First Time Watching *DR. ZHIVAGO* Part 1 (1965) | EPIC SCORES
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2024
- Today, I am reacting to and reviewing the classic film DR. ZHIVAGO (1965). This is my first time watching this classic masterpiece! I can't wait to get into it!
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THIS IS MY #1 FAVORITE MOVIE!! I discovered it at 16 and I watch it every year on my birthday! So excited to finally see a reactor do this movie!! My cat is even named Yuri 🐈
Me as well. I discovered this movie at 14. Been my favorite ever since and I'm 56. I cannot say how many times I've watch it! The scenery the music the story everything was so incredible on the big screen I was overwhelmed!
Watched this with my family at the cinema in 1975, aged 13, it remained a powerful memory until I was able to rewatch it as an adult.. most memorable scene at 13 was when they arrived at the country estate by sled and everything was covered in show an ice.. hauntingly mesmerizing.. the music was perfection, and the cast so captivating.. I watch it on DVD yearly as it is in my top 5 movies.... NZ
Ever seen it on the big screen? In theatres? Must be spectacular!
Same! Absolutely best movie ever made. Its amazing
Omar Sharif starred in a film that is little known anymore, called Night of the Generals (1967). In it, he plays a police detective in Nazi Germany, trying to track down a serial killer. I found it riveting.
Loved Night of the Generals
I loved Night of the Generals. Besides Omar Sharif, it starred Peter O'Toole and Tom Courtenay (Pasha from Dr. Zhivago). Yes, riveting and lurid.
@@inkfishpete8695 And Philippe Noiret
Have that DVD. Came in a 4 movie pack.
@@richardjakubiszak1139I'm curious. What were the other three movies in that pack?
Sir Tom Courtenay (Pasha Antipov/Strelnikov) was nominated for best supporting actor in this film, and is still going strong. Filming "The Railway Children Return" for release this year.
I adore Tom! One of THE most underrated and underappreciated actors of his generation!
Mia, you did NOT disappoint with this one. Well worth the wait. A few points:
-That instrument is a balalaika. The one in The Third Man is a zither.
- In Pasternak's novel, you learn that Komarovski (Rod Steiger) is the person who made Yuri an orphan. Yuri's father wound up in debt to Komarovski and was driven to suicide, jumping off a train.
- it's interesting you mentioned the Carlo Ponti/Sofia Loren connection. Ponti would produce another Russian related movie in 1970, Sunflower, starring Sofia Loren.
- The withering sunflower scene you mentioned was painstakingly accomplished by using fine nylon threads on individual petals and pulling them off manually. (John Box was the Academy Award winning art director who collaborated with Lean in a slew of movies, including Lawrence of Arabia).
Really forward to part 2!
P.S. - Don't worry about the grey hairs. Got my first ones at 24 after eating some hot Pakistani food; 50% grey after my wife got her driver's license.
Fascinating about the sunflowers! I think that was such a powerful scene!
@@MoviesWithMia almost every single frame of this film could be frozen and hung on the wall of an art museum.
I absolutely agree with you!
@@MoviesWithMia Yes, the weeping sunflower ... so beautiful, so iconic, so prophetic, so sad!!
David Lean was a genius and this is one of his best.
Shariff's eyes can melt Siberia.
Been so looking forward to this reaction! There are so many David Lean masterpieces, but I'd have to say Zhivago is my personal favorite.
Geraldine Chaplin is the daughter of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill who was Eugene O'Neill's grand daughter. ONeill disinherited Oona for marrying Chaplin. Chaplin was 53 and Oona 18. They had 8 children.
The Third Man instrument was the zither. Dr Zhivago instrument was Balalaika.
The terrifyingly intense guy on the train 23:25 is played by that terrifyingly intense actor Klaus Kinski, who would go on to become one of the most important actors in German movies of the 1970's and 80's. After his death, director Werner Herzog, who cast Kinski in some of his best films, would memorialize him in a documentary titled "My Best Fiend." (That's not a typo. It's 'fiend,' not 'friend.' 😀)
He began to be known with his roles in the "Krimi" movies and then in the spaghetti westerns. My favorourite scene is the scene of the hat with Terence Hill in A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe
Herzog was right...you'd never see Klaus Kinski miscast as a George Bailey-type character. From what I've read, he wasn't really acting. There was something off with the guy. For his daughters, Natassja and Pola Kinski, their "Life with Father" was not a comedy, but a psycholical thriller/horror story.
And how right he was: "I am the only free man on this train. The rest of you are CATTLE!"
