The Hustler Comments

  • Wilbert 2021-12-07 08:01:38

    1. It is definitely the most non-mainstream & anti-type sports movie I have ever watched. 2. The anti-climax setting of the two duels + the play of double irony: losing love-embracing victory, sacrificing career-escaping from the net of slavery; here, the "win" at the competitive level has become a satanic demon. 3. The two actors have excellent acting skills. 4. Excellent editing of exquisite photography and billiards duel. 5.perverted, twisted, crippled....

  • Troy 2021-12-07 08:01:38

    The choreography and editing are really good. The second-floor billiards hall has a good selection. The control of light and shadow also sees the technology, and the soundtrack can also be used. However, the arrangement of this simple story is obviously out of balance. The Newman duo came on stage, followed by a battle with rivals, and this area actually took half an hour, and the next hour was a love scene with a flat line of boring characters and the intervention of economic man Scott (this...

  • Birdie 2021-12-07 08:01:38

    Rewatching (the same year as Innocent People) is a masterpiece, but it is exhausting to watch. It's quite a strange one in the Hollywood script. It has the feeling of Hemingway + Fitz, meaningless and depraved anytime and anywhere. It is said to be a sports film, but in fact it is more like a youth film + socialist work. Photography and editing have a Hollywood + neo-realistic feel, good-looking real and rough modified. Paul Newman's acting skills are indeed not inferior to James Dean, and he...

  • Annette 2021-12-07 08:01:38

    071205 But the appearance of Paul Newman is outstanding. Compared with his later role, especially after the age of 40, the studio temperament of his experiential actor in this period is more prominent, showing a publicly aggressive male temperament. At this point, it looks like Marlon Brando. Let us think of Brando in the period of "Dock Storm", "Speed ​​Car Party" and "Street Car" not only because of Paul's white undershirt and slightly curled head, but also because of the cigarette dangling fr

  • Ashly 2021-12-07 08:01:38

    8. Newman and later played the same role in the true color of money, which can be regarded as a prequel. But how do I feel that this movie performed better than Newman later. Could it be that Newman had a sexy beard more than 20 years...

  • Victoria 2021-12-07 08:01:38

    Paul Newman's "H" series of films in the 1960s: Hustler (1961), Hud (1963), Harper (1966), Hombre...

  • Ulises 2021-12-07 08:01:38

    I don't know how to play billiards, and I don't have any feelings about the film itself, but I don't know why, in the last few minutes of the film, I actually liked it a bit. At the end of the song, have you found yourself back after the people are scattered on the scene? Newman's performance is...

  • Isadore 2021-12-07 08:01:38

    The translation of "The Hustler" is really Shaw! I see it as a prequel to "The Color of Money"! PN belongs to the category of young and heroic, mature and charming with old age, and coexisting with beautiful acting skills. The long mother, but the acting is very gentleman, the scorn is mixed with the righteousness, and it is not the same as the MB. The film is good, the kind of normal play, love is the biggest weapon is always the theme that American movies can’t escape?...

  • Amy 2021-12-07 08:01:38

    The hero moves towards a complete moral drama. Self-destruct. love. money. more than win or lose....

  • Rupert 2021-12-07 08:01:38

    62 The blockbuster films released are not film-professionals. I look at the old films very faintly, so the characters are in the middle of the shots, and I am...

Extended Reading

The Hustler quotes

  • [Fast Eddie is bothered because Bert called him a born loser]

    Fast Eddie: Cause, ya see, twice, Sarah... once at Ames with Minnesota Fats and then again at Arthur's, in that cheap, crummy pool room, now why'd I do it, Sarah? Why'd I do it? I coulda beat that guy, coulda beat 'im cold, he never woulda known. But I just hadda show 'im. Just hadda show those creeps and those punks what the game is like when it's great, when it's REALLY great. You know, like anything can be great, anything can be great. I don't care, BRICKLAYING can be great, if a guy knows. If he knows what he's doing and why and if he can make it come off. When I'm goin', I mean, when I'm REALLY goin' I feel like a... like a jockey must feel. He's sittin' on his horse, he's got all that speed and that power underneath him... he's comin' into the stretch, the pressure's on 'im, and he KNOWS... just feels... when to let it go and how much. Cause he's got everything workin' for 'im: timing, touch. It's a great feeling, boy, it's a real great feeling when you're right and you KNOW you're right. It's like all of a sudden I got oil in my arm. The pool cue's part of me. You know, it's uh - pool cue, it's got nerves in it. It's a piece of wood, it's got nerves in it. Feel the roll of those balls, you don't have to look, you just KNOW. You make shots that nobody's ever made before. I can play that game the way... NOBODY'S ever played it before.

    Sarah Packard: You're not a loser, Eddie, you're a winner. Some men never get to feel that way about anything.

  • Fast Eddie: You can't see it, can you, Charlie? I mean, you've never been able to see it. I came after him. And I'm gonna get him. I'm goin' with him all the way. The pool game is not over until Minnesota Fats says it's over. Is it over, Fats?