the liberties they took with this scene in the new film are really what I picture in a retelling and remake of the story. firstly it comes off less of a monologue and more so a conversation based on Sam's acting and he touches Ethans hair, blocking. when he says "remember me" there's more emotion in it.
I thought he was terrific! Marsha Hunt seemed very jealous or was just a jerk. If my husband had won an Academy Award for any movie, I would have been VERY proud of him.
Of course, the version that dropped *BEFORE* 9/11 dropped attacks on the Twin Towers (and our hearts) 😢 began with "Ask yourself this; when was the last time you sat completely still and watched yourself inside someone else?"
I felt like so much was left out. Love is a Many Splendors Thing, Network, Picnic, and Bridge Over the River Kwai. His whole body of work was just great!
I agree about his stellar body of work as a whole. Gentle reminder: The focus of this documentary is the "Paramount Years." The great films you mention were produced and/or distributed by 20th Century Fox, MGM, United Artists, Horizon Pictures, and Columbia Pictures.
I will always associate William Holden with Paramount Pictures because, like Alan Ladd, it was the studio that developed his movie career. Some actors you can't help but link them to certain studios. But Holden was rugged on the exterior, and Midwestern nice in his dealings with others (he was from Illionois, as the video indicated, but raised in California in his youth). Loved him in Sunset Boulevard and Stalag 17 (Oscar winner), as well as Sabrina. Thanks for presenting this retrospective of a great star.
loved him forever. loved that he was grew up in Pasadena, CA and attended So Pas High... One great actor, beautiful physical appearance and understandable appeal to all
@andrews527 Forget about Network; his work was undistinguished. I know he was up for Best Actor, but he didn't deserve it. You watch Network for Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway. The nomination for Bill Holden might have been repaying him for being cheated out of a nomination for The Wild Bunch. Pre-affirmative action Hollywood used to do that all the time, e.g., giving Paul Newman his Oscar for a lousy performance in The Color of Money, instead of for his greatest performance for Cool Hand Luke (1967). Meanwhile, they may have given Rod Steiger his Oscar for In the Heat of the Night (1967), to make up for not giving it to him for The Pawnbroker (1964). Under affirmative action, Hollywood has tossed all pretense to having standards, or seeking to do right by people. Now, all they care about is hurting Whites.
This movie actually had a lot of creative ideas about how to modernize and cinematize the play. It's kind of a shame that the whole thing didn't come together better than it did. It had a lot of potential but couldn't make it all work.
Hitler initially offered the Poles this : Let's be allies. We invade the USSR and share the conquered land. Just one thing though, l take Gdansk and a strip of land to connect it and Prussia to the rest of Germany. The Poles refused. They disliked heavily the Soviets, but saw the danger : They would bear the brunt of the fight, and latter Germany would take on Poland. The Poles are Slavs, so, they could not trust people who considered Slavs inferior. Nevertheless, Poland did take a strip of land from the Czechoslovak Republic when the Nazis invaded it. Strange, right, how politics can be bizarre ?