Kinski has a long list of credits, but someone who worked on a set with him in the ‘80s told me this was because he was so difficult if not actually awful that nobody wanted to deal with him for any longer than they had to. Often his presence in a movie was required by money people - he was something of a draw - so a production might not have been able to actually fire him but if they could finish up a minimum number of scenes with him and get him out of their hair as soon as possible, they would. This made it possible for Kinski to appear in twenty films in a year. One hears that he wasn’t a raving crazy person all the time and that occasionally he could be quite sympathetic and engaging, even magnetic, but something wasn’t hooked up right so you never really knew which Kinski you’d get on any given day or any given hour. Apparently Spielberg wanted Kinski to be in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and that would have been amazing, but I have a hard time imagining Spielberg or Harrison Ford putting up with him for any length of time.
So excited you watched this! Of course, I am still waiting for the entire reaction on Patreon!
Yes! I wanted to have both parts filmed before releasing the full length! That will be out to you next week!
The greatest movie I ever saw. I watched it 10 times and it will not be the last time.
They had a lot of problems to find the right place to produce this movie. Finally the went to Spain. They had to wear coats at 30° C. The Ice was wax and the snow was marble dust.
Ths period in Russian history is so complicated. You had several factions (Absolute Monarchists, Constitutional Monarchists, Liberals, Socialists, Communists, and Anarchists) fighting for control over Russia. You had the advancing German and Austro Hungarian armies crushing the Russian army as they pushed further into Russia. You had nationalist groups (Ukrainians, Poles, Finns, Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians) in the Russian Empire trying to gain independence. You had international socialists and communists coming to Russia to fight for their respective ideologies. You have the British, American, Canadian, French, and Japanese armies helping the White (anti-communist) armies. You have opposing communist leaders (Stalin and Trotsky) gaining influence. You have mass killings on all sides. All in all, this period of Russian history is a mess.
Basically (very basically, you obviously know a lot more on the subject) the Tsar's rule was overthrown, and Communism was embraced as a logical alternative at the time.
Unfortunately, "Animal Farm" was closer to what happened than the sharing and caring Utopia they were hoping for.
@@lisathuban8969 pretty much. Orwell knew his stuff. The problem is some people think that communism is a venture worth pursuing, only to find out that people given dictatorial powers 99.99% of the time never relinquish power and end up becoming brutal despots like Stalin and Mao.
@@mktrafton7042 It's always struck me as odd that a basic idea of sharing assets equally among people automatically leads to a dictatorship. You'd think such high-minded ideals would lead to a just and fair government.
Time and again, though, Communism seems to inevitably lead right to a select few taking over permanently, with absolutely no room for dissent.
Humans are just weird.
@@lisathuban8969Fallen human nature. I think we're all capable of horrible things if we allow evil forces and ideas to take hold over us. However, most people have a conscience. Thank God for conscience. Still, many dismiss conscience to seek their own gain off of the backs of their fellows, only to find out later in life or in death that it was all pointless vanity.
15:10 Yes, I think you missed the fact that Lara's mother was Komarovsky's lower-class mistress, which is why he was hanging around them and making himself at home. And now he's started an affair with Lara herself. That's the secret Lara is keeping from both Pasha and her mother. When the mother realizes that Komarovsky has taken up with her own daughter, she tries to kill herself. When I first saw this film in my early twenties, I couldn't understand how Lara would be in a relationship with the disgusting Komarovsky, but he's a rich, sophisticated older man and young girls do things they shouldn't. Lara's no perfect angel.
The balalaika (Zhivago) and the zither (3rd Man) are very different stringed instruments. The balalaika is similar to a mandolin or bouzouki. The zither is more like a dulcimer. A balalaika orchestra is mostly composed of different sizes of the instrument, from the small sort seen in "Zhivago" up to a monster the size of a man. A full ensemble of 30 or 40 instruments is impressive to see and lovely to hear. You can probably find some on YT if you look. th-cam.com/video/BbhzL-PmzYk/w-d-xo.html
"Well Zhivago, you'll find that pretty creatures do ugly things to people" That line spoken by Prof. Boris to Zhivago (left out of the react) encapsulates the ENTIRE movie, IMHO 😲😲😲
Neat! "Doctor Zhivago" fell out of fashion somewhat for a while, but I love it to bits. It's not my favorite of David Lean's - that would be "Ryan's Daughter" - but it's a good one to curl up with. It's neat watching it 'with' someone who doesn't know it at all and seeing how everything plays to someone with fresh eyes. Yes, I've just explained why TH-cam reactions are a thing, but this is my comment and I can do what I want.
