Directed by John Schlesinger
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
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Can you believe there was a time when this was a normal movie?! People were just like "hey I'm bored you wanna go see Marathon Man?" if this came out now we'd be throwing ticker tape parades celebrating the return of real movies
Things I did today:
✅ Watched Marathon Man
Things to do tomorrow:
✅ Start getting in better shape
✅ Cancel dentist appointment
Does for dentistry what Jaws did for estuaries.
Oddly enough, Roy Scheider is involved in both.
There's a 16 page thread on IMDb about why Marathon Man is insulting because it suggests there is a jungle in Uruguay and there isn't.
As much as IMDb is second only to YouTube comments sections as being the biggest pit of iniquity on the internet, the right to nitpick motion pictures is something that we, as movie fans, can exercise whenever the mood takes us. We've all done it and we've all gotten angry at watching people nitpick our favourite films, only to turn round and do the same at somebody else's favourite films. We can contradict ourselves whenever we please. It is our privilege.
When it comes to Marathon Man, I don't get angry about it though. I…
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apologies in advance for what I'm about to say, but I definitely did Nazi that coming
When Marathon Man is the second best screenplay you write in a year…
…you’re having a good year.
Oh, my. I went in knowing nothing about the movie (except that it was made in the 70s so it would be good) and expecting a Midnight Cowboy-like yarn from director John Schlesinger. I didn't get the atmosphere of one of my favorite New Hollywood movies but I did get something else. Something completely else.
Marathon man was a 'pleasant' surprise with its downright macabre tone and high body count. The pacing was flawless, the scenes dexterously built upon each other, each of them propelled forward by the momentum of the one before, bringing out the uttermost amount of discomfort in the viewer.
Casting Laurence Olivier as the sadistic dentist sinking into insanity was a brilliant idea. His deranged unpredictability and malicious instability made for a first-class antagonist. Remember those torture scenes of his? Plain crazy.
"Is it safe?"
Christ on a cracker I forgot how intense this gets. Also, Roy Scheider's hotel fight scene rules. What a great cast!
Ahhhh the 70s. That beautiful time when Hollywood was going through a change thanks to a group of filmmakers that drank from the prior French New Wave and where creating these films that were totally opposed to the ways and beings of the Studio system, with much riskier and relevant stories. This was also the decade where Paranoia reign supreme in America, and film didn't shy away from this.
In the same vein as the Pakula's trilogy and Three Days of the Condor, Marathon Man its a nice example of the prime fear many Americans til this day feel about the high rankings "security" departments that ought to protect us, yet it seems they do the complete opposite. That prime…
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This is genuinely good? I find it gripping, tense and kind of hardcore, was not aware that I was pinching my hand until it's over. Failed assassination, kidnapping, torture, escape and revenge, it's a wild ride. Laurence Olivier plays a great villain, is it safe? Nope, very dangerous. Glad they didn't show everything, two things you don't fuck with: teeth and fingernails, yeah? Bunch of creepy shots to be found here too, face imprinted on curtain, super close up of a baby doll, figure vanishing in the dark, movement at the corner of the eye, real paranoid shit. Dustin Hoffman humiliates a nazi, no reason not to love this.
Marathon Man comes with a substantial reputation attached to it, boasting a headline of actors and a director who naturally add gravitas to any production they are part of. It is the classic story of an innocent man caught up in a dangerous saga a world away from his normal, everyday life.
The gradual evolution of the story takes quite a while to settle into a cohesive narrative as we chop and change between a number of people who become part of the bigger picture late on. A seemingly innocuous car accident (ACME couldn't have positioned a more convenient fuel truck) triggers a series of events that include a Nazi war criminal, Government agents and Hoffman, studying for his PhD.…
Roy Scheider is a master at hurt-acting. I just recently re-read the book and I wish the movie had the same effective reveal and humor but it’s still fun. Can anyone answer me why dialogue recording never seemed to be an issue in all of the history of cinema except in the seventies? The ADR, like all movies of this era is so stark and it always lessens the impact of dramatic scenes for me. Anyway, Billy Devane’s hair is bulbous and powerful, like a kettlebell.
