Like Fritz Lang, Douglas Schick was originally German. He has been interested in drama since he was a student. On the one hand, he participated in performances on stage as an actor, and on the other hand, he was also engaged in drama production. Moreover, he became a stage director at the age of 23 and entered Ufa in Berlin at the age of 29. The company started his film career and first worked as a screenwriter in Ufa Company. In 1935, he directed the first film "April, April". In 1937, his "Ninth Symphony" won the grand prize at the Venice International Film Festival . After directing nine films in one breath, he worked as a journalist for a magazine in 1947, came to the United States as a special commissioner, entered MGM in Hollywood, and then worked as a full-time director for Universal in 1950. A popular entertainment and love literary film, known for its lyrical and depicting musical atmosphere. This "All That Heaven Allows" is his work at Universal. The narrative is subtle and the rhythm is light and smooth. It is a very good film
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Extended Reading
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Grady 2022-03-27 09:01:18
The use of color is hard not to connect with the future Giallo aesthetics and Fassbender, which must have far-reaching influence. The film does not hide the antagonism between classes at all (although the roles are almost the same, the two groups of supporting characters from different classes are treated differently: the male protagonist's friends are flesh-and-blood from the background to the character, and the character movement and editing of the dance sequence are lighthearted and cheerful The heroine’s middle-class friends are flattened, facialized and even unified, editing and character movements have become regular and rigid, and the hero’s participation in a party is more like a sheep in a wolf’s den), but I don’t know because of the negligence of the script, Or because Hudson's own star charm is too dazzling, the male protagonist's image is very simple, except for the reasoning that "everything is a match made in heaven, God's blessing" based on the stag at the end and the title "All That Heaven Allows", the audience It's hard to feel the love from the little spiritual exchange between the two characters. At least from my point of view, as the heroine's children and friends say, she "only fell in love with his sweet words and his muscles."
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Lois 2022-04-24 07:01:22
Douglas Sirk. The moral plot in the melodrama is probably Sirk's favorite theme. The theme of the movie seems dogmatic now, but it should have been very bold and avant-garde at the time.
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[last lines]
Ron Kirby: Cary?
Cary Scott: Yes, Ron.
Ron Kirby: You've come home.
Cary Scott: Yes, darling, I've... I've come home.
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Cary Scott: [reading from Mick's copy of Henry David Thoreau's Walden] The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed?
[pauses as Alida enters, continues reading]
Cary Scott: If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it's because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.