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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf |
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Black & White, 129 minutes, 1966, Written by Edward Albee, Director - Mike Nichols, Starring - Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Sandy Dennis, George Segal. |
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Grab a bottle of bourbon, a nice rock glass, unplug the phone and prepare to get sucked down into a hazy, confusing, hysterical, drunken pit of despair. The dialogue (thankfully left intact by Ernest Lehman-screenwriter) flies at warp speed over your head and is absotively, posilutely brilliant. I'm constantly rewinding so I can hear what I've missed. I've watched this film at least 15 times and I'm amazed at how much I can miss and what new dastardly isms I can find. I wonder if Elizabeth and Richard were married during the making of this film? If so, I don't know how their marriage ever survived it. How can people do this to each other? How bored and dejected do you have to be with life that you would stay in a relationship like this for so long? If you think you're in a bad relationship, hold it up to the Martha & George Litmus test and you'll be running into your baby's arms anew, I promise! Quotes & Stuff Robert Redford turned down the role of Nick Martha: Look, sweetheart, I can drink you under any goddamn table you want, so don't worry about me. Honey: Oh, I don't know, a little brandy maybe. Never mix, never worry! [Martha has changed into an embarrassingly tight and revealing outfit] Martha: I swear if you existed I'd divorce you. George: All I said was that our son, the apple of our three eyes, Martha being a cyclops, our son is a beanbag, and you get testy! Martha: You make me puke. George: Martha, in my mind you're buried in cement right up to the neck. No, up to the nose, it's much quieter. Martha: I am the Earth Mother and you are all flops. Honey: No if I can't do my interpretive dance I don't wanna dance at all, I'll just sit here. George: w...an uncertain, noisy, relaxed quality? A quietly, noisy, relaxed intensity? |
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Can you say black as pitch comedy? This is the story of Martha & George. 2 people that have been married for hundreds and hundreds of years. The way they know every pore of each other's psyche makes me wanna lock myself up and never run into another human being as long as I live. You will be mentally exhausted by the time you finish with this film. Hell, I know someone who was actually in the play and he assures me that it is much more physically exhausting to perform than it is to watch. I don't know how he ever survived.