You mentioned the voices of the little boys. It was almost universal practice in English cinema to have young-sounding actresses dub small children. They would routinely dub European actresses as well to get the dialogue as clear as they thought it should be - for example, just about all the Bond girls in the '60s were dubbed by the same woman, only Diana Rigg and Honor Blackman speak with their own voices because they were so well known before they appeared in Bond films. In one of his books Michael Caine recalled how the set dressers on English films would put felt on the base of dishes in restaurant scenes and on any prop that had to be handled to make sure the dialogue recording was pristine and how American movies didn't mind the clatter nearly as much. Anyway, precise diction was considered extremely important in the theatre-adjacent British film industry and little boys couldn't speak as well as someone thought they should. There are a handful of examples where the director kicked back - Carol Reed didn't allow it in "Fallen Idol" and "A Kid for Two Farthings" for example - but it was just how things were done at the time. It's more than a bit off-putting to a modern viewer, but it shouldn't be allowed to distract, it's just a thing that they did.
Regarding David Lean and trains, is he really all that train-happy? Trains were the way to get around for a while so it makes sense that his period-set films would feature them. It's like saying John Ford had a thing for horses to me, or that any modern director has a thing for cars.
It's not the instrument used in the Third Man. That was the zither.
Ahh! My bad 😅 they sound very similar
charming reaction! have a great day! The movie captured a bit of the complicated nature of that time in history.
Thank you for this review, this is IMHO one of David Lean's best films. A few Russian historical and cultural factoids to share that you might enjoy & find useful.
1) The opening title card has a background of birch trees which are symbolic of Spring (new beginnings) & happiness
2) Pasha is a Russian pet name for Pavel (English Paul) so it roughly means Paulie. Anushka likewise is pet name for Anna (same in English) roughly meaning Annie, Tonya is a pet form of Antonia, Katya is a pet form of Ekaterina (English Catherine) & Sasha is pet form of Alexander.
3) Pasha's initial opposition & then full-on support for the Bolsheviks after his encounter with the Cossacks is symbolic of the break many ordinary Russians made with the Tsar after his soldiers massacred peaceful protesters petitioning him for peace during their war w/ Japan in 1905.
4) The song sung by the marchers outside the restaurant is the Internationale (in Russian), which has been the anthem of workers movements and other left wing groups.
5) The Tsar at the time of the Revolution was Nicholas II who despite being an autocrat was rather feckless. (For his story suggest 1971's "Nicholas & Alexandra")
6) The song being sung by the passengers on the train is Kalinka (Russian for "little red berry") which is much loved Russian folk song.
7) Pasha's nom de guerre "Strelnikov" is Russian for "Shooter" or more loosely "Rifle shot"
8) The Nagant pistol that Pasha picks up & that Lara uses on Komarovsky is an excellent use of the playwright Anton Chekhov's "Chekhov's gun" plot device.
9) The railroads were a vital reason for the eventually success of the Bolsheviks' Red Army in the Civil War hence Pasha/Strelnikov's use of his propaganda emblazoned engine.
10) The class imbalance in Imperial Russia just before WWI & the Revolution was incredibly stark & absent the Gromeko family taking him in Yuri's prospects would not have improved. As few as 1 in 10 Russians belonged to wealthy educated class the middle class while growing was insignificant compared to the roughly 8 in 10 Russians who were mostly illiterate peasants who had only been freed from serfdom in 1861.
Such interesting information. Thank you for sharing. Every piece of information adds to the greatness of this movie.
Yes! Glad you commented on the Music Score -- probably the most beautiful music score ever written for a movie!
Whoa, you nailed the female version of Peter O'Toole.
I remember hearing a story about someone telling Peter O'Toole if he was any prettier they'd have to name the film "Florence of Arabia".
Lol!! I know! They could be twins 😂
@@MoviesWithMia Goodness ... I hadn't noticed that uncanny resemblance until you pointed it out!
I have caught bits and pieces of Dr. Zhivago over the years.. recently I saw the whole movie and now I can't get enough of it. I'm obsessed. Watching these reviews on TH-cam and reading everyone's comments and knowledge on the movie and Russian history adds to the movie greatness for me. I will have to watch it again!
Really glad you're watching this, I've seen it many times, and I'm sure you will appreciate it.
Although "Lawrence of Arabia" was great, unlike "Dr Zhivago" it didn't have any significant women characters or romance (maybe bromance?), so "Dr Zhivago" had a broader, more centered appeal between the sexes. I remember, that woman went crazy for it and Omar Sharif. And men liked it for the action. Of course, the interests overlap, and adults of both sexes appreciated it overall.
Now we need a reaction to NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA (1971), the other great epic set in this era.
And both, unlike the animated Anastasia movie, makes us feel pity for the Romanovs without sugarcoating their reign and how much Nicholas mismanaged ruling Russia.
