This movie was a horror/comedy. Horror without the gore, and a comedy without the laughs. I gasped so many times at both, but could not look away. This was brutal/hilarious/amazing/stunning. Pure audacity, but with a point, and not for the sake of audacity alone. Burton get the guests speech is beyond the mark. Taylor just kills. I can't imagine watching this and feeling ambivalent after. And that's how you play get the guests.
26:00 - THAT'S THE POINT. YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO LOOK IT UP. YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO JUST GET IT. IT'S CALLED: "THOUGHT PROVOCATION" BECAUSE IT MAKES YOU THINK.
I've watched this film many times over decades and still wince with shock when Taylor's head actually bounces hard off the car during the row with Burton outside the bar. That she just carries on with the scene after that resounding crack on the back of her skull is impressive to say the least.
Liz and Richard really acted up a storm! Sandy was good too. George was not in the same league but he was ok. The scene with the rifle/umbrella was classic. The "boy" introduced a whole new character by his absence. Truly a great movie.
This is one of the best play adaptations ive ever seen, the only other one i can think of is "true west " by sam shepherd with John Malcovitch. I think they made that into a tv drama. Everyone in the film version of, Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf.played it brilliantly it's a great film that's intense and full of drama, it's a 60s film that is just as good today as when it was made. It's truly amazing i loved it.
Understand George and Martha will give you a head start in understanding Becket, Sartre, Camus, some Dostoyevski, but doing so ain't fun and that is in part the point.
The beauty of the performances is that Burton and Taylor both knew George and Martha, they'd lived the life and needed no internal direction...that is the sub-text that invests the whole thing with such lacerating truths. Sandy Dennis and George Segal merely act. The guy talking negatively, with all his trashy language, really hasn't lived a life at all.
I was so into this review, the insight, the unique observations, the disagreement... and then suddenly this incredibly vulgar description of this guy's experience of Elizabeth Taylor repulsed me incredibly. It was disgusting and devalued the rest of the conversation. I go to the theater to be disturbed, but I don't listen to film reviews to hear about someone's masturbatory fantasies. Gross.
Agreed. He sounds like some idiotic kid who never gets laid, and eventually becomes a worthless old fart, even more irrelevant than the generation that he’s currently mocking 🙄
The people who made this video brought way to much stuff into it, it has no direction. I had hoped that they would stick to an analysis of the various scenes and make observations about ways the actor's characters interacted with each other. Instead, the whole thing got bogged down in psychoanalyzing historical American culture. A big disappointment.
Just watched this (not knowing it was such a huge classic) simply cuz it was Burton & Taylor.....as someone who grew up in a emotional & physically abusive household I found myself grinding my teeth 2 the point of pain trying to deal w/ the verbal wars. My understanding of their ACTUAL marriage is that it was A LOT like George & Martha IRL but I had a repulsive reaction to most of this film.....Then the ending shocked me into oblivion.
You seem to miss Albee's point (or fail to convey it in your review). We are all George and Martha. Just more self-deluded, subtle, and perhaps fortunate versions of them. There is nothing unique about them other than their characters being written so over the top so as to better convey the plays real meaning. See more of his early work and you will understand.
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@@AndrewRudin I have A Delicate Balance - NOTHING boring about it! It's heartbreaking and beautiful. Kate at her best in one of her last roles I think. The entire cast is brilliant...."rust, bones, and the wind. I'm sorry about the coffee Edna."
Nice review but I couldn’t sit through this film at all. It was way too talkie for me and I just couldn’t understand any of it or the ideas Nichols was going for
I didn’t understand the film when I younger either, but with age comes wisdom. Now the movie gets more profound each time I see it! It’s much easier to sit through the film than to sit through this farce of a review about it.
One of my favorite movies great acting edgy and passionate! Edward Albee must’ve written this soberly so I judge his play script not merely hearing the rants of drunken fools. My Two points: 1) the conclusion after dawn wrestle away their tragic tirades and George’s betrayal of their matrimonial myth the resolution of their wedded truth unfolds. Saint George slayed the dragon with his foot upon its neck. Martha in the end accepted its defeat as a good thing. She too could not rid the dragon-monkey from off her back. So you watch her accept however reluctantly her husband’s noble gift. 2) the George -Martha Washington for America analogy has merit. But your comments that our nation was founded on an illusion a sickly sweet wannabe nursery story does an injustice to the Declaration of Independence and the amendments which for hundreds of years have proved in the highest courts of law and upon the pavement of the real world: our nation has granted men and women of this country liberty, fundamental human rights to speak freely, assemble and meet and worship or publish in the free press their views. Those 240 years have not been that of delusion but of a dream realized not found in any other country on the earth. The big bad wolf of delusion which George had killed would be the equivalent to those despised societies which promise freedom if the people would only bow down to its dictator and tyrant. Americans have rebelled against the tyrant and fought wars against these tyrants( hitler moussoli, Stalin and others). The closing scene to me IMHO is how the main characters accept who they are, childless yet together, free to love each other and themselves regardless of their barrenness. They ultimately embraced by accepting their true selves free to love unconditionally.
When. Martha leans against the screen door you hear of her love for George (America) who she loved- him for all his flawed nobility. Elizabeth’s greatest tender scene you have to admit.
This movie was a horror/comedy. Horror without the gore, and a comedy without the laughs. I gasped so many times at both, but could not look away. This was brutal/hilarious/amazing/stunning. Pure audacity, but with a point, and not for the sake of audacity alone. Burton get the guests speech is beyond the mark. Taylor just kills. I can't imagine watching this and feeling ambivalent after. And that's how you play get the guests.
