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Movie Reviews of Marty
Movie Review: If Marty Were Remade Today
Summary: 5 Stars
I watched this wonderful little movie for the first time in many years last night. It is a fine film about real people with real problems. The great Ernest Borgnine and the rest of the cast are terrific. (The scene where he argues with his mother describing himself as a "fat, ugly litttle man" is heartbreaking.)
This is the type of film that Hollywood does not make anymore.
So I started to wonder what would happen if Marty were remade today.
Marty would be played by someone like Jack Black or Zach Galifinachus. (Or perhaps Rick Baker could design a "fat suit" for Brad Pitt or Matt Damon.)
Clara, the quiet young woman Marty falls for, could be played by Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Anniston, sans makeup or perhaps with glasses. For racial deversity, Marty's buddy Angie would be played by Jamie Foxx or David Allan Grier. The guys in the neighborhood would use the "F Word" every other sentence sounding like an episode of "The Sopranos."
The scene where Marty tries to kiss Clara in his mother's apartment would wind up turned into a sex scene with nudity. But played for laughs as Marty struggles to get off Clara's bra or something to that effect.
Finally, for no particular reason, throw in a little homosexuality (or perhaps a car chase.)
Thats what I think would happen if Hollywood tried to remake Marty.
And thats why I believe the Hollywood of today would never be able to remake this wonderful little film.
Movie Review: "You Ain't Such a Dog as You Think You Are"
Summary: 5 Stars
Marty Piletti (Ernest Borgnine) is a lonely 34-year-old butcher living with his mother. He is a self-described "fat and ugly man" who is almost ready to give up on love. In an early scene we cringe at Marty's innocent desperation as he tries to get a date over the phone. "Yeah, I know it's kind of late to call for tonight. How about next Saturday...? Okay, how about the Saturday after that...? Yeah, okay. I understand."
One night at a dance Marty meets 29-year-old school teacher Clara Snyder (Betsy Blair) just after she has been heartlessly abandoned by her blind date. In his simple and direct way, Marty tries to comfort her and the two end up talking long into the night. They are both convinced they have finally found someone. But the next day the pressures of Marty's life--his family and friends--convince him not to call her back. I won't describe the ending.
This is a wonderful film which captures the loneliness and self-doubt we have all felt and portrays two lives that have been all but overwhelmed by it. And it offers hope, however uncertain. The acting is first-rate and the dialogue is memorable. I strongly recommend it. It may be particularly enjoyable to fans of Only the Lonely, which has a very similar basic plot.
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: Not To Be Missed
Summary: 5 Stars
Marty is a gorgeously-written character study that explores such themes as loneliness, aging, and peer-pressure with a touching and deft wit.
Ernest Borgnine plays the title character, and his poignant-but-never-maudlin performance, a major departure from his usual hard-boiled roles, is nothing short of miraculous. Betsey Blair plays the "spinster schoolteacher" who meets Marty one evening after being dumped by her blind date.
The dialogue is simply marvelous, especially Marty's observation on the making of the nice guy: "You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough; you get to be a real professor of pain."
The secondary characters, including Marty's jealous best friend, Angie, and his aging Italian-Widow mother, whose desire to see Marty married segues into fear about what that will mean for her, provide just the right amount of tension in the story, and contribute beautifully to the film's main themes.
Anyone who has suffered from well-meaning family and friends who constantly ask the unanswerable, "When are you going to get married?" will appreciate this warm and genuine story about two lonely people who manage to find each other.
Movie Review: A fresh summer breeze!
Summary: 5 Stars
This work meant, in the middle of this bleak and turbulent decade, the most intimate familiar portrait filmed.
Somehow this film has several common issues with It's a wonderful life. Marty is a candide, a man who still lives with his mother and besides he has not been able to engage with a woman who bears such activity: he is a butcher and also an old fashioned human being. His growing up process remained suspended. His emotive experience is even minor than a teenager from those ages. He became in a real symbol of the familiar union after several dark films that walked precisely in the oppsoite side of the street as A streetcar named desire, Baby doll, Rebel without cause. The best proof I can argue is the double cross that sealed that decade. The evasion expressed in the great amount of sci fi films and the Noir films that talked about the horror of the shadow of the atomic paradigm Uncertainty and hopeless were intimate partners and this film tried with certain sucess, to make forget for some moments the inner demons of USA, the Cold War and the unavoidable atomic race in the world in that decade.
Unforgettable acting of Borgnine who won deservedly the Academy Prize as Best Actor in 1955.