Marty [VHS]
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Movie Review: There's a little Marty in all of us, whether you like it or not...
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a potent, moving, powerful film about loneliness, sadness, love, and just wanted to have someone to share your life with. Enest Borgnine (who won a well deserved Oscar for his performance) plays Marty, a butcher living in the Bronx who lives with his mother and has no girlfriend. He's grown tired of the singles' scene, because he's become a "professor of pain", as he puts it, constantly being rejected by women. He goes reluctantly to a dance hall, where he meets someone who he has a rapport with for once. This film is a deeply humanistic, caring work, showing Marty in a sympathetic light. This film probably wouldn't be made today, as a smug, soulless filmmaker would mock Marty and treat him like a loser. He isn't a loser. Everyone's been where Marty's been, it's just no one ever freely admits it (especially today). The film reminds me of Brief Encounter, David Lean's masterpiece, on how modern audiences would howl in laughter at the protagonists in that film, and the ones here. The films haven't dated, it's just the people have gone into a smug detachment, mocking anyone who dares to be human and caring. Sure, there are a few dated things (it's shot in NYC in the 1950's, and obviously NYC doesn't look like that today). Paddy Chafvesky and Delbert Mann have crafted a really moving work here, one that still resonates today. Movie Review: Marty
Summary: 5 Stars
Written by the vastly talented Paddy Chayefsky, who'd go on to script "Network" two decades later, "Marty" is a sweet, perceptive film about two lost souls who finally find each other. Borgnine, a skilled character actor and supporting player, won the Best Actor Oscar in 1955 over several more photogenic leading men, and the film itself--a playhouse gem from television's golden age--won for Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay. A unique and irresistible film romance.Movie Review: ONE OF THE GREAT AMERICAN ROMANCES
Summary: 5 Stars
Marty is not only one of the great American films of the 20th Century, but the greatest American romance ever made. It's a shame they don't make em' like this anymore.
Marty Piletti is a 34-year-old Bronx Butcher who lives with his mother. He's a sweet natured guy with a good heart, stocky build and not so perfect looks. He's feeling pressure from customers, friends and family to get married. All of his brothers and sisters are married and they want him to get married. Unfortunately poor Marty has met up with so much rejection and humiliation he's become resigned to never finding that special someone. But at the goading (nagging) of his mother he and a friend Angie, head down to the Stardust Ballroom on Saturday night. There Marty meets Clara, a plain Jane 29-year-old science teacher who has been unceremoniously dumped by her date. Marty comforts Clara and asks her to dance. As, they walk around the neighborhood discussing their hopes and dreams we learn how beautiful these two people are on the inside. Over the course of a night this man who seemed so hopeless starts to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Sunday morning, Marty is buzzing over the chance for romance. As he starts to see opportunity for growth in his relationship with Clara, his family and friends insecurities grow over the changes in their own lives. This is the brilliant plot twist in Chayefsky's screenplay- everyone wants Marty to marry-so he can be just as miserable as they are! Marty is under pressure to not call or see Clara again, and spends a whole day debating his options. While spending another Sunday night with the fellas, he realizes that misery loves company and he has an opportunity at something better. The movie ends when he wakes up and makes the call to Clara and takes his own happiness into his own hands.
This is a great film; it deserved every Oscar it got and more, it's one of the best pictures the American Cinema has ever produced. Period. Within Chayefsky's simple character study of a South Bronx Butcher is a deep multileveled examination of love and the human condition. On the surface it looks like Marty's family and friends are interested in his happiness by pressuring him to get married. But the irony is that they want him to conform and be like them- Miserable and dissatisfied with their own lives. They secretly want to take away Marty's happiness! Clara the educated woman represents independence and self-control, things Marty desires in his own life. While Marty represents courage, drive and character to Clara, something she desires in her own life. Both inspire each other to make the changes in their lives to find happiness and self-actualization. I love this movie!
Production values are amazing on this movie. Filming on location works to great advantage for Director Delbert Mann. As a lifelong resident of the South Bronx, it was a delight to take a trip through time and see places I go to shop and hang out on the weekends like Webster Avenue and Fordham Road looked like over 50 years ago. Now I know what older people talk about when they say the Bronx was beautiful back in the day. The lights on the streets reminded me of Times Square.
Paddy Chayefsky's Oscar Winning screenplay is a work of art. Plain and simple it is brilliant. Every line has a purpose; every action has a reason for being there. The dialogue feels real, the storyline tighter than a drum It is the work of a master of his craft at the height of his prime.
The acting here is some of the best I have ever seen. Ernest Borgnine is powerful as Marty. He brings warmth, humanity and love and compassion to the character. You see every part of this man's inner torment and his daily struggles onscreen. He deserved his Oscar for best actor. Betsy is beautiful as the dowdy schoolteacher Clara. She has great chemistry with Borgnine and brings out the inner beauty of her homely character. Joe Mantell is great as Marty's buddy Angie. He felt just like a neighborhood guy from that era. Esther Minciotti Augusta Ciolli give powerful performances as Marty's Mom and His bitter old aunt. The scene where the two middle-aged women sit in the house contemplating their lonely futures is one of the best scenes in the movie; don't miss it!
Marty is a top five Shawn James essential video. YOU MUST BUY THIS ONE FOR YOUR DVD COLLECTION!
Movie Review: Pure and Simple...
Summary: 5 Stars
This is definately one of my favorite movies; a real little gem of a story told simply and directly. No car chases, no dirty jokes, no technicolor; just the pure and simple human drama of every day American life. The characters are so lovable that you won't mind repeated viewings. In my case, they actually remind me of people from my own neighborhood and family. This movie can also be considered an historical 1950s American cultural and media artifact. Movie Review: Great film but incomplete DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
Poignant story of "average" people and the profound changes in their lives: loneliness, widowhood, fear, frustration, boredom, shyness. All in the Bronx!
Wonderful film that deserves its awards.
One problem: the DVD is missing a scene! This is yet another example of sloppiness on the part of the studio who released the film not doing its homework to make sure the complete film is there. The film is complete on the video and laserdisc but not on the DVD.
It is the same with Star!, The Owl and the Pussycat, and countless other films.
Shame.