![]() ![]() His character, Robert Cohn was a contrast to all the rest of the characters. Mel Ferrer was good he should have had a bigger role. The movie is Hemingway, but Hemingway lite. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. The characters played by Errol Flynn and Eddie Albert were not written with any characterizations at all, thus allowing the actors to do colorful shticks. Given only empty stereotypes to portray, the actor's performances ring hollow and purposeless. ![]() Would you ask top stars to play contemptible people? The characterizations of the leads were all compromises Lady Brett becomes a misty romantic, not a rather dull, dumb lost woman (as in the book). How do you make a movie about such unattractive characters?. He cared, he loved, and he was the only successful one of them. Now, some eighty years later, Robert Cohn comes across as the best of them. Their drinking was not so much angst as superannuated college kids on a binge. The genius of Hemingway's novel is that the narrator naively and gradually reveals what a bunch of self centered, talentless, bigoted bunch of losers his central characters were. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |