On the Waterfront - The Screenplay by Budd Schulberg, Malcolm Johnson and Robert Siodmak – another look at this film is here http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/05/on-waterfront-by-budd-schulberg.html - 10 out of 10

 

On the Waterfront - The Screenplay by Budd Schulberg, Malcolm Johnson and Robert Siodmak – another look at this film is here http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/05/on-waterfront-by-budd-schulberg.html

10 out of 10

 

 

On the Waterfront is not just a fabulous motion picture, it is a classic, analyzed in series like American Cinema, with many books dedicated to a masterpiece directed by Elia Kazan – a phenomenal director, with issues

 

At the Academy Awards where he was honored for his extraordinary cinematic activity, some of the audience stood up, applauding and cheering, while a good number of the attendees sat and watched with hostility

You could watch Trumbo http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/07/trumbo-written-by-john-mcnamara-based.html with Bryan Cranston to get an idea about the days when writers, actors have been blacklisted

 

Before mentioning another film on the same subject, let us talk spoiler alert, disclaimer and warn you off these lines, which are flawed, irrelevant, thus you could not accuse the under signed of spam, or anything

This has happened some time ago, and one of my blissful contributions has been deleted, because somebody reported it as spam – presumably due to the habit of jumping off subject – this would be spurious now

 

Guilty by Suspicion http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/10/88-out-of-100-for-guilty-by-suspicion.html is the other movie that looks at the days of the Black List, with Robert De Niro in the title role, and we see how awful the period could be

Elia Kazan was somehow on the side of the anti-communists, in other words, in the good camp – we have had communism here, and we know that it brings hell, however much they talk about workers ‘paradise

 

Only the camp that fought communism descended into exaggerations, then vendettas, and ended up punishing innocent people, or those who just entertained some leftish views when they were young and dreamy

Oppenheimer http://realini.blogspot.com/2023/08/oppenheimer-by-christopher-nolan.html is the best film of the year, although we will have to see Maestro, premiering just two days from now on Netflix

 

Actually, by the time this will be posted (due to the backlog of exquisite notes, it will be in two weeks’ time, which means in 2024) Maestro will have been there for some time and enchanted the audiences around the globe

Oppenheimer has also been the victim of purges, and those at the Academy Awards that decided not to honor Kazan were protesting against his activities in real life, not the work in filmmaking, which has been resplendent

 

Intellectuals http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/06/intellectuals-by-paul-johnson.html by Paul Johnson is a magnum opus, looking at the lives of Leo Tolstoy, Henrik Ibsen, Ernest Hemingway, and Jean- Jacques Rousseau…

Great minds, but awful humans, at least at times, and we could conclude that when gifted in the extreme on one count, a human being appears to lack resources in another department, up to a point anyway…

 

Marlon Brando has the leading role here, and I have read in the gospel of cinema, Adventures in the Screen Trade http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/02/adventures-in-screen-trade-by-william.html by William Goldman about it

Through his absence, Montgomery Clift has launched the career of Marlon Brando (and that of James Dean and Paul Newman) who shines and dazzles as the ex-fighter Terry Malloy, who belongs to the mob, initially

 

However, he meets Edie Doyle, played by the fantastic Eva Marie Saint, present in other classics, like North By Northwest, a stupendous thespian that told the makers of American Cinema that she took her children with her, when filming

Edie’s brother has been killed by the mobsters led by Johnny Friendly, and his right hand man, Charley Malloy, Terry’s brother, portrayed by the fantastic Rod Steiger – winner of the Oscar for In The Heat of The Night, and the one with the highest Kevin Bacon quotient, the indicator of most connected actor

 

Eventually, prompted by father Father Barry aka astounding Karl Malden (he works with Marlon Brando on another classic, A Streetcar Named Desire, the famous ‘Stella’ shout made it again on the screen in a Seinfeld episode) and Edie confronts the mobster who will have ordered the killing of Charley and a couple of other men, in order to keep his power and money, but the result of the clash is for you to discover…

 

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.”