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Charly
1968 · Film · 103 min
Directed by Ralph Nelson
An experiment on a simpleton turns him into a genius. When he discovers what has been done to him he struggles with whether or not what was done to him was right.
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Two very different movies were made about this book: "Charly" starring Cliff Robertson and "Flowers for Algernon" starring Matthew Modine. The movies were made years apart and have very different vibes for the way that Charlie Gordon was portrayed reflecting different philosophies of acting at the times they were made. Cliff Robertson won an Oscar for his portrayal of Charlie Gordon.
That's a 2000 remake of the 1968 film.
Also, I misspelled the title: It's "Charly"
https://youtu.be/ddtNxb43yYo?si=XnXdl1J-w3NjHXQq
There is also a terrible 1968 movie called "Charly" that is worth watching just for the motorcycle scenes.
The movie "Charly" made from this book is good, and it's on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKcWihdna3I
This was the basis for the film Charly [1] (disclaimer: I've read the story but have not seen the film).
[1[]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charly_(1968_film)
I have a "TV channel" app running on a Raspberry Pi serving up local video content to a schedule I create.
The Pi has a 5TB hard drive attached with perhaps 1000 videos or so. The app has a schedule and plays the videos according to the schedule. It starts up in the morning, plays tele-courses, moves on to old TV shows, an afternoon movie, after school shows begin around 3:00 PM, a comedy show around dinner time, an evening movie, some late-night content, then the Indian head and "We Will Resume Broadcasting Tomorrow Morning...."
Partly it's was a fantasy — to have my own "channel" with my own scheduled content — my fantasy station.
Partly it serves to put on content I would otherwise not be inclined to pull up, double click and watch. It adds the serendipitous element to TV watching that I miss before streaming. The movie "Charly" (1968) just came on last night and I am sure I have not seen it since I was a teenager — had to stop what I was doing and watch a few scenes I recall vividly.
Today's lineup here: https://engineersneedart.com/UHF/
(I have been negligent in keeping the descriptions updated, have not yet added scraping code to try and auto-describe the programs.)
I was first exposed to it in movie form, called Charly and starring Cliff Robertson.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062794/
It had a big impact on me and I immediately wanted it in book form after seeing the movie.
http://itsalwayssunny.wikia.com/wiki/Flowers_for_Charlie so aptly named as the book was "flowers for algernon" and the movie adaptation was simply called "charly"
Real Genius. Charly (which is an adaptation of 'Flowers for Algernon'). I.Q. (with Walter Matthau as Einstein), Young Einstein (Yahoo Serious splits the beer atom). Buckaroo Banzai.
Pretty much every film with a mad scientist. Frankenstein was a science genius. So was Dr. Zarkov in Flash Gordon.