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Post by EmmyMik on Aug 3, 2005 16:31:03 GMT -5
Alfred Blalock Doing something all doctory... I guess. I've been a bad Rickmaniac, and I have not seen this one yet...
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Post by winky22 on Aug 7, 2005 14:02:51 GMT -5
I couldn't watch this film it annoyed me i hate racism and it just wound me up to the state i couldn't watch it so i switched it off half way through. I feel ashamed as an Alan fan for not liking it maybe i'll try and watch it another day.
I didn't like Alan accent in it as well, i like to hear is true brittish accent the voice that i can listen to for hours
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Post by squirrelywrath on Aug 7, 2005 15:35:25 GMT -5
This movie felt like a " tv movie' . I was disturbed to no end by Alan's accent, I have to agree with winky- I prefer his natural accent... He is wonderful none the less, he does a fabulous job portraying the arrogant old south, with its newly emerging social conscience. Mos def, was really great too ( dare I say award worthy?) anyways, yes, you should try to watch it again....
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Post by ringo on Aug 14, 2005 12:18:59 GMT -5
I loved this film,I thought that Alan should have won the Emmy for his part,I dont like racism one bit,but it was well written and well acted,by Moss and Alan,give it another try,it really is fantastic...
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Post by kris008 on Aug 28, 2005 11:17:44 GMT -5
I couldn't watch this film it annoyed me i hate racism and it just wound me up to the state i couldn't watch it so i switched it off half way through. I feel ashamed as an Alan fan for not liking it maybe i'll try and watch it another day. I didn't like Alan accent in it as well, i like to hear is true brittish accent the voice that i can listen to for hours I hate racism too. But there is that part in the movie (he is being wheeled out of the hospital in a wheelchair) where 'Dr Blaylock ' confesses that he has had regrets.... Unable to express his feelings fully, he says,' a man has not fully lived unless he has many regrets' It was a sort of apology to his lab assistant who had served him faithfully and professionally for several years. There were some good lines in that movie. (Do you have sawdust for brains or just plain crud.?'
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Post by giggin on Oct 11, 2005 20:12:48 GMT -5
This was a great movie. I might even say it is one my favorites by Alan. It was a made for tv movie and it was based on a true story. I feel it was very well done, and yes, I can even stand Alan's accent. I would recommend this movie to anyone.
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Post by elsa on Oct 12, 2005 12:24:28 GMT -5
I bought this film on VHS. I'm not keen on it either. I doubt I will watch it again. I too hate racism, but I thought it was portrayed quite well, showing the Deep South's prejudism. It is so unfair that the guy with the talent was so overlooked just because of his colour. I don't think his Honorary degree was enough. However, what did disturb me was the experimentation on animals and if someone had told me this would be in the film I definitely would not have even contemplated buying it. I am so against animal experimentation of all kinds. I know, I know, this was for the pioneering of open heart surgery, nonetheless, animals are not on this earth to be used by science. I'm sorry if my stance offends people but I just do not agree with it. End of rant.And I agree, Alan does not do well with accents, apart from maybe his Yorkshire accent in Blow Dry.
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Post by billywiggy on Nov 15, 2005 1:12:18 GMT -5
I just saw this for the first time tonight, and I really loved this film! Vivien Thomas was an amazing man - I'm very glad I know a bit more about him now. Makes me want to read that book this was based on. It's shameful to think this type of overt racism wasn't taking place all that long ago, really.
Alan's accent was again . . . unfortunate. But, the story and the rest of his performance were so good that I eventually stopped noticing the bad accent. I loved the scene where Blalock, about to perform the surgery, leaves the room and pages Thomas. He needed him! Ah, what a great scene . . . It's funny because a friend of mine went to Johns Hopkins and I visited her there once - so it was nice to be able to say to my husband - 'hey, I remember seeing that statue' and 'hey, I was on those steps too!' (I'm so pathetic! ;D )
Also funny tidbit . . . I once took a Yoga class with Kyra Sedgewick (ah, the joys of living in Los Angeles) . . . that's not too bad on the degrees-of-separation-from-Alan-Rickman scale! LOL!
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Post by winky22 on Nov 18, 2005 14:04:31 GMT -5
This is the only film with Alan that i can't watch, i just can't get into it.
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Post by cissy on Nov 19, 2005 0:49:01 GMT -5
I really think Alan should've gotten the Emmy for this movie! The acting was superb. I found the story very interesting, because I love medical historical stories. I think Dr. Blaylock really tried to help Vivien as much as he was able to, given the restraints that society had placed on them both (at least, once he figured out what the heck was going on in that regard). *Sigh* The accent...oh well...at least he didn't sound like a redneck from the backwoods. No offence to any rednecks from the backwoods who may post here, of course I'm from the Deep South, born/raised here. I'm sorry, Alan, that accent just didn't cut it. It sounded too weird! And I've always heard that the "Southern" drawl was one of the easiest accents for a Brit to do, because it was so similar in speech pattern. I suppose perhaps not. (Explain how I ended up with a Northern accent then--I'd not traveled north farther than 200 miles til I was 23!) It did take me a little to get into the movie, but it really isn't a bad movie... I really loved the "portrait" on the hospital wall of Alan as Dr. Blaylock (wondering how they do that for the movies). Wouldn't mind that on the living room wall...
