More popular now than ever in his lifetime. 🙏📚

Well done. Faithful to the book.

At about little before 19 minutes in and after can you imagine having dinner at someone's house and then having to witness all of that ?

Self-loathing leads to ... more of the same. (Thx for posting a production I never saw.)

Cuts off abruptly at about 1:16:30 ... I don't know if he was going to say a little bit more just as the music was starting or if " Am I ? " really are the last words . Very good premise to this movie about Anne Frank and her diary and ... this woman here . Clear Bloom's acting was superb .

Yes, thank you. A bit of trivia: James Mason was originally set to play Lonoff. I do not know what caused him to drop out. This was probably for the best. Mason was a better actor than Sam Wanamaker, but Wanamaker fit the role better. I have always been disappointed that Mark Linn Baker was not in THE HUMAN STAIN or AMERICAN PASTORAL.

@sandrashevey8252

2 жыл бұрын

Mason born Moskowitz is my favourite actor. Unusual, he was never typecast. Do not know why he dropped out. Perhaps he felt if he played it he might become typecast in echt Jewish roles.

@timothymeehan181

5 ай бұрын

Mark Linn Baker was way over-hyped as a young actor. He’s simply too weak, too vanilla, nothing interesting or compelling about him….which is why his career (rightfully)fizzled, essentially….😱🎭

i guess this is one of those where you must read the book. this movie makes less and less sense the more it goes on.

@zharapatterson

3 жыл бұрын

You're right the book 📕is better. Its okay but, still read the book and anyway its just under two hundred pages.

@albertzayha8884

18 күн бұрын

It helped me immensely to read along in the book, as I watched the film (first time for both, for me). So glad to find this little film gem on KZread, since I could not find it in my unusually well-stocked local library. The filmed story also reads like a playscript, and could have been easily staged, given the limited setting.

I think Roth writes caricature, interspersed with eloquent philosopical passages which divert from the caricature. But it is caricature just the same and really in my opinion the reason he is published and touted. Adaptations of Roth do the same thing. The casting of this particular actor or the actor`s personal take on the character. The way he is photographed. Hard. Cornering him. Making him react to being cornered. Comes out fighting. Reading Claire Bloom`s account of the obsessions of Roth I really do not recognize my tribe. At Castle Howard Roth tells Bloom (kiddingly but still) `Touch the drapes but don`t ask how much per yard`. I mean if he had said it to me I would have looked aghast at the intended insult. But more importantly I would not have apprecaited the presumed relevance of the intended insult.

At 20:30 he says " I think of you as the Jew who got away " ... then he explains " ... yet despite that all you write about are Jews . "

Hope is too gloriously beautiful, Lonoff too prissy/handsome-ish/not heavy, earthbound, huff & puff masculine enuf, Nathan is too baby-faced cutesy, high-pitched - also not masculine enuf.

In conclusion Robert Harris and Polansky just plagiarized Roth ?

Agree but I would particularize it...not how `genties` think when they read `caricature` but how `antisemites` think...still may be closer than I suspect.

Now if the same scenario was to involve a Black man married to a White wife, would it have been played with such caricatures; scripted with such caricature; photographed with such caricature; cast with such caricature. The hard angle shots of the young girl`s profile to suggest a bad nose-job...crikes...talk about morbidity and prejudice. These people are not of another faith. They are of another caste.

She would be 35-25-35. LOL!! Or more than likely she would be a he as it appears not just from this story (the dramatization spells it out) but from Roth`s other work, the novelist`s contempt for women (primarily Jewish women) is coupled with an unresolved homosexual obsession.

@elynewman3021

3 жыл бұрын

re "unresolved homosexual obsession": i am currently reading now-infamous roth biography, which says that roth didn't like this production because he thought the actor who played roth/zuckerman was too effeminate!

@carolm3417

2 жыл бұрын

@@elynewman3021 Roth sure hid his "unresolved" obsession well! LOL. And I agree about this actor. Worse than Richard Benjamin

@sandrashevey8252

2 жыл бұрын

@@carolm3417 Jews are always cast in caricature. If they did a biopic of me they`d probably hire `Marilyn Michaels` to play the part. Or Barbra Streisand!