Preston Sturges -- Why He Was a Great Writer-Director
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As part of my Great Director series, here's the entry on PReston Struges. This video goes through Sturges' directorial work chronologically. For each movie, a theme is presented about Sturges' overall work.
One thesis is that Sturges combined the screwball comedy with social realism, and he talked openly in these movies about why he was doing it. He meditates in a "meta" way on his own work.
Another theme is what America is circa the early 1940s. It is the place of the ordinary person who can jump social classes, albeit usually on the basis of good luck plus fraud.
The movies discussed are: The Great McGinty; Christmas in July; The Lady Eve; Sullivan's Travels;; Hail the Conquering Hero; The Miracle of Morgan's Creek; The Great Moment; and Unfaithfully Yours.
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Appreciate the labour of love here, Christmas in July is of particular interest to me 👌🏽
thanks. try it and see. it'll only cost you an hour, and let me know what you think if you will!
I read his Autobiography
"Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges" recently & it was unapologetically charming. Like Lubitsch the question remains :
When has America ever been this sophisticated & witty ?
thank you.
Nice video. Disagree a bit on the Lady Eve. Thought Fonda was awesome. Sullivan's Travels is my favorite. I have five of his films in my collection which are the aforementioned plus Palm Beach Story, Hail, and Miracle. Miracle of Morgan' Creek may be his funniest and riskiest film. A slap in the face of the Hays Code.
thank you.
Miracle is nearly my all-time favourite.
Great comment and analysis. Keep it up. I will be getting hold of his movies and watching. Watched your piece on Chinatown - a movie I love - it was very good. Nicholson's best acting (Huston and Dunaway superb) and Gittes was a perfect fit for him. Great stuff.
thank you.
Christmas in July is one of my favorite movies. The moral is timeless. Your life can have value and be worthwhile even if your aren't rich and famous and even if you don't win first prize in the $25,000 Maxford House Coffee slogan contest.
excellent! thank you.
Sturges was brilliant! I showed his GREAT MCGINTY in my college American Government class for 25 years. There is no better film on US politics.
Excellent video. I've never seen a Preston Sturges film! A big blind spot for me. I will have to correct this!
thank you. enjoy!
Sociopolitical stuff aside, these films are clever and hilarious.
When you said Henry Fonda was stiff in the lady eve keep in mind he had only been in the movie business for six years so he was finding his voice as an actor
Terrific overview. Thanks!
you're welcome.
Preston Sturges is one of my inspirations to be a screenwriter and playwright.
wow, great. best of success to you.
@@LearningaboutMovies Thanks, I might follow his footsteps.
Hutton isn't "drunk and concussed", she's officially just concussed, to explain what is clearly drunk behavior (which the Hayes people would have taken issue with).
I love these movies! I used the watch them with my parents when I was young. You mention the Cohen brothers often, did you ever review oh brother where art thou?
And you should do Sergio Leone ☺️ I would love your commentary
thank you. yes, good ideas all. As for the Coens, yes, though probably that one is farther down on my list. nothing against it but Raising Arizona, Fargo, Lebowski, and a few others haven't been touched yet on this channel.
I read somewhere that the studios excised Thirty minutes of The Great Moment, making it incoherent in the process. "Hollywood is the only place where you can be stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder." William Faulkner.
that makes sense. great quote.
@@LearningaboutMovies, Of course, the same thing could be said about "Gnashville', as Lacy J. Dalton likes to call it.
Or, as I like to put it, "What do you call a hundred Hollywood and Nashville executives at the bottom of a lake? A promising, if only barely adequate, start,"