The Bad and the Beautiful, written by Charles
Schnee, directed by Vincente Minnelli, with Kirk Douglas
10 out of 10
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This
is a look at this glorious film Through a Glass Brightly, looking at the Signature
Strengths of the characters
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The
Bad and the Beautiful is an outstanding motion picture
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It
has won Academy Awards and Golden Globes in some categories
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But
I think that this work is better than The Greatest Show on Earth that was acclaimed
as the Best Film of 1952
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Strangely
for this viewer, The Bad and the Beautiful was not even nominated for Best
Motion Picture
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Or
Best Actress in a Leading Role and Vincente Minnelli was also not even
considered as Best Director
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I
wonder if it has to do with Hollywood inside stories that resemble to some
extent the plot of the film…
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Did
they consider that the story was wonderful and this is why they gave the writer
Charles Schnee the Oscar?
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The
members of the Academy might have thought that Minnelli and Lana Turner did not
rise to the level of the script?
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If
you ask me, The Bad and the Beautiful is one of the best films I know
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The
main character played by the magnificent, powerful Kirk Douglas- who is what?
99 now?-is Jonathan Shield
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This
hero is extraordinary and a role model in so many ways
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In
Signature Strengths :
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He
has Wisdom and Knowledge, Justice and most of all Courage!
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Temperance
is not his strong point, but then he is not really Superman…just the
Ubermensch!
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Jonathan
Shield starts small, on film sets that involve the Cat People, B films that he transforms
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A
visionary, with his Persistence and
Bravery, instead of acting Inside the Box, he shows Creativity
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Creativity is an element of Wisdom
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With
his friend, the director Fred Amiel, he takes on a different horror film that
becomes a success
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They
gave up the silly costumes and based their invention on darkness and ingenuity,
winning the jackpot
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They
use their Vitality and Appreciation of
Beauty for their next production, which was supposed to be…
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Son
of the Cat People or something similarly grotesque and ridiculous
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Only
for the next big move to the level of a big production, costing over one
million dollars, which is probably the equivalent in movie terms of more than
three hundred million today, Jonathan abandons his friend
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Or
so it seems, for instead of working with Fred Amiel, whose project this film
really was, Jonathan would work with an established name
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Counterintuitively,
this was a generous decision, for the career of Fred could have ended then and
there
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The
hero himself, later on takes the helm as a director only to create a
catastrophe that is the first to recognize
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The
producer is the one to save and launch the career of Georgia Lorrison, played
by Lana Turner
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With
an major alcohol problem, this actress was destined to ruin when Jonathan
reached out and offered redemption
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This
where other Signature Strengths played an important role:
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Leadership , Open – Mindedness and
Perspective aspects of
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Justice and Knowledge
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Only
this is where it gets more complicated and the protagonist might again prove
Humility and Mercy
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Or
maybe not- I am not sure why he just promoted and created a formidable actress,
but rejected the woman in Georgia
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Then
the hero is involved in the career of a Pulitzer Prize Winner, the writer James
Lee Bertlow, who could be inspired by
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William
Faulkner, Steinbeck or Scott F. Fitzgerald, but most likely he is a combination
of them all
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As
the wife of this talented writer is in the way and blocks his Creativity with a
multitude of interruptions- by the way, after a two hour session of work, an
interruption can mean a delay of one half hour, just to get back to where the
work had been interrupted!!- Jonathan Shield finds a way out
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He
gets one of his star actors to take the woman to Mexico so that the husband
would get the peace he needs to finish the script
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Only
the plane flying them to Acapulco crashes and the two are killed in the
accident that actually means the winning of the Pulitzer for the writer, but
also shows a rather Unkind Jonathan
Spectacular
film!!
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