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Donnersmarck told a New York Times reporter: I sat down and in a couple of hours had written the treatment. Knabe objected to "making the Stasi man into a hero" and tried to persuade Donnersmarck to change the film. Donnersmarck cited Schindler's List as an example of such a plot development being possible. There was a Schindler. There was no Wiesler. The film was received with widespread acclaim. Corliss praised the film as a "poignant, unsettling thriller. Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film four stars, describing it as "a powerful but quiet film, constructed of hidden thoughts and secret desires.

Scott, reviewing the film in The New York Times , wrote that Lives is well-plotted, and added, "The suspense comes not only from the structure and pacing of the scenes, but also, more deeply, from the sense that even in an oppressive society, individuals are burdened with free will. You never know, from one moment to the next, what course any of the characters will choose. American commentator John Podhoretz called the film "one of the greatest movies ever made, and certainly the best film of this decade.

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Several critics pointed to the film's subtle building up of details as one of its prime strengths. The film is built "on layers of emotional texture", wrote Stephanie Zacharek in Salon online magazine. Perhaps I was just won over sentimentally, because of the seductive mass of details which look like they were lifted from my own past between the total ban of my work in and denaturalisation in She claims that it was not possible for a Stasi operative to have hidden information from superiors because Stasi employees themselves were watched and almost always operated in teams.

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In a BBC poll, critics voted the film the 32nd greatest since The Lives of Others also appeared on many critics' lists of the ten best films of The Europe List , the largest survey on European culture established that the top three films in European culture are. In September , 43 members of the Israeli elite clandestine Unit wrote a letter to Israel's prime minister and army chief, refusing further service and claiming Israel made "no distinction between Palestinians who are and are not involved in violence" and that information collected "harms innocent people.

The Lives of Others has been referred to in political protests following the mass surveillance disclosures. My knowledge of the Stasi is not very extensive, but it's largely from a movie called The Lives of Others , which won the Oscar for "Best Foreign Film" some years ago. Everybody should get that now.

It should be reissued now. But I'd like to see it dubbed so it had a wider audience. What that shows is what life can be with a government that knew as much as the Stasi did then. But if they know—and one thing they can do with that information right now—is to turn people into informants, so that the government has not only the information that people say on electronic devices, they have what they say in the bedroom, because their wife or their whoever—spouse—is an informant.

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As happened in the movie. That is what did happen in East Germany. And if we were to get that here, and there's the infrastructure for it right now, we will become a democratic republic in the same sense as the East German Democratic Republic. Film critic and historian Carrie Rickey believes that The Lives of Others was one of two movies that influenced Snowden's actions, the other being the Francis Ford Coppola film The Conversation , both being about wiretappers troubled by guilt.

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I would recommend these films to anyone interested in great movies that touch on the issues raised by L'Affaire Snowden. At their wedding reception, Cleopatra begins poisoning Hans' wine. Oblivious, the other "freaks" announce that they accept Cleopatra in spite of her being a "normal" outsider: One of us, one of us. The ceremony frightens the drunken Cleopatra, who accidentally reveals that she has been having an affair with Hercules.

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She mocks the freaks, tosses the wine in their faces and drives them away. The humiliated Hans realizes that he has been played for a fool and rejects Cleopatra's attempts to apologize, but then he falls ill from the poison. While bedridden, Hans pretends to apologize to Cleopatra and also pretends to take the poisoned medicine that she is giving him, but he secretly plots with the other freaks to strike back at Cleopatra and Hercules. In the film's climax, the freaks attack the evil pair during a storm, wielding guns, knives, and other sharp-edged weapons. After trying to kill seal trainer Venus and her clown boyfriend Phroso for knowing about the plot, Hercules is chased by the freaks in a storm and not seen again the film's original ending had the freaks castrating him: As for Cleopatra, she has become a grotesque, squawking "human duck".

