Archived: The Bad and the Beautiful

The Bad and the Beautiful

feature film, romantic drama, USA, 1952

DIRECTED BY: Vincente Minnelli

CONTENT:

Pretending Jonathan Shields is an immoral currently unemployed Hollywood producer to whom many people in the film industry owe their success. Among them are acting star Georgia Lorrison, screenwriter James Lee Bartlow and director Fred Amiel, Shields’ former collaborators whom he one day invites to a joint gathering. Shields has an idea for a new project, and Georgia, Bartlow and Amiel could help him make it happen. But during his career, he ruthlessly exploited all three, thus exploiting and hurting Georgia by entering into an intimate relationship with her, and ruthlessly manipulating both Bartlow and Amiel. During Shields’ conversation with all three, the reasons that led to the termination of their once successful collaboration and which created a deep-seated hatred will come to light.

Won five Oscars in 1953, including Best Supporting Actress (Gloria Grahame), Screenplay (Charles Schnee) and Black and White Photography (Robert Surtees), while the brilliant Kirk Douglas had to settle for a nomination for Best Leading Actor. , an excellent drama by Vincent Minnelli (Meet in St. Louise, Ziegfeld’s Madness, Madame Bovary, The Bride’s Father, The Father’s Little Gain, The Desire for Life) nominated for two Golden Globes the same year and screened at the Venice Film Festival, is considered one of the most successful Hollywood movies with a theme of Hollywood itself. Minneli won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for directing Gigi’s masterpiece, and in this film, whose screenplay is based on George Bradshaw’s story (How to Steal William Wyler’s Million), he masterfully depicts the dark face of the Hollywood “dream factory”. The story of betrayed friendship, love, hate and revenge originated during the first half of the 1950s, at a time when films were being made in Hollywood that questioned only the heart of the American film industry, and then Wilder’s Twilight Boulevard was created. and Let’s Sing in the Rain by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, and Mankiewicz’s Barefoot Countess, and Sugar’s Star is Born, and Hollywood or the Fall of Frank Tashlin. Minnelli’s film is characterized by masterful directing, impressive atmosphere due to a great photo of the three-time Oscar winner Robert Surtees (Quo Vadis, Ben-Hur, Bounty Ship Rebellion, The Last Movie Show), intelligent conception of a provocative story and very layered characters in the middle of the four which is ingenious and enterprising, but also neurotic and unscrupulous producer who is fantastically embodied by the winner of the honorary Academy Award Kirk Douglas (The Young Man with the Trumpet, The Desire for Life, Detective Story, Spartacus, The Showdown at OK Coral). The whole works great as a strong and nuanced moral, Douglas’ partners are the great Lana Turner (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Imitation of Life), Walter Pidgeon (Miss Miniver, The Forbidden Planet), Dick Powell (Happened Tomorrow, Goodbye Beauty) and Gloria Grahame (Wonderful Life, In a Lonely Place), and the extremely successful music was composed twice by Oscar nominee David Raskin (Laura, Pat and Mike, Carrie by William Wyler). It is worth noting that the first choice for the role of Jonathan Shields was Clark Gable, only for Kirk Douglas to step in after his refusal to hire.

B / W, 118 ′

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