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Best Golden Era Movie to watch for my Psychology report?
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is what I'd recommend basing your report off of for sure. It's a film with a simple, yet powerful moral message, and the viewer is able to see Humphrey Bogart's character gradually deteriorate as greed grabs a hold of his heart. Without wanting to spoil too much, Fred C. Dobbs is a very paranoid and money-hungry character, driven only by his own desires. He wishes to share success with no one. Although it was not conventional for Bogart, I would consider this to be his best role, it's my favorite Bogart film. The fact that I like western, adventure, and noir films, of which all are combined, has a lot to do with why I like it though.
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I just bought Treasure of the Sierra Madre off Amazon last week. This would be a great movie for a Psych class. Bogart is just nutz in it. I didn't "like" the movie, but his acting is good. Of course, in most of his movies, Bogart is either likable, or at least a sympathetic character.
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I just bought Treasure of the Sierra Madre off Amazon last week. This would be a great movie for a Psych class. Bogart is just nutz in it. I didn't "like" the movie, but his acting is good. Of course, in most of his movies, Bogart is either likable, or at least a sympathetic character.
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Kings Row would be another excellent film. The original novel is awash in psychological issues, and while some of these couldn't be translated to the film version, those that were carried over are still very very powerful. Dementia praecox (schizophrenia), sadism, narcissism, and obsessive self-pity are at the center of the story.
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You've done it then? What did you go with in the end?
I would have suggested Five Against The House - an obscure little film, worth seeing if you can find it. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048077/
The guy that bucks the plan, in College on the GI Bill after service in Korea, strikes me as an obvious case of PTSD, even if that isn't how they would have viewed it back then.
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Oh.... also, while it's only a small part of the film, the depiction of the Black and Tans in The Wind that Shakes The Barley was interesting. Most of them probably had severe PTSD, but as it manifested itself in a brutal, aggressive way as opposed to the 'shellshock' of the day, it probably went unremarked for the most part. It is significant that they (and the Auxiliaries) were recruited from British forces who proved unable to settle back into civilian life after service in the trenches.
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One of the things that I feel is important about the Bogart character is that he Dobbs fears that his partners are going to do to him what he Dobbs does to them. He assigns his values and morals to the others and then is justified in his own mind as to his actions. This actually does occur a lot more than we'd like to think in everyday life.
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One you may never have heard of, David and Lisa, from 1962. Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin star as mentally ill teenagers in a humane and progessive institution. Great film.
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