Posted on 12/25/2013 4:53:59 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Let us now praise average men.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty confronts that age-old question—does a movie get its drama through its plot or its characters? Its answer is to shrug indifferently, try to do both, and do neither.
It's the complete opposite of Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken": two potential movies diverged from a famous short story. Ben Stiller took the one most travelled by. Then he changed his mind and tried to go back and take the other one, but by then it was too late...
Walter's situation changes, but does his character develop? The original short story by James Thurber is about a hen-pecked husband who retreats to a fantasy world as a defense against his own feelings of inadequacy. We've already had two films this season—Inside Llewyn Davis and Enough Said—in which women are brutally verbally abusive in their speech to and about men, so I was glad enough to see that plot point go by the boards.
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You should have picked ‘Saving Mr Banks’.
Is the original on Youtube or anything?
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I found part one anyways
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xo7lhv_the-secret-life-of-walter-mitty-1947-part-one_creation
GeronL wrote:
“Is the original on Youtube or anything?”
I would have thought that with all the reckoning skills that mankind were endowed with by Providence, that this particular question might just be moot.
Maybe I overestimated of mankind, huh?
lol
What about the movie with the giant rabbit named Harvey or something?
THat was Jimmy Stewart in Harvey. Good flick.
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