The difficulty about my kind of life is I meet mostly actors and socialites instead of normal people. I missed that, being like a nomad all the time. "I have a bit from here, a bit from there," he says. Now if these other films had worked, it might have been different. There was no more room for a foreigner, so suddenly there were no more parts. There was a rise of young, talented directors, but they were making films about their own societies. At the same time, I worked with very good directors - Fred Zinnemann, Sidney Lumet and John Frankenheimer - in what turned out to be very bad films.Īnd at the end of the 60's, this cultural revolution happened with the youth movement, and the major studios ceased to have the same influence. "I did three films that are classics, which is very rare in itself, and they were all made within five years. He says he is not bitter about his career. His best movies were in the 1960s, he didn't get good roles as he got older and cinema styles had changed drastically. Sharif was a very content and gregarious man who lived the life he wanted until his health started to fail. The change to that scene in the film shifts the meaning, in my opinion, from a motif underlining the changes Zhivago and Russia have been through and the things they have lost, to a tragic coda to a romance. In the book, he's on the tram and sees his old landlady, doesn't rush down to the street, but does suffer a massive heart attack and die after he does alight. In the end, the movie Zhivago sees Lara in the street from a tram and rushes down to find, then suffers a massive heart attack and dies. It would seem that their genes produced a kind of peasant throwback. Zhivago's friends find her to have little in common with her parents. To me, the daughter exemplifies the strength of the new Soviet spirit, as she's very pedestrian and fits in very well as a part of the proletariat. I don't recall these themes being so prominent in the movie, but the novel brings out the contrast of his character, intellect, and spirit against the enormous changes being wrought in Russian society. (Someday I'll go back and try again, but it was a little bit of a slog.) I particularly wanted to see the treatment of the daughter's interview, since I felt the same about the casting of Rita Tushingham. I haven't read the whole thing, but I read the first few and last few chapters. R3, I'm curious whether you've read the novel.
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