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By Vivian 2022-11-05 21:37:30
[Film Review] Equus (1977) 8.2/10
Transposing Peter Shaffer's influential psychosexual play onto the celluloid, Sidney Lumet's EQUUS notches up Richard Burton's seventh and final Oscar nomination and puts a young Peter Firth on the map, who has been acted in the role in over one thousand times from Laurence Olivier's National Theatre to Broadway.
Burton plays married psychiatrist Martin Dysart, who works in a hospital for disturbed teenagers, his latest analysand is a 17-year-old Alan Strang (Firth), who,...
By Ocie 2022-10-17 13:00:07
17-year-old Alan was sent to psychiatrist Martin after stabbing six horses blind. During the conversation, Allen's fanatical love and hatred for horses made Martin also affected. He kept asking Allen and questioning himself. Is the spiritual home of people in the commercial society desolate and barren or colorful? When repressed, do you choose to run freely or follow tame? When there is a conflict, is it to challenge and fight or to give up oneself? Was Alan's stab at a horse callous...
By Monserrat 2022-09-30 12:01:07
A performance master of an era
The film earned Richard Burton his seventh Oscar nomination in 1978, and that year's Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.
After watching it, I really want to say, this is a purely dazzling film. The whole film is supported by his lines and narration. I can't imagine a second person playing his psychiatrist. role will be.
At first I saw that he became ill due to alcoholism in the mid-1970s, which seriously affected his actions, and sometimes he even had to do his best to shoot...
By Valentina 2022-07-05 23:27:02
"Richard Burton: "I Know If I Don't Come Back Now, I'll Never Come Back."
By Patricia Bosworth, The New York Times, April 4, 1976 Full text translation
A few weeks ago, Richard Burton returned to Broadway after 12 years in Peter Schaffer's psychological thriller "Equestrian." Like all his controversial behavior, his performance as the show's tortured child psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, generated controversy and discussion.
Some critics saw Burton's prolonged absence from the stage as diluting his artistry, while others saw his reputation as a...
By Meggie 2022-07-05 19:29:14
A master of facial expressions
Looking at Burton's acting skills from this group of photos, Burton's acting skills do not need to rely on video to rely on moving pictures to show, just like Burton never needs tears to express pain and sorrow, he refuses to act in tears because he does not need to be like other actors. Relying on tears like that, he can achieve a greater effect than tears with his expression and eyes.
The acting skills of a good actor can really be deeply felt from the photos. Even if you don't...
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By Summer 2023-09-27 13:17:25
I envy him. Still the unfortunate mortal who can see and even clearly distinguish the skylight replacement Never had a gallop can only draw from a strange child like a black hole that fills up more and more black Passion is his only existence squeeze Once dropped, there will be no more, just normal, just a ghost, inhuman hypocritical instruction from parents, not love, so his love can only flow to abstract flesh worship without proper...
By Clare 2023-09-04 13:36:35
A return to paganism and Dionysian...
By Simeon 2023-08-10 21:37:31
Adapted from the classic stage play of the same name, the film won the 1978 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, two Best Supporting Actor Awards and three Oscar nominations for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Altered Screenplay. Starring Richard Burton, the film has a strong religious flavor. Burton has a lot of monologues, and it feels a bit incomprehensible just by reading the English subtitles. I hope there is a subtitle team that can do the subtitles for this...
By Turner 2023-06-11 18:28:17
A psychological drama with a very thick text, which vividly reflects the sexual repression bound by religion. Jesus overlaps with the image of a horse here. The male protagonist's love for a horse means fanatical religious worship, and stabbing a blind horse's eyes is the result of sexual sprouting. Ashamed, in addition to the wonderful metaphor of the male protagonist, the interaction between the doctor and the male protagonist is also full of tension, such as Richard Burton's lines are too...
By Deron 2023-06-10 17:45:59
The movie itself is good, but if you look at it from a dramatic point of view, it's a relatively mediocre movie. The images of Ma and others are too concrete, and it is a psychological film in itself. We might as well use film language to express the psychological state that cannot be presented by drama in a more abstract way. As a result, it has now become a simple narrative, lacking the mystery of exploration. The psychiatrist is a bright spot, but lacks his own psychological span. It is...
Alan Strang: [to Dysart] Bloody Nosey Parker!
Horseman: I didn't know I'd get a loony, did I?
Martin Dysart: The thing is, I'm wearing that horse's head, myself. All reigned up in old language and old assumptions, straining to jump, clean hoofed onto a holding track of being, I only suspect is there. I can't see it because my educated, average head is being held at the wrong angle, I can't jump because the bit forbids it. My own basic force, my - horsepower - if you like, is too little.
