Hook loses the two most valuable elements of the whole tale. In the beginning of the original and, subtly, in the beginning of Brook’s film, we observe that the world is once more at war and the boys from several different schools are on a plane to Australia to collect relative safety from the coming (nuclear? ) conflict. Hook shows nothing of this, giving us simply a group of boys from the same military academy on a breeze to goodness knows where. This totally looses the whole allegorical sense of the fable where the conflict between the boys mirrors the war in the world at colossal, especially the sense of the last scene where the world (island) is destroyed by the conflict (fire) .
The second major oversight in Hook’s rendition is that there is never enough attention given to the significance of the pig’s head, Simon’s vision, and the sense of `The Lord of the Flies’. A less indispensable point is that the origin of the monster narrative is different in the two movies. Brook’s film follows the book and has it be a misinterpretation of a billowing parachute from a fallen, slow pilot. Hook creates the narrative out of the spasms of the downed plane’s delirious pilot as he finds refuge in a cave and is rediscovered by Simon who believes he is a monster.
Both movies do a credible job of depicting the plunge of nominally civilized boys into savagery and fable. The combat between Ralph and Jack come the extinguish is straight out of Frazier’s `The Golden Bough’ on the epic of killing the king. Unfortunately, Hook’s version seems as eviscerated as the pig carcass, as all the gigantic allegorical of the unusual yarn are totally lost. And, as minimal as they were, I even deem the boys’ performances in Brook’s version are better done, as their initial innocence in the face of this loss of civilization makes their transformation all the more though-provoking.
Brook’s version is highly recommended.
It was a pleasure to inspect the unusual version of “Lord of the Flies” again. I’ll be enthusiastic in seeing the DVD version as well, to peep what additional material comes in that format. Having been one of the boys in the movie, I also appreciated seeing the reviews posted by other Amazon customers! I wonder if any of the other cast members have checked out this region…
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I confess to liking the modern version far more than the remake, but that’s not surprising, I guess. I TRIED to hold an inaugurate mind when I saw the unique version, but, alas, I failed. My recollections of running from the burning jungle, coughing, onto the beach at the demolish makes a black-and-white rendition seem more staunch to me.
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“Tristan Und Isolde” is doubtless one of the greatest operas ever written. Unfortunately it has been very badly served by the currently available productions on DVD.
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The Nilsson/Vickers from Orange is ruined (as usual from Kultur) by a very unpleasant technical production and obtain.
The Heppner/Eaglen from the Met has two principals who cannot act convincingly; although Heppner can really snort the section. Eaglen’s announce leaves a sizable deal to be desired and her physical limitations prevent her from grand in the scheme of physical action. Neither of them contemplate even remotely the contrivance I am positive most of us have pictured Tristan and Isolde to have looked.
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The West/Meier from Munich is a travesty. The setting is unbiased lifeless humdrum, given what the text calls for; and West not only fails to squawk convincingly, but he cannot act and looks even less like Tristan than Heppner. What is so frustrating is the slay of Waltraud Meier who has the acting and singing ability and the looks; and the raze of Kurt Moll who is a generous King Marke.
The Treleaven/Polaski from Barcelona is also disagreeable by a humorous production and less than stellar singing from the principals. They are the same cast as was archaic in the Barcelona Kupfer II “Ring”, and I truly hated Treleaven and Struckmann there, as well as here.
I am writing this review now, despite not having seen this production for almost a year (since I found out that it would be rereleased as a DVD), because I want to portion my immense enthusiasm for it. It is based on my recollection of my powerful cherished Video. I have waited a long time for this rerelease as a DVD, and I am certain that DGG, unlike Kultur, have done their usual spacious technical transfer. It is a Bayreuth production from the early 1980′s.
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle has designed a simple, but effective non-gimmicky dwelling. The first act takes plot on the deck of a stylised sailing ship, the second in the woods under a enormous pudgy canopied tree, and the third under a expressionless, split, blasted tree. The direction is tight and, with one indispensable exception at the kill, is honest to the text. I will not give it away other than to suppose that up to then it was such a straight interpretation that Ponnelle probably could not resist putting at least some personal twist to it. Mind you, considering what was going on with Mathilda Wesendonck at the time, perhaps this is what Wagner might have subconsciously intended.