Ooh, and Fiddler on the Roof should come soon as well.
If she'll give the four-part Russian "War and Peace" a look, I'll allow "Nicholas and Alexandra." ;)
Should "Reds" be considered?
@@mrkelso Da!
Stupendous movie. Needs to be re-released. Omar Shariff was perfect. All of casting was flawless. Soundtrack was haunting. Cinematography was flawless.
The contrast between their beautiful home under the Czar and then the Soviets tells everything.
The instrument is a balalika.
Julie Kristie was the owner of the pub, The Hog's Head in Hogsmead, in the Harry Potter movies.
You can find movies like these are shown at Art Film Theaters and better industry theaters that will show older film in accord with TCM Big Screen Classics / Fathom events. A lot of the time, the movies they choose for each year are having a significant anniversary of their original release. This years line up from TCM for theatrical re-release -
• Casablanca 80th Anniversary
• Lady Sings the Blues 50th Anniversary
• The Quiet Man 70th Anniversary
• Singin' In The Rain 70th Anniversary
• Smokey and the Bandit 45th Anniversary
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 60th Anniversary
• Cabaret 50th Anniversary
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 40th Anniversary
• Poltergeist 40th Anniversary
• In the Heat of the Night 55th Anniversary
• To Kill A Mockingbird 60th Anniversary
• It's A Wonderful Life - Celebrating 75 Years
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Agreed. Fathom Events are great, but I guess that I meant widescale general release because of the unsettled times we live in.
War should not be so easy to start, because of the price in people's lives.
@@baskervillebee6097 the film industry is more interested in the tentpole business strategy and desperately trying to recreate the success of the last big money maker film with a pale facsimiles. The only chance is Arthouse theaters, which are mostly a big city phenomenon. Of course, the studios would have to restore many titles for better prints to project. I'm seriously thinking of getting a 4k projection system with a big 120" screen for watching the good stuff. I wonder what size screen Mis is watching this stuff on. It would be a shame if it's a laptop or computer screen. I can't even imagine watching Lean on a smallish screen.
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agreed
Mia, you are a dream! Dr. Zhivago is my fav book, I used to read it once a year. And the movie is great.
Fantastic movie and score....I have the soundtrack and it's the one my folks bought when the movie came out! "Lara's Theme" played a lot in my house, so beautiful. Have the movie as well, and never get tired of it. I CANNOT see Paul Newman, Peter O'Toole or Sophia Loren in this movie AT ALL. The casting that resulted here was impeccable. Rod Steiger is the creepiest character, they had an affair, so that's why Lara's mother tried to kill herself and why he called her "slut" as if that makes sense. And saying "rape" would FLATTER them? Please. Your channel is amazing and is the only one I'm a patron to! Love ya.
Apparently Albert Finney was seriously considered for “Lawrence of Arabia” and as much as I adore him in just about everything I’ve seen him in, I can’t get my head around that at all. There are costume tests and stuff which show that he got pretty close to landing the role but anyone other than Peter O’Toole is unimaginable to me. Casting is magic.
Loved the "q&a" at the end!! Back then movie themes could be hits, and there was a big market for instrumental records of different varieties and styles. "Lara's Theme" was done to death, including being used in music boxes. I don't know if you know Seinfeld at all, but there is a joke somewhere in the series about "Lara's Theme" and music boxes, I don't remember what it is, but I remember it being funny.
I got home from a bad day at work, clicked on TH-cam, saw my FAVORITE movie reactor (Mia Tiffany) reacted to my FAVORITE movie?!
I'm not a Millennial or Z?
BUT I JUST MADE A NOISE LIKE I F*CKING WAS!!!
Sven! I am so sorry about your bad day at work! I hope your day gets brighter! I hope you know that you’ve just made my entire night with your comment ☺️ thank you so much for watching!
WOW! That was Omar's Son! Great Actor-Thanks for sharing new info.
"Is there anything happy in this film, or is it all just ... sadness?" This is a RUSSIAN story.
There are also comic soviet movies 😀
Russian history is extremely sad and tragic. It is impossible to even know how many millions of people died during the Russian revolution. Many of the people who survived never knew what happened to their families or loved ones.
@@tammyclay62 Russian history is as sad as any other country in History, or as happy. Many people died during the revolution because it was, in fact, a civil war, which is the worst kind of war possible.
Zhivago's story is sad because it's set during that time, and conveys all the issues of a sensitive, intelligent man and his family in a horrible situation like that.
Make a movie set during the american secession war and it'll be sad... in fact, I give you one: Gone With The Wind.
