What is the greatest film of all time and why is it pic related?
What is the greatest film of all time and why is it pic related?
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DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, BRIEF ENCOUNTER, AND THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI ...
A LEAN NIGHT!
don't forget lawrence of arabia my dude
you seem to have forgotten ryans daughter, laddo
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Lawrence is great but there's no romance, Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif don't even kiss. Zhivago has everything.
It's amazing how an Egyptian became insanely popular enough to play white characters. After Lawrence of Arabia, a lot of Omar Sharif's work casted him as Euro characters like Mayerling, The Last Valley, and of course Doctor Zhivago.
actually it's pulp fiction. lol my film club has better tastes then Sup Forums no surprise.
who would watch a russian movie anyway, nothing good has come out of there.
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I just watched this a few days ago
Pretty rare to sit through a 3-hour movie and wish it was longer
it does this weird thing where you actually care about the characters and don't want them to die in hell
David Lean is a good director but Doctor Zhivago is a lame movie. The world-changing events of the Russian Revolution feel like minor window-dressing while the central love-story feels sappy and isn't that interesting.
You're literally just parroting opinions from spoiled pleb film critics in 1965 who had no idea how good they had it. And your trips would suggest you're Satan, which would explain why you weren't emotionally moved by the love story, the way it was interrupted and destroyed by the turbulent political climate in Russia at that time, and why you don't understand that a "sappy love story" isn't a perfect way for a novelist or a filmmaker to explore the emotional impact of social upheaval
reminder that the influence of david lean is the difference between the elegant blockbusters of the past and the spastic asperger bait of today.
i doubt JJ abrams has ever sat through one of his movies. except when lawrence of arabia once on x2 speed on a flight while he was getting sucked off by a 9 year old.
That's probably the point. This guy has no control over the government or any of the events changing around him. He does the best he can given his circumstances. Would he have liked to be a musician? Sure but even he has a child knows music doesn't put money on the table so he becomes a doctor. It's meant to show the struggles of a single person in the middle of one of the most tumultuous moments in Russian history. By the way I hated that lady who became the commissioner or whatever of urban relocation.
hehehe not bad. stick around.
>That time Lawrence and Ali joined the Nazis
I haven't seen that yet, or A Passage to India. I'm kinda worried that life won't be worth living anymore if I've already seen every long-ass beautiful epic David Lean ever made, so I'm saving them for later
Fuck off autist. 'Star-crossed lovers' isn't a groundbreaking concept and the war stuff was handled so poorly that it felt like more of an inconvenience than a complete 180 of the order of the world. When Zhivago gets hauled off to join a Red Army unit he's only away for a short time as far as running-time goes before he meets Lara again. The only ones I felt for were his wife, son and in particular his father-in-law. You could really feel that his wife could do absolutely nothing at all and his father-in-law's frustration and disgust with the revolution was very compelling. Also the scene where he meets Alec Guinness was good. He had stuff to say about their circumstances on top of providing more interesting drama than the protagonists.
Good studio directors aren't completely extinct. Ridley Scott still makes as many good movies as bad ones. Skill isn't the problem, it's cultural standards. Americans started experimenting hard with movies in the 70s and while this created some cool stuff it lowered standards forever. The stuff winning Academy Awards now would be considered exploitation and pulp a few decades ago. And 'Spastic asperger bait' is a great term for describing the current state of Hollywood.
I'm not saying Zhivago has to Rambo up and try to single-handedly turn the tide of the war or anything, but I was expecting their circumstances to contribute to the drama beyond shuffling the cast from place to place. Alec Guinness. the corrupt guy and the father-in-law were the only characters who I think really made the most of the setting.
A film doesn't have to be a history lesson in itself. The way the film handled the wartime setting, and the criticism of Communism and the way they took their ideals too far in the wake of the revolution, honestly were very strong for me. It might not have taken the bulk of the runtime, but when I think back on the film those scenes stand out more than the details of the romantic subplots. The whole love story with Lara worked too, especially in the way it was constantly interrupted by the shifts in power in the nation at large.
It inspired me to learn more about Russian history, which is really all you can hope for in a movie. And besides, it wasn't really meant to be about the details of the war or the revolution itself, it's a statement about the conflict between Communist ideology and personal freedom.
I'm not saying it needs to be 100% aspergically committed to history at all. By trying to disagree with me you've pretty much hit the same spot. I wanted the movie to be a personal stories affected by the circumstances of the revolution, but as I said I think that this was only accomplished with a handful of characters. Zhivago and Lara's story felt too personal and cliche.
>Omar Sharif
Such a one of a kind character, like Yul Brynner
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So Great Expectorations is his weakest film, right?
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Who made the better epics?
>quadriple dubs
Nice
>digits
both top tier.
critics/film experts can debate all the want about whether cinema is a dying/dead art form but nobody makes succesfull, commercial artistic films like those (kubrick, lean, leone and hitchcock) anymore. ok, you might find some foreign arthouse jem, but not mainstream cinema.
imho nope. personally I think it's one of his best and possibly THE best dickens adaptation period. lean's kino actually does dickens justice.
seems to me that ryans daughter is the most overlooked. imho its a better film than bridge.
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