Under the conducting of Daniel Barenboim, the music is splendidly interpreted. It is obvious, layered, and entertaining. This certainly came across on my video, and I am definite that in surround sound it will be even better.
And the acting and singing and appearance of all the characters is an unalloyed joy. René Kollo as Tristan, Matti Salminen as King Marke, Hermann Becht as Kurwenal and Hanna Schwartz as Brangane.
However, this is a tour de force by Johanna Meier. She embodies all that I had pictured Isolde to be. She is pretty, she sings — my God, she sings — and she expressively acts with the grace of a dancer. So far as I know, this is the only recording of her. What a loss.
For scare of getting even more carried away, I had better close here; other than to plot that I wish I could give it more than five stars.
But if you want a “Tristan Und Isolde” that is the gesamptkunstwerk I am obvious Wagner had in mind (and possibly even with this ending) this is it!!
It is so transformative to experience Tristan und Isolde done by a director who understands the mythic dimensions of this share and who obviously loves the volcanic force this music. There are no directorial banalities here to undermine the music. It is considerable theatre and grand music.
Johanna Meier is comely as Isolde. She has power, lyricism, vulnerability, looks, musicality. It is too dreadful that this big artist’s career was undervalued and underappreciated.
Rene Kollo is fantastic and has enormous chemistry with Meier. The scheme he listens to King Marke’s monologue in Act II is heart breaking. Matti Salminen’s Marke is an emotional tour de force and a psychological revelation.
Like the other reviewers here, I endorse this DVD enthusiastically. There is no other version of this opera on DVD that compares to this. AND THAT IS THE TRUTH.
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Many people who saw the slick and stylish Scorcese creation Color of Money didn’t even realize that Eddie Felson already existed on the silver hide in The Hustler. What many people yell me when they score out and behold The Hustler is that either they hated it or loved it. That’s because while Color of Money is detached, slick, collected, and polished, The Hustler is raw, biting, and grand and so by definition it is not for everyone. Color of Money is more about visual effects and music, which is classic Scorcese, though there’s no actual substance. Scorcese himself has said in interviews that movies like Goodfellas were finish to his heart, but Color of Money was unbiased a commercialized creation.
The Hustler, on the other hand, really grabs you. First off, as a pool player myself, let me announce you Tom Flit can’t play pool worth a damn, and that lack of authenticity is a glaring weakness to commence with. But unbiased the fact that Newman and Gleason can play pool does not perform The Hustler a better movie – it’s a masterpiece because it is a inviting account of human redepmption, of Eddie’s battle to separate his pool game from his self-esteem. It’s also about one man’s passion for the game. How can any pool player forget that soliloquoy by Snappily Eddie when he and Sarah go for that picnic, how he talks about how he loves even honest the sound of the click of the balls, how the cue has nerves in it and is share of his arm!
Remember that last scene in Color of Money, where young cocky Vincent plays the older, cagier Mercurial Eddie and Eddie declares “I’m abet” before he breaks the balls? Even though the movie ends there, everyone knows Eddie wiped up the floor with Vincent. Vincent’s character had talent, but Eddie had character, and that’s what beat Hasty Eddie time he played Fats.
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Bert Gordon: You got talent.
Fast Eddie: I got talent? So what beat me?
Bert: Character.
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And that’s the plot the two movies are too. Color of Money has talent, but The Hustler has character.
The Hustler spotlights one of Paul Newman’s finest performances in his portrayal of Fleet Eddie Felson, an arrogant, amoral pool hustler who’s distinct to be the greatest pool player in the country by beating the legendary Minnesota Fats (played flawlessly by Jackie Gleason) .
