Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Hulkeasexo it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

lukechong "Dr Zhivago" represents a sort of last hurrah for David Lean, whose works after that have spluttered into insignificance (including 1984's "A Passage to India"). The British-Italian production is an adaptation of Boris Pasternak's Russian novel, first published in the West after being smuggled out at the height of the Cold War--an intimate, sweeping, panoramic narrative which Lean specializes in, much like his earlier critical hit "Lawrence of Arabia". Lean was never the tightest of directors, his direction often have a stagey, theatrical feel to them; even in 1965 this movie feels just a bit old-fashioned, coming at a time when the French New Wave was in vogue. Overall the film delivers as the romance in Pasternak's novel is intriguing, production value is high, the musical themes are memorable, and many actors like Omar Sharif are well cast. Certainly "Dr Zhivago" isn't perfect but still works for moviegoers used to sumptuous, well crafted spectacles.My main criticism is that the movie feels more British than Russian. Pronounced British accents proliferated throughout, distracting to the very Russian narrative: Alec Guinness never really convinces as a "Russian" bureaucrat in his stiff upper-lip enunciations, while Ralph Richardson is also more English than Russian. While Omar Sharif and Geraldine Chaplin are excellently cast--Sharif especially bringing an earnest romanticism as the leading man--Julie Christie isn't at her best as capricious Lara. The rest of the cast are adequate. Zhivago's screenplay, penned by British playwright Robert Bolt, is on the long-winded side. The movie pits together massive resources--some which deliver onscreen, others which don't; the end product though, in 3 hour 20 minutes. still holds much attention. An old-fashioned, romanticized flick, "Dr Zhivago" feels more like a 1930s movie, but is nonetheless Lean through and through.

Vonia Doctor Zhivago (1965) Director: David Lean Watched: April 2018 Rating: 7/10 Lean's timeless epic In time, setting, cast, sheer scope- Without CGI Lush costumes and sets Grand cinematography Gorgeous winter scenes Read Nobel Prize book Find the real "Lara" poems Listen to soundtrack A love triangle Russia's tragic history Three wars, three hours Epic ambitions led to Characters hard to care for Haiku Sonnets are comprised of 4 3-line haiku plus a couplet of either 5 or 7 syllables, adding up to 14 lines, the same number of lines found in a sonnet. (5-7-5, 5-7-5, 5-7-5, 5-7-5, 7-7/5-5) #HaikuSonnet #PoemReview #BestCinematography #Classic #GoldenGlobesBestPicture #Epic #Russian

elvircorhodzic DOCTOR ZHIVAGO is an epic romantic war drama film, that shows the events from the World War I and the Russian Civil War through a tragic love story of a poet/doctor. On the other side, it is a dynamic and ruthless change in the social order. These violent changes are perfectly grooved between a personal drama and political conflicts. It is based on the Boris Pasternak novel of the same name. The film takes place mostly against a backdrop of the pre-World War I years, World War I itself, the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the Russian Civil War. After his mother's death 10-year-old Yuri is sent to live with his family friends and their daughter Tonya in Moscow. His only heirloom is his mother's balalaika. Later, Yuri goes on to study medicine in Moscow and writes poetry. Lara is a student, who lives modestly with his mother and secretly seeing one revolutionary. A ruthless politician Komarovsky, her mother's lover, comes in Lara's life. On the Christmas party where Tonya and Yuri's engagement is announced, Lara shoots and wounds Komarovsky. Their common story can begin...Major changes in society are differently manifested on small groups. Given the sentiment, emotion and suffering, this fact fully answer to a passionate love affair between a gentle artist and a lost and alienated woman. I think, that a historical revolutionary background is neglected with a good reason. Simply, people forget to love and feel each other for a time of great social changes. Mr. Lean has processed painful human topics in a gorgeous scenery. He has made a sort of contrast between what people want and what they actually are. The melodrama is exaggerated in some parts of the film, therefore, the main protagonists act a bit confused. It directly reflects on the characterization.Omar Sharif as Dr. Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago is a gentle and handsome man, who is trapped between his sadness, courage and love. However, it seems that he transfers to the paper his tragic love story, which no one can read. Mr. Sharif has offered an interesting performance. Julie Christie as Lara Antipova is a woman who answers to social stimulants. However, she is confused in love. Her fate is more than ironic.Their support are Tonya Gromeko (Geraldine Chaplin) as beautiful and vapid Yuri's wife and Victor Ippolitovich Komarovsky (Rod Steiger) as a resourceful and disgusting politician, who well remembers one slap. Mr. Steiger has offered excellent performance.There are Lieutenant General Yevgraf Andreyevich Zhivago (Alec Guinness) and Pavel "Pasha" Antipov / Strelnikov (Tom Courteney) as two different medals of the revolution.This is a visual masterpiece with perhaps too Hollywood for a Russian love story at the time of the war and the revolution.

tstudstrup Why this crap ever won 5 Oscars, when it was disliked by even the critics and most people who watch it today 52 years later, will remain a mystery.Omar Sharif, who has the nastiest eyes, I've ever seen on an actor, plays Doctor Zhivago. A medical doctor, a poet and a guy who marries his step sister, have kids with her and cheats on her with an icy blonde. Yet he's suppose to be this romantic hero, when he's basically an a**hole.Oh and it takes place in Russia, during WW1 and the Russian revolution. It has a lot of snow and very cold weather in about 95 % of the movie. The most annoying soundtrack you will ever hear, wooden acting, a gross nasty Rod Steiger, male actors, often wearing visible eyeliner, saying ridiculous lines and taking themselves way too seriously. Long boring pointless scenes that could have easily been edited out. Not to mention the two pointless very long intermissions. And on top of all that: a running time of insufferable 3 hours and 20 minutes.Avoid this crap!!!