Wednesday, December 07, 2005

No Blogging Until The End

- of "The Misfits." Its not everyone's favorite movie but I like everything about it. It's about a way of life (Nevada cowboys in 1960) that is not only physically gone but is based on a sensibility - "I smell wages on you" (Let's call it "Transcendentalists Noir") - that's also disappeared. I'm no judge of acting but Marilyn Monroe seems to be just excellent. Also with the equally great Montgomery Clift and Clark Gable. Directed by John Houston and written by Arthur Miller.

"Was that you, crying in the ambulance?"

4 comments:

AArtVark said...

Trivia: It was the last movie for both Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe...

-C.- said...

To me, everyone in this movie is just pitch-perfect. Marilyn Monroe's performance is so beautiful and conflicted...full of highs and lows that never seem contrived. Montgomery Clift is the very definition of "punch-drunk", but never a characature. There's a relaxed, broken-in levis quality to Clark Gable's acting that seems so comfortable, like he was able to leave a whole career of heroes and Rhett Butlers behind. Perhaps the most remarkable performance in this movie is that of Eli Wallach, in such an unlikeable, nasty role. For the audience to see him as a person and to see his dilemma of need versus want and greed, is just amazing to me as an actress. He kicks ass in this movie, and there's a quality of reckless abandon in his work that is just plain thrilling.
Yes, I could sit down and watch the whole movie right now... that probably wouldn't go over well here at work-

-K- said...

I often think that if Rosalyn and Gay had had a child, that it would it would be reading "The Jimson Weed Gazette."

Scott Roeben said...

Is this movie in color? If not...