The film is a gritty, uncompromising character eye and tragic worship epic that is residence in the world of pool hustlers. Piper Laurie; as an alcoholic floozy who falls hard for Speedy Eddie; and George C. Scott as the frigid hearted manipulative gambler, Bert Gordon,– contribute two additional flawless supporting performances. It was directed by the controversial Robert (All the King’s Men) Rossen (he resisted but eventually named names during the unfriendly blacklist of the 50′s) .
The film focuses on the arrogant, unsympathetic exploits of a con man as he uses his charm, looks and pool playing skills to hustle enough money to challenge Minnesota Fats, only to be humiliated in defeat. As ‘Fast Eddie’ attempts to raise money for a re-match, he meets and almost falls in care for with Sarah a fellow alcoholic. At first Speedy Eddie refuses to be managed by Bert Gordon, but after a pool hall hustle ends up with Posthaste Eddie having his thumbs broken, he reconsiders. Before the re-match with Minnesota Fats, a warm up high stakes game in Louisville has tragic consequences.
The film dares to focus on a-typical anti-hero characters who live by amoral codes. Very miniature Hollywood style gloss is to be found anywhere in this stylistic gritty masterpiece which afflict up being nominated for 10 Academy Awards (West Side Legend won most of them that year) . Cinematographer Eugene Shufftan deservedly won an Oscar for his moodily lit, splendid sunless and white images. Harry Horner’s and Gene Callahan’s intricately art direction, production effect and spot decoration were also awarded with Oscars. Pool record Willie Mosconi taught Newman how to glance and act the section of a pool hustler and also made Newman’s trick shots in the film. Jackie Gleason was already an capable pool player. There really was an Aames pool hall in Unusual York City and it is faded for the film’s most riveting scenes. Boxer Jake LaMotta (of ‘Raging Bull’ fame) plays a bartender in the film.
Director Rossen who began his career as a screenwriter made only one other film (1964′s Lilith) after ‘The Hustler’. Rossen died in 1966. Martin Scorcese directed the 1986 sequel Color of Money, with Newman reprising his Quickly Eddie role (and this time Newman won a best Actor Oscar for his efforts) as he teaches an up and coming hustler (Tom Coast) the ropes. The sequel doesn’t advance finish to being as capable as the recent (despite its stylistic flourishes, cast and director) .
Interesting to mark that the characters in The Hustler were fictitious and an above average pool player legally changed his name to Minnesota Fats AFTER the film was released. The sincere life ‘Minnesota Fats’ eventually played a nationally televised (hosted by Howard Cosell) pool exhibition with William Mosconi in the 1970′s more than 10 years after this 1961 film.
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The film has been digitally re-mastered in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen. The films looks to be in well-behaved shape with very diminutive print hurt observed. The scrutinize of the film is smoky and gritty and the shadow details are rich indicating strong dark levels prove. This is a very provocative looking dim and white film. The sound will not effect but the dialogue, sound effects and occasional music is crisp and usually centered..
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DVD EXTRA’S
In addition to two trailers for the film, there are a few entertaining featurettes some production stills and the friendly commentary track.
Richard Schickel hosts the too short documentary The Hustler: The Inside Legend which gives us some details on how the film came to be made, and delivers some we were there stories from some of the film-makers and a few surprise guests.
“How to Originate the Shot,” and “Trick Shot Analysis by World Artistic Champion, Mike Massey”
are two shorts demonstrating and showing viewers how to get some trick shots on the pool table.
There is a well-behaved commentary track which features the reminisces, and perspectives from actors: Paul Newman, and Stefan Gierash (Preacher), Dede Allen (film editor), Ulu Grosbard (assistant director), Carol Rossen (the director’s daughter), Richard Schickel (film critic, Time), and Jeff Young (film historian) . The comments veil all aspects of the making of the film. Newman’s comments as one might interrogate are few.
The film looks and sounds spacious, the extras compliment the classic film very well. Along with Hud, and Nobody’s Fool, The Hustler has, what for me, is one of the three best Newman performances on film. Considering the supporting cast are ample, there’s slight for anyone to fault with this film.
