list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Sophie's Choice on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Sophie_s_Choice/32100/default.aspx Title: Sophie's Choice
Year: 1982
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Plot: The year is 1947. Aspiring southern author Stingo (Peter MacNichol) heads to New York to seek his fortune. Moving into a dingy Brooklyn boarding house, Stingo strikes up a friendship with research chemist Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline) and Nathan's girlfriend, Polish refugee Sophie Zawistowska (Oscar-winner Meryl Streep). There is something unsettling about the relationship; Nathan is subject to violent mood swings, while Sophie seems to be harboring a horrible secret. Stingo soons learns that both Nathan and Sophie are strangers to truth; the audience is likewise led down several garden paths by a series of sepia-toned flashbacks, depicting Sophie's ordeal in a wartime concentration camp. The scene in which we discover the facts behind Sophie's "choice" is a gut-wrenching one; it might have been even more powerful had not the film taken so long to get there. It is betraying nothing to reveal that the character of Stingo is the alter ego of William Styron, upon whose best-selling novel the film was based. The film is rated R, due in great part to a disposable scene wherein Stingo tries to put the make on a "liberated" female intellectual. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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]]>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:03:44 GMTSophie's Choice1982Alan J. PakulaThe year is 1947. Aspiring southern author Stingo (Peter MacNichol) heads to New York to seek his fortune. Moving into a dingy Brooklyn boarding house, Stingo strikes up a friendship with research chemist Nathan Landau (<a href="/players/P____38699/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Kevin Kline</a>) and Nathan's girlfriend, Polish refugee Sophie Zawistowska (Oscar-winner <a href="/players/P____68676/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Meryl Streep</a>). There is something unsettling about the relationship; Nathan is subject to violent mood swings, while Sophie seems to be harboring a horrible secret. Stingo soons learns that both Nathan and Sophie are strangers to truth; the audience is likewise led down several garden paths by a series of sepia-toned flashbacks, depicting Sophie's ordeal in a wartime concentration camp. The scene in which we discover the facts behind Sophie's "choice" is a gut-wrenching one; it might have been even more powerful had not the film taken so long to get there. It is betraying nothing to reveal that the character of Stingo is the alter ego of William Styron, upon whose best-selling novel the film was based. The film is rated R, due in great part to a disposable scene wherein Stingo tries to put the make on a "liberated" female intellectual. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide5Slightly Tagged (1-5)1213http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t00895poqrw.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Sophie_s_Choice/32100/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/groups/FilmCouch/Re_FilmCouch_18_Sympathy_for_the_Devil_what_mak/302/8532/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Jymkata
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Post Date: 5/10/2007 7:22:06 PM
Body: Just jumping in here, but I think the best movie villains are always Nazis. Something about a mixture of dedication to mechanical precision and nonsensical hatred of any perceived differences combined with an almost inhuman capacity for cruelty makes for a terrifying villain. Whether it's the elegant Nazi's in Casablanca and Notorious, or the jackbooted thugs in Raiders of the Lost Ark or Open City, or the satanic monsters in Come and See or Sophie's Choice, the Third Reich always gives me someone worthy of my anxiety and hatred. Oh yeah, and "Lost" rocks! I know some people have given up on the unending mysteries but I love that I have 3 more years of smart writing and great acting. Ben and the Others continue to intrigue me as villains.
]]>Thu, 10 May 2007 23:22:06 GMTJymkataFilmCouch5/10/2007 7:22:06 PMJust jumping in here, but I think the best movie villains are always Nazis. Something about a mixture of dedication to mechanical precision and nonsensical hatred of any perceived differences combined with an almost inhuman capacity for cruelty makes for a terrifying villain. Whether it&#39;s the elegant Nazi&#39;s in Casablanca and Notorious, or the jackbooted thugs in Raiders of the Lost Ark or Open City, or the satanic monsters in Come and See or Sophie&#39;s Choice, the Third Reich always gives me someone worthy of my anxiety and hatred. Oh yeah, and "Lost" rocks! I know some people have given up on the unending mysteries but I love that I have 3 more years of smart writing and great acting. Ben and the Others continue to intrigue me as villains. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/Classic/MemberTagFilms.aspxClassic
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