Can someone describe them and give some insight? Was he good?
shareHe only appeared in one scene, coming off a fishing boat with his latest catch. The scene was decent enough, but it probably proved perfunctory in the final analysis. It was not one of the film's more memorable scenes.
Fitzgerald received greater coverage than Hemingway.
That's my only disappointment, the plot synopsis states it's about an editor who "oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others". Yet Hemingway and Fitzgerald only made some brief appearance and I wanted more.
shareThe Hemmingway scene was fine and so were the Scott Fitzgerald scenes. They were in the film to portray other creative, talented, tortured geniuses.
shareThe Hemingway scene may just be the first time he's been depicted in film as "small" and "tame" and "perfunctory." Dominic West did fine with what he was given... he just wasn't given anything to work with. Totally forgettable.
I read, "The Old Man and the Sea" when I was 8 and it inspired me to read literature and to write every day (writing - my marlin) and to never believe myself when I think I can't go one step further. So, I adore Hemingway. A very disappointing film in many ways but not the least of which was not giving Ernest and Max's relationship more time. It was 3 minutes, maybe? :(
Seems to me that the screenwriter needs to brush up on "show, not tell" and even more important, "What is the central question of the story?" This meanders or staggers all over the place and only stops for superficial, emotionally devoid melodrama.
I hated this film! (and this from someone whom had so many reasons to expect to like it)
Susan, "but I was thinking..." Leo, "STOP! Thinking is for losers!" - Scandal's satirical message.