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This is an enthralling episode in the Godzilla saga. Once again TOHO has re-written Godzilla’s past. In this account, Tall G has not been seen since 1954, but everyone has a funky feeling he’ll return one day. And he does. But this time, there are three Guardian Monsters- Baragon, Ghidorah, and Mothra- to halt him.
This is a very mystical film that may be hard to fathom by American audiences. For example, Godzilla is powered by the souls of those who lost their lives in the Pacific War. So he is now a force of vengence, and not a “force of nature” as stressed in previous movies. Abominable guy Ghidorah is now a worthy guy. Baragon is a lame monster. TOHO won’t learn- 4 legged monsters honest don’t work (it’s certain the man inside is walking around on all fours) .
One thing that really sets this apart is that Godzilla is seen killing people. Folks gather trampled, burned, and buried under rubble and earth by Large G. This Zilla has a poor attitude.
Japanese, with English subtitles. A nice addition to your Substantial G collection. Now if only they would re-make King Kong vs. Godzilla.
I’ve seen the set 3 disc of this film and I must voice you all. THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST GODZILLA MOVIES EVER MADE! The opening credit sequence sets the tone nicely giving discontinuance up shots of the monster’s skin as if displaying their battle armor. The first battle between Godzilla and Baragon is a large kaiju battle! Godzilla literally knocks through a hillside to battle Baragon killing the people below! Accelerate and mask because he means business! Its honest very well filmed and choreographed and the musical bag does the film justice. Fantastic stuff!
Godzilla has more of a dinosaur-like contemplate to him but I have never seen Godzilla be more bad since the sad and dim current. If you like Godzilla then this film is an absolute must have.
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Simply speaking, Lady and the Tramp is my current Disney film of all time! In my view, it is a 5 star masterpiece, and I would give it more if I could! I remember when I was impartial 4 years frail, watching the characters Lady, Tramp, Jock, Precise, and the Siamese Cats light up my eyes, as well as my TV cover, as no other movie (except maybe Pete’s Dragon or Superman) has done for me before or since. The music and songs are especially delectable, especially “Bella Notte.” And the thrilling climax (which I won’t spoil for the peope who have yet to behold it) ranks with the “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Lion King” climaxes! I remember having to wait almost a decade for Disney to re-release this classic on video so that I could replace my worn-out taped version. Now that I have it on both VHS and DVD, and both editions are in widescreen, I can devour it for years to arrive as I never conception I’d be able to! Your kids will savor it, and so will anyone who’s mild young at heart! Select it on DVD today! Don’t invent the same mistake I did over 10 years ago! (And don’t let the lack of special features end you, either!)
This movie is about a purebred Cocker Spaniel, who is later named Lady, that is given to the wife of, as Lady refers to him, Jim-dear. She has 2 neighbor dog friends, Jock and Sincere whom she confides in often. As she gets older, Lady’s owner is expecting a baby, in which Lady feels like she is no longer a share of the family. She meets a mutt from the streets, Tramp, who comes by after being chased by the city dog catcher. They meet again after Lady escapes the arms of Aunt Sarah in a pet store because she is buying a muzzle to avoid Lady harming her cats. Tramp comes to her rescue to collect the muzzle off and they go for a romantic dinner at Tony’s (spaghetti no less!) . They employ some time on the streets, catch to know eachother, and arrive to accept they like eachother. Lady realizes that she needs to return home, she does so, and is caught by the city dog catcher, tossed into the pound where she meets Tramp’s “friends”, and is told everything about his street life. When Aunt Sarah retrieves her from the pound, she is then chained up outside to a leaky dog house. Tramp comes by to gawk her some time after, and she tells him she doesn’t ever want to behold him again. Shortly after, Lady notices a rat approach into the yard. It goes upstairs into the baby’s room, and Lady tries to close it, but is level-headed chained up. Tramp hears her barking and comes to survey what’s going on. She tells him there is a rat in the baby’s room, he goes into the house, up to the baby’s room, and fights to retain the rat from the baby. He makes a lot of noise in doing so along with knocking over the baby’s crib. Lady gets loose, runs upstairs after Tramp, but Aunt Sarah soon shows up, calling the dog pound to retrieve Tramp, and throw Lady into a room where she cannot fetch to the baby. As soon as Jim-dear and his wife return from their rush that very same evening, they seek a dog pound carriage outside their house. They accelerate home, ask what happened, let Lady out of the room she was trapped in, and they all go after the dog pound carriage to do Tramp (Valid getting pain in the process by following the carriage and knocking it over to attach Tramp) . Tramp is saved, given a dog license, and a home with Lady and her family. Then they all live happily ever after!
