Marathon Man Movie Streaming
Lundi, mars 8th, 2010 |
Marathon Man Movie Streaming.
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I’ll spare you a long talk about the movie, except that it’s one of the best thrillers ever made. Enough said. Now for this new DVD. Finally we get this classic in widescreen, that alone should please many fans. (-The opening credit scene has a different letterboxing than the rest of the movie, for some reason.) The extras will make you drool !. A new documentary with most of the people involved with the movie, except Olivier, of course. Sadly, neither William Devane, Fritz Weaver, Richard Bright or the director take part. Still, it’s great to hear the stories surrounding this excellent suspense movie, like why it was decided to give Olivier’s character that last infamous meal !. -But it makes sense, considering what Hoffman’s character went through. At one point when talking about Olivier, Hoffman is almost in tears. Touching. Strangely enough, I found the full-screen clips shown during the documentary to be sharper than the movie itself presented on this DVD. Stll, you must get this release, even if the price is a little high. There’s also a very good 70s making-of featurette with interviews. Take ANY thriller made today, compare it to “Marathon Man”, and “Marathon Man” will win on ALL levels. It’s as simple as that.
One of the great suspense dramas of the 1970s, MARATHON MAN is a somewhat violent buy often stylish and sinister intrigue thriller that remains a high watermark of its genre.
Dustin Hoffman portrays the Columbia University graduate student and marathon runner who becomes caught up in a deadly game involving smuggled diamonds belonging to a Nazi fugitive (Laurence Olivier). Hoffman’s brother (Roy Scheider) was one of the couriers helping to transport the diamonds, which are now in a safety deposit box in a Manhattan bank; and when Olivier kills Scheider, it is assumed by Olivier and his henchmen that Hoffman knows something about them. He is strapped to a dental chair in an abandoned warehouse, forced to undergo dental torture at the hands of the Nazi, who had been a dentist. Olivier keeps asking him numerous time, “Is It Safe?” (regarding the diamond stash). Hoffman doesn’t know a thing, but this doesn’t stop Olivier from performing a root canal–one of the most squeamish sequences in cinematic history.
Excellently directed by John Schlesinger and scripted by William Goldman (from his own novel), MARATHON MAN features a typically fine performance by Hoffman as the man in the middle, and Olivier, arguably the greatest actor that ever lived, as the very devious Nazi fugitive. Scheider, who was brilliant in JAWS, scores more points here, as do William Devane and Marthe Keller. The opening sequence, a vicious and somewhat hilarious car-to-car argument between an irate Jew and Olivier’s brother which ends in a collision with an oil truck, sets the story’s machinations off, and is deftly handled by Schlesinger in a manner Hitchcock would have admired.
If you have a fear of dentists, of course, you may want to steer clear of MARATHON MAN. But if intense suspense is your game, this is as good a film to start with.
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