@deanduncan63Saw Frank Borzage’s adaptation of Hemingway’s #AFarewelltoArms. The book’s unbearably poignant, describing an individual …
… & collective tragedy so thorough that it practically adds up to utter negation. Borzage, attuned to sorrow …
… & yet so sublimely certain of the saving power of love between men and women, will have none of it …
… The plot’s really similar, but the sense of the thing is completely, even transcendentally distinct.
#AFarewelltoArms. An unfaithful adaptation? Maybe, rather, this reminds us that a source can sometimes serve as raw material …
… which can then be radically refashioned or refined. Fidelity needn’t always be the point. This here is fecundity.
#AFarewelltoArms. It’s too often assumed that all early sound pictures are sluggish, heavy-footed, uncinematic …
… Lies! The agility, the facility, the grandeur of this production demonstrate how much, suggest how often early sound films …
… exploited the medium & its potential to the very utmost degree. Thrilling!
#AFarewelltoArms. Early, pre-Code H-wood films often get discussed & marketed thusly: http://bit.ly/1rQv2uN …
… This trend, this tone, can get on my nerves. Leering like this creates a distortion, & obscures an insufficiently acknowledged fact: …
… It is appropriate for mature adults to see mature adult movies!