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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: Here we go. Here we go. The King rides out on Equus, mightiest of horses. Only I can ride him. His neck comes out of my body. It lifts in the dark! Equus. God slave. Now the King commands you. Tonight, we ride against them all. The hosts of bowler. The hosts of jodhpur. All those who show you off for their vanity. Tie rosettes on your head, for their vanity. Equus. Let's get them! Drop! Steady! Steady, steady, steady. That's it. Steady, steady. Cowboys are watching. Taking off their Stetsons. They know who we are! They're admiring us! Bowing low unto us! Come on, now! Show them... And Equus the mighty, rose against all! His enemies scattered! His enemies fall dead! Trample them. Trample them. Trample them. Turn! Trample them. Trample them. Trample them. Turn! Turn. Turn. Turn. Turn. Turn. Turn! Stiff! Stiff in the wind! My mane, stiff in the wind! I'm raw. I'm raw! Do you feel my raw? Do you feel me on you? On you? On you? I want to be inside you! I want to be inside you! And be you! Forever! One person! I love you! Bear me away! Make us now - one person! One person! One person! Ahhhhh! Ahhhhh! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ahhhhhh!
Dora Strang: If you knew God, doctor, you would know about the devil. The devil isn't made by what Mommy says or what Daddy says. The devil is there. Its an old fashioned word. But, a true thing.
Martin Dysart: I'm talking about passion, Heather. Do you know what that word meant originally? Suffering. The way you get your own spirit through your own suffering. Self-chosen. Self-made. This boy's done that. He's created his own desperate ceremony just, just to, just to ignite one flame of original ecstasy in a spiritless wasteland around him. Alright. He's destroyed for it. Horribly. He's virtually destroyed by it! But, one thing I know for sure, that boy has known a passion more ferocious than I have known in any second of my life. Let me tell you something, I envy it!
