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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 1:00:17 GMT
Hi! I'm new to these boards, and I posted this topic in 'film general'. Someone thought it was better suited here.
Anyways? I was never a huge fan of Jane Fonda. Don't get me wrong. She is a solid 1960's-1980's leading lady, had plenty of career. Just not my cup of tea.
Except for? "They Shoot Horses, Do't They?"
The word that comes to mind is 'visceral'. Her performance is a perfect portrayal of despair and desperation.
Anyone else?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 1:25:43 GMT
I've seen them both, though not lately. "TSHDT?" can be viewed on youtube now.
Fondas performance was "Brandoesque", if you ask me. She disappeared into 'Gloria'.
Well done by Pollack. This is one of those films, like Malicks "Tree Of Life", wherein I have to brace myself for the emotion of it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 15:56:38 GMT
Fondas performance was "Brandoesque", if you ask me. She disappeared into 'Gloria'. Yes, I think her early Actor's Studio roots, with Pollack's help, guided her in that direction. Another of her roles in which she did that was the tv movie, The Dollmaker (1984). She played a woman from the hills of Kentucky struggling to raise her children and save her marriage. It was a bit of an homage to her father, I think, who grew up in Nebraska. And I can't believe TSHDT is on youtube. I've got to watch that. I haven't seen it in years and years and would love to see it again.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 20:56:58 GMT
Well, I just watched it again for the second time since 1969, and it was as grueling and brilliant as I remembered it, though I'd forgotten the wonderful performances by so many (everyone really). Fonda, as we've said, but also and especially by Gig Young, Susannah York, and Red Buttons. Wow. And I'd forgotten that Bonnie Bedelia was in it; one of my favorites who never had the career I thought she would have. In the end, I have to give the biggest shout-outs to Sydney Pollack, who did a masterful job wrangling all that talent in that truly devastating story, as well as to the amazing script. If memory serves, people tried for years to get the Horace McCoy novel turned into a film, but they got stymied everywhere, because it was so dark and depressing. I'm glad that Pollack, et al, finally managed to do it. It's a daring reconstruction of one of the darkest times in America's history, and I don't believe it has a false note in it. I'm so glad you enjoyed it. A very, VERY emotional story full of grit. I haven't watched it in about 2-3 years. Yes, everyone is brilliant in it, and it was probably the peak of Michael Sarrazan's career. Pollack did a great job. And for me personally? It really opened my eyes to what the Great Depression did to middle Americans in their day. Jane's "Gloria" could have been any number of girls who were essentially left behind in love, relationships, or professional problems. The film really speaks to a time and a place not often looked at in American film. I know, myself personally? I associated a lot of "Great Depression" culture with Shirley Temples 'little train that could', or some more gritty Warners flicks where everything worked out right in the end. But this film speaks to truth. Thanks again!
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Post by geode on Aug 12, 2019 5:08:13 GMT
One of the most unrelentingly depessing films I have ever seen.
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