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M*A*S*H
1970 · Film · 116 min
Directed by Robert Altman
One of the world's most acclaimed comedies, M*A*S*H focuses on three Korean War Army surgeons brilliantly brought to life by Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt and Elliott Gould. Though highly skilled and deeply dedicated, they adopt a hilarious, lunatic lifestyle as an antidote to the tragedies of their Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, and in the process infuriate Army bureaucrats. Robert Duvall, Gary Burghoff and Sally Kellerman co-star as a sanctimonious Major, an other-worldly Corporal, and a self-righteous yet lusty nurse.
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My personal favorite is the song from the movie (not the show, haven't watched) M.A.S.H.
Or, perhaps, Vera Lynn's "We'll meet again some sunny day".
These are good movies to rewatch, especially in these interesting times.
This are the seven smallest violins and they play a whole concert just for you
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(Didn't know that phrase was first used in a episode of m.a.s.h. - always thought, it's originally was coined by Mr. Pink in Quentin Tarantino's "reservoir dogs" - and I always used it in the same context: at a restaurant, when a (small) tip isn't accepted as such or when a tip is not justifiable bc of the bad service ...)
I watched the entire M.A.S.H series when I was young and it made a similar impression. I watched it before the film though, so my brain couldn't fathom anyone other than Alan Alda as Hawkeye.
Donald Sutherland as "Hawkeye Pierce" in M.A.S.H. made such an impression on when I saw this movie on its release as a very young teenager. I've pretty much never got along with authority since.
RIP Donald Sutherland.
M*A*S*H. Not for his performance, necessarily. It's just a great, fun movie. I'm watching it tonight.
I'm often curious about the audio approach used in a bunch of 1960s films where multiple people are talking over each other. It's very deliberate, but I don't know the terminology. The Graduate is an example, I think in the party scenes near the beginning. In that example, it seems intended to convey the feeling of being overwhelmed. But there are films and TV where it's less about being overwhelmed and more about an immersive experience, to conjour a bustling environment like being at a busy family meal. I think M * A * S * H did it occasionally in the surgery scenes.
I always find it very noticeable when it I see it. There's something jarring about it, the experience is somehow very different from a real multiparty conversation, possibly because it's impossible (for me) to focus my attention on any one speaker. That may be deliberate, of course, although often these scenes include key information in the overlapping dialogues.
It's a technique I never see in modern film/TV.
Beyond that, has anyone else noticed how executive types LOVE to quote movies like the god father, wolf of wall street, and similar types of media, as if they themselves are the protagonist and/or "hero" of the story? Its a "Rah-rah" strongman ideal chalk full of projection and other bullshit mechanisms.
To quote M.A.S.H. " War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse." What is business? Cupcakes.
I submit this comment as evidence for why articles like this are toxic to Hacker News. Note that we're now arguing about whether military censorship --- and, don't you people watch WW2 movies or M.A.S.H.? --- is evidence of some startling new trend.