Adapted by Simon Gray from his stage play and directed by Harold Pinter, the movie is a testament to Alan Bates, who, having originated the role on stage, delivers a tour-de-force performance, simultaneously witty, pathetic, and tragic.
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Directed by Jack Clayton, from an adaptation by Francis Ford Coppola, this was the third film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age masterpiece.
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The second scene is where the boys are horsing around and, wouldn’t you know it, they almost start pounding one another. Very sexy.
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Michael Cimino’s directorial debut – he also wrote the screenplay – was an enormous critical and commercial success and paved the way for his Oscar-winning triumph The Deer Hunter four years later. Blending humor, melancholy, and violence with a nod to the American road movie, the film boasts great buddy-film chemistry between Eastwood and Bridges.
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When we first meet FAGGOT, he is pleasuring himself on Eastwood’s shoe. Who was the dog who played him? Since the little rascal was uncredited, we will never know. Did the little fellow realize that the audience probably hated him as much as they hated his master. Was it nature or nurture? Where was animal protection in those dark days of 1975?
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