Genius·Writer·Editor - A Short Review of "Genius Catcher"

Abigail 2022-04-10 09:01:08

"There could be nothing so important as a book can be." - The legendary editor of American publishing history: Maxwell Perkins

Due to my limited experience, I have never read "Angel, Look Hometown", but as a text lover, with great respect for Fitzgerald, I finally have time to come to the theater to enjoy this long-awaited movie on weekends. After watching the film, there is no such thing as a taste.
The shock that seems to be neat and straightforward to my heart is lasting and unwilling to go away, so that after the film is over, I still do not want to leave for a long time, watching the scrolling subtitles little by little like waiting for an easter egg. ...

Genius·Writer·Editor When I
first saw the words "Genius Hunter", the first thing that came to my mind was "Good Will Hunting", I wondered if this movie would be somewhat similar to "Good Will Hunting", after watching the movie I always feel that the Chinese translation is a bit inappropriate.
The film is a portrayal of the legendary editor Perkins, yes, but from the beginning to the end, there are several literary giants running through Perkins: Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, who has the most brushstrokes in the whole film, talented writers and writers. Genius editor.
Editors are like the wings of a bird, and they cannot fly high without one, so it seems that the English name "Genuis" can be described as a pun.

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train was carrying Perkins' return journey, and that was the first meeting of the two. From the moment Wolf stepped into the editorial room a few feet square, one was a writer with a wild pen and the other was an editor with due diligence. From then on, they wrote a legend together.
From the initial appearance of the first "Angel, Looking to the Homeland" to the nine months of discussion and revision of the second "Time and River", they have been discussing and revising day and night; unsurprisingly, they won again.

This time, with flowers and applause, Wolff in the spotlight began to get lost, self-conceited and arrogant, hurting those closest to him again and again, including Perkins. When repeated tolerance and persuasion could not restore Wolf's original intention, the fate of Perkins and Wolf, the best partners, came to an end...

The river and the disappearance
of the awakened Wolf fell in the vast At the seaside, when he wrote Dear Max tremblingly, the dizzying sunlight was so dazzling; when Perkins received Wolff's terrific letter, he took off the hat that he never left, and went inside, and the film came to an abrupt end. For the first time, 104 minutes felt so short.

At this time, I recalled in my mind that the two of them spent sleepless nights revising "Time and the River" together, getting drunk in a black jazz bar, walking side by side on the streets of Manhattan, but there is only one bohemian Thomas Wolfe in the world, and there is only one who is dedicated to his duties and has a discerning eye. Maxwell Perkins of Pearl.
drunk in a black jazz pub

flow gently, sweet afton,among thy green braes!flow gently, i'll sing thee a song in thy praise!my mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream,flow gently, sweet afton,disturb not her dream.
"Did you hear it now? It's Wolf!

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  • Eino 2022-04-03 09:01:12

    been crying. After six years of editing, it broke down today. But I also understand what courage and honesty are.

  • Alisha 2022-04-11 09:01:07

    Wolff's degree between mania and mania, Jude Law can grasp it, and even a little boyish at times, facing the sea at the last moment calm hope he can keep it. The half-life that Wolff and Max knew each other well and was scattered in a straight-forward manner. His flying talent is not the subject of the film, but Max's "talent" in managing friendship. But the script is really Logan's old problem. The wording is elegant, but it lacks a full plot to cut in and flesh out the characters.

Genius quotes

  • Thomas Wolfe: Who better to talk to? The man who created something immortal. More and more I trouble myself with that. "The legacy." Will anyone care about Thomas Wolfe in 100 years? Ten years? When I was young, I asked myself that question every day.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald: I used to trouble myself like that every day. Now I ask myself, "Can I write one good sentence."

  • [last lines]

    Thomas Wolfe: [Max reading Tom's deathbed letter] Dear Max, I've got a hunch, and I wanted to write these words to you. I've made a long voyage and been to a strange country, and I've seen the dark man very close. And I don't think I was too much afraid of him. But I want most desperately to live. I want to see you again. For there is such an impossible anguish and regret for all I can never say to you, for all the work I have to do. I feel as if a great window has been opened on life. And if I come through this, I hope to God I am a better man and can live up to you. But most of all, I wanted to tell you, no matter what happens, I shall always feel about you the way I did that November day when you met me at the boat and we went on top of the building and all the strangeness and the glory and the power of life were below. Yours always, Tom.