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Post by squirrelywrath on Nov 19, 2005 14:43:52 GMT -5
*Sigh* The accent...oh well...at least he didn't sound like a redneck from the backwoods. No offence to any rednecks from the backwoods who may post here, of course I'm from the Deep South, born/raised here. I'm sorry, Alan, that accent just didn't cut it. It sounded too weird! And I've always heard that the "Southern" drawl was one of the easiest accents for a Brit to do, because it was so similar in speech pattern. I suppose perhaps not. (Explain how I ended up with a Northern accent then--I'd not traveled north farther than 200 miles til I was 23!) It did take me a little to get into the movie, but it really isn't a bad movie... I really loved the "portrait" on the hospital wall of Alan as Dr. Blaylock (wondering how they do that for the movies). Wouldn't mind that on the living room wall... Really? the easiest? hmmm. I would have thought slipping into Irish/ welsh/ scottish to be much easier as for the portrait, they likely had a test shot of him in makeup that they gave to the props department, it would not have taken too long to make,
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Post by allegro on Nov 21, 2005 15:39:12 GMT -5
Thank God I didn't notice his accent in the movie... I liked this film very much. It's this kind of a flim that makes you think "It's OK" when you watch it and then, when you finish watching, you start to think and think about it more...
Alan was this kind of character here that I like naming 'grey'. On the one hand, an excellent doctor, helping people, helping Vivian, on the other hand-his help to Vivian was a bit selfish... I liked how Alan acted Blalock. He was often... cold as a scientist.
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Post by billywiggy on Nov 21, 2005 16:12:20 GMT -5
Alan was this kind of character here that I like naming 'grey'. On the one hand, an excellent doctor, helping people, helping Vivian, on the other hand-his help to Vivian was a bit selfish... I liked how Alan acted Blalock. He was often... cold as a scientist. You're right - he was a bit cold, wasn't he? He played it well, since a white, affluent doctor of that time would have absolutely no idea what a man like Vivien went through everyday. It made me mad when Vivien left the surgery and Blalock didn't stop him. And then didn't really apologize when he came back, either. Alan worked both those scenes really well, in my opinion!
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Post by allegro on Nov 22, 2005 6:18:13 GMT -5
You're right - he was a bit cold, wasn't he? He played it well, since a white, affluent doctor of that time would have absolutely no idea what a man like Vivien went through everyday. It made me mad when Vivien left the surgery and Blalock didn't stop him. And then didn't really apologize when he came back, either. Alan worked both those scenes really well, in my opinion! Yes, he absolutely had no idea about Vivien's world, because he lived in his own world and didn't even visit Vivien. And I was mad at the scene in which Blalock didn't mention Vivien's name as somebody who helped him to cure the blue baby Also, when he -as you said- didn't stop Vivien and then the poor man had to sell medicines. I think he apologized him the way he could: he didn't tell "I'm sorry" but you could feel it somewhere between the lines. Blalock was too proud and Alan was perfect in it.
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Post by billywiggy on Nov 22, 2005 15:41:52 GMT -5
Blalock was too proud and Alan was perfect in it. Yep, I think that was it. It was telling, that scene where Blalock is talking to his wife - and she takes him to task for not sending Vivien to Medical school . . . and Blalock is making excuses 'I need him!' . . . and she says something like 'Well, I guess a man can only be so good'. And the expression on his face when he overhears the two doctors basically saying that Vivien saved his neck back in the OR the day they operated on the blue baby! I think AR really played the part subtley and beautifully.
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Post by allegro on Nov 22, 2005 15:49:59 GMT -5
Beautifully, like he always does! But he looked a bit older in the movie, as if he gained weight... maybe there were his clothes which gave him this look...
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Post by billywiggy on Nov 22, 2005 15:56:08 GMT -5
Beautifully, like he always does! But he looked a bit older in the movie, as if he gained weight... maybe there were his clothes which gave him this look... Or, he was eating too much southern food! ;D Well . . . sad to say it, but he is getting older and heavier (not that I mind!). Can't really tell so much when he's acting as Snape, due to the dark wig and dark clothes . . .
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Post by allegro on Nov 23, 2005 5:44:31 GMT -5
yes, his dark clothes make him slimmer... but perhaps the suit he wore in "Something..." was badly sewn or something like this (I have to comfort myself). Anyway, his figure as almost 60 year-old is great. I wish I could look like him (OK, but having a woman's body still . Talking about favourite scenes: I liked this one where Blalock's operating and suddenly blood lands on his glasses! He was very fortunate to have Vivien near him. Blalock seemed to be in such a trance that he forgot about wiping off the glasses. He could have messed up if there hadn't been Vivien...
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Post by ladynra on Nov 23, 2005 16:26:05 GMT -5
Beautifully, like he always does! But he looked a bit older in the movie, as if he gained weight... maybe there were his clothes which gave him this look... He looked a little stockier in Perfume photos too. But heck, he's still in good shape for his age!!!
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Post by ringo on Jan 1, 2006 7:49:45 GMT -5
Ok,all you UK girlies,this is now going to be available in HMV on dvd for £8 pounds....It comes out on the 2nd of January.... What,you still here!!!!!!
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