Doctor Zhivago The Screenplay by Robert Bolt, based on the book by Boris Pasternak – another look at Doctor Zhivago is here http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/12/doctor-zhivago-by-boris-pasternak.html - 10 out of 10

Doctor Zhivago The Screenplay by Robert Bolt, based on the book by Boris Pasternak – another look at Doctor Zhivago is here http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/12/doctor-zhivago-by-boris-pasternak.html

10 out of 10

 

 

Doctor Zhivago is that rare film, which is so much better than the inspiration, at least if you ask me – and by the way, you should not read this, there is a disclaimer here, which brings us to…Trump, who said in one of his hallucinations that he cannot be held responsible for fraud, because he has a warning on his contracts

 

Something along the lines of ‘you have to do your work, due diligence, the figures could be higher, you have to check’, in other words, we do not tell the truth (not necessarily) and it is up to you to verify, and in the fraud case he is facing in New York, he tries to use that argument, or defense, which is preposterous

He has been declared guilty of the crime, we have to see how things develop, if he loses the license to operate and ultimately, the business, which he had so frequently lied about, pretending he is so much wealthier than he is, and with those claims, he cheated, obtained loans, based on false values given for flat, properties

 

Coming back to Doctor Zhivago, everything is marvelous, mesmerizing about the motion picture (however, I have found the book rather boring, and indeed, stopped reading it) from the superb cast, Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Rod Steiger, Tom Courtenay and others, the director is brilliant David Lean, one of the greatest ever

Lawrence of Arabia http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/07/lawrence-of-arabia-written-by-robert.html was also made under his helm, just like a few other films, some of the best ever made – The Bridge on The River Kwai, and A Passage to India…Doctor Zhivago has everything you can wish for inside, grandiose scenery and drama

 

Doctor Zhivago is a member of what they would call today ‘a privileged class’, but he is sympathetic to the cause of the poor – that does not make me adore him, if one is of the left, seeing as we have had communism here, and that has destroyed years of my life and that of hundreds of millions, nay billions, then he is rejected

At one important time, the poor, and the leftists, organize a big march, and Zhivago looks on from the balcony, where they admire the slogans, ‘brotherhood and bread’, but the army, as directed by the czar and the leaders of that time is intervening violently, to stop the protest and crush the participants

Yuri Zhivago offers medical assistance, but he is warned to stay away – spoiler alert, he would be suffering at the hands of the soviets, sometime later – he would meet with Lara Antipova, who had been abused by Komarovsky, in short, a sexist, chauvinist pig that rapes the young woman, played by Julie Christie…

 

This is a sort of a ménage a trois, for apart from Komarovsky, we have Pasha, a militant, revolutionary, and another awful, repugnant fellow, who will become one of the leaders of the Bolshevik revolution – which will somehow find its way in our lands, imposed by the Soviets…as highlighted at the end, I played a role in the fall of Ceausescu

Doctor Zhivago is married (or wasn’t he) to Tonya aka Geraldine Chaplin (for some stupid reason, an actress I have never found appealing, on the contrary, she is an artist that makes me change the channel, albeit she cannot destroy something as titanic as this outstanding motion picture) but he loves Lara

 

He is a doctor on the front lines, where he meets Lara, again, they had had their encounter, back in the days of the czar, but now they have to work together, she is a nurse – we have the change in the fate of Russia, soldiers had fought against Germany, but with the arrival of the new leaders, they turn against officers

In a historical documentary, they were showing how Vladimir Lenin –that loathsome monster- was in fact helped by the Germans to travel, in a closed train, back to Russia – and in an essay by Andrei Plesu, he is mentioned http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/01/eminescu-si-recitatorii-by-andrei-plesu.html

 

It was in Joy in the West and East, where our greatest philosopher was explaining in Germany or Switzerland some of the differences, how we had had to be satisfied with the very basics, while in the West so many things had been taken for granted – when he went into a bakery in France and asked if ‘they had bread’ the owner was flabbergasted, what do you mean, this is a bakery, what do you expect

Only back home and in Soviet Russia, the Eastern Block, behind the Iron Curtain, things were different, the communists tried to control every aspect of life – Lenin’s lover was for putting cabins on the streets, so that citizens could have a fuck, fast, on the move – it was gruesome, horrific and disgusting

 

Putin wants to introduce the same regime now, he said that ‘the greatest calamity of the last century was the fall of the Soviet Union, disintegration actually’, so we can see where he comes from, and what his plans are with Ukraine, and the rest of us, here, in this region, which will be part of his new empire, if the cretin Trump is in the White House again, next year, a preposterous prospect in a normal world, but this is not where we are now

 

Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world   – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

Some favorite quotes from To The Heritage and other works

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

‚parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’

“From Monty Python - The Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special...Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”