This movie...
although no cinema paradiso... remains a small gem of a masterpiece.
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I agree its one of those great little known movies.
shareI could not believe how wonderful this film was. Tim Roth brought a type of innocense to the character he played. I completely fell in love with this film. I found myself crying at the end as well. This was a truely wonderful film. I have to get this on DVD.
shareI can't ever remember being "captivated" by the last 5 mins of any film, but I was by the Legend of 1900 and I had to see it. IFC just played in this afternoon and it's just a wonderful film that transports you to another time, place..Tim Roth was conveyed such innocence..the battle of piantists..amazing. What a gem. Pruitt Taylor Vance told the story so well.
shareDefinitely. Tim Roth's performance was simply amazing, and the duel between Jelly Roll Morton and 1900 was spectacular. It's a pity it isn't more well known.
sharewhy isnt this movie popular, is it because a dumbfounded movie like Titanic made people go to it instead of this masterpiece, truely this is a one in a kind movie
I do agree,stupid Titanic got many fans and was awarded but an excellent movie like Legend of 1900 stays unkonwn .I really think that it's a masterpiece but it's so underrated :(( I love the movie... I can't understand how someone can not like this movie !Then people praise titanic ! it's a shame.Titanic is *beep* ! real *beep* !
I used to hate Piano,but after watching Legend of 1900,I changed my idea...
Why do you hate Titanic? It is the great movie, really great considering where it comes from! Comparing to other movies coming from USA this one is a real masterpiece! And yes, Legend of 1900 is much better, but being European it loses in the start against all those advertised American movies. In USA European movies are treated as exotic as we would find Senegal or Fiji movies. Just read their comments about "foreign" movies they sometimes have to watch if they have nothing better to do. It's O.K. if they like their movies best, but why do we in Europe accept that mental state that USA movies are the best, and our own (or our neighbour's) always stay in the shadow?
shareBecause American has a short attention span. Even though Hollywood spits out a junk after junk every now and than it produces a great movie. It is hard for Americans to think outside their sphere of influence, which isn't much.
As to the movie, the ending was great because it was not a typical hollywood ending in which all's well end's well. And while the digital destruction of the ship was cheap compared to the rest of the movie, it was true to the story and character. In a round about way, 1900, kind of reminds of Achilles. an innate character.
Wow! This film got 160k US$ in the US, it is english speaking and has some great actors and is a great movie overall but still completely bombed in the US?
shareHm... I realize this is an older post, but I couldn't help but respond. Making generalizations such as this is really a bad reflection on one's own character. "Because American has a short attention span", a statement based soley on the Hollywood movie industry, is extremely narrowminded in its own right. The sphere of influence that you are referring to, if I may add, is not as small as one might think. I find that American culture is actually infecting the European markets in many ways, suggesting that perhaps these genres and "shallow feel-good" (I am not quoting this from you, but from many conversations I've had) movies, not to mention music, television, etc., are becoming popular in Europe because they are appealing to many here as well. You forget that that any movie industry, no matter which continent, can spew garbage for ages. It's only Hollywood that gets a bad rap because there is a large enough audience in North America for many of these movies to survive. In fact, many of the great movies that are American born and bred are never shown on European soil, except maybe at a glitzy independent film festival.
Titanic was appealing to many young kids... believe me, I was there... and teenagers alike because of heavy advertising and a beautiful cast. Yes, many people thought that it had a shallow plot and bad dialogue, but to each his own. Please stop grouping an entire nation, an entire culture, into a silly little judgement made without the proper experiences to back it up. Open up your mind.
But anyway, '1900' is a great film; it has a great soundtrack; it doesn't need to make a lot of money to be good.
It doesn't matter that it's an old post, some people still (from time to time) take a look if some reaction appeared.
Though you don't reply directly to me (in fact I was the one defending Titanic, too) I must admit I often make generalisations accusing American movies and industry - not culture, because culture can't be bad, it can and should be as different as possible, but not bad. It's industry that sweeps the differences away and makes everything look similar. And yes, it happens all around the world, but the process went further in USA then elsewhere, and the influence of USA market (not culture!) is much bigger than the comment you are replying to shows. Many great movies hadn't been recognized in USA, even destroyed whole careers, producers and companies (Heaven's Gate) and later became a worldwide successes. I believe it's good that genre movies get accepted and produced in all countries, but not to the detriment of art movies or traditional movies many parts of world have been making for decades. I have made - well, it would be too hard to say enemies, but surely sore opponents on IMDb, accusing USA industry (not authors and not culture!) that by too offensive advertisment and too much money invested in often worthless films (worthless movies are made everywhere, but are not presented to whole world as modern standards!) builds a false culture erasing local, traditional ones. There are some people around here that try to make us believe everything American is bad just by being made there, and nothing European (Asian etc) can be crap. That's absurd. But you must admit: American crap compared to non-American pollutes the world culture like Chernobyl compared to an old X-ray machine in some East-European hospital.
I'm from the United States and I have to say I agree with you. Hollywood does make a lot of junk but alot of it IS entertaining at least to me...but I personally love foreign films! It seems like every foreign film I see has a deep meaning and I LOVE that! Many people I know consider foreign films boring. But I've been trying to show my friends a lot of foreign films and they freak out when they have to read subtitles but they always end up loving the films because they're different! Independent films in America are also great! But sadly the truely beautiful films don't usually become well known here...
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"Masquerade! Grinning yellows, spinning reds! Masquerade! Take your fill, let the spectacle astound you!"
~ Andrew Lloyd Webber’s THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (2004)
All those smilies... such a sweetly written text... I think one can either get terribly irritated or simply start smiling when finished reading that comment of yours. :D
shareI've never been able to sit through Titanic without getting distracted by something more exciting. Like the dog needs to go out and take a dump. Or the cat is throwing up a hairball. I found myself rooting for the iceberg, and once when I watched the last half and actually saw that gray-haired, brain-dead bimbo toss the blue rock????? The wrong one drowned, for sure.
I couldn't get caught up by cardboard characters played by annoying actors (either miscast or simply inept), and I doubt that anything could have saved this dog in the end. Can we spell "cloying," boys & girls? How about "tedious?"
Frankly, I can't even compare it to "Legend." It's like taking a whore to church.
True, most American movies are crap, as are most of the Eurotrash offerings. Finding the two or three percent that might be worth watching is tough, and one spends most of the time kissing very ugly frogs that remain .... very ugly frogs. No offense to the French. Who are offensive enough already.
If there were not enough very ugly frogs, we would never recognize how beautiful prince or princess is.
If you listen to the radio, only now and then you can hear a song that takes your full attention. Most of others are boring or crap.
If people were gods, all they'd do would be a masterpiece. But, because we're only human, masterpieces are very rare, and it is hard both to make them and to find them as well.
I don't think its so much that all americans prefer american movies, I think the theatres need to cater to the teen/younger crowd that typically want flashy movies with little substance. It is a business, after all. Thats why those are so rarely R rated movies.
shareIt's not just about movies in theaters, but on TV as well. So many times I've read comments about wasted night because the poor poster was "forced" to watch a foreign movie on a cable TV... Yes, I know that this can't be applied on whole American population, but the ratio is between disturbing and insulting in the eyes of non-Americans...
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I watched this a couple of weeks ago for the first time due to my grandfather recommending it to me. And after seeing all of those films like The Green Mile, Schindler's List etc etc. This one actually made me severely tear up, I kept cracking every time I said a word. The Legend of 1900 is the second best movie I've ever seen, with Gandhi as #1.
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