Category: 1950s
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Despite how heavily the melodrama weighs over the film, Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift’s chemistry carries the film all the way to its tragic climax. There’s something about Angela Vickers. George Eastman, the working-class nephew of the wealthy industrialist Charles Eastman, lands a job at the patriarch’s factory, where he starts dating his coworker Alice…
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Shane was a very interesting experience for me. I have not seen that many Westerns, but I was aware of their legacy, especially concerning masculinity and the pro-colonialist messages they contained. When I heard this film mythologized violence, I took it to mean that violence was mystified to become an unconscious part of the American…
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