Make a movie set during the first half of the english 17th century and it'll be sad and violent, and I give you one: Cromwell
Make a movie set in 19th century and early 20th century Spain and it'll be sad, I give you many movies, I'm spanish and we had so many civil wars it's nuts
@JulioLeonFandinho During the first part of GWTW, Ashley tells a group of other Southern gentlemen that "most of the miseries of the world have been caused by war".
@JulioLeonFandinho I have never read War and Peace because it is so long. I have seen a couple of adaptations of War and Peace on screen. That is a love story set in another sad and tragic period in Russian history. If you like Doctor Zhivago, there is a really good multi part Russian adaptation to War and Peace. It takes quite a while to get through it, and you have to read subtitles, but I really liked watching it, and I learned a lot about Russian history that I didn't know before
Congragulations although there are many reviews on TH-cam out of hundreds of TH-cam reaction channels I believe you are the 1st to do a reaction of Dr Zhivago. Thank you great reaction video and great channel cheers
This was the hit movie the week I was born, early Feb, 1966. Maybe that's why I've always liked it. Lovely theme song, also. Of course, the soaring score is one of the highlights of the movie. Btw, the movie's time period began in 1914, or thereabouts, just before World War I broke out, so not the late nineteenth, but early twentieth century fashions.
Love you Mia Tiffany. You're a talented, smart, & beautiful young lady.
Agreed, we love Mia!!!
Thanks Sparky ☺️
@@MoviesWithMia you are an underrated legend I am fan who liked your classic movie reaction videos love you so much.
@@MoviesWithMia I wish I could come on your show and watch movies and introduce you to more that you haven't seen but would love and just talk about them...would be a dream come true!!! Plus you share my love of the stunningly handsome, funny, charismatic, versatile, and talented Cary Grant. 😍😘
I'll be turning 32 in 5 days, but my aunt, who was born in 1958 and my grandpa, born in the 1920s (my mom's side), brought me up/started me around age 7-8 on classic films from the early 30s such as Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone swashbuckling films like "Captain Blood" and "Robin Hood" etc which along with all of Laurel & Hardy, were my grandpa's favorites to ones from the mid 60s with the occasional late 60s and early 70s films.
Plus, if you want an interesting Omar Sharif film, Blake Edwards...of the Pink Panther movies and "Breakfast at Tiffanys" and "The Great Race" and worked almost exclusively with composer Henry Mancini, wrote, directed, and produced a British/Soviet Union Cold War mystery/thriller/romance film, starring his wife, a sexy Julie Andrews, whose wardrobe was all killer 70s Dior, was paired with Omar Sharif as a married Soviet General who either wanted to recruit her for the USSR as she had a job working in the British Military Consulate as secretary to a high ranking British General or he wanted to defect from the Soviet Union and go to the British...so is he a spy and informant working both sides? Great little gem of a movie that you can watch for free on TH-cam called "The Tamarind Seed" (1974?)
As far as two other movies that would fit in with movies with best/iconic score months you are doing is composer John Barry for "Out of Africa" (1985) and "Dances With Wolves" (1990) which was said to be one of the former Pope's favorite score. And Barry was nominated and won for best original score for both films!!! (Though both are fantastic films but vastly different, their scorres are very derivative of each other in certain songs, especially love themes.) Other films of note of his for score was "Lion In the Winter" (1968) and "Somewhere In Time" (1980).
So glad you got to this one :)
Lean was a god of transitions, both visual and auditory. One of my favourites is in this gem, at the beginning, interior, where Sharif's character drops a metal instrument into the glass beaker, which overlaps/cuts over to the exterior streetcar bells dingling.
I have watched this restored on the big screen (as with LoA). It is truly an epic. So much in this film. It shows the idealism of revolution that will always unravel into barbarism and death. Too many think they can live above the atrocities, but nobody escapes. And yes, the train sequences are impressive.
Soooo glad to see a reaction for this film!!! 😊 So much fun!
You are the first reactor to Dr. Zhivago! Omar Sharif is in “The Far Pavilions” (love it!) and “The Yellow Rolls Royce.”
Tom Courtenay was in “The Dresser” with Albert Finney! “Stop. that. train!!!!!”
Great reaction
The instrument shown at the beginning of the film is a balalaika. The instrument used in The Third Man is a zither.
Lean was such a master of editing, cross-cutting the putting down of the political rally with the loss of Lara's virginity and ending with a close-up of blood in the snow
Love that you prefaced the movie by some very interesting background information. Good job.
Just found your reactions - very enjoyable. Love your passion and detailed analysis, and especially the background research you do. You have definitely got some good taste in movies, and music scores, too. Looking forward to revisiting many great films on your channel.
