The Misfits
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Movie Reviews of The Misfits
Movie Review: I SAW IT TONITE, and was ENTHRALLED
Summary: 5 Stars
I am not a Marilyn devotee. In fact, I was happily watching Renee Zellweger in the first half hour of the musical Chicago on TV, and happened to come across a PBS showing of the Misfits as I was channel-hopping during a commercial. And to say that I became immediately and magically enthralled only puts it mildly. I had never seen this movie, so my first amazement was to see an "older" 35 year old Marilyn Monroe and a seasoned Clark Gable. WHAT a treat. Gable's ears were just a big as cartoon caricatures make them, and Marilyn's hair was no less beautiful than if she was 18. When Montgomery Clif made his appearance with the telephone booth scene, I was bowled over by his still-youthful appearance, besides his intensity. Thelma Ritter as landlady Isabelle was the icing on the cake--full of charm and wit. And Eli Wallach's performance only served to spice this mix of ecletic actors. Granted, I found Marilyn's acting skills to be about as good as a 13 yr. old ingenue in her 7th grade play. But it didn't take away from the delight of this simple yet emotional film. And honestly, though the "star" of this film usually ends up being Marilyn, I found the most luminous body to be Clark Gable! Granted, if you knew that he was to die about 2 weeks after the completion of this film, it wasn't hard to be amazed at his emotional performance, besides the fact that he did most of his stunts. But also was his obvious expertise, finesse, and brilliant ease of motion throughout every scene in this delightful film. Definitely a classic in my book. p.s. I was 10 years old when Clark Gable died. And his death was the first passing of a prominant person that made an impact on me.
Movie Review: absolutely first rate drama
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw this as a freshman in college, huddled with my co-ed girlfriend who was a such determined optimist in relationships that she thought these were lonely people who didn't know how to act together as friends. Naturally, I had a darker view and saw them as empty losers. We argued.
Now, 30 years later, I watched this inspiringly bleak film again. This time, while still believing they were losers, I also saw it as a portrait of a time and place, an amazing bit of historical context about Reno Nevada. The acting is unbelievably good, I think the best career performances of Monroe, Gable, and Clift. The script is utterly superb and unforgiving, unromantic.
The protagonists are all sad cases, but they are striving for love and fulfillment in a unforgiving world. They come together in the most mundane of circumstances, in a place where everything is stupidly temporary and devoid of the possibility of change. They live in the present, dimly perceive what is missing from their lives and what pain there is in their pasts, but keep going by drink and action and the courting of danger. Then, there is the possibility of something new in Monroe's character, and three men cluster around her in hope.
The result is simply incredible drama, one of Miller's greatest works in my opinion. He is a first-rate writer, exploring depths and times where the normal American (like me) doesn't want to look. He was the conscience of our age and I must re-visit his work now that he passed away.
Highest remcomendation, even if it foreshadowed the end of my only true college romance!
Movie Review: Monroe at her best
Summary: 5 Stars
In "The Misfits," Arthur Miller creates an atmosphere which seeps directly into the viewer's bones...Dark, depressing, gloomy, and filmed in black and white, works beautifully.
Monroe, Gable, Clift, Wallach, and even the Mustangs all search for their place among the elements.
From bar to bar they go, drinking, flirting, drinking... did I say drinking?
They all want Monroe, but she doesn't know what she wants...just
to take care of somebody, just to be loved, just to be left alone. (Sounds familiar) she was cast perfectly.
An unbelievably powerful scene is ...
when Monroe does not want the men to catch the Mustangs for dog food...she runs in the middle of the desert, screaming, yelling, crying, tossing the sand in the air...
"Leave them alone, let them be. Why are you doing this? They want to be free. Please. Please. Leave them alone."
The viewer will be there...
feeling, lifting whatever passion they may have too, letting it go, letting it go...
because without freedom or direction.... one has nothing, the characters had nothing, the mustangs with their hoofs tied, had nothing.
When Monroe screams like a mad woman, we all scream with her...
For any wrong ever done, any lonliness we ever had, any love we never recieved.
***Note***A must watch for Monroe's performance alone!
Movie Review: The Best Love Story Of All
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is one of a kind. Under the incredible messages that splash before the screen, it's perhaps one of the greatest love stories Hollywood ever produced. It's a special love story. Why? Because it refuses to ignore the baggage that all relationships are straddled with: desperation, fear, cruelty, loneliness, nurturing, longing for love, longing to lose oneself. The true Western virtue that desperately conflicts with the dispassionate 20th Century America. The characters of Clarke Gable, Montgomery Cliff, and Eli Wallach clash with modern society to earn and obtain their own sense of independence. The wild card in the mix is Marilyn Monroe, a compassionate and loving woman who is more than ready to love without recompense, without conditions. Despite the passion for purpose, from bronco busting to drinking bouts, these men and women finds themselves standing against a world that wishes to reduce them into clogs. And not just pitting against a conformed society but against each other as well, trying to burn away the self-imposed crucible of their own making. Finally, our heroes demand to be true to one self, lovers the right for true love and to call this estranged land their home.
Movie Review: Monroe and Gable go out like stars
Summary: 5 Stars
Although there were some things that I really didn't like about this movie.. (especially the rather obvious symbolism in the Miller script..) I found the delivery of these movie giants to be so amazingly good that this will stand in my mind as one of the great movies... Monroe is perhaps at her best here as a really innocent and childish and, indeed, lost woman.. who takes the seemingly sagely advice of a cowboy to get away from it all and spend some time in the country... But what results from this is actually the realization of her former marriage and divorce in rather symbollic terms.. Along the way she meets some interesting characters.. played by Montgomery Clift and Elli Wallach, of course..
The real treat of the film is the acting and the direction... The final scenes of the movie are so beautiful.. some of the greatest images you will ever witness in a john huston film... or any film for that matter...
and as Gable and monroe drive off at the end.. one can only think what a fitting finale for these two great stars of the screen...