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Doctor Zhivago. The Russians are a morose people
Posted on 9/22/15 at 12:11 am
Posted on 9/22/15 at 12:11 am
Beautifully made film, though.
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Posted on 9/22/15 at 6:55 am to Jim Rockford
When I was a just a high school kids, back in the nineties, I attended and helped run a conference made up of businessmen, organization leaders, heads of govt agencies. ect.ect.
We asked each of them questions to introduce them to the audience - name, age, postion, and for fun, favorite movie.
99% of these people had Dr. Zhivago as their favorite movie. That made quite an impression on me that this must be a classic film.
Now, I love Lawrence of Arabia & Bridge / River Kwai, but just have never been able to sit and watch all of this film.
We asked each of them questions to introduce them to the audience - name, age, postion, and for fun, favorite movie.
99% of these people had Dr. Zhivago as their favorite movie. That made quite an impression on me that this must be a classic film.
Now, I love Lawrence of Arabia & Bridge / River Kwai, but just have never been able to sit and watch all of this film.
Posted on 9/22/15 at 7:26 am to ScottFowler
Good movie but it never gets better. Everything just keeps getting worse
Posted on 9/22/15 at 7:50 am to Jim Rockford
"The Russian soul is a dark place." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Posted on 9/22/15 at 9:26 am to ScottFowler
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We asked each of them questions to introduce them to the audience - name, age, postion, and for fun, favorite movie.
99% of these people had Dr. Zhivago as their favorite movie. That made quite an impression on me that this must be a classic film.
Now, I love Lawrence of Arabia & Bridge / River Kwai, but just have never been able to sit and watch all of this film.
You mentioned two of my parent's favorite movies. My mother's favorite was Doctor Zhivago and my father's favorite was Lawrence of Arabia.
Posted on 9/22/15 at 9:30 am to madmaxvol
I personally could not get past the first hour of Doctor Zhivago.
Posted on 9/22/15 at 9:38 am to Jim Rockford
I should watch this. Might understand my gf better.
Posted on 9/22/15 at 11:56 pm to Jim Rockford
Except that when Russians see Zhivago, they complain about how English it is. Russians are vocal, boisterous, demonstrative people. In Zhivago they are presented as reserved and stiff upper lip -- like cliched Englishmen.
Posted on 9/23/15 at 12:47 am to Kafka
Well, these are Europeanized upper class Russians, who looked westward, and I believe one of the characters was half-English or at least had an English surname.
Posted on 9/23/15 at 1:46 am to Jim Rockford
Read some Chekhov, it'll chear you up.
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