Lean got himself an amazing, wildly mixed-up cast. As Russians he has Brits from both the classical theatre (Ralph Richardson etc) and the new 60s realism (Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, Rita Tushingham), an American from the Method school (Rod Steiger as Victor), one Egyptian, and Charlie Chaplin's daughter. The only part of it that doesn't quite gel is the minor roles who have been dubbed -- filming in Spain, they used a lot of actors with inappropriate accents that had to be revoiced.
Possible follow-up viewing: Christie and Courtenay are adorable in Billy Liar; Rod Steiger is intense and repellant in many films, In the Heat of the Night is pretty great. Omar never really had a moment like this again but Funny Girl is great fun. Rita Tushingham made a stunning debut in A Taste of Honey and Alec Guinness is in many, many David Lean films as well as Star Wars, Kind Hearts and Coronets (playing eight roles), and many more.
7:12 The instrument is a balalaika. The "The Third Man" theme was played on a zither.
The musical instrument is a Russian Balalaika. The Third Man was a Zither
One of the best films ever made and I appreciate you bringing it
Hi Mia Tiffany have you seen Mrs Miniver (1942) yet? If you haven't seen it I recommend it a moving drama about an Upper Middle Class English Family learning to cope with war told in a series of dramatic vignettes the family headed by the lovely and gracious matriarch endures the departure of the father for the beaches at Dunkirk the discovery of a wounded Nazi pilot the death of the daughter in law in an air raid and the entry of the son into the Royal Air Force, it was the first movie with a plot line centered on World War 2 to win an Oscar honored at the 15th Academy Awards in 1943.
I second Mrs. Miniver - I love that film and Greer Garson should not be forgotten! She was a lovely lady, "The Pink Lady", she was called, for her strawberry blonde hair and rosy complexion. Of course it was a propaganda film to get the US involved in WWII, but it was still touching and heartfelt.
Too many spoilers!!!!
@@catherinelw9365 There was also a sequel in 1950 called The Miniver Story, Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon Reprised thier roles from the 1942 Original Classic.
Middle class? Perhaps Upper Middle class.
I love the costumes in this movie as well! Eastern European fashion was beautiful then, as well as Austrian and German. All leading up to the early 20th century. If you haven't seen them, I recommend Max Ophuls' films. "The Earrings Of Madame De" for example, you're in for an aesthetic treat!
Ok wait.....the intro cracked me up when you had to stop and change your sweater, lol! So funny. I was wondering about that!
Lol! I was like “what was I thinking?!?” 😂😂
"Far From the Madding Crowd" is another great movie with Julie Christie. Also starring Peter Finch, Terence Stamp & Alan Bates as the three men in love with her.
Being something of a "Dr. Zhivago" aficionado, I was very impressed with the accuracy of the facts presented before the film and with the images selected.
That was a good idea for this particular classic film.
And we couldn't be in more agreement concerning Omar Sharif, as "Dr. Zhivago", who brought to the role such believable compassion, intelligence, and - at the same time - a kind of empathetic mysticism, in my Not, so humble opinion.
Lastly, many thanks for creating a Reaction video for "Dr. Zhivago", for I hope that it may engender more contemporary interest in this wonderful movie among "TH-camrs".
Peace and Joy, good health, Blessings and Grace to you, and to all of your family and friends from Santa Fe, NM.
Omg, I love your reactions to this movie!
Thank you!! 😁
The major theme is called Lara's theme and it was a big hit.
Great video reaction
Damn, I’m not the only one who thought that Peter O’Toole and Julie Christie look alike.
Lol! YESS! Uncanny resemblance!!
Yes, i was waiting for this! Can i recommend a movie? Random Harvest, with Greer Garson and Ronald Colman.
Yes Yes Yes
@@paulpeacock1181 Yes yes yes yes, and yes.
And NO SPOILERS please!
Greer Garson at her most luminous! Wonderful movie.
Yes, please.
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Omar Sharif could have starred in as many movies as he wanted, especially after "Dr Zhivago" was such a big hit, but I suppose, that he preferred being a good and righteous family man and writing a widely syndicated newspaper column on the popular card game, Bridge, of which he was an expert. He still appeared in movies occasionally. He's a cool guy.
He was the leading man in Funny Girl. I saw that with a bunch of girlfriends and we all fell in love with him!
@@catherinelw9365 Commissar Zacharia in "the burglars" with Jean-Paul Belmondo
He was also a professional gambler
@@kruuyaiSometimes he was presenting the trifecta on french television
@@monnezzapromizoulin5169 such a satisfying caper film, with some of the best action sequences. Do you remember how Zacharias meets his fate? Pop quiz: What other actor in what other movie is dispatched in the same way?