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This Disney classic is one you HAVE to beget! I’ve loved this movie since I was 2, and I tranquil esteem it today at the age of 19! There is no better cartoon about dogs than this!! This is a must have!
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“Teacher’s Pet” is a deliciously comical behold at journalism, and the clash between ‘formal’ education vs. practical experience, with higher learning championed by Doris Day, and the ‘School of Hard Knocks’ represented by the ‘King’, himself, Clark Gable. Despite an sure age dissimilarity (Gable, at 57, was showing all of his years), the chemistry between the stars is electric, and with Oscar-nominated Gig Young providing terrific droll serve as Gable’s quick-witted yet down-to-earth competition for Day, the film manages to be both witty and wise.
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With over a quarter century of playing newspapermen, the role of hard-boiled City Editor Jim Gannon fit Clark Gable like an customary shoe. No-nonsense, pragmatic, and a workaholic, Gannon was the classic ‘school drop-out’ who learned the newspaper business from the ground up, and held college in contempt. While Gannon was obviously a dinosaur, even by 1950s’ standards, Gable appears to be having a ball as the cigarette-smoking, plain-spoken, ‘blue-collar’ hero.
Despite the constant “Will she or Won’t she? ” sexual undercurrent of so many of her best comedies of the fifties and early sixties, Doris Day was also a feminist during the era, with her characters self-sufficient, and often holding down essential positions based on merit. As Erica Stone, an ex-reporter who returns to college to issue journalism, her demeanor is professional and her knowledge unimpeachable, making her the perfect foil for Gannon.
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While the descriptions of Gannon and Stone sound like formula characters for Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn (not surprisingly, as the script was penned by longtime friends Fay and Michael Kanin), the Gable/Day teaming provides a sexual tension that, by the leisurely 1950s, would have been far less apparent had Tracy and Hepburn taken the roles. Even at the twilight of his career, Gable was so totally ‘male’ that he raised the bar of any actress opposite him, with Day’s signature ‘perkiness’ transformed, here, into sexual potential in a tight skirt (perceive her tease Gable, swaying her hips to “The Girl Who Invented Rock and Roll”; Day has never been sexier!)
While the resolution is not surprising, some remarkably candid observations of what makes safe print journalism are given by both Day and Gable, with Day’s comment of television replacing newspapers as the public’s source for breaking news remarkably farsighted in 1958!
If you want a terrific comedy with two stars at the top of their game, peep no further; “Teacher’s Pet” delivers!
Tough, cynical Jim Gannon, a newspaperman from the “venerable school” first ridicules then falls for a lady teacher who has her fill ideas about writing the news. This puny 1958 film is a jewel because it contains one of Gable’s finer latter-day comedy performances. As the passe newsman, Gable literally had me laughing out loud in a couple of scenes – something I didn’t query at this point in his career. As Erica Stone, the graceful teacher of journalism, Day really shines in her plumb role, conveying sexiness, brains and taste in her performance. Gig Young all but steals the explain (he was nominated for a best supporting AA) in his gem of a performance as the likeable egghead Hugo Pine; his playing is serene and assured. Young eventually WON an Oscar for his colorful performance as the cynical MC in THEY SHOOT HORSES DON’T THEY? Tragically, Young fought private demons in his private life and would ultimately commit suicide – taking his newlywed young wife with him. Mamie Van Doren does okay in her role as the sexpot singer who flirts with Gable in the nightclub scene; there’s a stunning performance from Crop Adams as the apprentice newsboy to whom Clark offers fatherly advice.
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