Bewitched

Bewitched the ( The Bad and the Beautiful ) is an American film carried out by Vincente Minnelli, left in 1952.

Synopsis

The portrait of the producer Jonathan Shields by an actress, a realizer and a writer who liked it then hated.

Comment

Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas) is a young ambitious producer. Programmed hereditarily to gain, it has an environment more or less subjected to its professional intuitions, the subjects and the actors do not miss. The films of third order pullulate in this eccentric Hollywood industry of the Fifties. Works without interests turned to goes quickly are currencies, not even ridiculous certain scenarios does not discourage this assoiffée fauna of glory which is built slowly, while crossing these infested turnip territories.

Certain actors are eccentric, who it imports are used only episodically for advanced of the career of a man without scruples built for the environment of these trades where one is still upright at four o'clock in the morning with cogiter on the scenes to be turned in the course of the day which will come up.

The reports/ratios that Shiels maintains with the producers, directors, actors and writers are ambiguous; built only on the ambition of only one man it are completed all by treason. This sad report takes a constructive aspect paradoxically. All the injured people rebound by disregarding their disappointment.

Shiels is a benefactor who is unaware of himself. Pride heals these casualties who rebound by adopting the principles of their predator. To dominate there is necessary to remain free and to regard the human ones as elements easy to handle, the goal is to be maintained in the trade accompanied by a solid bases financial conquered by the most insane projects. For as much, certain spirits such as Georgia Lorrison (Lana Turner) are fragile. Shields is obliged intelligently to be driven on the silty soil of false protection in order to reassure its primary source of income.

The dilemma of bewitched is simple seemingly. The years passed, Shields is badly, its career of producer is in freefall, it needs the assistance of certain people betrayed for redécoller. Is it necessary to be avenged for this character in the middle dryness but which without wanting it propelled by a muscular formation of the profiles adapted to the realistic trades of the cinema?

This door-close punctuated flash back where each of the four characters décisionnaires report their relation missed with Shields is enthralling. It is a true lawsuit where the power struggle was reversed. Shields is not any more one dominating, it became dependant on its preys which it did not respect. Those are conscious of their new capacity, it is then trying to complete this man with knees.

Lana Turner as an actress beginner poivrote undergoes, builds and finally dominates the wheels of the profession. All that seems copied on the true advance of the actor of cinema which at the beginning is nothing then is worked by the sequence of the internal disappointments undergone by the coldness of these trades. Kirk Douglas is during her time “Bad Guy”. It skilfully carries this unconscious role of trainer of a new sharp-edged hardening of spirits impregnating himself in reflection of the procedures of this man who thinks only professionally.

Everyone seems trimer in this crab basket where it is necessary to be without pity to maintain its head out of water. Bewitched is very a good film in order to open the eyes on this territory which attracts many vocations. What is it today? The film is dated it is true by the industry which the large trusts and signs of this time represent when everyone is a kleenex in power.

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