Trumbo reviewed by Mark Kermode
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Mark Kermode reviews Trumbo. Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood’s top screenwriter until, in 1947, he and many other artists were blacklisted for their perceived Communist sympathies. Unable to work under his own name, Trumbo writes in secret using pseudonyms and other writers as cover.
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Great Film, best line for me the scene when the character Arlen Hird is facing the McCarthy hearings, refusing to answer questions he says he must consult his physician, His physian? asks his questioner. Sure replies Hird, to see if he can "surgically remove my conscience".
This film transcends left or right and deals with freedom of thought.
I'm Spartacus, and so is my wife!
I loved this film. Wonderful script, top notch actors, and smooth even handed direction.
Mark Kermode is a brilliant critic .
Don't forget Salt of the Earth (1954) and the movie they made about making that movie "One of the Hollywood Ten" (2000)
Love the way the King brothers are introduced to a wider public - but hate the way the actual output of the King brothers is misrepresented.
I liked this film a lot. Firstly, it has a tight and entertaining script that deftly weighs the balance between the detail of individual lives and the big political picture. More than that though, it pretty seamlessly blends the real with the fiction to flesh out the story. On top of all that, the characters are truly three-dimensional and wonderfully played. A great achievement to honour a screenwriting legend. ‘Trumbo’ is guaranteed to be in my list of top films from 2016. 4/5
He also directed that masterpice Dinner for Schmucks hahahahaha
The film’s issues are the film’s pacing & lack of focus, however the film is still an enjoyable biopic with good acting, good characterisation, good score, good visuals & tone. (68%) (3.5/5 stars) (positive)
Aside from Goodman's bombastics, one of the best scenes in the film was Kirk Douglas confronting Hedda Hopper and the representative from HCUAA...
People don't realize that red scare and the black-lists went though-out the country in many fields..
I suspect the studio heads, L.B. Mayer etc etc, played a passive role in the black lists because the writers were a greater threat within unions. They were intelligent, articulate and persuasive. Being a union organizer was equated communism. What ended it was that they were losing all the good writers to the B-movie producers. I went to school with kids who's parents were destroyed by the black-list. I thought it was an excellent film.
Def will see this movie.
Cranston was superb I thought. I thought John Goodman was great also.
Hi N.Martin you watching this?
Johnny got his gun.
No, I'm Spartacus.
I saw Spartacus , and he wasn't a black democrat in congress
You go one way or the other? “If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.” I used to respect Mark's reviews but lately (not on this but others) I've lost faith. His bias towards UK films is astounding and his need to be politically correct about EVERYTHING is just tiring. Writing this not to offend but in hope that he might rid himself of this need to please and actually review a film based purely on it's worth.
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Horrible film.