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Clara 2023-05-12 11:18:45
Once you accept its fragmented narrative style, the film becomes interesting. It is wrapped in the shell of a prison film, but it has a deeper flavor, and even directly discusses the matter of imprisonment. Or should I say, this film is a biopic first, then a prison film. The entire narrative of the film, including Lancaster's performance, becomes more engrossing as it...
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Henri 2023-04-30 05:06:14
3.5. The notorious Alcatraz Island, "Brave Island" seems to be filmed here. Good rhythm. However, there is a lack of exciting rival scenes, and the prison guards, wardens, wives, etc. all show less of their humanity. After the transfer to Alcatelz, the protagonist and the bird no longer have an intertextual relationship, and the handling is not romantic enough. PS This island seems to be called Pelican Island before he...
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Leopold 2023-04-11 11:07:55
"But I've got no cake,...
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Winfield 2023-04-10 20:17:20
I only like the part about raising birds and the rest don't like the whole movie. It's too bloated and doesn't fit the viewing habits of modern...
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Jacinthe 2023-04-05 03:49:25
Saw this and was very...
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Rico 2023-04-04 22:05:46
You're still young and there's still so much to do, why don't you want to go on...
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Jamarcus 2023-03-04 20:57:14
What breaks the regular prison film is how individuals confront discipline in extreme ways. The protagonist never thinks about jailbreaking, because jailbreaking itself is an identification with discipline. Sitting in prison and giving up maternal love is to prove one point, you can't discipline me in any sense. Until the end, the protagonist is not released from prison, which is very difficult for movies in the...
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Corrine 2023-03-03 09:02:25
Real life adaptation! A plain and mature film, with a unique prison theme, there is not much ups and downs, but it is so flat and light, but it attracts the viewer little by little, more than two hours without feeling any decline... Although I am in prison, But the free heart will not be...
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General 2023-03-02 11:43:40
Although I don't like this English pronunciation, this kind of picture, but this is really a good...
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Jonas 2023-02-21 03:15:19
HP has watched a lot, and every time I want to change the title to "The Birdkeeper of...
Birdman of Alcatraz Comments
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Robert Stroud: Why did you come 2,000 miles for nothing? Just to see me once a month?
Stella Johnson: I came because I'm your wife, that's why. Bob, the only life I got is you.
Robert Stroud: Then you've got a damned poor future, old girl. I'm never gonna get outta here.
Stella Johnson: I could get a job in a factory. I could write letters every day. It would be like old times.
Robert Stroud: You'd wither away and die waiting. Forget it, Stell. It's the end of the line.
Robert Stroud: Please, Bob.
Robert Stroud: Now, listen to me. Listen carefully. You fought your heart out for me. You fought your heart out for me, but the sun's gone down. And don't look for it to rise again. I want you to pretend that I'm a dead man. I want you to pretend... that you're standin' on my grave.
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Harvey Shoemaker: Bob... I've been sent here as a delegate of the Bureau to make you an offer.
Robert Stroud: That's what I've been waiting for.
Harvey Shoemaker: Now the bureau is willing to let you keep your birds. You can even sell 'em. Now this is their official proposal. You can continue to raise and sell the birds, but the profits will be turned over to the prison welfare fund, and you will receive a salary in the form of a share of the profits. I consider that quite a generous offer under the circumstances. Frankly, it's more than I would have offered, had I the authority.
Albert Comstock: Well, Stroud?
Robert Stroud: Let me see if I understand you. You're proposing that the United States government go into the canary-bird business. That's against private enterprise. You sound like a Bolshevik, Harvey.
Albert Comstock: You have no legal right to raise canaries at all.
Robert Stroud: I know. Rule 60 of the Federal Bureau of Prisons Manual: "An inmate cannot be permitted to operate a business, no matter how legitimate, while in prison." That right?
Harvey Shoemaker: You quoted it correctly.
Robert Stroud: That's what I thought. That's why I'm confused. The rule says I can't have a business. You say I can, provided I give you the profits. It's reinventing regulations. It's not like you.
Albert Comstock: Mr. Shoemaker came all the way from Washington to try to work out a plan so you can keep your blasted birds.
Robert Stroud: Don't con an old con, Warden. He came because of public opinion, and you know it. 50,000 signatures on a petition. Congressmen jumping all over MacLeod's back. I think I got you over a barrel, Harvey.
Harvey Shoemaker: Is that you last word?
Robert Stroud: I could use more room. For my birds.
