![]() ![]() ![]() Lee Remick is a character from another movie plopped into this rough and tumble Oregon backwoods scene, and the second leading man, a kind of implied narrator to it all, is played by little known Michael Serrazin, a pretty boy who holds his own but is uninspiring. The result is grossly unappreciated, because the strengths here make the flaws bearable. But Paul Newman, as lead character and, yes director (stepping in when the original director left), has tried. There are so many threads in the book, powerful themes and small ones, that get interwoven into a vivid, unashamed adventure-romance with interior explosions and characters clashing with nature and cultures clashing of cultures, it's really impossible to make a movie out of it. And it's based on a Ken Kesey novel that is one of my favorite books, a sprawling, difficult, layered up masterpiece of some kind, for its time at least, and for when I read it as a 20 year old looking for meaning in life. ![]() Sometimes a Great Notion (1970) This is an amazing story, with some harrowing scenes and really terrific acting. ![]()
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