The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944) :
Brief Review -
You like humour and biopics? Then don't miss this engrossing biopic of the greatest humorist America ever produced! He was like Halley's comet-actually twice as big. The rare comet comes once every 75 years, and a man like him came only once in 150 years! "I often thought that God probably created monkeys because he was disappointed in man". That was his laughter and humour in the 19th century. Can we match it today? Ask your so-called funny and humorous stand-up comedians to take the challenge. Now on to a serious one: "What you look upon in my death has been greatly exaggerated". And what an absolutely masterful metaphorical execution that scene got in the end. I am sure today's comedian will be dead before writing something better than this. Mark Twain, the legend. From the Mississippi River, boat captain, mountains, newspaper writing, novels, shows, bankruptcy, internal satisfaction, to stand-up shows all over the world to win the world, and ending up with Oxford's honour and legacy for ages. What a man can dream in his life, including bad times, he has done. He never looked at any girl, but the one he married, and he had decided to marry her the moment he saw her picture. Can somebody please skip this generosity, cause I'm crying, honestly. He fought the world and financial crises just to publish the general's memoirs and did not ask a penny for himself. God must be so busy while creating such a great soul. And then I think about his silly obsession with a typesetter, and I was like, "Yeah, God must be busy while creating him, but he must have been on a lunch break when Sam went on to make this mistake". I have seen a lot of Fredic March, but this was his phase of marching towards legacy. Alexis Smith is beautiful, and Donald Crisp is quite good. Rapper didn't want to direct this one I heard, and see, it ended up being one of his greatest films ever, at least for me.
RATING - 7.5/10*
By - #samthebestest.
You like humour and biopics? Then don't miss this engrossing biopic of the greatest humorist America ever produced! He was like Halley's comet-actually twice as big. The rare comet comes once every 75 years, and a man like him came only once in 150 years! "I often thought that God probably created monkeys because he was disappointed in man". That was his laughter and humour in the 19th century. Can we match it today? Ask your so-called funny and humorous stand-up comedians to take the challenge. Now on to a serious one: "What you look upon in my death has been greatly exaggerated". And what an absolutely masterful metaphorical execution that scene got in the end. I am sure today's comedian will be dead before writing something better than this. Mark Twain, the legend. From the Mississippi River, boat captain, mountains, newspaper writing, novels, shows, bankruptcy, internal satisfaction, to stand-up shows all over the world to win the world, and ending up with Oxford's honour and legacy for ages. What a man can dream in his life, including bad times, he has done. He never looked at any girl, but the one he married, and he had decided to marry her the moment he saw her picture. Can somebody please skip this generosity, cause I'm crying, honestly. He fought the world and financial crises just to publish the general's memoirs and did not ask a penny for himself. God must be so busy while creating such a great soul. And then I think about his silly obsession with a typesetter, and I was like, "Yeah, God must be busy while creating him, but he must have been on a lunch break when Sam went on to make this mistake". I have seen a lot of Fredic March, but this was his phase of marching towards legacy. Alexis Smith is beautiful, and Donald Crisp is quite good. Rapper didn't want to direct this one I heard, and see, it ended up being one of his greatest films ever, at least for me.
RATING - 7.5/10*
By - #samthebestest.