Posted on 03/01/2025 2:21:23 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
I saw both of those, but got absolutely nothing out of Dr. Zhivago.
“Love the original and have watched it many times over the years. Every time I watch it, it seems to stay in my head for a few days after”
Stays in my head & heart as well.
The ‘White Czarist Russians’ were butchered by the ‘Red’ Russians.
Yes...that's Strelnikoff.
The first time I saw Zhivago was at the Sanno Hotel in Tokyo, basement conference hall, in '67. I was 13, and my parents drove us to Tokyo--Dad never took the train, unlike Mother and me, who always did--in order to enjoy the movie, and also something that was completely unavailable anywhere else in Japan, and nowhere else stateside: Mongolian barbecue. Even at 13 I was fascinated by the movie, and by the movie score; Mom bought an LP of the score by Jarre, and often played it at home in Hayama. I have loved the movie ever since, including this past afternoon on TCM.
However, my love of the score was not shared by the late star of the film, Omar Sharif:
On the day of Jarre's death in 2009, an Irish college student, Shane Fitzgerald, posted a supposed quote by Jarre on the composer's Wikipedia page--a quote that Fitzgerald made up. Shane wanted to see first whether the quote would spread, and second how long it would take for anyone to notice that it was bogus.
The result? Wikipedia removed the quote from the page the same day, but not before a collection of newspapers worldwide put the quote in their obituary articles about Jarre, and only removed the quote, sometimes months later, when Fitzgerald got in touch with them. CF here
Thanks , I used to have a tradition of watching it every other year around the coldest month. But now that TV gives you more commercials and less of anything else I’ve had trouble finding it.
“Dude Where’s My Car?” is a close second. ;)
I love it as well and have a selection of movies I used in homeschool & for gifts.
Ben Hur
10 Commandments
The Robe
How Green was My Valley
Friendly Persuasion
Story of Ruth
I like Second Hand Lions better.
Loved the movie so much that I read the book and took a Russian History course that was most enlightening. It was taught by a Russian emigre who was born in Peking China where his Russian nobility family had fled from the Bolsheviks. As he guided us through successive generations of Russian History he would often stop to comment on people he was related to that were relevant. You can’t go wrong with any David Lean film. And Julie Christie was fabulous!
“Dr Zhivago was a lightweight who went around looking for beauty in a nightmare world. The characters around him, Tonya in particular were way better than he was. In particular, he was a terrible father and husband.”
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yldstrk, I’m afraid you and I will be outnumbered on this thread. I was 17 (and a bit naive) when I saw it to great acclaim on its first release. However, 1/2 through the movie I realized there wasn’t a single person in it that I liked or cared about.
(I WAS cold though. I think about the winter scenes ever winterr to this day.)
I once had a colleague, who was an emigre from a Siberian oblast, suggest tongue-in-cheek that the best Russian author ever was Tolstoyevsky. I responded that the best Russian novel was Doctor Trivago, about a hotel reservation specialist who spent the post-October Revolution years attempting to find housing for both Reds and Whites, but could never find anyone who would take in the insurrectionist revolutionary Stolichnikoff.
That soliloquy by the commissar summarized the trajedy of Russia. That man managed to justify in his mind all the murders of the “ better men” and lesser men he killed. Dostoevsky predicted in the 19th century that such men would come to power in Russia and Russian culture would crumble. Can only hope that Trump if nothing else can educate Americans that they too are susceptible to such men.
“Thanks, I used to have a tradition of watching it every other year around the coldest month. But now that TV gives you more commercials and less of anything else I’ve had trouble finding it.”
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Great movie.
I find Pasha to be the most interesting character.
Young revolutionary to young lover to young husband/teacher to young Soldier to grizzled communist to dead romantic.
The ending is, well... Heartbreaking.
“In particular, he was a terrible father and husband”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4301407/posts?page=19#19
Totally agree.
“I like Second Hand Lions better”
A heck of a movie.
C’mon, stoner. That ain’t from the 60’s.
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