Post by OldAussie on Sept 10, 2019 2:28:39 GMT
Big favourite.
Based on his career up to then, Steiger would seem to be miscast but delivers a brilliant performance.
Zhivago is still in the top 10 biggest money-making films of all time based on inflation. I believe it made more than every other Lean film combined.
An excellent short on Lean's editing genius -
My favourite transition in Zhivago is around 6 minutes 55 seconds in the video above -
1. - Zhivago looks at the puddle of blood in the virgin white snow -
cut to
2. - Lara having just been "deflowered" by Komarovsky.
Faults -
1 the chronology of the second half of the film is WAY out of whack. The bookend scenes of Rita Tushingham appear to be in post-Stalinist Russia but based on events in the film she would have been born around 1923/4 at the latest, so as a late teenager those scenes would be at the height of WWII. Since Hollywood and historical accuracy are incompatible it's only a problem for those who think about it.
2 Feel Courtenay needed another scene in the second half.
Cinema views - 5
TV/DVD/bluray - more than 20
9/10
Based on his career up to then, Steiger would seem to be miscast but delivers a brilliant performance.
Zhivago is still in the top 10 biggest money-making films of all time based on inflation. I believe it made more than every other Lean film combined.
An excellent short on Lean's editing genius -
My favourite transition in Zhivago is around 6 minutes 55 seconds in the video above -
1. - Zhivago looks at the puddle of blood in the virgin white snow -
cut to
2. - Lara having just been "deflowered" by Komarovsky.
Faults -
1 the chronology of the second half of the film is WAY out of whack. The bookend scenes of Rita Tushingham appear to be in post-Stalinist Russia but based on events in the film she would have been born around 1923/4 at the latest, so as a late teenager those scenes would be at the height of WWII. Since Hollywood and historical accuracy are incompatible it's only a problem for those who think about it.
2 Feel Courtenay needed another scene in the second half.
Cinema views - 5
TV/DVD/bluray - more than 20
9/10