OT: Night of the Iguana

[borgosi]

I am currently watchiing The Devil's Daughter with my beloved Jonathan and I am sad he does not seem to have a speaking part.  The movie is not over yet but he sure looks good!!!

I like the movie but I do wish the DVD used a better print source. I hope you enjoy it.

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[fridfreak]

Okay the movie ended.  The ending well.. it was .. it sucked!!  My beautiful boy Jonathan did not speak once!!  I don't even know who the leading part went too.. who was or is that actress?  Oh well at least i got to see JF in something other than DS.   I have already seen Seizure too.  I actually liked that movie better than this one.  Oh and yes Richard Burton was absolutely terrified of Grayson's Ms. Fellowes.  I guess she did not realize she was gay in the movie.  He was gentle in not wanting to let her know he knew.  Ava Gardner's character though was not so sympathetic and let her know how butch she actually was. That sent Ms. Fellowes off the wall. I guess she had not realized it herself.  In any case her Oscar nomination for best supporting actress was well deserved.   Imagine playing a gay woman in the sixties.  Pretty impressive but than Shirley MacLaine had a similar role with Audrey Hepburn in 1961 or '62 in the movie The Children's Hour.  I believe Audrey did this one right after Breakfast at Tiffany's.

[Janet the Wicked]

Well, you know I've read that MS Hall was up for an Oscar for this picture. She damn well should have won. She was wonderful.
I thought it was one of the weirdest pictures I'd ever seen, but it was a good movie.
Magus - your video is in the mail. I hope you enjoy it. Give it a chance. It took me about to the end to enjoy it fully.

[Julia99]

Well, you know I've read that MS Hall was up for an Oscar for this picture. She damn well should have won. She was wonderful.
I thought it was one of the weirdest pictures I'd ever seen, but it was a good movie.

All things Tennessee Williams are . .well.. .weird. . I submit this as a partial list of his plays. . I know 80% of them . .dark, gothic, haunted, troubling. .weird all of 'em that I know..

The Glass Menagerie (1944) • A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) • Summer and Smoke (1948) • The Rose Tattoo (1951) • Camino Real (1953) • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) • Orpheus Descending (1957) • Suddenly, Last Summer (1958) • Sweet Bird of Youth (1959) • Period of Adjustment (1960) • The Night of the Iguana (1961)

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Weird, maybe - but unmistakably brilliant, simply amazing, sometimes depraved, and always sensitive examinations of human frailty. Not being all that familiar with his work, some of the most enjoyable moments from my high school English classes was reading and discussing a couple of his plays. And then seeing the movies or TV adaptations of those and more of his plays, including Night of the Iguana, only made me enjoy and appreciate his work more. The description gets used so often that sometimes it loses its meaning, but Williams really was a genius - and he created the type of characters that actors kill to play. And when they're in the hands of skilled actors who can understand each and every nuance of their characters in the ways that Grayson understood and embodied Judith Fellows (and other actors have), the effect is electrifying.

[Julia99]

It's actually interesting that the play and screenplay for NOTI are so different.  Judith is a minor minor character in the stageplay.  Her time taken up by German Nazis or something. 

Huston wanted Judith's part beefed up and in many letters I reviewed from his papers--he gave specific directions at to what was his vision.  The many different writers plus Huston and Williams himself (who joined the crew in Mexico) went back and forth about how Judith would realize her situation . .would it be a violent realization or subtle. . .??  I liked Grayson's very subtle take on it--that moment and perhaps the bedroom apology rather than the histrionic beach scene is what I think clinched her nomination.

I agree with MB the plays are brilliant-, characters meaty for actors -but like August:Osage County--these are people I'd watch on stage or screen but didn't want to live with--

[Taeylor Collins]

How fascinating it must have all been and incredibly challenging JULIA99.  All of us GH WORHIPERS will always be grateful.

[MagnusTrask]

I thought it was one of the weirdest pictures I'd ever seen, but it was a good movie.
Magus - your video is in the mail. I hope you enjoy it. Give it a chance. It took me about to the end to enjoy it fully.

Janet, thanks again, very much, and don't worry about my giving it a chance, all you had to do to sell it to me was the word "weirdest".   Tennessee Williams clinches it.   "Weird" is not a pejorative for me.