The Book is fantastic, but I think this movie misses the entire point of it by trying to make it a romance between Jake and Brett. That is probably the worst possible and most shallow view to take on this meaningfully rich story.
i don't get it. I agree with your review that The Sun is a great novel and ahead of its time. It just puzzles me why it's not even on the top ten Greatest novels of the 20th century while the Great Gatsby is on the 2nd. Gatsby is beautifully and meticulously crafted, no doubt, but the settings are much more explored than the characters and the plot is like a rundown soap opera story. The sun is definitely more influential and post modern, but why this treatment? Why?
@darcon81 Probably because the first third of the book is painful to read. Added to that, the dialog, albeit innovative for the time, is completely unrealistic. I think people tend to like the book more for the romanticism of what it described than for how it was actually composed.
@darcon81 The Sun Also Rises, like most of Hemingway's works, is relatively dry on the surface, but has a flood of metaphor and meaning lying just beneath. Someone that has only read the book once or twice, say a critic, will have a completely different view of it than someone who has read it over and over again, discovering new things each time.
@NoName21234 I was thinking the same thing. Even with greazy hair and incessant drinking and smoking, they would not have looked that awful that soon.
Grande filme! E que elenco! Ava Gardner, linda como sempre, tendo todos os astros ao seu redor.Tyrone Power em um papel meio ingrato. De impotente. Tendo Ava Gardner apaixonada por ele. Que destino mais cruel!
The action is supposedly set in the 1920s and what has always bothered me is that in the cab scene, you can see 1950s cars following the cab out the back window!
The Book is fantastic, but I think this movie misses the entire point of it by trying to make it a romance between Jake and Brett. That is probably the worst possible and most shallow view to take on this meaningfully rich story.
TheMoonwinder 2 weeks ago
Why wasn't there more Errol Flynn in the trailer?? :'(((
Emmytaytay1 1 month ago
i don't get it. I agree with your review that The Sun is a great novel and ahead of its time. It just puzzles me why it's not even on the top ten Greatest novels of the 20th century while the Great Gatsby is on the 2nd. Gatsby is beautifully and meticulously crafted, no doubt, but the settings are much more explored than the characters and the plot is like a rundown soap opera story. The sun is definitely more influential and post modern, but why this treatment? Why?
darcon81 1 month ago
@darcon81 Probably because the first third of the book is painful to read. Added to that, the dialog, albeit innovative for the time, is completely unrealistic. I think people tend to like the book more for the romanticism of what it described than for how it was actually composed.
amw1978dc 1 month ago
@darcon81 The Sun Also Rises, like most of Hemingway's works, is relatively dry on the surface, but has a flood of metaphor and meaning lying just beneath. Someone that has only read the book once or twice, say a critic, will have a completely different view of it than someone who has read it over and over again, discovering new things each time.
TheMoonwinder 2 weeks ago
"The most shocking thing a man has ever heard?" Impotence is surely awful. But the MOST shocking?
megaswenson 3 months ago 2
why are all the men so old? they're supposedto be in their early thirties, not fifties!
NoName21234 4 months ago
@NoName21234 I was thinking the same thing. Even with greazy hair and incessant drinking and smoking, they would not have looked that awful that soon.
megaswenson 3 months ago
I can't get over how much 2:01 looks like Sean Connery!
toby0cooper 5 months ago
Great Movie Great Cast!!!
logastra 7 months ago
Filmes como esse não são mais exibidos em Tv aberta. Por que será?
TheMarcio2014 7 months ago
Grande filme! E que elenco! Ava Gardner, linda como sempre, tendo todos os astros ao seu redor.Tyrone Power em um papel meio ingrato. De impotente. Tendo Ava Gardner apaixonada por ele. Que destino mais cruel!
TheMarcio2014 7 months ago
Felicidades Robert Evans the best torero
juanbosco31 8 months ago
Eh, fifty's cinematography is very hit or miss with me. I don't like how characters were typically portrayed.
LicoriceLain 11 months ago
The action is supposedly set in the 1920s and what has always bothered me is that in the cab scene, you can see 1950s cars following the cab out the back window!
lray1948 1 year ago