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Lukas 2022-01-12 08:01:08
"Sullivan's Travels": Happiness is the greatest wealth of poverty (AFI100 TOP 061)
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Sullivan's Travels (1941) is
another Hollywood "Golden Age" Movie, I like it!
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Blaze 2022-01-12 08:01:08
Irony, over and over
7.4
Among the 1940s genre films, this one should be the most remake at this point in time. What I envisioned is that the director of the 93rd Academy winner moved into the van and started to travel west from Nevada to explore what kind of movie the modern nomads at the bottom look forward to—it’s...
Myrtle Anderson
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Destini 2022-03-24 09:03:00
3.5. The embarrassing first half of the farce was hijacked at the end and the silent bridge of "watching a movie" turned the tide. It can almost be said that there are few characters that impress me, but a few supporting characters (two housekeepers and an old man in a labor camp) make me feel very good with their wonderful lines. Dedicating an entire movie to the idea that only "comedy" (which happens to be Stritch's type) can bring happiness to the poor is also very didactic in itself. On the other hand, I just want to say that all of us should stay in our place and do our duty well.
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Samara 2022-03-24 09:03:00
this film is perfect. Every line in the first 15 mins is pure gold. "poverty is a positive plague"...I agree with every bit of its messages.
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John L. Sullivan: There's a lot to be said for making people laugh. Did you know that that's all some people have? It isn't much, but it's better than nothing in this cockeyed caravan.
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Burrows: Good morning, sir.
Burrows: I don't like it at all, sir. Fancy dress, I take it?
John L. Sullivan: What's the matter with it?
Burrows: I have never been sympathetic to the caricaturing of the poor and needy, sir.
John L. Sullivan: Who's caricaturing?
John L. Sullivan: I'm going out on the road to find out what it's like to be poor and needy and then I'm going to make a picture about it.
Burrows: If you'll permit me to say so, sir, the subject is not an interesting one. The poor know all about poverty and only the morbid rich would find the topic glamorous.
John L. Sullivan: But I'm doing it for the poor. Don't you understand?
Burrows: I doubt if they would appreciate it, sir. They rather resent the invasion of their privacy, I believe quite properly, sir. Also, such excursions can be extremely dangerous, sir. I worked for a gentleman once who likewise, with two friends, accoutered themselves as you have, sir, and then went out for a lark. They have not been heard from since.