The flesh of her hands has been melted and deformed to look like duck feet, her legs have been cut off and what is left of her torso has been permanently tarred and feathered. She is the opening scene's cause for alarm. In a final scene MGM inserted later for a happier ending , Hans is living a millionaire's life in a mansion.

Venus and Phroso visit, bringing Frieda, to whom Hans had been engaged before meeting Cleopatra. Hans refuses to see them, but they force their way past his servant. Frieda assures Hans that she knows he tried to stop the others from exacting revenge. Phroso and Venus leave as Frieda comforts Hans when he starts to cry. Interspersed between segments of the main narrative is a variety of " slice of life " segments detailing the romance between Venus and Phroso, as well as the lives of the sideshow performers, including:. Browning declined, preferring to develop Freaks , a project he had started as early as Screenwriters Willis Goldbeck and Elliott Clawson were assigned to the project at Browning's request.

The script was shaped over five months. Little of the original story was retained beyond the marriage between a midget and an average-sized woman and their wedding feast. Ultimately, Thalberg decided not to cast any major stars in the picture.

Among the microcephalics who appear in the film and are referred to as "pinheads" were Zip and Pip Elvira and Jenny Lee Snow and Schlitzie, a male named Simon Metz who wore a dress, mainly due to incontinence , it has been claimed, though this is disputed. Also featured were the intersex Josephine Joseph, with her left-right divided gender; Johnny Eck, the legless man; the completely limbless Prince Randian also known as The Human Torso and miscredited as "Rardion" ; Elizabeth Green the Stork Woman ; and Koo-Koo the Bird Girl, who had Virchow-Seckel syndrome or bird-headed dwarfism and is most remembered for the scene wherein she dances on the table.

Freaks began principal photography in October and was completed in December. Following disastrous test screenings in January one woman threatened to sue MGM, claiming the film had caused her to suffer a miscarriage , [6] the studio cut the picture down from its original minute running time to just over an hour. Much of the sequence of the freaks attacking Cleopatra as she lies under a tree was removed, as well as a gruesome sequence showing Hercules being castrated, a number of comedy sequences, and most of the film's original epilogue.

A new prologue featuring a carnival barker was added, as was the new epilogue featuring the reconciliation of the tiny lovers. This shortened version—now only 64 minutes long—had its premiere at the Fox Criterion in Los Angeles on February 20, Browning, famed at the time for his collaborations with Lon Chaney and for directing Bela Lugosi in Dracula , had trouble finding work afterward and this effectively brought his career to an early close.

Freaks became the only MGM film ever to be pulled from release before completing its domestic engagements. A number of contemporary reviews were not only highly critical of the film, but expressed outrage and revulsion. Harrison's Reports wrote that "Any one who considers this entertainment should be placed in the pathological ward in some hospital.

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Moffitt wrote, "There is no excuse for this picture. It took a weak mind to produce it and it takes a strong stomach to look at it. Variety also published a negative review, writing that the film was "sumptuously produced, admirably directed, and no cost was spared, but Metro heads failed to realize that even with a different sort of offering the story is still important. Here the story is not sufficiently strong to get and hold the interest, partly because interest cannot easily be gained for too fantastic a romance.

And only in such a case will the story appeal. Not all reviews were as harsh. The New York Times called it "excellent at times and horrible, in the strict meaning of the word, at others" as well as "a picture not to be easily forgotten. John Mosher of The New Yorker wrote a positive review, calling it "a little gem" that "stands in a class by itself, and probably won't be forgotten in a hurry by those who see it. They may hereafter even be regarded in the flesh with a new dread bordering on respect. It's consensus reads, " "Time has been kind to this horror legend: Freaks manages to frighten, shock, and even touch viewers in ways that contemporary viewers missed.

Beginning in the early s, Freaks was rediscovered as a counterculture cult film and throughout the s and s, the film was regularly shown at midnight movie screenings at several theaters in the United States. It is a supreme oddity freak? From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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