...to recreate life in the concentration camps. Sidney Lumet said he would not use reel news footage as the script called for.
Sidney Lumet:
"Nobody went to a concentration camp for me to do a movie. I did not want to remotely be involved with any exploitation of the Holocaust. I did not want this movie or any movie to use Holocaust in any "Hollywood" sense of the word."
its also the first movie to ever show nudity.
sharethis looks like such a great movie, they are going to show it on M-xs here in Canada on the 18th of Aug
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It's not the first movie "to ever show nudity" at all, don't be naive. As the Trivia page says, it was simply the first film that showed a woman's breasts to be granted the Production Code Seal of approval.
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Felan, Her breasts received my Seal of Approval, as well. (Sorry, I know my comment was too crass for a scene so emotionally powerful and like Mr. Nazerman, I would have covered her up, too...but gee, she really WAS quite beautiful, I must say.)
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I think this claim is inaccurate. An earler American film, "Promises, Promises" from 1963, is famous (or infamous) for featuring the first nude scene by a major American actress (Jayne Mansfield). Although I've never seen it, I'm told it is a truly awful film, despite the chance to see 60's sex symbol Mansfield naked.
A further note, "Promises, Promises" in retrospect almost wasn't the first to make this claim. Marilyn Monroe's last(unfinished)film "Something's Got To Give" (1962) featured footage of her swimming nude and poolside scenes showing obvious but restrained nudity. Sadly, Monroe died before filming was finished, and the film's troubled production is the sublect of a few good documentaries.
I just met David Friedkin's (screenwriter) son and he told me it was the first movie to use a flashback, and it was written as such into the screenplay.
shareWhatever David Friedkin's son may have told you, this wasn't the first movie to have a flashback. By 1964 the flashback was a time-honored film device used in literally hundreds of movies.
shareIrontiger, this movie is clearly not the first film to use flashbacks. Citizen Kane is nothing but flashbacks. you or Friedkin's son is sorely misinformed.
Dictated, but not read.
Has everybody forgotten The Great Dictator (1940)? Granted, its depiction of the camps was a bit naive, but it's easy to speak with 20/20 hindsight.
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...in this unflinchingly despairing movie is the Juano Hernandez character. The slow-thinking older man, so intrigued with intellectual thought which he haltingly absorbs, focusing on the pawnbroker as the one nearby potential friend to guide him into this world of the mind, and he's so coldly rejected.
I like to think that after that horrid, but electicutingly wake up finale, the pawnbroker will make his amends with the monster thug and keep the front going, out of fatalistic necessity, just to stay alive and sneak in acts of kindness (eg. the desperate pregnant housewife, a few extra bucks there) and give himself over to the aging potential friends who need him as desperately as he need them.
By the way, just saw this one for the first time today, after decades of avoiding it out of emotional terror, and it has me reeling!
Kapo was five years earlier.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052961/
There might be some earlier than that one.
Of course, Night and Fog (1955) is more heartbreaking than either of these.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048434/
A movie or a measure?
I'll have a cup of tea and tell you of my dreaming
Dreaming is free