"why is he so intense"? Because he's played by Klaus Kinski.
Best drama of middle-class people facing the end of the Russian Empire. The Soviets were so pissed at the author getting a Nobel Prize for Literature, they wouldn't allow him to go get it. Nicholas & Alexandra was the best movie about the royalty. Fall Of Eagles series when it covers Lenin (starring Patrick Stewart) is the best coverage of the revolutionaries.
Geraldine Chaplin is the daughter of Charlie Chaplin and the mother of Oona Chaplin who played Talisa in GoT.
You are a good movie critic, this movie is one of my favorite movies!
Actually Zhivago's mother's musical instrument was a balalaika. The instrument used for the iconic theme in The Third Man was a zither.
So, that's two of my ALL time favs you've covered. This and "Once upon a time, there was a plaid overnight case..." One more for the trifecta. "The Graduate." Now I'm going to leave you with just one word... "Plastics..."
As saw the movie during its first run...But I saw it later in 1968 in German in Berlin about a half block from the Berlin Wall...and somehow it was more meaningful in that setting. But a couple of years ago I read the book and I think the most amazing part of the film is that they were able to distill any sort of screenplay from this complicated book. Integrating this complicated novel in a coherent screenplay was the biggest miracle of all. My late wife and I saw the restored version in a theater a few years ago and it was more vibrant than the first. I love David Lean's work. I think Lawrence is one of the top three films of all time...but Zhivago color, cinematography, and story line (esp. compared to the book) make it very special.
Omar Sharif was in one of my favorite movies: “The Far Pavilions” (1984). He played “the master of horse” in an Indian royal family.
Also in “The Far Pavilions”: Art Malik (true lies, the jewel in the crown), Amy Irving (Stephen Spielberg’s ex-wife), Rupert Everett (actor and Madonna’s former friend) and Robert Hardy (the commander, was also the minister of magic in Harry Potter movies).
Alec Guinness was in my mother’s favorite movie: The Ladykillers (1955).
Julie Christie was madame rosinska in Harry Potter “the prisoner of Azkaban.”
Omg i want to comment so much information about this movie for you but I don’t even have the time to type it all out 😅 you should definitely read up as much info on this as you can because it’s so fascinating! I also have some recommended reading: the book itself, Anna Pasternak’s “Lara”(she’s the grand-niece of Boris Pasternak) who documents Boris and Olga’s romance which Zhivago is based.
If you know anything about the Romanovs’ fall and rise of communism, it helps put everything about Zhivago’s character into light. He’s so pure and can’t help but see beauty in everything due to his poetic side, but the government was going in the complete opposite direction. And Omar captures this so beautifully. There is also a 2002 mini series of Doctor Zhivago starring Hans Matheson and Kiera Knightly(Lara) that’s a little closer to the book and is also quite beautiful that you should absolutely watch as well. Matheson also plays Yuri sooo accurately and even said himself that it’s the closest he’s ever felt to any character.
Doctor Zhivago was also made into a musical and went on Broadway in 2015. The music is gorgeous and they even kept “Lara’s Theme/Somewhere My Love” in the show. The whole soundtrack is available in Spotify!
If you have time now to share more...please do. I would love it. This movie and book deserve as much background as possible. 🙏🏻
My favorite factoid about this movie is that the younger actresses, in the height of London's Mod subculture, refused to grow their hair out or to be styled in authentic period styles during the lengthy production. Lean eventually gave up arguing and went with their choices, augmented in some cases by wigs.
That was a sixties thing, or rather it was a prominent thing in the sixties. Any period film with a woman in it had her styled like she just walked in off the street. I wasn’t necessarily just the stylists that demanded this or the actresses in question or the producers, it was just how things were done. The idea was they didn’t want an audience distracted by an unusual hair or makeup style. That makes sense, if an audience isn’t given much credit.
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Mia, you are an excellent reactor. But mostly I admire your willingness to take on classic movies that other reactors shy (run!) away from (Dr. Zhivago, White Heat, The African Queen). Subscribed.
Thank you so much, Jeffrey 😊 and thanks for watching!
Wow! At least someone watching real movies!
My father and his parents and grandparents were put on a train like that, not willingly, as imperialist capitalist pigs to exile in Siberia.
First on a train, then river barges out into the middle of nowhere.
Omar Sharif loved the game of Bridge. He had a syndicated Bridge game synopsis usually in the comic section of newspapers.
