"The Manchurian Candidate" always makes me cry

Kathy in Cambridge

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Thu Nov-11-04 10:50 PM
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"The Manchurian Candidate" always makes me cry

is it Laurence Harvey? His performance is riveting, and sympathetic.

especially now-I think it's the times we're living in. :cry:

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Kathy in Cambridge

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Thu Nov-11-04 11:10 PM
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1. BWAAAAAAAH

:cry:

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Ekirh

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Thu Nov-11-04 11:22 PM
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2. Angela Lansbery...

I don't know why.. but her performance gave me a slight shudder when I watched it. One of my favorite movies, the remake doesn't do the original justice at all.

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Kathy in Cambridge

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Thu Nov-11-04 11:39 PM
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4. I agree-did you know she was only a couple of years older than

Laurence Harvey, who played her son? Her performance was chilling. The remake wasn't too bad, but it can't hold a candle to the original.

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Lisa

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Thu Nov-11-04 11:41 PM
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I'm always amazed by how she manages to add on extra years

Edited on Thu Nov-11-04 11:47 PM by Lisa

She was only in her 30s -- younger than I am now, actually -- when she portrayed Mrs. Iselin. These days, they would probably have tried to put all kinds of prosthetic makeup on her ... but she did an outstanding job just using mannerisms.

p.s. when I read the book, I found out just how messed-up that family really was. The book suggests that Raymond's attraction to the other Senator's daughter was a personality twist added by the reprogrammers (and that left to his own devices he likely wouldn't have been able to fall in love). Laurence Harvey did an outstanding job of portraying him as a rather pitiful creature.

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Kathy in Cambridge

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Thu Nov-11-04 11:43 PM
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6. She was 3 years older than Laurence Harvey

when you see her in different lighting in the movie you can tell how young she is-no crows feet and neck lines.

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Bryan

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Thu Nov-11-04 11:39 PM
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3. Yep, Laurence Harvey

He was in a few other A-pictures in the Sixties (Butterfield 8, John Wayne's The Alamo) but he never had a part like that again. It's heartbreaking to watch him play Shaw's realization that, one way or antother, he'd been a pawn to fascist interests his entire life.

Then, of course, it's also the times; the quiet parallelism between the Chinese "controllers" and the American ones is so stinging and vicious. It's amazing by today's standards that anyone could put the boot into the right that publically. I have a similar reaction to Seven Days in May, which, the last time I saw it, had turned from a dark, paranoid conspiracy thriller into a heartwarming fantasy... : )

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Kathy in Cambridge

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Thu Nov-11-04 11:41 PM
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5. I agree-Laurence Harvey doesn't have to speak

his eyes and facial expressions show a broken man.

It's sad that he died so young. He was a great actor.

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Lisa

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Thu Nov-11-04 11:52 PM
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7. by the way, was anybody else a bit weirded out ...

... by some of the parallels between Sgt. Shaw and George W. Bush?

--packaged as a "war hero"
--rushed out and hastily married someone who may not have been compatible (again, in order to appear "respectable" when he first ran for Congress?)
--very close to mother and learned many of his attitudes from her
--moves in elite circles, when you look behind the scenes, the way he treats people is rather coarse and unpleasant (e.g. the "please don't kill me" episode reported by Tucker Carlson)

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