26:00 - THAT'S THE POINT. YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO LOOK IT UP. YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO JUST GET IT. IT'S CALLED: "THOUGHT PROVOCATION" BECAUSE IT MAKES YOU THINK.
The greatest play and movie of the 20th century. Liz's Martha is monumental.
This movie is about two people who love each other, but have built a marriage all around lies and they must face them at the end of the of the day.
I've watched this film many times over decades and still wince with shock when Taylor's head actually bounces hard off the car during the row with Burton outside the bar. That she just carries on with the scene after that resounding crack on the back of her skull is impressive to say the least.
Liz and Richard really acted up a storm! Sandy was good too. George was not in the same league but he was ok. The scene with the rifle/umbrella was classic. The "boy" introduced a whole new character by his absence. Truly a great movie.
This is one of the best play adaptations ive ever seen, the only other one i can think of is "true west " by sam shepherd with John Malcovitch. I think they made that into a tv drama. Everyone in the film version of, Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf.played it brilliantly it's a great film that's intense and full of drama, it's a 60s film that is just as good today as when it was made. It's truly amazing i loved it.
Understand George and Martha will give you a head start in understanding Becket, Sartre, Camus, some Dostoyevski, but doing so ain't fun and that is in part the point.
and Tennesee Williams
The beauty of the performances is that Burton and Taylor both knew George and Martha, they'd lived the life and needed no internal direction...that is the sub-text that invests the whole thing with such lacerating truths. Sandy Dennis and George Segal merely act. The guy talking negatively, with all his trashy language, really hasn't lived a life at all.
I was so into this review, the insight, the unique observations, the disagreement... and then suddenly this incredibly vulgar description of this guy's experience of Elizabeth Taylor repulsed me incredibly. It was disgusting and devalued the rest of the conversation. I go to the theater to be disturbed, but I don't listen to film reviews to hear about someone's masturbatory fantasies. Gross.
Agreed. He sounds like some idiotic kid who never gets laid, and eventually becomes a worthless old fart, even more irrelevant than the generation that he’s currently mocking 🙄
The people who made this video brought way to much stuff into it, it has no direction. I had hoped that they would stick to an analysis of the various scenes and make observations about ways the actor's characters interacted with each other. Instead, the whole thing got bogged down in psychoanalyzing historical American culture. A big disappointment.
Just watched this (not knowing it was such a huge classic) simply cuz it was Burton & Taylor.....as someone who grew up in a emotional & physically abusive household I found myself grinding my teeth 2 the point of pain trying to deal w/ the verbal wars. My understanding of their ACTUAL marriage is that it was A LOT like George & Martha IRL but I had a repulsive reaction to most of this film.....Then the ending shocked me into oblivion.
As my professor of Film History 101 once said of film criticism: "It's only an opinion."
You seem to miss Albee's point (or fail to convey it in your review). We are all George and Martha. Just more self-deluded, subtle, and perhaps fortunate versions of them. There is nothing unique about them other than their characters being written so over the top so as to better convey the plays real meaning. See more of his early work and you will understand.
I appreciate the point that you're wanting to underline, but your dismissive, patronizing tone makes me cringe.
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Shit, I’m married to Marta!
True .
A great piece of work!
and copious amounts of alcohol.
All I hear from your review is: I, I, I, I ........
A wonderful synopsis
This guy sounds just like Cory Booker
I never caught the name reference of 'George and Martha', until this doco! Shame on me!
I hate to burst Albee's bubble, but aside from "Virginia Woolf," he DID write boring plays.
Nothing boring about 3 Tall Women, or, IMO, A Delicate Balance.
@@AndrewRudin I have A Delicate Balance - NOTHING boring about it! It's heartbreaking and beautiful. Kate at her best in one of her last roles I think. The entire cast is brilliant...."rust, bones, and the wind. I'm sorry about the coffee Edna."
Nice review but I couldn’t sit through this film at all. It was way too talkie for me and I just couldn’t understand any of it or the ideas Nichols was going for
I didn’t understand the film when I younger either, but with age comes wisdom.
Now the movie gets more profound each time I see it!
It’s much easier to sit through the film than to sit through this farce of a review about it.
Elizabeth Teller?
One of my favorite movies great acting edgy and passionate! Edward Albee must’ve written this soberly so I judge his play script not merely hearing the rants of drunken fools. My Two points: 1) the conclusion after dawn wrestle away their tragic tirades and George’s betrayal of their matrimonial myth the resolution of their wedded truth unfolds. Saint George slayed the dragon with his foot upon its neck. Martha in the end accepted its defeat as a good thing. She too could not rid the dragon-monkey from off her back. So you watch her accept however reluctantly her husband’s noble gift. 2) the George -Martha Washington for America analogy has merit. But your comments that our nation was founded on an illusion a sickly sweet wannabe nursery story does an injustice to the Declaration of Independence and the amendments which for hundreds of years have proved in the highest courts of law and upon the pavement of the real world: our nation has granted men and women of this country liberty, fundamental human rights to speak freely, assemble and meet and worship or publish in the free press their views. Those 240 years have not been that of delusion but of a dream realized not found in any other country on the earth. The big bad wolf of delusion which George had killed would be the equivalent to those despised societies which promise freedom if the people would only bow down to its dictator and tyrant. Americans have rebelled against the tyrant and fought wars against these tyrants( hitler moussoli, Stalin and others). The closing scene to me IMHO is how the main characters accept who they are, childless yet together, free to love each other and themselves regardless of their barrenness. They ultimately embraced by accepting their true selves free to love unconditionally.
When. Martha leans against the screen door you hear of her love for George (America) who she loved- him for all his flawed nobility. Elizabeth’s greatest tender scene you have to admit.
huh
Gosh you talk too much .