How could he love the bette davis character so much after she treated him so badly and the other ladies in his life were so beautiful and treated him so well.
That's the way love does us sometimes. We want what we can't have, though logically we are better off being with someone else. We are also gluttons for punishment. Drama makes things more interesting and exciting, even though it's all BS, simplicity and true love are really what we need.
It's called obsession. In his case, he is a very wounded man, wounded by his insecurities cause by his club foot. Insecurities which have caused him self loathing, whether conscious or not. She represents in a very subconscious way what he feels about himself, only by having her love, he would fill that void he feels. The more she refuses and rejects him, the more she reinforces his own self loathing.
See this all the time. Harridan women with wonderfully kind and doting men. Same with lovely girls with controlling crass men.humans are strange aren’t they
Curiously, Of Human Bondage was unsuccessful in 1934. The criticisms were mixed about the film. The public didn't tolerate the way the waitress Mildred (Bette Davis) had infuriated the young medical student Philip (Leslie Howard). In between the lines the moralistic discourse is evident: educated males should not be involved emotionally with vulgar females and without cradle. Several RKO Radio Pictures stars declined to play Midred. However, Bette Davis's performance was highly praised and she was elevated to star status, not beauty, for the appearance of the waitress was sloppy, but for the talent. The absence of Bette in the nominations for the Oscar of better actress generated protests. The compensation came the following year, when she received the award for a performance that neither she liked in Dangerous. When Of Human Bondage went into production Bette was hired by Warner and was not satisfied with the production system, which didn't always give priority to quality. The actors participated in one production after another, and sometimes up to two at the same time. This was because the studios had to feed the movie circuits, all week, with new tapes. As everyone knows, there was no television and the most accessible entertainment was the movies. Bette starred in 22 films before Of Human Bondage. She had good roles in The Cabin in the Cotton, 20,000 Years in Sing Sing and The Working Man, but was not so lucky in other jobs. To be part of the cast of Of Human Bondage, Bette still had to participate in Fog Over Frisco, in which her character is murdered and disappears before the story ends. In 1934, the actress had already acted for Warner in Fashions of 1934 and Jimmy the Gent. Soon after Of Human Bondage, did, also, in the same year, Housewife.
If we're reviewing the Bette DaVIS movies of the 1930's thedn let's not forget her [and Leslie Howard] in "The Petrified Forest", along with a young Humphrey Bogart starting to do his "mad dog" criminal character types.
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How could he love the bette davis character so much after she treated him so badly and the other ladies in his life were so beautiful and treated him so well.
That's the way love does us sometimes. We want what we can't have, though logically we are better off being with someone else. We are also gluttons for punishment. Drama makes things more interesting and exciting, even though it's all BS, simplicity and true love are really what we need.
It's called obsession. In his case, he is a very wounded man, wounded by his insecurities cause by his club foot. Insecurities which have caused him self loathing, whether conscious or not. She represents in a very subconscious way what he feels about himself, only by having her love, he would fill that void he feels. The more she refuses and rejects him, the more she reinforces his own self loathing.
See this all the time. Harridan women with wonderfully kind and doting men. Same with lovely girls with controlling crass men.humans are strange aren’t they
@@johnaddeo2251 very, very well said!!!
Self trashing, masochism, low self esteem, learned behavior, who knws really.
I would bet that whoever wrote this script had first hand experience at being in a relationship with a sociopath.
Films today suck!! There is nothing like these classics.
Curiously, Of Human Bondage was unsuccessful in 1934. The criticisms were mixed about the film. The public didn't tolerate the way the waitress Mildred (Bette Davis) had infuriated the young medical student Philip (Leslie Howard). In between the lines the moralistic discourse is evident: educated males should not be involved emotionally with vulgar females and without cradle. Several RKO Radio Pictures stars declined to play Midred. However, Bette Davis's performance was highly praised and she was elevated to star status, not beauty, for the appearance of the waitress was sloppy, but for the talent. The absence of Bette in the nominations for the Oscar of better actress generated protests. The compensation came the following year, when she received the award for a performance that neither she liked in Dangerous. When Of Human Bondage went into production Bette was hired by Warner and was not satisfied with the production system, which didn't always give priority to quality. The actors participated in one production after another, and sometimes up to two at the same time. This was because the studios had to feed the movie circuits, all week, with new tapes. As everyone knows, there was no television and the most accessible entertainment was the movies. Bette starred in 22 films before Of Human Bondage. She had good roles in The Cabin in the Cotton, 20,000 Years in Sing Sing and The Working Man, but was not so lucky in other jobs. To be part of the cast of Of Human Bondage, Bette still had to participate in Fog Over Frisco, in which her character is murdered and disappears before the story ends. In 1934, the actress had already acted for Warner in Fashions of 1934 and Jimmy the Gent. Soon after Of Human Bondage, did, also, in the same year, Housewife.
If we're reviewing the Bette DaVIS movies of the 1930's thedn let's not forget her [and Leslie Howard] in "The Petrified Forest", along with a young Humphrey Bogart starting to do his "mad dog" criminal character types.
She battled Warner’s for six months to be allowed to be loaned out for this film. What a feisty lady
An absolute gem of a film, loved it so much I'd watch it again. Well worth your attention.
This movie is one of Betty Davis best
Best movie i love that one! Looking for that one on amazone ! My favorite actrice !
BETTE DAVIS WAS SO PRETTY AND TALENTED ❤
I feel so bad for Philip 😞 He really loved Mildred and she despised him as if he were nothing
She may have thought he would be bad in bed with his disabled foot
She looked beautiful although she was playing a low class waitress. Her vulgar clothes were not an obstacle too see her inner beauty.
Ernesto,
actually, she played it in a way to show she had only outer beauty.
I remember when me and my mother looked at this movie. Great movie 😀
Great film
Great movie thank you so much for the upload. Really appreciate it 😊
Funny my mom showed me this movie when i was little and then when I got older I watched her play Bets part.
I was hoping to make you more friendly...do you think it will?
At least he didn't slip in a roofie, or give her a Cosby Cocktail.
Facts 💯 : (1934).
The “bad guy role” had to represent a German of course.
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Yes, Leslie Howard. Always seems simpish to me.