Maybe I have it wrong, but I thought that the woman who almost died from drinking the poison was Lara's mother. She tried to delete herself when she found out about Komarovski forcing himself on Lara. The piano piece being performed when the doctor is called is the famous Rachmaninov Prelude in gm, which is a kind of military march. It has been recorded a zillion times, including a famous recording by Van Cliburn. In 1910 or whenever the movie takes place, there were no recordings so it makes sense it's being performed for an audience of listeners.
One of my Favourite films amongst other greats
The incident with the mutiny of the soldiers was based on an actual event
during the beginning of the Russian Revolution... where Russians left
misery and entered into pure hell.
In the scene where the woman runs alongside the train with her baby to escape the ruins of her village, the running woman slipped and accidentally fell and was run over by the train and killed.
I believe I know enough to know what you'll love, and you'll love "Random Harvest". It wasn't my idea originally, but someone else posted the recommendation below and I thought "YES! She'll love it, and we'll love watching her love it!"
Mia, great commentator.
Also, Try "Nicholas and Alexandra" to see same events from the Monarchs view. Also a great film from 1973 I think.
Rita Tushingham (spell?) who plays Laura’s daughter in zhivago is also in another movie called The Trap with Oliver Reed. Her character does not utter a word in the whole movie. A great performance. If you have a chance you should check it out.
A must see, The Barbarian and the Geisha starring John Wayne and Eiko Ando.
I am 82 yrs old. This movie came out when I gave birth to my first child.... Who will be 60 next year. In this part of Dr. Zhivago. It's now the Soviet Union. Yes. Pasha becomes. Strelnikov.
لطالما احببت هذا الفيلم والإخراج والتمثيل وشاهدته عده مرات
You would love "Les Miserables" with Russel Crowe.
Not from this class time period of film, but the play and the subject matter are classic.
Its an amazing film effort of the play
Oh yes! I've seen that one many times! Definitely one of my favorites!
One "Must Love Dogs" and one must love "Zhivago" to be in my orbit. I'm a man of simple standards.
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Interesting tidbit here, Geraldine Chaplin is the daughter of Charlie Chaplin!
New subscriber! Really enjoying your reactions to all the classics!!! I'd love for you to check out All About Eve, The Birds, Dial M For Murder, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane, A Streetcar Named Desire, Breakfast at Tiffany's and the original The Parent Trap! Keep up the great videos!
Was there a movie that portrayed encounters and farewells so passionately?
Every time I see a movie like this, I feel that the movie should return to its origin, throwing away the flashy explosions and CG.
Hi Mia…nunu loves you so much! You’re my favorite.
First may I say I discovered you by accident. Dr Zhivago is my favorite movie of all time I'm 56 years old and discovered this movie at 14. Everything about this movie is perfect. The scenery, the music, the historical story, the acting. When videotape became so popular, I made sure I had this. Then, dvd. Within the last 3 years I have been really trying to find a free app to get this movie on my phone and I found it 2 years ago and having access to this movie at any given time is very comforting to me. But I was looking at TH-cam about Dr Zhivago and you popped up. Thoroughly enjoyed your commentary.
Russia became The Soviet Union around 1917-1918. Until its demise in 1998. Early USSR, was brutal under Lenin, Trotsky and then Stalin, which is where this movie starts, under Stalin regime.
The most interesting and best acted characters are the side characters: Komarovsy (the great Rod Steiger) and Pascha (Tom Courtenay). And even the villain Komarowsy has some important and true lines to say: Yes, it's the idealists like Pascha who breed unhappiness...
Balalaika Russian guitar-My favorite. I have the movie.
Lara's mother tried to commit suicide because she knew what was happening between Victor and Lara. A woman knows....
FYI - Cavalry and Calvary are two different things.
One sad note I read about. The lady chasing after the train, just before intermission, was actually killed making that shot. That fall was real.
The actress/stuntwoman was injured not killed, she waa back on set 3 weeks later, her bulky clothing had helped buffer her.
Lean made so many meticulously nuanced and beautiful movies. I love that you're discovering them for the first time. Please add his adaptations of the Dickens classics Great Expectations and Oliver Twist to your watchlist, I've been watching them from the age of six or seven and they never fail to grab me and hold my attention throughout (although, it must be said, Guiness' portrayal of Fagin in Oliver Twist is somewhat, uh, problematic when viewed with the modern eye). Keep loving movies and we'll keep enjoying them with you
Guinness played the part as Dickens wrote it, didn’t he? I’m not saying the role is not problematic, but I don’t understand blaming Alec Guinness for that, unless one is not allowed to blame Charles Dickens?
Great Reaction! I can not wait for Part 2 : I suggest fore the EPIC Score category " Once Upon A Time In The West" directed by Sergio Leone and music score by the Great (Ennio Morricone)