He instinctivly knows how to illicit naturalistic, comfortable and utterly human performances from his casts and Sometimes a Great Notion is no exception. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In this chapter, the prologue contains a detailed description of the Old Stamper Place and the unsteady, constantly eroding riverbank upon which it balances. Once across the river at the Stampers’ dock, Evenwrite and Draeger realize they do not have. He dies in a way that is truly filled with grace and humor, and the scene is one of the several things in 'Sometimes a Great Notion' that make it worth seeing, even if its overall design is murky. They decide to take a boat to talk to Hank directly. Evenwrite blames the difficulties of the labor effort on the rain. Not only as an actor, but also as a director. On a rainy night, Evenwrite and Draeger are discussing what to do about the union strike and the Stampers. Newman is one of the finest artists ever to come out of Hollywood. This is a film that one can almost smell. The sense of time and place is impressively captured in the photography of rusting metal, dripping ferns, rotting wood and mildewed carpets. Kesey's rich descriptions of the land remain largely intact. Newman spent a great deal of time in my native Oregon researching the part and the film and his homework shows. The famous scene where Newman tries desperately to save Jaekel's character from drowning is heartbreakingly tragic and darkly comic. Who better that Henry Fonda to play Newman's father? Richard Jaekel richly earns the Oscar nomination as the dim-witted but enthusiastic born again lumberjack Joe-Ben. The dialogue while rather shallow and weak in spurts (Kesey's rich vernacular is lost)is overcome by a wonderful ensemble cast featuring some of America's finest. Ken Keseys One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest was one of the best novels of he 1962 season and certainly the most striking in many years. That said, Paul Newman and his production team have created a most admirable and solid, if rather top heavy adaption of Kesey's excellent novel. Kesey's prose while exceptionally cinematic in its description and action ironically proves unfilmable. Kesey's superb epic novel with its shifting points of view and verb tense is far too complex a work to adapt directly.
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