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"It may be the most sophisticated political thriller ever made in Hollywood," film critic Pauline Kael wrote of John Frankenheimer's terrifying 1962 political thriller about an American serviceman brainwashed in Korea and made into an assassin. Sophisticated to be sure, it's also a headlong fall through the looking-glass of American politics and the most deeply prophetic film of the second half of the American century. As Greil Marcus reconstructs the drama, The Manchurian Candidate is a movie in which the director and actors, including Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra and Angela Lansbury in an Academy Award-nominated performance, were suddenly capable of anything, beyond any expectations. This edition includes a new foreword highlighting the movie's terrifying contemporary relevance in the age of Trump and Russian interference in the US Presidential election. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Marcus is clearly a major fan; he believes that everyone involved in the making of the film from the director to the set designer to the extras all took their performances over the top. For the film’s stars, Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Angela Lansbury, they would never do better work.
He discusses the impact of the story on how Americans (and the world) would later interpret the shocking events of the 1960s, the assassinations, the violence and all that followed including the 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
Marcus has had to adapt this short book for the Trump era — at least for the first months following Trump’s election victory in 2016.
The book is all over the place, and it’s an extended stream-of-consciousness ride through Marcus’ brain, but it’s an enjoyable ride — one that leaves me a bit dizzy, thinking about the book, and the film, long after I have turned the final page. ( )