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Post by mstreepsucks on Jul 29, 2019 2:49:35 GMT
Of this movie, is this a great movie in your opinion? Starring joseph cotton. I have a criticism of it. Though.
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Post by movielover on Jul 29, 2019 2:53:29 GMT
It's a very good movie. Not sure about great.
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Post by marianne48 on Jul 29, 2019 3:03:33 GMT
I think it's a good movie, although that zither soundtrack wears on me.
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 29, 2019 3:15:06 GMT
I think it's a great film with one of the most powerful endings in film.
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Post by movielover on Jul 29, 2019 3:37:03 GMT
I think it's a good movie, although that zither soundtrack wears on me. I didn't like the music either. It didn't fit the mystery/suspense of the movie. Plus, it was grating to my ears.
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Post by kijii on Jul 29, 2019 6:01:56 GMT
Great movie, well directed: a Carol Reed classic.
The zither music punctuated the story and added to the overall effect.
The "Third Man Theme" made it to the TV show, Your Hit Parade, for weeks as I remember...very popular:
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Post by geode on Jul 29, 2019 6:22:27 GMT
It has been my choice for the best movie ever made for the past 48 years. It was upon the third viewing that I realized it was beyond being just good.
The zither score has never bothered me in the slightest. I think it is very effective.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 29, 2019 6:36:27 GMT
Ironically I am listening to "Greek Meets Greek" the last episode of the Lives of Harry Lime starring Orson Welles.
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Post by OldAussie on Jul 29, 2019 6:51:54 GMT
10/10 Most perfect final shot in movie history.  |
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Post by cynthiagreen on Jul 29, 2019 9:29:01 GMT
9/10
It does have a very high reputation esp in UK, where it still would probably make top 5 in any poll of all time great UK movies (LAWRENCE OF ARABIA or GREAT EXPECTATIONS, DON'T LOOK NOW, possibly a Kubrick and a Powell & Pressburger maybe for the other slots). It is one of my parents all time favourites
I like it well enough but am not passionate about it and prefer the later, less feted Reed helmed THE MAN BETWEEN, which does for Berlin what THE THIRD MAN does for Vienna and has James Mason as the homme fatale and a touching Claire Bloom as the innocent caught up in his web. No problem with the zither... and yeah, a great ending/last scene. And a great example of having a character completely dominate a movie yet only appear fleetingly. REBECCA and SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER go even further in this regard, in most REBECCAs the title character never actually seen, and in SLS we never get to see Sebastian's face)
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Post by politicidal on Jul 29, 2019 14:12:59 GMT
Yeah, it's really good.
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Post by amyghost on Jul 29, 2019 14:33:47 GMT
One of my favorites; I've often wished Cotten and Welles had done a few more films together--they had a perfect onscreen chemistry. The film's overall tone gives it the feel of being one of those landmark cinematic 'gateways' to the modern era, and the final shot of Valli silently and deliberately giving Cotten the go-by more than holds its own against any powerful ending in today's film lexicon.
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Post by kijii on Aug 1, 2019 14:58:00 GMT
It's rated No. 1 on the BFI Top 100:
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Aug 2, 2019 16:48:02 GMT
10/10 Most perfect final shot in movie history. 
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Aug 2, 2019 16:51:13 GMT
It's a reason to fall in love with films!
Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't. Why should we?
The Third Man is directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene. It stars Joseph Cotton, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard and Orson Welles. Music is by Anton Karas and cinematography by Robert Krasker.
When writer Holly Martins (Cotton) travels to Vienna to hook up with his childhood friend Harry Lime (Welles), he is distressed to find that Harry has been killed in a road accident. After attending the funeral, Holly comes to believe that Harry's death was no accident and begins to try and clear his friend's name. But nothing is as it first seems...
It's well over 60 years since it was released and Carol Reed's film noir thriller continues to feel fresh and hold up under the closest of critical scrutiny. A haunting tale as it is anyway, the black market racketeers and penicillin tampering bastards leaving an unsavoury taste in the mouth, but the film is still further boosted by the director's ability to craft unnerving atmosphere by way of style and clinically paced passages of play. Performances are superlative across the board, with the film producing equal amounts of iconography and mischievous myth-making. It stuns with the narrative structure unfolding amongst a post war ravaged Vienna that dovetails with the fractured nature of the human characters.
A maze of moist cobbled streets do host foot chases involving man and long shadows, there's a fairground scene that is now steeped in folklore, which in turn is a witness to the banality of evil, and of course those cavernous sewers, home to such sullen tones. Reed brings the canted angles, with moral decay the order of the day and a side order of confusion to finally fill your noir hungry bellies. Krasker deals in expressionistic chiaroscuro as Karas plucks away at his Zither to land in your ears for eternity. A murder mystery, a pained romance and a suspense laden film noir, The Third Man is enduring in its qualities. Cuckoo clock and cat, shadowed doorway and the lone sombre walk of a female, it's still today entertaining the film purist masses and still being pored over by film makers home and abroad. The Third Man, it's a masterpiece by jove. 10/10
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Post by bravomailer on Aug 2, 2019 16:55:19 GMT
Director Carol Reed's cameo. Well, his hands anyway. I think Welles suggested this scene to Reed.  |
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Post by Stammerhead on Aug 3, 2019 14:58:02 GMT
One of my all-time favourites.
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Post by geode on Aug 8, 2019 16:52:55 GMT
Of this movie, is this a great movie in your opinion? Starring joseph cotton. I have a criticism of it. Though. So what is your criticism?
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Post by mstreepsucks on Aug 8, 2019 19:36:53 GMT
Of this movie, is this a great movie in your opinion? Starring joseph cotton. I have a criticism of it. Though. So what is your criticism? I suck at criticism, I don't never know what i'm talking about, but... He seems like a fish out of water, in this movie . lol.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 8, 2019 19:54:00 GMT
So what is your criticism? I suck at criticism, I don't never know what i'm talking about, but... He seems like a fish out of water, in this movie . lol.
In a way, you do know what you're talking about here, because "a fish out of water" is exactly what Holly Martins (Cotten) is: a true, 20th-century "innocent abroad," to borrow a phrase from Mark Twain, uninformed and unprepared for the corruption and political intrigue in postwar Vienna. While the film is constructed in mystery form, the central drama revolves around Holly's loss of that innocence, as the scales fall from his eyes about his old friend Harry, and about issues like trust, loyalty, love, betrayal and the way the world works when desperation coexists with predatory opportunism.
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